Darren Aronofsky Talks About The Wolverine

Darren Aronofsky Talks About The Wolverine

In an exclusive chat with Comingsoon, Aronofsky offers up a few tidbits about his upcoming sequel(that's not a sequel) to X-Men Origins: Wolverine..

By MarkCassidy - Nov 19, 2010 09:11 AM EST
Filed Under: The Wolverine
Source: ComingSoon.net

It took a while. Now that Darren Aronofsky is officially confirmed as the man that will bring us The Wolverine, the director is starting to discuss it. He talks to Comingsoon.net about what we can expect from Chris McQuarrie's script, as well as addressing rumors of a Liev Schreiber appearance as Sabertooth and whether he will have a predominantly Japanese cast..



"There's all the samurai elements that are really exciting, I'm a big fan of Japanese movies, we're going to try to have a good time."


The director then confirmed that he would be casting a lot of Japanese actors but not if they would be speaking in Japanese with subtitles, or in English.

"It's still under discussion, we'll see what happens,"


My guess would be: Aronofsky wants subtitles, Fox don't! And what about this script from Christopher McQuarrie we have heard such good things about..

"Chris McQuarrie wrote a great screenplay. We're trying to get it into a slightly better place but he's working on it, and I think it'll be easy to fix. Chris is an amazing writer and I'm very lucky to have him as a collaborator."


Aronofsky also revealed that with his new film Black Swan gearing up for its December release, he has hardly had any time to really think about developing the project just yet. And when he was asked about a possible appearance as Liev Schreiber as Victor Creed..

"I'm not going to talk about any of that stuff."

Ah well. Its not a no! Maybe this film won't be quite so removed from the last one after all. Schreiber was easily one of the best things about X-Men Origins: Wolverine anyway so even though Sabertooth doesn't feature in the Japan saga, I wouldn't mind him being worked in for a cameo or something.

What do you guys think? I know the first movie was no great shakes and is about as welcome around these parts as a fart in a space suit, but with a director the calibre of Aronofsky on board are you willing to give this a shot?

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StrangerX
StrangerX - 11/19/2010, 9:32 AM
Somebody ask this guy if him and Jackman are planning on having Wolverine in Costume. cus I'm getting tired of the wife beater
joker22
joker22 - 11/19/2010, 9:33 AM
I Liked The First.
But The Second One Better Be Better.
SeaSerpentine
SeaSerpentine - 11/19/2010, 9:39 AM
@StrangerX agreed.
tazmaniak
tazmaniak - 11/19/2010, 9:51 AM
As much as I disliked the first one and I'm glad this isn't a true sequel, I kinda wanna know what happened with Stryker.

By the end of Wolverine, he was responsible for the deaths of the members of Weapon X,that old couple, his superior officer, kidnapping and experimenting on mutants, using ungodly amounts of government money to create "Deadpool" and Wolverine then losing them, as well as the destruction of that island.How in the hell did he go from that to his position in X-2, which is roughly 15 years later?
jjmeylar
jjmeylar - 11/19/2010, 10:09 AM
I hope that they will speak Japanese. I mean: even if they don't, this will still probably be the best X film so far.
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 11/19/2010, 10:21 AM
I gotta say im very very interested to see what Aronofsky comes up with!:)... Hope fox let him do the movie where japanese characters speak japanese and not english!:)
marvel72
marvel72 - 11/19/2010, 10:39 AM
i've got no faith in fox at all in delivering what we all want.

they've made the worst comic book adaptions so far from daredevil - x-men.

i want "the wolverine" to be amazing,but i can't see it.
Flagg
Flagg - 11/19/2010, 10:43 AM
'Wife beater' is such a stupid, ridiculous name for a vest.
Duhdaduh
Duhdaduh - 11/19/2010, 10:57 AM
liev shreiber captured the essence of sabretooth so great, i loved his portrayal!

@jacksonvega haha, i think ichi the killer was the most disturbing thing i've ever seen

and i hope they dont have subtitles, this is wolverine dammit, not crouching tiger shitting dragon! last samurai did it well i thought, incorporating both english and japanese
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 11/19/2010, 11:07 AM
Its not a sequel.... LMAO!!!

Of course it is, it carries on same actor lol!

Its not a prequel to the prequel! : p

Damn FOX knows they made sh1T with BORIGINS! : D

Cover up too much... still in a good thing they should, pity they couldn't do that with FIST A$$!


