"I"m Out Of Here!" Original X-Men Director Reveals The Dirty Trick That Made Him Quit

Summary

• Original X-Men: The Last Stand director Matthew Vaughn quit due to a dirty Hollywood trick.
• Fox presented Halle Berry with a fake script they had no intention of making, to convince her to sign back on as Storm.
• Vaughn's strong reaction to the treatment of Halle Berry led him to quit and make Stardust instead, adapting Neil Gaiman's novel.

As the MCU finally gears up to introduce the X-Men to the current Marvel movie timeline, 4 years after Disney bought Fox, the original director of X-Men: The Last Stand has revealed the shocking reason he quit almost 20 years ago. Having replaced Bryan Singer after the release of X2 and without a script finalized, Matthew Vaughn dropped out of the production in 2005, with "personal issues" widely cited at the time. The Kingsman director has revealed the truth of the situation, shedding light on the dirty Hollywood trick that forced his hand.
Speaking at New York Comic Con, where Screen Rant's team are in attendance, Vaughn confirmed there was more to the story than has ever been revealed. He claims that during re-signing negotiations with Halle Berry, who played Storm in the original X-Men movie series, Fox presented the star with a fake script they had no intention of making, which centered Storm more, including a hero sequence at the movie's opening:

"One of the main reasons I quit X-Men 3, and this is a true story. Hollywood is really political and odd. I went to an executive’s office and I saw an X3 script. It was a lot fatter. I asked, “what is this draft?” They were like, “don’t worry about it.” So I grabbed it, and opened the first page, and it said, “Africa. Kids dying from no water, and Storm creates a thunderstorm to save all these children.” I thought it was a pretty cool idea. I said, “what is this?” They said, “this is the Halle Berry script, because she hasn’t signed on yet. This is what she wants it to be. And once she signs on, we’ll throw it in the bin.” I thought, if you’re going to do that to an Oscar winning actress who plays Storm, I quit. I thought, I’m mincemeat.”"

Ultimately, Vaughn reacted so strongly to the deception of Halle Berry that he quit and made Stardust, which he adapted from Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel with Jane Goldman. Vaughn also revealed he was given the cliched "you'll never work in this town again" speech on his way out.


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