Apparently, director Christopher Nolan‘s latest mind-bending film Inception has made such an impact that even X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn has had to alter the script for the upcoming X-Film to avoid similarities to Nolan’s latest blockbuster.

Speaking with the LA Times – Vaughn said,

“I saw ‘Inception,’ which I loved, 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.”

Vaughn said that the jettisoned sequence was a sort of dream-space combat involving Professor X (James McAvoy) and some other mutants which 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 Nolan’s Inception.

The film stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Alice Eve, Kevin Bacon, Nicholas Hoult, Jennifer Lawrence, Caleb Landry Jones, Lucas Till and Edi Gathegi.

X-Men: First Class is slated to hit theaters on June 3rd, 2011.