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[Willco]

Courtesy of AICN...

UPDATED! We've Got The Name! X-MEN 3 Director Chosen!!

Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
Sorry, guys. I wasn't trying to cocktease you. I was just trying to cover a source's ass. To me, the news was that they had chosen a director. Now they can get down to the business of making the film. In the hour and a half since I ran this headline, I've got an avalanche of independent confirmations, and I can honestly say I'm surprised it hasn't been reported anywhere else yet. Seems like it's not much of a secret at all.

Matthew Vaughn, director of LAYER CAKE, will direct X-MEN 3 for Fox.

I'd love to talk to him or to Zak Penn about general plans for the franchise as soon as possible, but I'm sure they're going to be tight-lipped. I'm incredibly happy overall with the way this is coming together. Matthew's a smart filmmaker, and his work on LAYER CAKE is dynamite. Zak Penn gets the X-Men and loves the characters, and he's been pretty instrumental in the franchise as a whole, so I think we're in good hands as the Dark Phoenix saga gets underway. Here's the original story that got you all so irritated with me, and like I said... I was just making sure I could cover some asses before sharing this with you. Enjoy!

I’ve gotten word now from two different sources regarding this coming Tuesday morning’s announcement of the new director of X-MEN 3. It’s happening. The film’s a go. Expect them to try to beat SUPERMAN to theaters, too. Unfortunately, without seriously stepping on some toes, I can’t put the name up yet. I’m working on it, and the second I can, I’ll put it up here. I’ll say this... I’m really pleased with the choice. It sounds like Zak Penn’s script is the one that Fox is using, and this director should be able to mine layers and layers of subtext out of the material.

Keep your eyes peeled right here... we’ll have that name for you verrrrrrrry soon...

 

[Baconäger]

I don't know who that is.

 

[MrAngryFace]

what in gods name is Layer Cake?

 

[Mike Works]

What the hell is Layer Cake?

 

[Willco]

Plot Outline: A successful cocaine dealer planning an early retirement is lured back into business by a love interest and an international drug ring.

Never seen it myself.

 

[MrAngryFace]

WOW! THOSE CREDENTIALS SCREAM COMIC BOOK MOVIE DIRECTOR! FUCK!

Cyclops: Wolverine! You need to stop taking those. They're Destroying you!

Wolverine: I NEED THEM! I NEED THEM!

Cyclops: No stop! Give me those!

Wolverine: Im SO EXCITED IM SOO EXCITED IM SOOOOO SCAAAARED *SOB*

Cyclops: its ok..

*fade to thoughtful black*

 

[Deleted member 1235]

Layer cake ay.... interesting.

What the shit is that?

 

[Willco]

Matthew Vaughn's resume:

Producer - filmography
(2000s) (1990s)

1. Layer Cake (2004) (producer)
2. A Short Film About John Bolton (2003) (producer)
3. Swept Away (2002) (producer)
... aka Travolti dal destino (Italy)
4. Mean Machine (2001) (executive producer)
5. Snatch. (2000) (producer)
... aka Snatch: Pigs and Diamonds (International: English title)
6. "Lock, Stock..." (2000) TV Series (executive producer)

7. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) (producer)
... aka Two Smoking Barrels (USA)
8. The Innocent Sleep (1996) (producer)

Director - filmography

1. Layer Cake (2004)

 

[SKluck]

Producer of SNATCH and LOCK, STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS.

Layer Cake actually looks pretty cool. I haven't watched it yet *cough*, but I think it came out on DVD in the UK recently? Maybe?

Trailer

Horrible name for a movie though :lol

 

[Dan]

Matthew Vaughn produced Guy Ritchie's films (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Swept Away) and recently directed Layer Cake, which will see a US release on May 13th. You can see the trailer here.

Edit: Seems I've been beaten. Anyway, Layer Cake is here May 13th, so us Americans can check out his directing then.

 

[Minotauro]

I saw a preview of Layer Cake a few weeks ago. Unless I'm mistaken, it was touted as being from "the producers of Snatch and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrells." Any posters from the UK should probably know more...

EDIT: Fuck, beaten twice.

 

[MrAngryFace]

I DONT LIKE THOSE MOVIES!

 

[temp]

i have an idea for a cop drama, it's about a detective who loses his arm in the line of duty and he finds refuge in the arms of another man despite his marriage, and i call it "Baklava"

 

[Escape Goat]

Damn you Bryan Singer.

 

[Triumph]

I DONT LIKE THOSE MOVIES!

