Darren Aronofsky, who will be directing the next Wolverine movie, for now titled simply The Wolverine, says it will stand on its own, and have nothing to do with the first movie from last year, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and will instead go on its own continuity. This is made slightly more complicated for the more OCD fans of the character, as Hugh Jackman will be reprising his role, presumably because he has to pay the mortgage somehow.
On the other hand, the movie will tell the story of Logan in Japan and all the sweet ninja fighting that could result. Better yet, the script is being penned by Chris McQuarrie, who won me over first with The Usual Suspects and then Valkyrie.
This begs the question, and I think you know where I'm going with this:
What about the damned jacket?
Listen to our Special Edition Podcast about X-Men Origins: Wolverine, where the mystery of the jacket is explored for the first time.
Is this the Wolverine we'll see? Because that would be spectacular.
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Ahhhh i love that Frank Miller drawing with all my heart. I’m actually a little excited for this now. The Usual Suspects is great and Wolvie in Japan is awesome.
I hope they reboot the jacket’s origin. I also hope the jacket isn’t CGI. Jacket.
The story this movie appears to be based on really stood on it’s own anyway. I think this can easily fit into the X-Men film continuity without any issues.
I’m surprised they’re letting them go this way! Please let this make up for X3 and Orgins….
All I can say is this , this is the best Wolverine story ever written, They better not screw this up
@LocoLobo – No one said it was based on the Frank Miller/Claremont story.
I think the reason Hugh Jackman is reprising the role is
b/c he was really very good at it. I think his mortgage might be all paid up at this point.
Also he probably wants to be involved in a film about a character he loves that is actually good.
Just a guess.
Jackman reprising the role doesn’t bother me because this movie called X-Men Origins, never happened. It. Never. Happened. OK. So ninjas! cool.
I wonder if this announcement followed Aranofksy actually watching Wolvie: Origins after he signed up to direct the sequel.
Jackman is a perfect Wolvie, gots no problem with that, but if he had any conscience about the character, he woulda refused to do Origins.
Jackman stated he would’ve liked to do the Claremont story back when Origins was being made, I mean they should do that story if they want to do the quintessential Wolverine story, but if they do, like LocoLobo was saying, they better do it frickin right, bub.
With Aranoksky making this, I’m so pumped.
This has some really good creators attached to it, so it should be pretty good. Definitely a lot more interested in it now than I was before.
What Wolverine movie are you talking about? I have no knowledge or memory of any horrible Wolverine movie that made me slam my head repeatedly against a brick wall.
GREAT news.
Good director and good script, sounds good to me. Give a rats buttocks about the movieverse continuity. A good movie is a good movie. Wanna Hugh get down and dirty in the role. By dirty I mean bloody. And no silly wig this time, I don’t really want to see hair or costumes exactly like the comic. In fact, would love to see a script completely ignore what happens in the comics. New stories are written every month anyways, write a new one just for the movie. Swallow that OCD’rs! Really interested on Daronoksky’s take on this, could go anywhere really.
I didn’t expect good news about the wolverine sequel. Pleasantly surprised.
I’m all for it.
This film has nothing to do with the laughably atrocious first one?
WHOOPIE!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIfZEmqqKcs
I’d reprise the role too if they gave me a personal trainer and workout routine that would give me one of the best bodies on the planet! I’m also very hopeful for the script since McQuarrie gave a British guy a Japanese name in "The Usual Suspects." (Joke. The sentence itself was a joke, not the part about me being hopeful.)
This is wonderful news.
Will be pretty interesting should Aronofsky win the Best Director Oscar this year for "Black Swan", as is very possible, for his next project to be "The Wolverine". I don’t think they could have ever dreamed to get a better director than Aronofsky. I think the film will obviously be tons better than you would expect a Wolverine film to be, but as a fan of Aronofsky’s, I still kind of wish he had passed and used his possible new Hollywood capital to make a passion project of his. Hope it makes tons of cash and rules and he then can make whatever he wishes.
This sounds like a great concept for the movie. hopefully it pans out!
I’ll be there.
So… this means we’re never going to find out about the jacket?
If the jacket shows up, it’ll be a quantum kind of parallel universe thing. It’ll be spectacular.
Like, The Jacket of Earth 2?
Sounds fun. Ninja’s and Wolverine = Awesome.
Man, I rolled my eyes at first and then I saw who was writing/directing. I’m pretty stoked. Thanks for sharing this, Josh.
When does Logan turn into a black swan?
Really smart decision, I’m sure what Aronofsky will do with Wolverine would be nothing short of amazing! I especially love the title without the X-men origins thing. Has it really set on its own & gets to be far away from the EPIC dissapointment that was X-men Origins Wolverine. Really excited to see Yuriko & Silver Samurai!!!!
There never really was a jacket. It was dead all along!
The jacket WAS A MAN!
No! The Jacket was Keyser Soze!
The jacket was Mystique!
The jacket used the time machine to travel back to 1955, gave a sports almanac to an earlier version of itself, presumably a cow, and that cow bet and won big. Consequently, the jacket was erased from existence.
He’s not good enough to sell a movie playing NOT Wolverine though.
@Edward: I agree actually. He went from nobody to big star because of this role.
In his defense the Wolverine film was not bad because of his performance. He did his best with the material he had. Which by the way he had nothing to work with…..it was a pile of garbage.
If this happens in a very "Ninja Assassin" or Sony Chiba style I will make sure I bring an extra set of jeans with me to the theatre. That’s a promise.
I didn’t think the first movie was all that bad
@ RahUnique, I actually enjoyed The X-Men Origins movie bro. Hmmmm….will we be forever at odds? Are you and I destined to be like Jimmy and Victor?
@ GeeSpot which one of us is James & which of us is Creed?
@ RahUnique I’m totally Victor, you sir are Jimmy. And X-Men Origins was a cool movie…except for Gambit, but then again Gambit is a sucky character anyway.
I liked Jackman in the Prestige, he is a good actor.