{"id":9291,"date":"2012-01-30T19:20:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T00:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xmenfilms.wordpress.com\/?p=9291"},"modified":"2012-01-30T19:20:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T00:20:23","slug":"director-matthew-vaughn-returning-for-x-men-first-class-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=9291","title":{"rendered":"X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn and producer Bryan Singer returning for sequel!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/xmenfilms.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/vaughn-and-mcavoy.png?resize=594%2C250\" alt=\"\" title=\"Vaughn and McAvoy\" width=\"594\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9301\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/01\/20th-century-fox-production-president-emma-watts-reups-through-2015\/#utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>, 20th Century Fox has signed a deal with X-MEN: FIRST CLASS director <strong>Matthew Vaughn<\/strong> to helm the upcoming sequel, which is currently being written by &#8216;First Class&#8217; producer and &#8216;X3&#8217; co-writer Simon Kinberg. Producer Bryan Singer will also return along with many of the principal cast who already have options in place for sequels.<\/p>\n<p>This news comes after Fox co-chairmen and CEOs Tom Rothman and Jim Gianopulos gave production president Emma Watts an updated contract. According to the site, &#8220;since taking over as sole production president in 2009, Watts has made it a priority to populate the studio\u2019s slates with elite filmmakers, and keep them coming back for more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Looks like the sequel is shaping up very nicely!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Deadline, 20th Century Fox has signed a deal with X-MEN: FIRST CLASS director&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crew-talk","category-x-men-days-of-future-past"],"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\/9291","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=9291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}