1. Matthew Vaughn has produced films including Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, and directed Layer Cake, Stardust, Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class, and Argylle.
14 Facts About Matthew Vaughn
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Aged 25, Matthew Vaughn produced a low-budget thriller, The Innocent Sleep, starring Annabella Sciorra and Michael Gambon.
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Matthew Vaughn continued as a producer on close friend Guy Ritchie's film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
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Matthew Vaughn made his directorial debut in 2004 with Layer Cake.
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The film was well received and its success led to Matthew Vaughn being tapped to direct X-Men: The Last Stand, but he dropped out only two weeks before filming began.
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Matthew Vaughn directed and co-wrote the first film in the prequel trilogy of the X-Men film universe titled, X-Men: First Class.
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Matthew Vaughn was signed to return to the series as director of the sequel, X-Men: Days of Future Past, but dropped out in favour of Bryan Singer who had directed the first two films in the original trilogy, X-Men and X2: X-Men United.
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Matthew Vaughn remained attached to the film by co-writing the script.
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Matthew Vaughn returned to direct, produce, and co-write the Kingsman sequel, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, which was released in theaters in September 2017.
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Matthew Vaughn directed and provided the story for The King's Man, the third installment in the franchise serving as a prequel to the original film.
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In March 2017, Collider reported that Matthew Vaughn was top choice to direct Man of Steel 2; in September of that year, Matthew Vaughn confirmed that he was in negotiations with the studio to helm the project.
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In January 2024, Matthew Vaughn announced that he would be producing a third Kick-Ass film, titled Stuntnuts Does School Fight, directed by his longtime stunt coordinator Damien Walters in his feature film debut, which had secretly already been greenlit and had completed filming.
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On 25 May 2002, Matthew Vaughn married German supermodel Claudia Schiffer in Suffolk.
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Matthew Vaughn has identified himself politically as a conservative and a Conservative Party supporter.