Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. There have been sly mentions from one Mr. Jonathan Ross via his Twitter feed that his lovely wife Jane Goldman was going to be doing some writing for Matthew Vaughn's X-Men prequel thing pretty much since right before Vaughn was locked in.
Now he's gone right out and said it. Look:
Also, for those who need to know, my wife IS currently writing X men First Class. It's just referred to as X men 4 around the house...
Followed closely by:
I am afraid I better not answer any more queries re X Men First Class for fear of spoilers and also possible divorce. Thank you.
Ms. Goldman herself has been dead silent (her twitter feed is here, but it hasn't been updated since April 1st).
This shouldn't be much of a surprise since Vaughn has worked with Goldman for his last few movies... But let's look at what this news means.
At the very least we're looking at a heavy polish if not a complete original script from Vaughn and Goldman and that hopefully means we won't get the half-baked homogenized studio shit that ended up being X-Men 3. That also leads me to believe that Vaughn might have a bit more creative control than is usual with Fox superhero movies considering he accepted this position even with his rocky past with Fox (with this same franchise, no less).
God willing it's still possible for a good filmmaker to make a good tentpole at Fox. Right now your name has to be James Cameron and you have to be the meanest motherfucker in the room (with a couple billion dollar earners under your belt) to be afforded that privilege.
-Quint
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