Bryan Singer directed X-Men: Days of Future Past from a script co-written by Matthew Vaughn, but that doesn't mean that was the version the Kingsman: The Golden Circle helmer wanted to make...

Matthew Vaughn is out promoting Kingsman: The Golden Circle so it's a rare opportunity for the media to lob a ton of questions at the somewhat-reclusive director.



While we've previously heard what Vaughn would like to explore on a potential Man of Steel sequel, here's his thoughts on how he would have handled subsequent films after his soft reboot of the X-Men franchise in 2011's First Class. While beginning with the caveat that he simply doesn't like sequels on principle, Vaughn told Uproxx-

"The reason I haven’t done sequels in the past is they just weren’t exciting me. And on Days of Future Past, even though I co-wrote the bloody thing, the reason I bailed out of it is two things: First, I respect Bryan Singer hugely and X-Men is Bryan’s world and I feel he let me play in his sandbox. I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t my sandbox. I wanted my own sandbox. And, second, I didn’t want to do Days of Future Past next. I felt that one should be in a trilogy and Days of Future Past should be the finale of that story. I would have done a film in-between where you meet the young Wolverine and a new character, and then Days of Future Past became the young Wolverine and the old Wolverine and just really blow it out."