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Fucking hell!

From Comingsoon.net

Christopher McQuarrie has signed on to write the script for 20th Century Fox's Wolverine sequel. McQuarrie won an oscar for writing The Usual Suspects and reteamed with that film's director, Bryan Singer, for the first X-Men.

McQuarrie voluntarily took his name off X-Men when the final version was more in line with David Hayter's script than his.

Hugh Jackman will again star as Logan/Wolverine. He is also producing via his Fox-based Seed production company along with Lauren Shuler Donner.

The Hollywood Reporter says the movie's story line will takes its cue from the early 1980s Chris Claremont-Frank Miller miniseries, which is set in Japan and features Wolverine dealing with ninjas as he struggles whether to follow his animal killer instincts or the life under a samurai's code of honor and respect.

Made for about $150 million, "Wolverine" earned $363.2 million worldwide.

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The special effects in this film are quite comical at best. When Wolverine brings out the metal blades in the bathroom, it looked more like Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It's been a while since I saw the other X-Men films, but I remember the claws looking awesome in those. How did they manage to take a step BACK about 20 years in special effects?!

I was thinking exactly the same thing. His claws looked like a cartoon!

Also, the

Patrick Stewart

cameo was just a bit scary. Did this film not have much of a budget or something? Some of the compositing was pretty bad. The final fight was so obviously green screen.

I can live with a few ropy effects, though. My main gripe was the film was just unnecessary. I have no knowledge of the comics but most of Logan's back story was already explained in his visions. We didn't need to actually see all that stuff happen, and some of the explanations that tied it all up were just a bit contrived (

adamantium bullet?!

).

Also, did they 'toughen' Wolverine up a bit for this film? He's basically indestructable, isn't he? I always thought his regenerative power was limited and his metal skeleton protected him, but surviving a

bullet in the brain (getting up again a few minutes later)

is a pretty big deal.

Liked the montage, liked most of the cameos. Story was 'okay' at best, but very predictable. I just knew

Weapon XI's head was gonna fall off after he fell from the tower, Darth Maul style

. :omg:

Anyway, on the basis that they made Origins: Wolverine, potentially the most interesting of the backstories, quite boring, I don't hold out much hope for the others. Are they making others? I don't think I could handle a whole film of scary

CGI Patrick Stewart or Ian McKellen

. Cyclops could have been good, but they've already spoiled that a bit now.

"I was in school, I got a headache, I blew a hole in the school, I got captured and experimented on, then a scary CGI bald man rescued me by talking to my mind. The end."

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Also, did they 'toughen' Wolverine up a bit for this film? He's basically indestructable, isn't he? I always thought his regenerative power was limited and his metal skeleton protected him, but surviving a bullet in the brain (getting up again a few minutes later) is a pretty big deal.

not at all

over the years hes had all his flesh burned off, multiple times, had the adamantium ripped from his bones and many other things that should have killed him

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According to the comics, the only way to kill Wolverine is to separate his head from his body and keep it far away enough to prevent regeneration. Whether that means as long as his brain is alive his regen works, or if it's cellular I'm not sure*.

In the comics his regenration varies wildly, sometimes his flesh grows back in minutes, sometimes longer. Either way, it takes an awful lot to put him down.

*exception to the rule: in days of future past a Sentinal flayed him down to his skeleton, but we didn't see him beyond just seeing his skeleton, so he could have regenerated given enough time.

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According to the comics, the only way to kill Wolverine is to separate his head from his body and keep it far away enough to prevent regeneration. Whether that means as long as his brain is alive his regen works, or if it's cellular I'm not sure*.

In the comics his regenration varies wildly, sometimes his flesh grows back in minutes, sometimes longer. Either way, it takes an awful lot to put him down.

*exception to the rule: in days of future past a Sentinal flayed him down to his skeleton, but we didn't see him beyond just seeing his skeleton, so he could have regenerated given enough time.

