The latest issue of Empire Magazine features an interview with X-MEN: FIRST CLASS director Matthew Vaughn. The director talks about how everything in the 1960’s-set film had to be redesigned from the original trilogy.
“I’ve always wanted to do a movie set in the ’60s. The difference is that now I have experience. On X3 [which he was at one point set to direct] it was cast and I just had to tell the story. Here we have to recast every role, recreate the ’60s – which is not easy – and redesign everything. We’ve been playing catch-up, but it’s working.”
On him casting James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender in the roles of Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr.
“I wasn’t trying to cast the young Patrick [Stewart] or Ian [McKellen]. I was trying to cast the young Professor X and Magneto; what those characters are in my mind. For me, I’m trying to make a movie that stands on its own two feet. Hopefully there’ll be a lot more of this version of the franchise.”
Hopefully it will be a good movie.