Last week we reported on an interview with Hugh Jackman where he joked about how he always says he’s not doing another X-Men film until he reads the script. He continued to jokingly say that he’d do eleven more movies as Wolverine and that was it.
The next appearance of Hugh’s buffed up mutant will likely come with a sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine which will see the Marvel poster boy head to Japan to explore the stories of one of the most classic Wolverine tales from the comics. One question surrounding this movie is whether or not director Gavin Hood would be asked to return by Fox Studios to helm the follow-up.
In an interview with Rotten Tomatoes, Hood touches on this subject and that of District 9, the sleeper hit of the year directed by a fellow South Africa, Neill Blomkamp.
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Jokes aside, Jackman’s done 4 already and there’s at least six X-Men franchise films in early development with hints of plenty more. If X-Men 4 comes to life and he does some Wolverine sequels… throw in some cameos in other X-Men spinoffs and he could actually get pretty close to that number, believe it or not.
As for Gavin Hood, we know that Wolverine 2 will happen no matter what. Moviegoers love Hugh as Wolverine and despite his horrendous CGI claws in his last outing, the sequel will again be easy money in the bank. Hood’s return isn’t so clear-cut. At many of the press events for the X-Men Origins: Wolverine Blu-ray release, questions were thrown at him and producer Lauren Shuler Donner about his return and every time they dodged it by saying they’re just focusing on the script at this point.
Rotten Tomatoes had a chance to interview Hood and asked him about his involvement with the Wolverine sequel.
“I have no idea. All that’s happened at the moment is that the studio has just commissioned the script for Wolverine 2 to be written. Whether that film will ever get made will depend on so many factors — whether the studio likes the script, whether they find a director who responds to the script. Might that be me? Sure, I’d be extremely interested and thrilled if they were to send it to me.”
They also discussed one of the big decisions Hood had to make within the story of the film, altering Sabretooth’s history for dramatic hollywood effect.
“In the original script they were not half brothers. There was some resistance to that, because in the world of the comics there’s only a small suggestion in one particular comic that Victor Creed and Wolverine may well be half brothers. I just gravitated to that. Just having one good guy versus bad guy, with no emotional connection just felt like “Whoa — you’ll have nothing but punching and kicking”. That was a way to build up the emotional power of the film. I thought Liev Schreiber did a phenomenal job. I’m very pleased that on the Blu-ray disc there’s a particular scene that I was attached to that didn’t make it into the movie. I say that without saying “It should have!” I think it probably should have been in the movie, but I understood the argument against it, and at the time there was much to-ing and fro-ing about it. It’s a great thing to be able to put that sort of scene on the Blu-ray and let people think of other themes and idea that were in my mind when we made that scene.”
I have no issues with that in the movie, Liev Schreiber’s Sabretooth was one of the best parts of Wolverine’s live-screen origin story, that I felt had so many issues.
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the issues could have gone on and on – and i know that comics to film and even books to film many elements cannot be transfered to the silver screen – but even when they do a certain percentage of the audience will get lost – case in point the watchmen. while in my opinion it was a great comic to film it lacked certain elements that make a great movie. was it too long, did they get the characters right, should they have changed the content more so it could translate well? its probably really hard to discern what they can keep/stay. anyway the debate will rage on and on and that in itself makes for great websites like this.
Liev was great in wolverine. Keep it coming.
I’m already tired of another wolverine flick, gavin is an ok director, but i want to see bryan singer direct x-men 4, and first class! But for gods sake do not bring back brett ratner.
@OrangeRush
You bring up a good point. Most of the time when I see people bash these movies, it’s because they’ve changed to much here or there (case in point, Deadpool and Gambit), while the true fact is the movie just wasn’t very good from a film standpoint.
Anachronisms galore (the film is set in 1979, isn’t it? Cause it definitely doesn’t seem like it), complete disregard for continuity (Wasn’t X2 all about Wolvie getting his claws at Alkali Lake? Why then, in Origins are they at a tropical waterfall??) and just too many major plotholes to count (why Striker didn’t give the adamantium bullets to Zero, I’ll never know).
Most of that could have been easily fixed by Hood. The stupid plotholes was mostly the script, so how much of that he had the power to change is up in the air, but he should have been responsible for making sure everything lined up with the time period and with the other three movies. Because of that, I don’t think he should return.
@Josh Rose
You make some good points. I really hated the amnesia bullets.
That almost single-handedly ruined the film for me. I hated the CG claws too, of course.
The most frustrating thing about XO: Wolverine was that the opening credits was the movie I wanted to see. Wolverine has lived a long time. He has been through all kinds of wars. It would have been really cool to give it more of “Highlander” approach, where we had cool flashbacks to his life that revealed stuff we needed to know about the current plot. Missed opportunity if you ask me.
Hood should not return. Blomkmap would be awesome. He has my vote. He can also do realistic CG :-p
Judging by the amount of posts here most don’t give a sh$t
If they do do a sequel and it’s in Asia. How about Chan Wook Park or Johnnie To. Not a big fan of Takashi Mike. But even he could make an interesting ultra-violent artisticly sound wolverine. Personally I would love to see Chan Wook Park or Johnnie To
They need to retconn the whole storyline back to the end of X2. Then let x3-redo be about the phoenix and x4 about the age of apocalypse. Brian Singer should direct all. X2 was perfect.
If I’m not mistaken Liev has no interest in doing another, mostly because of the rigorous training physically for the movie (diet, exercise, insert it all). I did enjoy him as Wolverine’s Half Brother and was able to get by all of the stuff that’s not allowing people to jump in and take part.
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