Wolverine 2 is already in the works and if the rumours are true, they may have found their director. Darren Aronofsky is leading the contenders for the directors chair.
Darren Aronofsky has emerged as a contender to direct “X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2” for 20th Century Fox according to Deadline New York.
Considering that Hugh Jackman will have a lot of influence over who gets the cushy folding chair job, and he has worked with Aronofsky before in the Fountain, he could very well get the gig.
I would be curious to see how he handles the tone of the film. Aronofsky’s previous works have mostly been character driven dark drama. And while dealing with Logan’s “forgetting” trip to Japan, I do like that they would take a serious dramatic look at it.
But this is Wolverine. We want some snikt-snikt action with some rough Canadian brawling action too, and I just have no perspective on how Aronofsky might handle the action.
Seems an odd fit for me. He just doesn’t seem the comic book action type.
The first was good!…Its done leave it be!, Sequels ruin original films!. Theres other X-Men to do.
There was plenty wrong with the first that can only be better in another one.
And by your logic there would only ever be one X-Men comic book too. Because clearly a sequel is never a good idea.
Every film has the potential to be great. Even a sequel.
I’m a avid comic-book fan – I grew up on Marvel and DC Comics. I was a little disappointed in the Wolverine and I completely lost interest in the X-Men films after the first movie. Wolverine is a pretty dark and torn character. He’s basically a trained assassin with some pretty serious social issues. I think the problem with putting Wolverine on screen is the writers and directors have a problem with getting caught up into the “Super Hero” aspect of the characters. Wolverine technically is not a “Super Hero” – He’s a murderer with a soft spot. We love his character because he wants to be good but in the end he resolves his problems with well orchestrated violence. The movies miss both his mastery of violence and the emotional complexities that drive his character. For One, Logan is incredibly loyal. Two, Logan has definite blood lust – for example in a heated convo – Wolverine is desperately trying not to rip a person to shreds. Three, he is a master at his craft – he has to basically bring himself to hate what he does. The movie brought way too many characters into Wolverine’s time line, only one character made sense to be in the film and that was Sabertooth. Then it just became another franchise driven flick. None of the X-men movies hold a candle to the Batman Films – Nolan told a story and he told it well. These Batman films are consistent from the beginning, the middle, and the end. I mean movies are about telling stories but when you just make crap its not really fun to watch.
X2 was the best of the three (ok, the third X-movie was pretty much crap), and easily on par with The Dark Knight.
As for super-heroes, well, really, none of the X-men are superheroes, they’re more powered adventurers, more often than not reacting to anti-mutant/evil mutant action.
After momento, I wouldn’t think Nolan would be the best fit for Batman. Have to say this piece of news made me laugh. The script would have to be pretty good for someone like Aronofsky to take interest. Considering how flawed the first one was (making up a mutant just for the sake of wil-i-am sats enough) I’m more interested in who will be writing the script. They can good actors but that’s useless if you don’t have anything decent for them to act (sabertooth was just poorly written, lieve schrieber is more than capable).
Wil I Am played John Wraith. It wasn’t a made up mutant for the movie, it was just a lesser known character named Kestrel who was part of the original Team X program with Wolverine Sabretooth and others.
He wasn’t “made up” just to put WilIAm in the movie.
Come on guys, it doesn’t matter who directs this thing. It’s still not gonna be any good. The studio has certain beats it wants to hit with these movies and it’s going to get its way.
There is no readon to assume that no matter who directs this it will be bad.
You make it sound like the studios go out of their way to make the movie suck.
Theres nothing yo can do to make it better than the first, There shouldnt be a second.
Almost wishing for Gavin Hood to come back, or Brett Ratner. Hell, I’d even take Dominic Sena (who directed Jackman in “Swordfish”) over Aronofsky. I’m sure Jackman would like to work with Aronofsky again. But it’s not because I HATED The Fountain. I did, actually, but that’s not my main cause for alarm.
It’s those nice ideas he had in store for “Batman : Year One” when it was being developed a number of years ago…and why it never came to pass. (Wonder why? -{that’s sarcasm, there}). If Aronofsky directed Wolverine 2, you might as well as call it an X-Men reboot – and reimagining. Hey, I’ll give Aronofsky some credit- maybe he can be an alright choice for Doctor Strange or a remake of Zardoz if it ever came about.
Robert Schwentke left the list for other projects; perhaps he also felt that between the Pi director and the 30 Days Director, he didn’t stand a chance. Who knows. Y’know, if Joe Carnahan gets passed up for FF, he could actually work better than all the other directors mentioned for Wolverine II.
But right now, I’m going to stick with David Slade.
I read earlier today on MSN that David Slade (“Twilight: Eclipse”) and Robert Schwentke (the upcoming Bruce Willis movie “RED”) were in the running.
Yea he is above this film. I feel ignorant saying this but I feel it’s the truth.
There is no way Aronofsky is going to do this. It’s a sequel to a crappy movie. Come on!