Unsurprisingly, frequent Vaughn collaborator Jane Goldman has also been brought on board to do a bit of tinkering with a script that has now had more writers than your average issue of Total Film.

The news had originally been kept on the down low until Goldman’s blabbermouth hubby Jonathan Ross blurted it out on his Twitter page. “The wife is away writing X-Men 4” he announced, setting message boards aflutter with his choice of words. You do realise people read these things, right Jonathan?

Anyhow, for the sake of clarity, Goldman will be writing First Class, undoubtedly good news after her sterling work bringing Mark Millar’s scribblings off the page for Kick-Ass, as well as her earlier adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust novel . As for X-Men 4…well, we’ll come on to that shortly…