“X-Men: First Class” Rewriting Script After “Inception”

Topping the box-office for the third straight weekend, “Inception” is the hit of the summer season.

Many of us are hoping that the box-office results and the buzz surrounding the film will encourage Hollywood executives to make some changes in the types of movies offered and allowing directors and writers to tell the stories they want to tell without studio interference.

It isn’t happening yet. But the movie is already having an impact on one film in production–“X-Men: First Class.”

Director Matthew Vaughn says that the script for the film is undergoing major rewrites after seeing “Inception.”

“I saw ‘Inception,’ which I loved,” Vaughn tells the Los Angeles Times. “But my heart sank when I saw that a few of the ideas we had were up [on the screen]. So it’s either leave it in and look as if you’re copying or change things. We completely ripped out about 12 pages of the script and the storyboards.”

The jettisoned sequence was a sort of dream-space combat, according to Vaughn. The filmmaker said for the film the fight involving Professor X (James McAvoy) and some other mutants was to going to be presented with spinning rooms and other physics-bending imagery — visions that he felt drifted too close to signature moments in “Inception.”