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“Yeah, that was bizarre because I went from Layer Cake, a tiny 3 million pound movie, and suddenly I got Hollywood calling up saying, ‘Would you like to make an X-Men movie?’ And I was like, ‘Yes.’ And I thought X-2 is a masterpiece. So I was worried about trying to step into Bryan Singer’s shoes, and it was a dream come true. I storyboarded the movie. The end of the movie was not the movie I was gonna make. The Golden Gate sequence was the beginning of Act Two and we had this crazy action sequence for Washington … but I was naive,” Vaughn explained.
“The way I produce films was, ‘Here’s a budget and a schedule, stick to it.’ And Hollywood doesn’t work that way. They go, ‘Here’s the budget. Here’s a schedule. We’re going to pretend we’re going to do it for that and then we’ll make it all up,’ and I didn’t know that. I didn’t know that back then. so I was naive to walk out. I was given the speech, ‘You’ll never work in this town again,’ and I sort of believed in that,” he continued.
“The man who said you’ll never work in this town again, watched Kick-Ass. And to his credit, he rang me up and said, ‘You know what, I didn’t mean it when I said that,’” Vaughn added.
While Vaughn has no plans to return to the world of X-Men, he did tease his Kick-Ass reboot at NYCC.
“We will be doing a reboot of Kick-Ass next year, but it’s a total… it’s like… it’s as brave as the first one but totally different and more reflective of the times we’re in,” Vaughn told ComicBook.com.
Stay tuned for more updates from NYCC.
