The Wolverine Is Going To Be Awesome Says Jackman

The Hero Complex blog has a great interview with hugh Jackman and he talks a lot about his excitement for the upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine sequel simply titled, The Wolverine. 

     "We finally have the character and with this mythology — ever since X-MEN when I was kind of hanging around and reading all these comics,  because I was cast before I ever read any X-Men comics, so I was trying to get my hands on everything. I remember saying to Lauren Shuler Donner, “Lauren, I don’t know about you, but I’ve seen this Japanese story, and I think it’s so good. It’s just genius, it’s brilliant.  Chris McQuarrie has done a script that is just phenomenal. I read a story once that said that he wrote THE USUAL SUSPECTS in 15 days, and with this one he said to me, “I just knew what I wanted, and it came out real easy.” And he’s done an unbelievable job with it."
     So it looks like The Wolverine is shaping up to be much better than it's predecessor and with Darren Aronofsky at the helm it should be awesome.

The Wolverine To Hit Theaters Soon

     Director Darren Aronofsky has revealed the title  for the next Wolverine movie starring Hugh Jackman. The movie will be called The Wolverine, will not be a direct sequel X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

      Aronofsky told HitFix that The Wolverine will be a "one-off," or standalone project. The script, written by Christopher McQuarrie, involves Logan beginning a forbidden romance with a Japanese woman whose hand in marriage is, unfortunately, promised to another man. Since Logan won't take "no" for an answer, it puts him into battle with her father and her samurai-sword-wielding brothers.

Speedy Updates Flash Style

The comic book movie world is swirling the last few days with all kinds of rumors, stories and such all coming out so here's a few quick hits!

-- Transformers 3's rumored title is The Dark Of The Moon, based n domain registration and books listed at Amazon.  What does it mean?  Who knows but let's hope it doesn't suck as bad as Revenge of The Fallen did.

-- Darren Aronosfky is said t be seriously considering helming Wolverine 2 now.  Apparently he was even the studio's first choice for Superman but since the Superman script needs some work, they hired Zach Snyder instead who can move the project quicker than Aronsfky.

-- Emma Stone has been cast as Gwen Stacey int he upcoming Spider-man reboot.  She's a good choice but I almost think she would have made a better Mary Jane.









--  Last but not least the rumored start date for the filming of Batman 3 is April and may shoot in New Orleans.

Who's Going To Direct Wolverine 2?

All though the Wolverine film was an entertaining mess of a movie I still think a Wolverine 2 is a good idea.  Let's just hope they get something right this time story wise.  But whose going to direct it?  According to deadline.com, Darren Aronofsky as one of two contenders to take the helm of  X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2. The other contender is one David Slade (of 30 Days of Night and Twilight Saga: Eclipse fame).
Aronofsky has reportedly been in conversations with Jackman, who he previously developed The Fountain with. Although he's not a bankable director for the studio to put on a big tentpole movie. Fox gambled on art-house director Gavin Hood for the first one and the results weren't so good. On the other hand if producer/star Jackman wants Aronofsky, he'll probably get him.  Deadline speculates that Slade is the more likely candidate given the blockbuster success of the Twilight movie.