According to "The Hollywood Reporter" Christopher McQuarrie has been hired by Fox to script the sequel to this years "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."
The trades also confirms that the sequel WILL in fact take pages from Frank Miller's run on Wolverine, putting the mutant avenger in Japan.
With McQuarrie's involvement one has to wonder if Bryan Singer will try to get involved as the two of them have worked together in the past on the first X-men film.