Director Walks Off X-MEN 3! UPDATED AGAIN!!

By Wind(up)bird May 31, 2005 7:51 PM

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Aintitcool thinks its Rush Hour director Bret Ratner! A small amount of skeptical but curious excitement surrounded Matthew Vaughn (dir. Layer Cake, prod. Snatch) being hired on as the new director for X-Men 3 (Bryan Singer left to be with his Superman). Fast forward to this week, nine weeks from the start of principal photography, and suddenly, X3 has got a major problem (aside from the rumored script problems). ?Read the ainticool scoop

Anyone have any good ideas of who should step into the spot Vaughn vacated? ?Aintitcool likes Wonder Woman helmer (and former Buffy creator) Joss Whedon. ?Go figure.

Variety confirms Ratner is the new X3 director.

Here's AICN's 1st Post (about Vaughn's exit)
Here's AICN's 2nd Post (about the X3 script and the Ratner factor)

Related X-Men 3 News
- ?Kelsey Grammar Signs On as Beast!
- ?Famke Janssen Back As Dark Phoenix
- ?Matthew Vaughn Announced as New X3 Director
- ?X3 Loses Bryan Singer!

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