Matthew Vaughn Has Big Ideas On Ways To Change ‘Superman’ And ‘Star Wars’ Franchises
deadline.comDirector Matthew Vaughn would love the chance to shake things up in two film franchises that fans hold sacred. Speaking on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, Vaughn said he and comic book writer Mark Millar had the big concept of “a three-picture trilogy” on Superman for Warner Bros. “We pitched how to do a trilogy of Superman movies.
Warners wasn’t interested. That’s as far as it went,” Vaughn said. It “never came back around” after that, he added. The proposed trilogy would have borrowed from the Richard Donner Superman films. “I think Donner nailed it,” Vaughn said. “I think Wonder Woman worked very well because it was basically a Donner Superman film, but reimagined as Wonder Woman.
I would’ve done a modern version of the Donner [films].” “Our big idea,” he continued, “was the twist that Krypton doesn’t blow up.
It does eventually. The dad was right, he just got his timing wrong. So when Superman’s grown up, suddenly there’s a mass exodus and then all hell breaks loose, and that was our idea.” The main villains would be “Zod and Brainiac, basically,” with Lex Luthor as the main villain “until Krypton explodes.” Vaughn also mentioned that he would like to take a crack at rearranging Star Wars.
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