The Wolverine...
You gotta love originality in Hollywood. But for the first time we get some good news regarding this sequel, a director has finally been signed.
Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler, Requiem for a Dream) has signed a 2 year deal with 20th Century Fox, the studio behind the Wolverine sequel. Splashpage.mtv reports:
According to a press release, Aronofsky and his Protozoa Pictures production company have agreed to a two-year overall deal with the studio, which sees Protozoa developing and producing films for 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures. Aronofsky's first priority, of course, is directing The Wolverine, which heads into production in April next year.
"We're excited Darren is going to bring his unique vision to The Wolverine," said Emma Watts, president of production for 20th Century Fox, in a statement, "and we take great satisfaction that Fox, irrespective of the size of his films, continues to provide a home for his extraordinary talent."
“Darren’s vision has brought audiences some of the most original and memorable stories and characters in recent motion picture history,” added Fox Searchlight heads Steve Gilula and Nancy Utley. “We at Fox witnessed this first hand with his work on The Wrestler, and Black Swan, and now, on The Wolverine, which will be an exciting take on that iconic figure and on the genre itself. We can’t wait to see what else Darren has in store for us.”
While the comic fans of the world were collectively disappointed by X-Men Origins: Wolverine, I think most people will be happy with the decision to bring Aronofsky on board.
SuperHeroHype spoke with the director about his upcoming film Black Swan and managed to get a little info on The Wolverine:
Easily one of the coolest filmmakers we've chatted with, Aronofsky had long been wanting to do a new movie based on the long-running Japanese manga series Lone Wolf and Cub by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, and being that The Wolverine is based on the Frank Miller mini-series and is mainly set in Japan, we wondered whether he might be able to get some of what he wanted to do with that movie out of his system with the new Wolverine flick.
"There's all the samurai elements that are really exciting," he told us. "I'm a big fan of Japanese movies, we're going to try to have a good time." Aronofsky confirmed that he'll be casting a lot of Japanese actors, but is still unsure whether they'll be speaking in Japanese or English. "It's still under discussion, we'll see what happens," he said about that.
Not everyone was a fan of Gavin Hood's previous movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which partly suffered from nearly half a dozen writers (not all credited) being involved with the screenplay, but clearly, this movie should be different going by what we were told. "Chris McQuarrie wrote a great screenplay. We're trying to get it into a slightly better place but he's working on it, and I think it'll be easy to fix. Chris is an amazing writer and I'm very lucky to have him as a collaborator."
"There's all the samurai elements that are really exciting," he told us. "I'm a big fan of Japanese movies, we're going to try to have a good time." Aronofsky confirmed that he'll be casting a lot of Japanese actors, but is still unsure whether they'll be speaking in Japanese or English. "It's still under discussion, we'll see what happens," he said about that.
Not everyone was a fan of Gavin Hood's previous movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which partly suffered from nearly half a dozen writers (not all credited) being involved with the screenplay, but clearly, this movie should be different going by what we were told. "Chris McQuarrie wrote a great screenplay. We're trying to get it into a slightly better place but he's working on it, and I think it'll be easy to fix. Chris is an amazing writer and I'm very lucky to have him as a collaborator."
Since it can't really be worse than the first showing from solo Wolvy, I am looking forward to this. It's taking from the Claremont/ Miller mini-series where Wolvy really establishes his Japanese roots, so the story material is there. I'm sure we'll get a decent Wolverine movie out of Aronofsky.
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