Matthew Vaughan says he had a different vision for the follow-up to his 2011 directorial X-Men: First Class, that also involved introducing a new, young Wolverine, but the studio, 20th Century Fox, proved to be a hindrance.

With First Class, the filmmaker successfully managed to introduce the younger version of several X-Men characters, including Charles Xavier and Magneto. In an interview with ComingSoon.net, Vaughan said he envisioned X-Men: Days of Future Past, to be the third part of his trilogy but the studio insisted on making it after First Class.