Matthew Vaugh admits that he had to re-work the X-Men: First Class script after seeing Inception.
The Layer Cake filmmaker has revealed that re-writes were needed after seeing some of his ideas up on the big screen this summer in Christopher Nolan's latest movies.
Speaking to ComingSoon the director said: "I saw 'Inception,' which I loved. But my heart sank when I saw that a few of the ideas we had were up [on the screen].
"So it's either leave it in and look as if you're copying or change things. We completely ripped out about 12 pages of the script and the storyboards."
And Vaughn has revealed that he hopes to be able to take the X-Men franchise back to the beginning with the same amount of success that J.J. Abrams had with Star Trek.
"Obviously [Abrams] couldn't make everyone happy with that one, but he did a pretty good job," Vaughn said. "He made a fantastically exciting reinvention of that world, with those great characters.
"And I think there will be comparisons a little bit with 'X-Men: First Class.' It's very similar, in a way. But we're doing some cool stuff in this movie, some really cool stuff that you haven't seen before."
Vaughn has already enjoyed box office success with a superhero movie this year when he brought Mark Millar's graphic novel Kick Ass to the big screen.
He has brought together a great cast for X-Men:First Class with James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Alice Eve and Kevin Bacon all on board.
Filming is expected to get underway within the next couple of months.
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