WELL YOU'RE DAMN WELL GAURANTEED NOT TO LIKE X3 THEN!

 

[MrAngryFace]

I dont like british OMG WTF DRUGSZ HAHAH LOLZ ZANY CAMERA GUNS DRUGS BRITS CUSSING!

 

[etiolate]

Awe man, now Nightcrawler's going to have to teleport into a toilet.

 

[Escape Goat]

Just let Jerry Bruckheimer direct and have 2 hours of just random shit exploding.

 

[Fuzzy]

WOW! THOSE CREDENTIALS SCREAM COMIC BOOK MOVIE DIRECTOR! FUCK!

Cyclops: Wolverine! You need to stop taking those. They're Destroying you!

Wolverine: I NEED THEM! I NEED THEM!

Cyclops: No stop! Give me those!

Wolverine: Im SO EXCITED IM SOO EXCITED IM SOOOOO SCAAAARED *SOB*

Cyclops: its ok..

*fade to thoughtful black*

How dare you have Cyclops and Wolverine play the roles of Zack and Jessie.

 

[Minotauro]

Just let Jerry Bruckheimer direct and have 2 hours of just random shit exploding.

And this would be different from the Bryan Singer-helmed ones how?

 

[Tamanon]

Oh, well at least they got an accomplished director.

Or at least one that's directed a big-budget flick before.

Or.....directed more than one movie?

 

[Escape Goat]

And this would be different from the Bryan Singer-helmed ones how?

Umm...what? Which film of his are you referrng to?

 

[Minotauro]

Umm...what? Which film of his are you referrng to?

Shit, I don't know...I just wanted to knock the X-Men franchise.

You do have to admit that they have a lot of explosions, though...

 

[GamePnoy74]

i have an idea for a cop drama, it's about a detective who loses his arm in the line of duty and he finds refuge in the arms of another man despite his marriage, and i call it "Baklava"

I guess the Filipino in me would understand this one lol =P

 

[Fixed2BeBroken]

heh, i loved snatch.....

 

[belgurdo]

I dont like british OMG WTF DRUGSZ HAHAH LOLZ ZANY CAMERA GUNS DRUGS BRITS CUSSING!

Then that just means you're a terrorist.

 

[Red Scarlet]

If he directed this:

I'd watch it.

I dont like british OMG WTF DRUGSZ HAHAH LOLZ ZANY CAMERA GUNS DRUGS BRITS CUSSING!

:lol

I liked Snatch, but I watched LS&2SB right after it, so it didn't impress as much.

 

[Prince of Space]

L4yer Cak3 was a pretty good London crime flick. This should be interesting.

And dear God, that US poster is terrible -- especially when compared to

 

[Timbuktu]

I wrote this review for a college mag a while back:

Layer Cake

When Guy Ritchie got too busy with other projects and being Mr Madonna, Lock, Stock's producer, Matthew Vaughn, stepped up to direct this adaptation of J.J. Connolly‘s novel with a title alluding to the layers of power that make up the cake of London criminal life. okay, yes, it is about British gangsters, and yes, there are dodgy geezers in shell suits, drug busts going wrong, and brutal beatings in corner cafes, but it is also nothing like Lock, Stock or Snatch and nowhere near as bad as any of the slew of Britcrap gangster flicks that tried to cash in on the success of those films. (Love, Honour and Obey, anyone? Didn’t think so.) It's powerful and cinematic, not just a super-sized TV drama.

Daniel Craig is effortlessly cool in the lead as a nameless London coke dealer. As the film opens, he is planning to go straight but then accepts ‘one last job’ - clearly, the man has never seen any movie. Craig carries viewers through proceedings with an easy-going charisma that balances the fear of being swallowed up by a plot that unfolds around him and a growing confidence as a dealer, often treating us to a brooding voiceover about the reality of the drug scene ("I'm not a gangster. I'm a businessman" etc) right up to the surprising ending.

Overall the movie is a slickly produced. Vaughn’s glossy shots of the London skyline wouldn’t look out of place in a Michael Mann film, thanks to cinematographer Ben Davis. However, the screenplay could have done with being streamlined. I wasn’t bored by the film, but the movie felt longer than it really was, with the twisty plot flipping and flopping between the different threads so much it soon runs out of energy.

The violence may not be mindless as it sometimes is in Guy Ritchie’s films, but even the most outstanding set-piece, the cafe-set revenge of an embittered ex-con, doesn’t bring anything particularly new or memorable. The film, despite its similarities, is still a league behind Michael Mann’s Collateral (which I regard as the best film this summer) as a slightly superior but not all that exciting example of its genre.

