Director Matthew Vaughn recently shared the story of why he ended up giving up directing X-Men: The Last Stand. When he discovered that a fake script had been written to deceive Halle Berry upon reprising his role as Storm in the film, he didn’t care for that kind of ethic, so he left.
After Vaughn left the project for this reason, he was told that he would “never work in this city again”. This is absurd because the producer who does this shady shit should be the one who will never work in Hollywood again. The fewer people… the better. Vaughn recalled:
“Yes, it was bizarre because I went through Layer Cake, a tiny £3 million film, and suddenly Hollywood was calling me saying: ‘Would you like to make an X-Men film?’ And I said, ‘Yes.’ And I thought X-2 was a masterpiece. So I was worried about trying to put myself in Bryan Singer’s shoes, and it was a dream come true. I storyboarded the movie. The end of movie wasn’t the movie I would have made. The Golden Gate sequence was the beginning of the second act 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 say, ‘Here’s the budget. Here’s a program. We’ll pretend to do it for that and then we’ll make it all up,” and I didn’t. “I don’t know. I didn’t know it then. so I was naive to leave. They gave me the speech, ‘You’ll never work in this town again,’ and I kind of believed it.”
But, after Vaughn’s film adaptation of Kick-Ass came out, the person who told him called him and apologized. Vaughn said:
“The man who said you’ll never work in this town again, he looked at Kick-Ass. And to his credit, he called me and said, ‘You know what, I didn’t mean that when I said that.’
Vaughn has had a truly exceptional career as a director. The guy is talented and has managed to keep making movies despite these studio executives planning to take him down. Good for him. The director then continued by teasing his Kick-Ass reboot at NYCC:
“We’re doing a reboot of Kick-Ass next year, but it’s 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 has planned.
Via: CB
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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