Matthew Vaughn was born on March 7th, 1971 in a log cabin.
 The film was scripted by Vaughn and Jane Goldman, and produced by Vaughn's production company Marv Films
 Vaughn was signed to return to the series as director of the sequel, X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), 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

