After Walking Away From X-MEN 3, Director Matthew Vaughn Was Told He'd "Never Work in This Town Again"

Director Matthew Vaughn recently shared the story of why he ended up walking away from directing X-Men: The Last Stand. When he found out a fake script was written to trick Halle Berry into reprising her role as Storm in the movie, he didn’t care for those kinds of ethics, so he left.

After Vaughn quit the project over that, he was told that he would “never work in this town again.” This is wild because the producer doing the shady shit should be the one that never works in Hollywood again. The less of those people… the better. Vaughn recalled:

"Yeah, that was bizarre because I went from Layer Cake, a tiny 3 million pound movie, and suddenly I got Hollywood calling up saying, 'Would you like to make an X-Men movie?' And I was like, 'Yes.' And I thought X-2 is a masterpiece. So I was worried about trying to step into Bryan Singer's shoes, and it was a dream come true. I storyboarded the movie. The end of the movie was not the movie I was gonna make. The Golden Gate sequence was the beginning of Act Two and we had this crazy action sequence for Washington ... but I was naive.”

"The way I produce films was, 'Here's a budget and a schedule, stick to it.' And Hollywood doesn't work that way. They go, 'Here's the budget. Here's a schedule. We're going to pretend we're going to do it for that and then we'll make it all up,' and I didn't know that. I didn't know that back then. so I was naive to walk out. I was given the speech, 'You'll never work in this town again,' and I sort of believed in that.”

But, after Vaughn’s film adaptation of Kick-Ass was released, the person who told him called him up and kind of apologized. Vaughn said:

"The man who said you'll never work in this town again, watched Kick-Ass. And to his credit, he rang me up and said, 'You know what, I didn't mean it when I said that.”

Vaughn has had a pretty great career as a filmmaker. The guy has got talent and he managed to keep making movies despite these studio executives intent on tearing him down. Good for him. The filmmaker then went on to tease his Kick-Ass reboot at NYCC:

"We will be doing a reboot of Kick-Ass next year, but it's a total… it's like… it's as brave as the first one but totally different and more reflective of the times we're in.

Vaughn has been planning this Kick-Ass reboot for a couple of years and I’m curious to see what he’s got planned.

Via: CB