- WOLVERINE TO BE UNLIKE ANY OTHER COMIC FILM?
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| Wolverine is Hugh Jackman |
Will The Wolverine be ready to go before cameras next year,
director James Mangold spoke with The Playlist about his plans for the sequel
to the 2009 X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
“You could actually just tell a story about this amazing
character from the start, just the way they do when you really read a comic,”
Mangold said via telephone Friday. “You don’t have to spend the first hour
saying how they were born; you can actually just find them in an emotional
space, in the middle of action, and what happens is you’re not crowded with
cutting to nine other action heroes. You can really make a movie about this
dude.”
"It's a kind of adventure following such a unique
character also in a really unique environment," he says of his reasons for
taking the job. "I mean, the fact that half of the characters in this
movie speak Japanese, this is like a foreign-language superhero movie that's as
much a drama and a detective story and a film noir, with high-octane action as
it is anything like a conventional tentpole film."
Mangold also explains that he's discussed the project with
the formerly-attached Darren Aronofsky and that, while the film still features
Christopher McQuarrie's screenplay, he and Mark Bomback have gone through and
rewritten the entire thing, comparing the version he plans to make to classics
like The Outlaw Josey Wales and Chinatown.
"[It's] much more about Logan getting lost in this very
unique and insulated world of Japanese culture, gangster culture, and ninja
culture," he explains. "The fighting is going to be unique because
it's all influenced by Japanese martial arts... I think more than anything,
it's a character piece, asking really interesting questions that are what
pulled me in about what it means to be immortal. What is it to live forever,
when you lose everyone you've ever loved? Either you watch them get killed, or
you just lose them by attrition. What is it to feel the burden of saving
mankind through all of its mistakes, over and over and over again? What's the
toll it takes on you as a living being that is somehow living this
Frankensteinian, eternal life?"
“I like to think that we’re out to make that Wolverine movie
that people have been looking forward to seeing, which takes on some of the
darker and more intense aspects of the character, and his own journey, that
have not necessarily been possible in the origin story that they did or
obviously when he’s sharing so much time as a character with so many others in
X-Men.”
Well it definitely seems that the Wolverine is getting
closer and closer to going into production, hopefully the film will start
shooting next year for a 2013 release.
