Matthew Vaughn's Vision For X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Would Have Had a Young and an Old Wolverine



When director Matthew Vaughn set out to re-establish the X-Men in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, he not only accomplished it but his ideas for a trilogy actually sound interesting. Especially his third chapter, which would have been X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST.

While speaking with Uproxx, Vaughn revealed how he wanted to introduce a younger version of Wolverine in an X-MEN: FIRST CLASS sequel followed by the trilogy finale, which would have seen younger Wolverine and Hugh Jackman's older Wolverine share the screen in X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST.

“The reason I haven’t done sequels in the past is they just weren’t exciting me. And on Days of Future Past, even though I co-wrote the bloody thing, the reason I bailed out of it is two things: First, I respect Bryan Singer hugely and X-Men is Bryan’s world and I feel he let me play in his sandbox. I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t my sandbox. I wanted my own sandbox. And, second, I didn’t want to do Days of Future Past next. I felt that one should be in a trilogy and Days of Future Past should be the finale of that story. I would have done a film in-between where you meet the young Wolverine and a new character, and then Days of Future Past became the young Wolverine and the old Wolverine and just really blow it out.”

When Bryan Singer can back to the director chair, Vaughn was pushed aside and he began to pursue his KINGSMAN movies. In retrospect, maybe Fox should have stuck with Vaughn and his trilogy ideas.


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