I think Vaughn can pull it off, he hasn't done anything particularly brilliant, but you can see that he might do, one day.

First Batman, and now Xmen, the Brits are taking over the American icons. Maybe Paul Greengrass will direct Spiderman 3.

 

[Prine]

^^ What about Ridley Scott?

 

[Foreign Jackass]

The main actor of Layer Cake (seen on the poster) is rumored to be the next Bond.

 

[COCKLES]

Just finished watching Layer Cake funny enough.

Not bad...kinda falls under the weight of all it's twisty turny backstabbing and could have done with some of Richies more kinetic visual style in places. Still Sienna Miller in stockings 'n suspenders > ALL.

 

[Shogmaster]

Plot Outline: A successful cocaine dealer planning an early retirement is lured back into business by a love interest and an international drug ring.

At first I was like: "THAT'S THE SHITTIEST X-MEN MOVIE PLOT EVAR!!!!!" :lol

 

[whytemyke]

all you have to do to have a sucessful xmen movie is throw in a couple zingers between wolfie and goggles, have wolfie flash his claws, have gandalf bend wolfie good, blow some shit up, and have captain picard beam them all back with a mostly-closed-but-still-sorta-open ending.

jesus, my penis could direct an xmen movie. its like chris rock in jay and silent bob: "I film this, I yell cut and then I get the fuck outta here back to my trailer because I got more white girls in there then the first lifeboat of the Titanic and they all want a part in my movie and I got just the part for 'em!"

 

[Crow]

Now that Matthew Vaughn is doing Xmen3...AICN is reporting a very high posiblity that Whedon is doing Wonder Woman. AICN reports that we will know in 2 days time.

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=19647

 

[Hitman]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375912/ - 7.0 / 10 on IMDB. Not bad.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/layer_cake/ - 83% fresh at Rotten Tomatoes.

This director seems to have the credentials, I hope he does a good job on X3 though

Why did Bryan Singer choose not to direct X3 anyways?

 

[Ghost]

Layer Cake, was ok.

I saw it at the cinema. Other than one brutal scene it was much tamer than Lock Stock and a like, the music for the trailer still baffles me to this day as it just does not fit at all. It is just another cockney gangster flick basically.


Doesnt really make sense giving Matthew Vaughn the job for X3 based on that, he must give one hell of an interview (read: blow job).

 

[Hitman]

Hollywood gives huge frnachises to shitty directors without credentials ALL the time. Atleast this time the director has good movies under his belt. FOr those of you mad at this decisision, beleive me.. it could have been WAY worst. (see Uwe Boll or McG)

 

[RiZ III]

Its going to be hard to ruin the series more than Singer already has.

 

[Socreges]

Its going to be hard to ruin the series more than Singer already has.

Oh God, let's be real. "Ruining" X-Men is like spitting on shit.

That's not to say that I don't like X-Men, but I think the movies were 'good enough' considering the source. No one's shooting for Oscar material here.

 

[Hitman]

Its going to be hard to ruin the series more than Singer already has.

WTF u spitting? The X-men movies ruled!

 

[Screenboy]

I dont like british OMG WTF DRUGSZ HAHAH LOLZ ZANY CAMERA GUNS DRUGS BRITS CUSSING!

Yeh im sure thats how he'll get Hugh Jackman to act as Wolverine.

 

[Fuzzy]

Why did Bryan Singer choose not to direct X3 anyways?

He rather direct the new Superman movie. The way things are going with the script of X3 he could've done both but he pissed off the studio by picking Superman over X3.

 

[Willco]

I wrote this review for a college mag a while back:




I think Vaughn can pull it off, he hasn't done anything particularly brilliant, but you can see that he might do, one day.

First Batman, and now Xmen, the Brits are taking over the American icons. Maybe Paul Greengrass will direct Spiderman 3.

Paul Greengrass is directing The Watchmen, dude.

 

[Escape Goat]

Matthew vaughn? Quite a close resemblance to:

Yeah, I got nothing.

 

[Dagless M.D.]

I thought layer cake was up at the same level as snatch, bit below ls&tsb. I dont know how it holds up to repeted viewings though

 

[Meier]

He won Best British Director at the Empire Awards for it today. I'm quite looking forward to it (Layer Cake.. well an X-Men 3 for that matter).

 

[Meier]

He won Best British Director at the Empire Awards for it today. I'm quite looking forward to it (Layer Cake.. well an X-Men 3 for that matter).