The Wolverine is a movie that's been on the radar for at least two years, but we really haven't heard much about it lately. Originally, filming was supposed to start in the spring of 2011, but it was delayed because of natural disasters in Japan, where many scenes were going to be filmed. The start date was then pushed to the fall of 2011, but a schedule conflict for star,
Hugh Jackman, nixed those plans.
(Jackman signed onto the musical version of Les Miserable.)
If you recall, about this time last year, the movie had another delay. A year ago, fans were going nuts over the
announcement that
Darren Aronofsky (
The Wrestler - Black Swan)
had been hired to direct, and then in March he
left the project. The search for a new director put the movie on the back burner for a few months, but then Fox hired
James Mangold (
Girl, Interrupted -
Walk the Line) in June 2011. Recently, I've been wondering if the movie was already filming or if any start date had been announced. So, after doing a search for the latest news, it sounds like summer of this year is when the cameras
might finally roll. That's according to statements from the film's producer, Lauren Shuler Donner, but she stresses that it's all up to Jackman's schedule. The movie's IMDb page has 2013 as the only info regarding when it will open.
If you're not quite up to speed on
The Wolverine, here's a little info -
The movie is not a sequel to 2009's
X-Men Origins: Wolverine. It's going to be a stand-alone story in which
Logan/Wolverine travels to Japan to search for the truth behind his origin. It's at least partially based on the classic 1982 comic book run by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller. In that story,
Wolverine also tries to win back the woman he loves while battling her samurai sword-wielding family. Will that part of the story be included? Nobody knows, yet.
Here's how Mangold described the movie to MTV News -
"I was just really intrigued by the script and the project and the boldness of making a really personal Wolverine movie. But it's also more of a journey for the character in a completely foreign land and more of a mystery and an adventure than it kind of is another save the world X-Men film."
Some information in this article can be found at
http://screenrant.com/wolverine-2-release-date-rob-121675/
http://www.reelz.com/person/120691/james-mangold/news/
2 comments:
I really enjoyed X Men Origins: Wolverine and I especially enjoyed Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool. I just think that they should have capitalised on that success (and let's face it, it didn't have a huge audience and received mixed reviews) and they should have wrapped up a follow up sooner.
Hey Mandy, yeah it's too bad Fox has had so many delays with this movie. It'll be 4 years in between the 2 Wolverine movies when this one opens, and Jackman ain't getting any younger. There might be some gray in Wolvie's whiskers this time.
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