Darren Aronofsky Talks About The Wolverine

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?