Formerly the man behind the man—director Guy Ritchie, to be exact—producer Matthew Vaugh had enough of being the quiet one and grabbed hold of the wheel to direct his first feature—the smart and edgy gangster thriller, “Layer Cake” (2005). Despite expectations that he would fall flat on his face, Vaughn instead made a sharp movie that caused critics to swoon with delight. More polished and sophisticated than Ritchie’s comic heists, “Layer Cake” marked Vaughn’s emergence as a filmmaking force to be reckoned with. Even before the film opened in U.S. theaters, Hollywood considered him a hot
