Matthew Vaughn Says He Quit ‘X-Men: The Last Stand’ After Scheme To Deceive Halle Berry Into Signing For Return With A Fake Storm Script
deadline.comMatthew Vaughn is opening up about one of the reasons he had for quitting directing X-Men: The Last Stand. The director revealed during New York Comic Con he left the film after finding out a scheme to get Halle Berry to sign on to reprise her role of Storm by tricking her with a fake script. “One of the main reasons I quit X-Men 3, and this is a true story.
Hollywood is really political and odd,” he said during NYCC (via ScreenRant). “I went to an executive’s office and I saw an X3 script.
It was a lot fatter. I asked, ‘What is this draft?’ They were like, ‘Don’t worry about it.'” He continued, “So I grabbed it, and opened the first page, and it said, ‘Africa.
Kids dying from no water, and Storm creates a thunderstorm to save all these children.’ I thought it was a pretty cool idea.
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