In a slightly extended version of the interview we've already seen parts of with Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn, he now talks frankly about the past movies as well as the other CBM's making their way into cinemas this year. Here is the relevent excerpt courtesy of the guys from Den Of Geek.
You say that you've created this new world. It's obviously a prequel, but is it a prequel in the way that the new Star Trek movie is a prequel, so you will be able to, if you do make a second X-Men film, or a third, continue without bothering with the continuity of the previous films?
Totally, I don't give a shit about the other ones. For me, I wanted to do my version, and the version where it's more similar to the comics at the beginning. I really enjoyed X1 and X2. I thought Bryan did a really good job. But I think X3, and then Wolverine, it sort of went off, and the whole superhero genre has been [frick]ed up by Hollywood trying to- just, big explosions and glossy, corny costumes and outfits.
And I was very inspired by what Nolan did with Batman Begins. I'm a big Burton fan, but you see what happened. The first two Burton Batmans were great, but then Schumacher took over and you were just like, "What the [frick] is going on?" And they kept making them, and they were getting camper.
And I really enjoyed Batman Begins more than I thought I would when I saw it, especially the first half more than the second half. And I just thought, "Why not try and do the same thing, of putting a realism, and making the characters and the genre of X-Men relevant to a modern-day audience?"
Because I think that superhero movies need to change. I think they're on the verge of the genre dying. Thor's done well. That was weird as well, because I was supposed to direct Thor, so it was weird watching that one. But it's doing well. And no one's seen Green Lantern? I don't know what it's going to be like.
But I love superhero films and I want more to be made, but I also get nervous. I think they need to be taken seriously as a genre. I think the difference between Iron Man and Iron Man 2 shows that, if you don't really nail it, you can suddenly go, "What is this?" I don't know if you guys loved Iron Man 2, but I was disappointed.
Starring James McAvoy as Charles Xavier, Michael Fassbender as Erik Lensherr, Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy, Jennifer Lawrence as Raven Darkholme, Lucas Till as Alex Summers/Havok, Caleb Landry Jones as Sean Cassidy/Banshee, Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw, Oliver Platt as the Man in Black, Jason Flemyng as Azazel and Rose Byrne as Moira MacTaggart,
X-Men: First Class is set to be released in the UK on June 1st and in the US on June 2nd.