Is it me or does Hugh Jackman think everything is the best? I understand having James Mangold replace Darren Aronofsky would me a few rewrites, but if the script was the best comic book movie script of all time like Hugh made it out to be, I doubt 15 % of it would be redone. As far as we know, Silver Samurai is the main villain in the movie, and will follow the Japanese saga.
The most interesting comment from below is that Hugh asked Darren to direct X3. Too bad he passed on it and it ended up going to Brett Ratner who recently got the gig to host the Oscars. And then used his new found power to hire Eddie Murphy, who is starring in next film to host the show.
“We had a script that was under Darren Aronofsky’s directorial—it’s 85 percent the same. Darren took it in a Darren Aronofsky way and it’s a version I know fans would have liked to have seen – I would have loved to have seen it. James Mangold’s version of the script brought Mark Bomback on. We always had a strong base there. This is the best script we have had, which is precisely why Darren signed on. I tried to get Darren to do X3 and Wolverine and he was always like, ‘It’s not really for me.’ I knew he was looking for a comic book movie and he read this one and he goes, ‘Hey, this is the best one I’ve ever read.’ So there is a lot of meat on the bone there. Now, Mark and Jim have taken it and I think that it as strong, if not stronger, than what we would have had with Darren.”
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