Matthew Vaughn wanted to cast a younger Wolverine.

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS director Matthew Vaughn has been doing promo for his (awesome) new film ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’ and recently revealed to MTV that he originally had plans to recast Hugh Jackman as Wolverine when he was still on-board to direct X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST.

“I had a whole different idea of how X-Men should go,” he says. “I thought ‘Days of Future Past’ should be the next one and be set in the ’80s, so when I wrote the treatment, I then wrote Kingsman and got confused about which film I should direct next. The I said to Fox, ‘Let me do Kingsman now [and] get somebody else in and we’ll [follow-up with] the ’70s version, recast Wolverine, and then we do ‘Days of Future Past’ with the new Wolverine AND Hugh, and make it the biggest spectacle we’ve ever seen.”

Interesting idea, but Wolverine’s healing factor means he would still look similar in both timelines AND Jackman already had a memorable cameo in First Class’ 1963 time period.

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