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It's X-Men movie day here at IGN, apparently, coming off of our talk yesterday with X-producer Lauren Shuler Donner. (Click here to hear what she had to say about Deadpool and here for the latest on X-Men: First Class.) While discussing the sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, we asked Donner if director Gavin Hood would return for the sequel. She hedged.
"You know, we're just going to get the script right first," was her response. "A little extra polish. … We're very excited. It's going to be a great script."
So it's safe to say that Hood may not be back for Wolvie's continued adventures. But the script is being developed right now, with The Usual Suspects' Christopher McQuarrie writing it. The much-loved Wolverine-in-Japan storyline will be the focus of the sequel of course, which Donner points out was originally meant to be the plot of the first film until studio Fox asked for an origin story instead.
"Well, they had a reason for that," Donner explained. "They wanted to make sure that we weren't just taking for granted that people saw the X-Men trilogy, we didn't take for granted that people were coming into the movie and knew who Wolverine was. And they felt that they needed to lay that basement, that framework, by doing this movie."
The producer adds that while she wants to stay as true to the comics as possible with the sequel, there are many voices that must be heard when making a film -- the director's voice, the studio's voice, the actors' voices, and so on.
"And there's other factors and other voices," she continued. "Gavin said that he wanted, for example, [in the first film] to show Logan's backstory about his father and to understand for him as a director why the character is motivated. And he chose to show Victor Creed as the half-brother because it would help this conflict. So there are many factors. I unfortunately do not make the movie alone. Or fortunately!"
Ozy out.