Matthew Vaughn out of 'X-Men' sequel; Bryan Singe may replace him

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Twentieth Century Fox re-launched two franchises in the summer of 2011: [B]X-Men: First Class[/B] and [B]Rise of the Planet of the Apes[/B]. Both films will receive sequels in the summer of 2014, and both of those sequels will have new directors.

To put it bluntly, Matthew Vaughn didn't have the most pleasant shooting schedule on [B]X-Men: First Class[/B]. With about ten months from shoot to screen, the director was ridiculously hard pressed for time, and even found himself cycling through five cinematographers on the tumultuous shoot. January Jones famously joked, “[I]Poor[/I] (director) [I]Matthew Vaughn is going to have to edit it in three days. That’s been a blast. We’ve all had so much fun making that movie. I think it was unrealistic for them to think they were going to make such a huge movie in whatever we had — two months or something. So of course we went over[/I] [schedule]." It's not exactly an ideal situation, and perhaps Vaughn has seen the writing on the wall for [B]X-Men: Days of Future Past[/B].

Vaughn has stepped down from the director's chair for the highly anticipated sequel. This just a month after Rupert Wyatt departed [B]Dawn of the Planet of the Apes[/B]. It's unclear what the reasons are at this point, and it would seem he would've had a bigger production schedule this time around, with an early 2013 start planned. But he's not throwing in the towel completely. Vaughn will take a producer role on the picture, and will direct another movie instead for Fox, where he happens to be eyeing a couple of projects ([B]Superior[/B] and [B]The Secret Service[/B]) from their new creative consultant Mark Millar.

As per [I]Deadline[/I], Bryan Singer could replace Vaughn in the director's chair. It would be a coming home of sorts for the director, who was responsible for [B]X-Men[/B] and [B]X-Men 2[/B].

Vaughn was rehired for the [B]X-Men: First Class[/B] sequel in January of this year. The film's lengthy title comes from a popular storyline in the "X-Men" comic series which dealt with time travel, alternate realities and mutant internment camps. From EW.com's explanation of the plot back in August:

"[I]Most of the X-Men are dead; the ones that are still alive are on the run. In the original story, the future version of Kitty Pryde time-travels back in time into her young self’s brain and works with the present-day X-Men to prevent the atrocity that kickstarts the whole miserable future.[/I]"

The idea is that perhaps characters from Singer's "X-Men" films -- like Patrick Stewart's Professor X, for instance -- could appear alongside characters from Vaughn's reboot. For his part, Stewart all but confirmed involvement in [B]X-Men: First Class - Days of Future Past[/B] [URL="http://screenrant.com/x-men-days-of-future-past-patrick-stewart/"]during a panel at Montreal Comic-Con last month[/URL].

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[Trogdon]

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