{"id":54113,"date":"2020-07-28T12:05:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T19:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=54113"},"modified":"2020-08-02T14:33:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T21:33:30","slug":"vinnie-jones-on-x-men-3-juggernaut-had-bigger-role-under-original-director-matthew-vaughn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=54113","title":{"rendered":"[Update] Vinnie Jones on X-MEN 3: Juggernaut had bigger role under original director Matthew Vaughn."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Update:<\/strong> Director Brett Ratner <\/strong>has responded<\/a> to Vinnie Jones’ comments re: X3. According to him, Jones’ comments are “inaccurate” and explains that he “was not able to expand the role of Juggernaut as per Vinnie’s request due to the extremely limited time I had to deliver the film.” We spoke with Ratner during the 2006 release and it’s widely known the production schedule was one of the most hectic in the X-Men film franchise, after losing two directors. Ratner had very minor involvement in the screenplay when he signed on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a new interview with Josh Wilding<\/a><\/strong> (via Comic Book Movie<\/a>), Juggernaut actor Vinnie Jones<\/strong> said he did not enjoy his time working on director Brett Ratner’s X-MEN: THE LAST STAND<\/a><\/strong> due to the fact his role was seriously neutered from original director Michael Vaughn’s vision for the character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I loved the role, but hopefully you can put it f***ing right here, mate. I basically got mugged off. Matthew Vaughn signed me up, and it was a great role and a great script, and Juggernaut was a great character. I signed up for three of them, and that will show you how serious I was about it. Brett Ratner basically dissolved the character. I was in my fing trailer half the time. It’s one of the most disappointing jobs I’ve been on as far as, you know, ‘What am I doing here?'” “It wasn’t the same Juggernaut as I signed on for. They took his storyline away, they’d taken his character away, his dialogue. I had two big meetings with Brett about it, and he said, ‘Yeah, yeah, it’s coming. They’re writing stuff for you as we speak’ and it never f***ing happened,” Jones continued. “Disappointment wise, that was probably one of the biggest. What’s upsetting is some of the fans blame me! It was f***ing nothing to do with me! That role, I didn’t sign up for. The Juggernaut you saw was not the Juggernaut I signed on for with Matthew Vaughn, I’ll tell you that now. It upset me.” “I know what it means to the fans, and I felt like I was a bit of a scapegoat as no one ever told my side of it. Nobody ever stood up and said, ‘Hold on a minute, we completely whitewashed Vinnie’s character. Basically, I was an extra, mate. That’s how I felt. I was gutted, to be honest.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

If your memory’s a little fuzzy, Matthew Vaughn (Kingsman: The Secret Service) was originally going to direct X3 after Bryan Singer was removed from pre-production after signing to film Superman Returns for Warner Bros. Vaughn eventually left over creative differences, leading to Ratner landing the gig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here<\/a> to read more from the interview, including why Jones think his role was cut down, and if he’d be interested in reprising Juggernaut in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: Josh Wilding via ComicBookMovie.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: Director Brett Ratner has responded to Vinnie Jones’ comments re: X3. According to him,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"Vinnie Jones on #XMen 3: Juggernaut had bigger role under original director Matthew Vaughn.","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":[15,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crew-talk","category-x-men-the-last-stand"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/vin-jugg.jpg?fit=1000%2C635&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54113","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=54113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}