Even though I'm against anything now Marvel/Fox related, keep to the source of the WOLVIE JAPAN story and you can't go wrong! ; )
BetaRayB
BetaRayB - 11/19/2010, 11:08 AM
I'm really looking forward to this! I think it will be the best X-Men movie to date. I just hope we see him in the suit. It's perfectly suited to the Japanese/samurai/kabuki aspect here and wouldn't look out of place or ridiculous at all.
48and2
48and2 - 11/19/2010, 11:18 AM
I was dreaming about this movie lastnight... I guarantee you it will be awesome.

@deadpool72 I guarantee you this will be the movie that turns things around.

Aronofsky has no bad movies. and his work with Jackman on The Fountain is a glimpse into what we'll get. Plus it's the Japan Saga... the odds that things will go wrong regardless of Fox, are very low.
48and2
48and2 - 11/19/2010, 11:22 AM
Haha Lee - like your new avatar; it's The Tick meets Mothman.
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 11/19/2010, 11:49 AM
Who directed "Borigins"? Some nobody. What kind of a film was it? Not bad, not good.
Who directed X3? Rat[frick]. 'Nuff said.
Who directed the first two? Bryan Singer. What were they like? Well, they were very much like Bryan Singer films, love 'em or hate 'em.
Now, who's directing The Woverine?
DARREN [frick]ING ARONOFSKY!!!!!
Do not worry. It will be good.
Fox is not directing. They are not the creative vision.
SuperSpiderMan5778
SuperSpiderMan5778 - 11/19/2010, 12:06 PM
u know i liked XMO Wolverine. the only thing that took away from it was barakapool. then the unecessary deaths and gambit was horrible. no cajun accent no purple flames wtf?? on a lighter note sabertooth/liev schrieber was awesome. it was action packed. what i would've loved to have seen is stryker make a hulk like monster from all the genes he was stealing and that sabertooth and wolverine had trouble fighting it at the end. then outcomes deadpool and gambit to the rescue. leave deadpool still unscarred and all and it would've set up the spinoff, that might still happen, a lot better.
NorrinRaddical
NorrinRaddical - 11/19/2010, 12:19 PM
i'll probably just keep saying the same thing ad nauseum about this, but i have trust in Aronofsky like i have trust in Nolan. they're going to make a movie i will personally find ambitious, surprising, and more than fulfilling. imagine, a Wolverine movie with an emotional resonance and a visceral quality to the action not yet seen!?!?! wolverine = pain, in all the ways you want to interpret that, and Aronofsky is the guy to bring it to us. i'm going to leave him alone until it comes out, and be there opening weekend
cole33
cole33 - 11/19/2010, 12:48 PM
Suit
blood
visceral aggressive action
emotion
please dont' just be a logan movie
Bandrews1
Bandrews1 - 11/19/2010, 12:49 PM
Interesting.
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 11/19/2010, 12:58 PM
I am so glad that the X-franchise remains with Fox and that Disney has no power over it. I can't imagine them hiring Darren Aronofsky to direct The Woverine or Robert Rodriguez to direct an R-rated Deadpool movie. And Matthew Vaughn's not a bad choice either. And since all Fox do is hire and fire and sort out the legal issues, I'd say they've been doing a pretty good job. They've had the bad response of hiring a guy nobody ever heard of to do the first Wolverine and making that rushed decision on getting Ratner to do X3 and they're sure as hell making up for it. I would not like to see what Disney would do with it. I'm thinking Thor is relatively safe, in the hands of Kenneth Branagh. But Cap? Joe Johnston directed The Rocketeer, remember? And did anyone see the third Jurrassic Park? No? Well, don't bother, he did that too. Okay, so it's a WWII Cap, so it might work for that movie. But I couldn't see him directing The Wolverine. Aronofsky, however would do an awesome Captain America. And $100million for The Avengers? Come on! I can see the FF and Spidey in Disney's hands, but they wouldn't be worth watching, unless it was with your kids. But the X-franchise needs to stay with Fox. They handle it like a flat-out sci-fi. Disney would not.
cole33
cole33 - 11/19/2010, 12:59 PM
The one thing I like about wolverine comics was that he rode that line between dangerous to the good guys, yet a good guy himself.

and I've never felt like wolverine was all that dangerous in the last four films.

cole33
cole33 - 11/19/2010, 1:00 PM

I'd like to see wolverine get into a bar fight in a biker bar, kill every person that doesn't run screaming out the door and then gets on his motorcycle like he just came from the gym.

a wolverine that looks like my avatar
ManThing
ManThing - 11/19/2010, 1:00 PM
This is a pretty good article.

