Yahoo Movies Matthew Vaughn Says 90% Of ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ Was His Story
‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ was made up of 90% of Matthew Vaughn’s story according to the filmmaker himself.
Vaughn, who helmed the predecessor to ‘Days Of Future Past’, ‘X-Men: First Class’, was originally in line to direct the blockbuster too before he dropped out and Bryan Singer was brought in as his replacement.
However despite the fact that he left the project Matthew Vaughn has now revealed that quite a lot of ‘Days Of Future Past’ was still his. In fact he even knows how much of a percentage of the film was his. It’s apparently around “90%.”
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Matthew Vaughn made these comments during a discussion with Collider to promote ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service,’ and he admitted that he ironed out the script for ‘Days Of Future Past’ alongside scribe [Simon] Kinberg.
“I mean, we worked on the script [Simon] Kinberg and I,” he explained. “It was a really tough decision for me, because I pulled out just because I’d finished the ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’ script at the same time and I was like ‘My God if I don’t make a fun spy movie right now, somebody else’s going to do it.’ And I think there’s five coming out next year now. So we’re going to be the first of it not the last.”
However Vaughn did reveal that Bryan Singer made quite a few integral changes to the film that he admitted were truly “genius.”
“Bryan [Singer] did a few things, which I thought were genius that weren’t in my script,” Vaughn explained. “I had Juggernaut breaking into the Pentagon, he changed it to Quicksilver and did that f***ing brilliantly, I have to add.”
Vaughn admitted that he had envisioned a completely different conclusion to ‘Days Of Future Past’ too.
“My idea was the sentinels at the end, I wanted them to look like Mystique,” he declared. “I thought there should be thousands of Mystiques attacking them in the future. He changed a few more of the mutants, but it was pretty close. Yeah, it was pretty close.”
In the end it is safe to say that, between them, both Vaughn and Singer managed to create a rather sensational blockbuster. We’ll see if Singer can do it without Vaughn’s influence when ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ is released on May 27, 2016.
