The wreckage that X-Men: The Last Stand brought the franchise was a huge one, almost unforgivable. It was when the production tried on a new director other than Bryan Singer. It didn't work out. That record however was stolen years after when X-Men Origins: Wolverine was released.
Luckily, Brian Singer went back to help with 2011 X-Men: First Class and jump started the franchise back to its prior crackle. Now, a new movie called The Wolverine is fast approaching and lead star Jackman is eager to explain that it is a standalone movie and is not a sequel to the Origins version. Us here in Film Police, can grasp that, Hugh. :)
Wolverine (Jackman) tells Total Film magazine that the movie is in fact a solo movie that will feature new sets of plot and character. "We've deliberately not called it Wolverine 2 because we want it to be placed and feel like a standalone picture," says Jackman, "With an all-new cast and setting it in Japan, it’s going to give us a whole new visual aesthetic.”
Seems that Wolverine really takes on a completely different direction and Jackman adds, presumably an answer to the fans predicament over Origins that the previous movies were overpopulated with mutants, “The approach to character means we won’t be overloaded with mutants and teams and the like, so it’ll be more character-based. I think in many ways it will feel like a completely different X-Men film.”
The movie will get the rights to sit behind the camera to James Mangold, who in my own I think is a great director. He's done Walk the Line and Knight and Day, the latter is my guilty pleasure. Wolverine will be telling the script written by Christopher McQuarrie (Valkyrie, The Usual Suspects), rewritten by Die Hard 4 writer Mark Bomback and is set to hit theaters June 26th next year.
Hugh Jackman has been an active host in the development of the film, so granting him trust is not really a task. We smell a more delish Wolverine movie simmering up.
SOURCE: TOTAL FILM
SOURCE: TOTAL FILM
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