Director Matthew Vaughn has revealed that he planned to recast Wolverine if he had directed ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’.

Vaughn breathed new life into the ‘X-Men’ franchise with prequel ‘X-Men: First Class’ in 2011, but elected to make ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’ instead of f last year’s time-travelling follow-up.

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Speaking to MTV News while promoting spy-spoof ‘Kingsman’, Vaughn said: ”I thought Days of Future Past should be the next one, and be set in the 80s. I wrote the treatment, then wrote Kingsman and got confused over which I should direct next.”

However, he still wanted Hugh Jackman to be part of the future-set scenes.

"I said to [20th Century] Fox, "come on, let me do ‘Kingsman’ now, get somebody else in and we’ll do the 70s version [of ‘DoFP’, recast Wolverine and then we do ‘Days of Future Past’ with the new Wolverine and Hugh, and make it the biggest spectacle we’ve ever seen."

Jackman has played Wolverine more times than any actor has ever portrayed a superhero before. He has unsheathed his claws in seven films - including one cameo.

Robert Downey Jr has portrayed Tony Stark/Iron Man on six occasions (including a cameo in ‘The Incredible Hulk’ and this spring’s ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’). He’ll catch up with Jackman after next year’s ‘Captain America: Civil War’.

Jackman’s tenure as Wolverine owes a lot to his character’s slow aging process, which has allowed him to appear in scenes set during World War 2, the 60s and the 2020s.

Because of this, recasting for a 70s-set film after he cameod in the 60s-set ‘First Class’ would probably have caused confusion with audiences, not to mention his constant presence in ‘Days of Future Past’ also served as a good through-line among all the time-travelling.

This also fell in line with 20th Century Fox’s vision, which as always was about cold hard cash.

"Fox were, and quite rightly so, they’ve got a bottom line to look after," Vaughn said, implying Fox’s disagreement. "It’s Bryan [Singer’s] franchise and he proved that by knocking it out of the park."

'Kingsman: The Secret Service' is out now, the X-Men will return in 'Apocalypse' next year.

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Picture Credits: 20th Century Fox.