Halle Berry thanks Matthew Vaughn for his X-Men 3 last stand against "shady shit"
Matthew Vaughn exited the doomed X-Men sequel and would be replaced by Brett Ratner
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The farther removed we get from that initial batch of X-Men movies, the uglier they seem to get. No matter how much Deadpool would like to paper over the past by getting Wolverine in his yellow spandex again, the allegations against Bryan Singer, apparent studio disinterest, and inconsistent quality have curdled the series’ reputation. Adding fuel to the fire, last year, Matthew Vaughn admitted that he quit his directing job on X-Men: The Last Stand due to the existence of a phony script meant to trick star Halle Berry into signing on. Berry also recently found out about the script.
Berry, who appears in a diminished and thankless role in the second X-Men sequel, thanked Vaughn on Instagram for calling out the studio’s “shady s—.” The Oscar-winner shared a video from the Pop Culture Brain newsletter of Vaughn speaking to a crowd at New York Comic-Con 2023, explaining why he left the project in 2005.