Matthew Vaughn Quit ‘X-Men: The Last Stand’ After Discovering Plan to Trick Halle Berry With a Fake Storm Script That Would Be Trashed After She Signed On to Return

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1. Vaughn:

   >”One of the main reasons I quit ‘X-Men 3,’ and this is a true story.

   >”I went into one of the executive’s office and I saw an X3 script, and I immediately knew it was a lot fatter. I was like what the hell is this draft. He went, ‘Don’t worry about it,’ and I’m like, ‘No, no. I’m the director. I’m worrying about this draft,’” he recalled. “He wouldn’t tell me, so I grabbed it literally — it was like a crazy moment — opened the first page, and it said, ‘Africa. Storm. Kids dying of no water. She creates a thunderstorm and saves all these children.’”

   >“I thought it was a pretty cool idea,” Vaughn continued. “I said, ‘What is this?’ They said, ‘This is the Halle Berry script, because she hasn’t signed on yet. This is what she wants it to be. And once she signs on, we’ll throw it in the bin.’ I thought, if you’re going to do that to an Oscar-winning actress who plays Storm, I quit.”

2. In this noble gesture, did he bother to TELL Halle Berry, or did he just quit in quiet protest?

   I thought he quit last minute cause the Australia shoot was gonna be too much stress on his family?

3. That’s kinda shitty. Does this happen quite frequently in Hollywood?

4. I wonder if it would have ended up being a better story if it was focused on Storm. Storm is a really interesting character.

5. Isn’t he the turd who makes fun of people’s apartments for being poor?

6. The old bait and switch . Fuck these guys

7. Things Kevin Feige wished he never have to address.

8. Well it hardly shows since the whole movie seems catered towards her and it ruined it completely.

9. Channing Tatum-G.I Joe