Deadline is reporting Matthew Vaughn won’t be directing X-Men: Days of Future Past. Vaughn will stay on in a producing capacity and his next film will be Secret Service, an adaptation of his buddy Mark Millar’s comic book. Now, much as … Continue reading →

Matthew Vaughn Opts Out of ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’

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Deadline is reporting Matthew Vaughn won’t be directing X-Men: Days of Future Past. Vaughn will stay on in a producing capacity and his next film will be Secret Service, an adaptation of his buddy Mark Millar’s comic book.

Now, much as they were when Rupert Wyatt left Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Fox is in search of a director for a high profile sequel to a reboot that was loved by fans.

Who is Fox looking at to replace Vaughn? None other than Bryan Singer.

Please let this happen.

Singer did a great job with X-Men and X2: X-Men United, which is still my favorite of the series. Also, given the plot of Days of Future Past, there’s the possibility of actors from the first X-Men trilogy returning; so it would be nice to have a little X-Men reunion.

SOURCE: Deadline

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1034709619 Dan Riedel

    Not good!

  • rsixsmith

    i guess i’d be happy to see singer come back. x2 is still my fav, but he has a lot to make up for since his amazingly boring superman outing. too bad whedon is tied up. and i say that only in small part because avengers was so good, but mostly because he wrote one of my favorite runs on x-men (astonishing x-men 1-25) this century. he definitely gets the characters, and he can clearly handle action.

  • ANTI Douche

    At first, I thought…
    What The F**k…
    When I read the heading…
    Then I saw the Singer’s name…
    I thought, ok not a total trainwreck.

  • John D

    First I read that The Wolverine is going to be set after X3, and now I hear Vaughn is out of the first class sequel. What a day for x- men fans.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Yuzuru-Nomura/1502485636 Yuzuru Nomura

    Would have perferred Vaughn directing but if not, I guess Singer is the natural choice. I just hope Singer comes up with something that will wipe out X3 for I think it’s integral to have Professor X and especially Cyclops, even in future films. Haven’t been reading the source material for decades so you’ll have to forgive me if my wishes are a little off-course!

  • Sheik_Badrul

    Could have been worse….. Imagine Brett Ratner

  • http://www.facebook.com/marcus.d.fiasco Marcus D. Ellison

    First no Ryan Gosling in Logan’s Run and now this…*cries manly tears*. Why are you doing this to me Hollywood?

  • myclawismypenis

    SInger back directing the XMEN—thats a HELL F’ING YES!!!. Movie gods are throwing us mortals steaks instead of bones on this fine day!

  • myclawismypenis

    Let Whedon do some script work,if he has the time. Im glad that Singer is back in the director’s chair..probably hungry like he was when making Usual Suspects..just a F*ck YEah!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Yuzuru-Nomura/1502485636 Yuzuru Nomura

    I believe none of us even want to “imagine” it! I think I’m going to throw up. Urrrp.

  • http://www.facebook.com/michael.feuerstein.3 Michael Feuerstein

    Not good!

  • mredoble

    me thinks a little political shenanigans is going on. Vaughn being Vaughn wanted to do something like rethinking the entire X franchise or maybe his budget was bigger than Fox wanted. Either case, it was something that the studios did not want. So in comes Richard Donnor and Singer to save the day with toeing the company line. Remember months before First Class was released, there were rumours that the movie was a disorganized mess. I’m pretty sure that wasn’t from Vaughn’s camp but studio execs starting to lay the blame at somebody’s feet because things weren’t panning out the way they wanted. it turned out to be an awesome X-Men movie that didn’t rely on making Jean Grey a schizophrenic.

  • rsixsmith

    …and then forget about jean for the next half of the movie until the last five minutes where she dies. you’ve written a nearly perfect description of my fears. fox is a CHEAP studio, and it wouldn’t surprise me if vaughn’s days of future past was a little too ambitious/expensive fox executive taste. singer’s legacy could maybe have something to do with it, but i can’t imagine he would want to keep a crapfest like x3 as an integral piece of the canon. who knows? doesn’t bode well. why does fox hate this franchise so much??

  • rsixsmith

    i hope you’re right, but fox’s history with all things x-men is dodgy at best.

  • Xmasevebaby

    Mark Millar, your director’s chair is a-callin’.

  • myclawismypenis

    Yeeeeeppp!. They did make X3.