Based on its three consecutive #1 weekends at the box office and a slew of positive reviews, it’s clear that a lot of people think that Christopher Nolan’s Inception is awesome.
Count X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn among those ranks — in fact, maybe a little too awesome for his tastes.
LA Times blog “Hero Complex” shares that the writer was prompted to cut around a dozen pages from the First Class script after his viewing of the Leonardo DiCaprio-starred film, due to unforeseen similarities to scenes in Inception. It seems that some of the Inception dreamscape action scenes were too close for Vaughn’s comfort to sequences in the First Class script — which, based on Vaughn’s remarks, sound like scenes taking place on the astral plane.
Though Vaughn appears upbeat about the whole thing in the blog post, the film’s scheduled release date of June 3, 2011 already seemed like it might be a photo finish given that casting news is still trickling in. In any event, it’s provided an opportunity for Vaughn to make some headlines the same week as his adaptation of Kick-Ass comes out on Blu-ray and DVD.
Feel free to make jokes in the comments about someone performing an inception on Vaughn to get him to change the script.
August 3rd, 2010 at 9:12 am
Don’t know why they are bothering, judging by the release date this is like every film fox makes based on a franchise, a place holder for the rights. Just let the rights return to Marvel, let it stew for a few years and then after the Avengers start the X-Men up properly.
August 3rd, 2010 at 9:55 am
Totally agree, Lead Sharp. I couldn’t care less about these new X-Men movies. Just give Marvel back all their characters please.
August 3rd, 2010 at 10:29 am
I think it’s easy to say, “just let the rights go back.” But the X-Men franchise makes a ton of money for Fox. X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which was not all that fantastic of a movie, made 86 million opening weekend, which is a pretty good. They’re probably not going to let go of that for as long as they can.
I wouldn’t mind seeing what a Marvel produced X-Men movie. So far Iron Man has been awesome and Thor looks to be following in the footsteps.
The rewrites though seem a little silly for this movie. I could understand if Vaughn was playing with a big dream sequence, but I guess we’ll never know how close they were since it’s being rewritten.
August 3rd, 2010 at 11:34 am
it was probably a danger room or professor x scene where he was in someone’s mind or the kids were inside of his.
August 3rd, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Actually Inception brought to mind something I almost wish could be retconned out of existence: the danger room. You have Professor X, who dips in people’s brains all the time, why oh why would he waste oodles of cash building a room to demonstrate battles when he could have the kids duke it out with each other’s nightmares and whatnot, Inside their own heads or in his?
August 3rd, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Late, emergency script rewrites. Always a positive sign for a movie.
August 3rd, 2010 at 12:48 pm
@ Aaron…You need a danger room because even though you’d remember fighting magneto your body wouldn’t…it’s like thinking about working out but not actually doing it…
August 3rd, 2010 at 2:35 pm
Re-write or no re-write, I really doubt this movie will come close to being as good as Inception was.
No, I can’t see the future; I just don’t have high-hopes for another FOX-men.
August 3rd, 2010 at 7:41 pm
I guess if Inception hadn’t come out first, this movie could have rocked so much like Inception… Now, they’ll have to rethink the whole idea. Funny thing is, if Inception came out later than First Class, would Nolan rewrote the whole script as well?
August 4th, 2010 at 12:51 am
Love the X-Men but i’m pretty sure this movie is going to suck
August 4th, 2010 at 4:51 am
Whoa! A bunch of nerds are cynical and pessimistic about a comic book movie? Stop the presses!
August 4th, 2010 at 6:22 am
@Ben:
Only if a flick based on Marvel characters is made by a movie studio not owned by Marvel.
August 4th, 2010 at 10:08 am
I’ve enjoyed all of Matthew Vaughn’s movies, to date (especially Layer Cake…oh, and Stardust!).
So, I have faith that this will be great (for an X-Men movie).
Hopefully, it will be better than the only good X-Men movie (the 2nd one).
August 5th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
uhmmm…. Prof. X did dabble in psychic training, he lost an entire team that way
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