Jackman: Wolverine Moves Ahead

Source SciFi Wire:

Hugh Jackman, who reprises his role as Logan/Wolverine in the upcoming sequel X-Men: The Last Stand, told SCI FI Wire that a second draft of the propsed Wolverine prequel movie has already been completed. Jackman would star in and co-produce the film, which would likely receive a quick green light from 20th Century Fox if The Last Stand proves successful.

"It's probably going to be a prequel to the movies that exist, and I've just seen—not just, but about three months ago I saw—the second draft that David Benioff [Troy] has done," Jackman said in an interview. "You probably know David. He's a huge fan of the franchise and probably one of the hottest writers in town, and so the lucky thing that I have is him as a partner on this and, for me playing Wolverine, that [they're the] A lists of the A lists, and there are a number of them that are passionate and want to work on it."

Jackman added: "So I think and they think that there is enough in this character to substantiate not just an appendage to the movie that exists, but an entity on its own. I don't want to make Wolverine be a kind of disguise for X-Men 4. I want to make it stylistically and character-wise as different as we can and show some new stuff. I play him, and I would [be expected to] say this, but I think that he is one of the most interesting characters in terms of action heroes and comic-book heroes around." X-Men: The Last Stand opens May 26. A Wolverine movie would likely begin production sometime in 2007. —Ian Spelling