X-Men: First Class script loses 12 pages after director sees Inception

Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass) enjoyed Inception, but it's success caused him to cut 12 pages from the X-Men: First Class script, he told the LA Times. The sequence, a battle with Professor X and other mutants fighting in a gravity-defying room, much like some memorable moments in Christopher Nolan's hit film. 

"I saw 'Inception,' which I loved," Vaughn said Monday. "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."

More rewrites is not what the film needs. It's gone through six writers so far. Vaughn joined up as director in May with X-Men veteran Bryan Singer producing. Shooting is set to begin before the end of 2010. 

The film follows the...inception of the X-Men as an idea of Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr. To see a full list of mutants cast so far, check out this IGN article.