It's the same with Deadpool. As long as his head gets put back on before it's too starved of oxygen, it's all good.

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Deadline claim that Darren Aronofsky is in the running to direct the sequel. I can't see it happening myself but I'd love to see what he would do with it, especially with Christopher McQuarrie writing.

On the X-Men: Wolverine 2 front' date=' 20th Century Fox is between David Slade and Darren Aronofsky, I'm told. Slade, who just directed the summer hit The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, met over the weekend with Jackman on location where he is shooting Real Steel for DreamWorks. Aronofsky has also been talking with Jackman, and they have a good relationship that dates back to The Fountain, when Jackman stepped in after Brad Pitt dropped out. Jackman holds a lot of clout in the decision and while Aronofsky has some momentum of his own because of Black Swan, I'd say Slade has the edge. He is coming off a big summer movie with large-scale effects, which makes the studio comfortable. Fox went with Gavin Hood on the first Wolverine, and while he came from the Oscar-winning South African film Tsotsi, it was quite an adjustment moving into a tent pole sized undertaking, and Aronofsky has a similar prestige film background. Robert Schwentke, who created Comic-Con buzz for his film Red, had been in the mix--he was going to meet Jackman in Detroit along with Slade last weekend--but he opted out of the competition. Instead, Schwentke is eyeing projects that include Robert Ludlum's The Osterman Weekend and Universal's Ryan Reynolds-starrer RIPD as possible next pictures.[/quote']

I can imagine Aronofsky doing a smaller budget, non-tentpole release, focusing on Wolverine as a loner and in his darkest days, post-Weapon X. Never going to happen though.

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Still treat this as a big fat rumour for now but it looks like Darren Aronofsky might direct the second film: Source.

Deadline are rather hit and miss with these sort of rumours, and since Black Swan Mr. Aronofsky has been linked to every major film still looking for a director, but with this film supposedly set in Japan and dealing with one of the characters best story arcs I could see it working well. I'm not sure where this leaves his other projects, such as The Tiger.

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Aronofsky Confirmed -

Hugh Jackman talked to Vulture about Wolverine 2 and in doing so, confirmed that Darren Aronofsky is directing.

"I'm starting; I'm having my six meals a day," he said about the preparations.

With Aronofsky directing, this will not be a usual "X-Men" movie. "This is, hopefully for me, going to be out of the box. It’s going to be the best one, I hope," he said, "Well, I would say that, but I really do feel that, and I feel this is going to be very different."

He added that he doesn't think Aronofsky's penchant for dark drama is at odds with the big-budget franchise. "This is Wolverine. This is not Popeye. He's kind of dark," Jackman said. "But, you know, this is a change of pace. Chris McQuarrie, who wrote 'The Usual Suspects,' has written the script, so that'll give you a good clue. [Aronofsky's] going to make it fantastic. There's going to be some meat on the bones. There will be something to think about as you leave the theater, for sure."

Read more: Jackman Talks Wolverine 2, Confirms Aronofsky - ComingSoon.net http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=70905#ixzz12pn8F13H

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Director Darren Aronofsky revealed the title on Saturday for the new Wolverine movie starring Hugh Jackman. The movie, to be titled The Wolverine, will not be a sequel to the Gavin Hood-directed 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.

A release date has not been set yet for the film.

Read more: Aronofsky Reveals Title for Next Wolverine Movie - ComingSoon.net http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=71660#ixzz15F8GNAfM

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Sounds like a really bad spin-off. Also, we're now into what, the 4th continuity with Jackman playing Wolverine? I mean, he's fantastic and completely the right guy for the role, but the number of canons is getting ridiculous. It's starting to feel like the rest of Marvel's work...

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Sounds like a really bad spin-off. Also, we're now into what, the 4th continuity with Jackman playing Wolverine? I mean, he's fantastic and completely the right guy for the role, but the number of canons is getting ridiculous. It's starting to feel like the rest of Marvel's work...

Eh?

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