The X-Men franchise could potentially have rivaled the MCU if 20th Century Fox had followed Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class plans. There’s a strong sense in which the Marvel Cinematic Universe wouldn’t exist without the X-Men films. Marvel Comics only survived near-bankruptcy in the ’90s by selling off the film rights to some of its most notable characters, including Spider-Man and, of course, the X-Men. What’s more, many key figures in Marvel Studios cut their teeth on the X-Men films, including even Marvel Studios president Kevin Fe
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Vaughn has stressed that Fox largely kept to his original script for X-Men: Days of Future Past , albeit switching around a couple of secondary characters – notably substituting Quicksilver in the place of Juggernaut , who he had imagined being involved in breaking Magneto out of prison. And yet, for all the script would have been mostly the same, it’s hard not to see Vaughn’s original plan as a better one. The key is in terms of pacing, with a gradual increase in the stakes; the impending conflict between man and mutant would have been neatly signposted in the second film, and there would have been a clear narrative throughline, with Magneto involved in the Kennedy assassination and imprisoned for it in the third installment. This also would have subtly rewritten Mystique’s role, in that she’d essentially have become more of a Magneto loyalist, continuing his mission of assassinating high-profile political thre
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The reality is that Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men plan would have taken the franchise in a very different direction – and a far more preferable one. It’s true that there were risks. It’s entirely possible viewers wouldn’t have taken to a recast Wolverine, for example, particularly given that character isn’t supposed to age. And yet, there’d have been an undeniable sense of momentum, with the stakes continually increasing; character arcs would have been far more organic, with Xavier and Magneto developing in logical and consistent ways, while Jean Grey’s Dark Phoenix turn would have carried a greater impact. Fox had their own visionary, but they chose to ignore him, opting for the short-term win inst
Clearly, this film would have been set in 1963, just a year after the events of X-Men: First Class , and it would have presumably continued the story of Magneto’s Brotherhood of Mutants. Vaughn wanted to add two new characters to the X-Men team roster; a recast Wolverine , who he imagined played by someone like Tom Hardy, and another unnamed character who was designed to match Magneto. ” As Professor X is in a wheelchair, Magneto needs to have a nemesis he can fight with, ” Vaughn explained to MovieWeb . ” Someone that will be his equal. ” It’s likely this would actually have been Jean G
Viewers would certainly have developed a far stronger rapport with the new Jean Grey, meaning her fall from grace would have had a great deal more emotional power. Meanwhile, it’s interesting to note that Vaughn potentially sets up a far more comic-book-accurate version of the story, with both a younger Wolverine and presumably another version of Cyclops in the team. Given the increasing scale of Vaughn’s overarching narrative, X-Men: Dark Phoenix would probably have gone into the full cosmic scale of the legendary “Dark Phoenix Sag