Wolverine Gets New Screenwriter And Gavin Hood Reveals Sequel Plans

Hugh Jackman and 20th Century Fox have bought screenwriter Skip Woods (Swordfish, Hitman) to revise David Benioff’s draft for the upcoming X-Man spin-off prequel, Wolverine.

David Wood, director for Wolverine who is currently promoting his new film Rendition, has been pestered by online journalists for information about his upcoming comic book adaptation. Finally he’s caved and has told why he is interested in making Wolverine:

“What appeals to me about the Wolverine character of all the other characters is that my feeling that he’s the one that suffers from the most existential angst. Since I’m a guy who loves emotional complexity, it seemed to me that… when I was first approached to do it, my first thought was, ‘What? Me? Do this? What is that? I don’t know enough about comic book characters.’ And of course, I then did some further research and I realized that the character of Wolverine, I think his great appeal lies in the fact that he’s someone who in some ways, is filled with a great deal of self-loathing by his own nature and he’s constantly at war with his own nature. It seems to me that the character of Wolverine epitomizes in a modern context, a kind of great mythical tradition of using larger-than-life characters in order to play with and examine human emotion at a sort of operatic level.”

More interestingly, when Hood was asked if they would be shooting Wolverine in Japan ( which is in Wolverine’s comic book origins) he said,

“No, sadly no. We’re not going to Japan. “I think that will be in ‘Wolverine 2’ but I won’t say any more than that.”

Ahem.. Did you see that? Wolverine 2! The first one hasn’t started filming yet! I think we could have a movie franchise on our hands here!

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