Matthew Vaughn‘s X-Men: First Class has a lot going for it. The stellar cast includes Alice Eve, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult and Kevin Bacon. Vaughn even spoke with IGN recently saying he is taking a note from J.J. Abrams‘ Star Trek who “made a fantastically exciting reinvention of that world, with those great characters. And I [Vaughn] think there will be comparisons a little bit with X-Men: First Class. It’s very similar, in a way. But we’re doing some cool stuff in this movie, some really cool stuff that you haven’t seen before.” But, as LA Times reports, Vaughn recently saw Christopher Nolan‘s Inception and some of that “really cool stuff” will have to go.
Vaughn saw Inception and “loved” it, but said “my heart sank when I saw that a few of the ideas we had were up [on the screen]. So it’s either leave it in and look as if you’re copying or change things. We completely ripped out about 12 pages of the script and the storyboards.”
The cut scenes involved “dream-space combat” which involved Professor X (James McAvoy) and others in “spinning rooms and other physics-bending imagery.” One can only wonder how they are just seeing that comparison now, as images and video of Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the spinning room could have been seen since the early trailers. I suppose it took the full scene in context to realize the similarity.
X-Men: First Class is set for a June 3, 2011 release and will begin filming at any moment in London. As we reported earlier this week, Vaughn will begin work on Kick-Ass 2 as soon as it wraps.
Are you disappointed that some First Class scenes had to be cut because of Inception?