X-Men: Days of Directors Past
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Matthew Vaughn, who did a fine job with X-Men: First Class and was expected to helm the sequel (subtitled Days of Future Past) has dropped out of the project. Everybody’s freaking out, although I didn’t First Class was so brilliantly executed that I’m going to lose sleep over the loss. The rumor is that Bryan Singer will take over, because Bryan Singer is always rumored to take over for any X-Men movie, by law. I’d prefer Vaughn over Singer, just because I’d love to see an X-Men movie that didn’t have Magneto in it, but this probably won’t happen in my lifetime anyways. (Via EW)
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