Back before Bryan Singer returned to the X-Men franchise with X-Men: Days of Future Past, the man in the director’s chair was X-Men: First Class helmer Matthew Vaughn. However, Vaughn decided to leave the project and direct Kingsman: The Secret Service as he had also finished the script for that with his writing partner Jane Goldman.
And with Kingsman: The Secret Service currently doing well, the director has been talking candidly about his time on X-Men: Days of Future Past, as well as revealing some of the plans he had – including recasting Wolverine.
“I had a whole different idea of how X-Men should go,” he told MTV News. “I thought Days of Future Past should be the next one, so it was set in the 80s. I wrote the treatment, and then wrote Kingsman: The Secret Service so I was confused over which one I should direct. So I said to Fox, let’s do Kingsman and then do X-Men in the 70s, recast Wolverine, and then do Days of Future Past with the new Wolverine and Hugh [Jackman] and make it the biggest spectacle you’ve ever seen.”
“We would recast the younger Wolverine, and have Hugh as the older one [in the future],” he clarified. “And so Fox, quite rightly so, said we’ve got a bottom line to look after here. And it’s Bryan’s franchise and he proved that by knocking it out of the park.”
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Who would you have liked to have seen as the younger Wolverine if Matthew Vaughn had got his way? Check out our interview with man below, talking about leaving X-Men: Days of Future Past as well as his thoughts on Josh Trank’s The Fantastic Four.
Originally published February 17, 2015. Updated November 29, 2022.
