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Matthew Vaughn, director of “X-Men : First Class”, “Kick Ass” and “Kingsman : The Secret Service”, tells IGN that he fancies getting involved with some of DC’s properties. The Brit filmmaker, who had once been linked to a new “Superman” trilogy with frequent collaborator Mark Millar, has even had some recent discussions with the studio.
“I do love the world of DC, and I’ve been talking to them at the moment about a few things. It’s more fun getting involved with franchises when they’re on the down, because then it’s easier to make a good film. So if I got involved with a few of the superhero films out there that have been disappointing, it’s going to be… if I do OK, it’ll probably be better.
So when I did X-Men there was, you know, a pretty low bar – X-Men 3, no offense, was not a fantastic piece of work. It’s much more fun saving and reinventing something – I’d be more intimidated trying to do a new Guardians [of the Galaxy], for example.
If I was going to do Batman, there’s no point doing the Dark Knight, because it’s been done to perfection – if I was doing Batman, I’d go ‘Christ, let’s bring out the Adam West version’. I’m not interested in copying somebody else’s take on the genre. I’ve got to figure out what I’m doing next and I feel like flexing a muscle which I haven’t used before. And I’ve filmed quite a few superhero movies.”
According to Millar, talking to El Fanboy Podcast (via JoBlo), Vaughn has been approached by DC to do a sequel to “Man of Steel” and called his “Kick Ass” collaborator to see if he’d help write it.
“[Matthew Vaughn] and I are massive Superman fans…He actually phoned me up a few months ago, and he said, ‘Hey, listen, DC, they’re very interested in me doing Man of Steel 2. Do you want to come in and do this?’ And I was like, ‘I’m exclusive to Netflix for years. We can’t even have that conversation.’ And he was like, ‘Oh, man. What’s the chances of this?’
And then he kind of drifted away. And he’s attached himself to a couple of things and all that. Y’know so, it’s one of those things that might, I mean – if somebody phones Matthew up and offers him enough money it could all change tomorrow. There’s no point doing Superman unless you feel good. You should walk out of ‘Superman’ just feeling like a million dollars. You should feel great after a Superman film. The movie itself was going to be a big, vast fun epic. But ‘Superman’s got to be a laugh, as well.”
With “Justice League” going the way it did, and the mostly negative reception to the darker, more savage Superman we currently have on screen don’t be at all surprised if we do see Superman providing “a laugh” in the future with DC bound to try something different sooner rather than later.