However it was Ninjas. Not samurai. It was Ninjas that he was dealing with in the story. Whole different thing.
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 11/19/2010, 1:03 PM
It was both as far as I can remember. The Yoshida clan and The Hand, right?
tazmaniak
tazmaniak - 11/19/2010, 1:15 PM
You are correct, DukeAcureds2010.The main antagonist of the story was Shingen, who was a samurai.
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 11/19/2010, 1:29 PM
weneedrevelation@ Yes that is the real hulking Sabretooth!:)... Only his face should look more beastly!
I totally would have liked to see that version in the big screen, but Schreiber wasnt that bad (Thou the whole movie sucked big time... He was the best part of it).
At least he was better than Tyler Mane. Why?... Because he can act and Tyler Mane can just stand and look tough.

But if i could decide... Gerard Butler, James Preston Rogers, Dolph Lundgren or Alexander Skarsgård would play Sabretooth. Thou Alex would have been maybe too good lookin´ for the role? But with decent facial make-up, i think he would have been great Sabretooth!:) He is great actor and [frick]ing tall guy.
SuperSpiderMan5778
SuperSpiderMan5778 - 11/19/2010, 1:40 PM
i'm just glad he said he's not speaking on bringing back Liev which to me is not a NO but a possible yes. bring back sabertooth. and for fox to have some kind of consistency they should show Liev growing some blondeish like hair to match up the look for what we got in X-Men 1.
hippopotamusprime
hippopotamusprime - 11/19/2010, 1:53 PM
I would like to see Liev make the transition to classic Sabretooth as part of this film, it could be a minor part, but it would be nice to tie the continuity together.
Gray4421
Gray4421 - 11/19/2010, 2:10 PM
Watch this one suck as much as the last one thanks to FOX.
cole33
cole33 - 11/19/2010, 2:37 PM
I'm not sure why they can't make Liev more hulking using CGI, the way they made the actors who played the hobbits and dwarves in LOTR small.

I always wanted them to introduce Sabretooth sitting in a dark bar in some remote area at a corner table eating raw meat with his hands. He could have been REALLY borderline half man half beast, and a total psychotic. I like Liev grounded version, but it seemed more like a tv movie version

DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 11/19/2010, 3:32 PM
@Gray4421
Someone else who thinks this will suck because of Fox? You're not alone, that what everyone seems to be thinking.
Look, good directors make good movies. Bad directors make bad movies. It doesn't matter what studio they make them for. Okay, so there is hands on studio interferance (which is quite rare), but part of being a good director is knowing how to play ball whilst delivering a good product. Aronofsky is not a man to be trifled with. This movie will either be exactly the movie he wants to make or he will leave the project. He's done it before on Batman: Year One, Watchmen and Last Man (the original version of The Fountain). Actually, I think it was the other way around on that last one. (The studio pulled the plug).
You guys should not be worried. You should just be crossing your fingers that this movie gets made at all.
48and2
48and2 - 11/19/2010, 4:07 PM
@cole33 they could do it now very easily; even from when Borigins came out that cg gap has been crossed
ManThing
ManThing - 11/19/2010, 4:43 PM
@ DukeAcureds2010 & tazmaniak

Actually you are both totally wrong and it's clear that neither of you have any idea what you are talking about.

Lord Shingen, head of the Yashida family, and at the time of his death, the acting leader of The Hand was a Yakuza warlord who was highly trained as a swordsman and martial artist. But he was absolutely not a "Samurai". As a matter of fact there is no evidence that he was even descended from noble blood. As a matter of fact he wasn't even a Ninja.

I don't know what gives you two clowns the idea that he was a Samurai. Was it just because he fought with a sword? lol
mstargel
mstargel - 11/19/2010, 6:41 PM
suit up!
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 11/19/2010, 6:45 PM
guason@ Got that right!:)
flames809
flames809 - 11/19/2010, 9:08 PM
Why would you say that fox don't want subtitle in there movies if in alot of there movies they have subtitle it ain't up to fox is up 2 the director to choose if he or she wants subtitle in there movie. So why don't ya stop trying to get fox into being the bad guy for once cause ya don't like the studio why can't ya be mature and move on?
Kyos
Kyos - 11/19/2010, 11:27 PM
Japanese with subtitles. Oh, so much japanese with subtitles! And blood! :)
48and2
48and2 - 11/20/2010, 1:21 PM
I guess it's way too early on, but man if only they could do it R rated... I know we all have that wet dream. I'm quite sure Aronofsky will make full use of his [frick] and Shit and blood allowance if it goes PG13 anyway.

I'm telling you guys, this is going to be the movie that turns Fox around. This guy doesn't miss.
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