{"id":2033,"date":"2011-02-03T19:47:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T19:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xmenfilms.wordpress.com\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2011-02-03T19:47:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T19:47:45","slug":"x-men-first-class-director-matthew-vaughn-on-redesigning-the-x-men-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=2033","title":{"rendered":"Director Matthew Vaughn on redesigning the X-Men films."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/news\/story.asp?NID=30058\">Empire Magazine<\/a> features an interview with X-MEN: FIRST CLASS director <strong>Matthew Vaughn<\/strong>. The director talks about how everything in the 1960&#8217;s-set film had to be redesigned from the original trilogy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always wanted to do a movie set in the &#8217;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 &#8217;60s &#8211; which is not easy &#8211; and redesign everything. We&#8217;ve been playing catch-up, but it&#8217;s working.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On him casting James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender in the roles of Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I wasn&#8217;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&#8217;m trying to make a movie that stands on its own two feet. Hopefully there&#8217;ll be a lot more of this version of the franchise.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of Empire Magazine features an interview with X-MEN: FIRST CLASS director Matthew&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crew-talk","category-x-men-first-class"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}