Matthew Vaughn Signed To Direct X Men First Class Sequel

Matthew Vaughn Signed To Direct ‘X-Men: First Class’ Sequel

By Russ Fischer/Jan. 30, 2012 10:00 am EST

Deadline has the news about Vaughn in a larger piece about Fox’s plans for 2012.

We still don’t know what story the sequel will tell, but there are hopes that Kinberg’s script will flesh out one idea spoken by Vaughn last year:

In related news: sorry, Kick-Ass fans, but this means that Vaughn is even less likely to make that sequel.

I thought it would be fun to open with the Kennedy assassination, and we reveal that the magic bullet was controlled by Magneto. That would explain the physics of it, and we see that he’s pissed off because Kennedy took all the credit for saving the world and mutants weren’t even mentioned.