X-Men First Class Director Says Marvel Should Make Fewer Films

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Matthew Vaughn, the director of X-Men First Class and other superhero films such as Kick-Ass, has taken a swipe at the Marvel Cinematic Universe and other superhero films in a new interview at New York Comic-Con.

In an interview with Screenrant, Vaughn spoke about the current transitional phases for both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Universe, saying that somewhere along the way, superhero movies lost their shine. Vaughn thinks that executives stopped worrying about making good films and started trying to sell films based on name recognition alone.

“I genuinely don't know what's happening with the superhero in the sense that, I do think, maybe we all need a little bit of time off from it,” Vaughn told Screenrant, “Maybe someone will make something so great that we will get excited again and remind everybody that just having identical ways of making superheroes... Superhero films are films.

“It’s a film that has superheroes in it. I think what happened was that they became superheroes, and the film part wasn’t that important.”

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Vaughn continued by saying that making superhero movies means working harder to make viewers believe the stories you’re telling, citing X-Men First Class’ setting during the Cuban Missile Crisis as one way of making sure the story stays grounded. He also said he wasn’t a fan of the over-reliance on CGI in superhero films.

“We set it in the Cuban Missile Crisis; they had relatable human problems. And it wasn't relying on the CG,” Vaughn said, “I think CG's f**ked up everything as well, because you feel like you're watching a video game. You're not with the characters.”

As for the future of Marvel films, Vaughn thinks that MCU producer Kevin Feige needs to slow down a bit, saying that with any luck, Feige will “make less films and concentrate on making them great.”

Matthew Vaughn recently said executives tricked Halle Berry into starring in X-Men 3, which he was set to direct. According to Vaughn, executives working on the film wrote a fake script to lure Berry into the project, with the intention of scrapping it after she’d signed on. Vaughn was so outraged he quit the film.