Matthew Vaughn to Direct Next X-Men Spin-Off

Posted by on May 5th, 2010   Filed under: Action, Books/Comics
Source: Deadline Hollywood

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It’s been rumored for awhile, but today it was made official: Matthew Vaughn, fresh off the critically acclaimed Kick Ass, has officially signed on to helm the next X-Men spin-off, known as X-Men: First Class. The movie will center around the younger versions of Cyclops, Jean Grey, and others as they become the first students at Professor Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, leading up to their eventual team up as the X-Men. The film goes into production this summer with the release date set for June 3, 2011.

This makes three Marvel-related movies scheduled for the next Summer season (Thor drops May 2011 and Captain America July 2011). I understand superhero movies are a license to print money, but with this being the fourth comic book movie slated for Summer 2011 that I can remember off the top of my head (the other being the DC adaptation of Green Lantern), Hollywood is really trying to run this into the ground. How long before over saturation destroys this once profitable genre?



  • Napalm

    he’s a good choice imo. but isn’t 2011 a little early? i mean do they even have the cast ready?

  • Laivaren

    As long as the movies are good it’s OK in my book. But I seriouly hope there will be other movies as well (other Blockbuster-type movies). If Superhero movies take over the Blockbuster/”summer movie” realm it will either have to split into divergent genres or people will get sick of it all.

  • 1138

    I kind of feel that the comic movie genre is just starting to get revved up. The tech is just getting there where we can actually mimic the action we see in comic panels. And to be honest, Spidey, Supes and Batman were the only mega movies in the past that dominated movie theaters. Out of recent ventures Iron man and 300 have been the only ones to make money. The spirit, dark city, 30 days of night, punisher, watchmen, electra, daredevil, either never made serious cash or just never caught on.

    Besides I see comic movies as adaptions just like book adaptions. It’s just hollywood drawing ( no pun intended ) from another source. As long as people feel it’s original and done well they’ll head to the box office.