Is X-MEN: FIRST CLASS a direct prequel to the original X-Men trilogy or a reboot? Sort of both according to Matthew Vaughn. The director recently spoke with Slash Film about his ideas on the film and what he set out to do.
“My main goal was to make as good a film that could stand on its own two feet regardless of all the other films.” said Vaughn. “However I thought anything that worked in all the other movies, and I could have some fun with nodding towards, I would. But my main rule was, ‘You know what, we’re trying to reboot and start a whole new X-Men franchise’ and therefore, making a film work on its own two feet was far more important than trying to be referential to the prior movies.”
On the pressures of creating a good film and meeting fan expectations:
“I’d rather people’s expectations are low and they’re excited than high and disappointed. And I’m a big believer, I mean I remember talking to Daniel Craig about this when he was doing Bond and he was being absolutely destroyed by the web and I said ‘Look dude, your work is gonna do the talking and they’re gonna all eat their hats and apologize and say you’re great’ and I’m a big believer that my job is to make the film and not to worry about what everyone else thinks. And if I make a film that people like, then great, if I make a film that people don’t like then… I mean, that’s my job and you can’t worry about pleasing people. I just try and make as good a film as possible and if people like it, great, and if they don’t, I tried my best.”
On potential sequels:
“You could do hundreds. We’ve got from 62 to 2000, whenever that was set. The fun thing for this, sequel-wise, is you can go through the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s now. If people go see it, I think there’s a lot of sequels to do, I’ve got lots of ideas but I also don’t like to curse it because too many times in my life now I’ve been asked about if there’s gonna be a sequel to a film which I just directed and then that film doesn’t do as well in the US box office and I go, ‘Eh, guess not.’
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i don,t know what to say… cuz i don,t know which part is going to rebooting and i don,t know in what limit are going to recast the whole old films and i don,t know why if all the films are incredible and very original i don,t know why and why is going to be a reboot??
Reboot? That’s the worst word ever.. Just continue the X-men 4 and end of discussion. They can make prequel and Sequel but not saying that theyre going to Reboot everything and back to the first X-men movie.
yess thank you the story for the poreviou sfilms was destroyed after the x3 better to start a new
Hey fools, The studio already announced that there will be an X4.
What part of that do you not get….
Totally Agree with you! That was very simple to understand .
not if i don,t get Robert> i ask if there is another film apart of the X-men first class so it means that i want to know that i wanted to know if there is another film of the X-men first class so the Continued so the secound part like X-men secound class??
if there is ?? i m going to be very exciting about another secound FIlm of the X-men first class i,ll be exciting about
Despite what Matthew Vaughn said in the interview, I’m still going to view X-Men: First Class as a ”loose prequel.” If Vaughn didn’t really care about the previous X-Men films, then why would he re-shoot the opening scene from X-Men with a young Magneto discovering his powers for the first time? If he really wanted to, he could’ve shot a whole new introduction for Magneto with no connection to the previous films.
View First Class as prequel to X-Men and X2.Ignore the last Stand and Wolverine.Ignoring them will give you less contunity headaces.Beast doesn’t resemble Beast from last Stand.But Mystique resembles Mystique from earlier films.Matthew vaughn Is bluring line between prequel and reboot but even he says On sequels that have to be set etween 1962 and whenever the first film took place(and spoilers say when It does could be earlier that 2000) and I have heard of nothing that leaves me with the thinking of a connection to the Last Stand.I see many things In First Class to connect with X-Men and X2.And this raises questions when X4 Is made will they take Into account The Last Stand or simply Ignore It.
Nope… you cannot ignore XMOW… sorry… You will know why when you see the film.
And btw. THE LAST STAND was the most successful of the films. Why should they ignore it? Only because some fans cannot deal with it?
I must top agree with. Even the X-men Origins: Wolverine didn’t work well, it’s still an X-men movie which affects the x-men story and also for the X3: The last stand. The past movie work as a trilogy so I can’t ignore it’s connection to this film.
This has to be a reboot because in the other movies we see Hank Mcoy in non beast form on a tv screen before x3 so if he was alread Beast in first class that would be impossible.