Vaughn wanted “thousands of Mystiques” terrorizing the #XMen.

“My idea was the Sentinels at the end, I wanted them to look like Mystique,” reveals X-MEN: FIRST CLASS director Matthew Vaughn to Collider on his and writer Simon Kinberg’s original take on X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. Before deciding to leave the project to Bryan Singer and direct “Kingsman: The Secret Service” for Fox, Vaughn “thought there should be thousands of Mystiques attacking them in the future.

He says leaving the film behind “was a really tough decision,” but he thought “‘My god if I don’t make a fun spy movie right now, somebody else’s going to do it and I think there’s five coming out next year now. So we’re going to be the first of it not the last.” Even with Singer’s inclusion, Vaughn says about “90%” of the final film script remained the same from his version.

“Bryan [Singer] did a few things, which I thought were genius that weren’t in my script,” he says. “I had Juggernaut breaking into the Pentagon, he changed it to Quicksilver and did that f***ing brilliantly, I have to add. He changed a few more of the mutants, but it was pretty close. Yeah, it was pretty close.”

In our “Things You Didn’t Know…” write up, it was revealed that early versions of the script had Jubilee fighting future Sentinels instead of Sunfire. Juggernaut’s removed sequenced would’ve been followed by Wolverine voluntarily breaking every bone in his body. Mystique would’ve joined Charles and Beast, eventually becoming a teacher at the school and lots more.

Thanks to Josh Wilding at Comic Book Movie for the heads up!

Source: Collider