Christopher McQuarrie Will Write 'Wolverine' Sequel
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Hugh Jackman has been itching to take Logan to the land of the Rising Sun since before X-Men Origins: Wolverine hit theaters, and as a sequel was announced mere hours after Origins hit theaters, it was no surprise when he announced this week that he was actively developing it. But "active development" has resulted in a big announcement as according to The Hollywood Reporter, Christopher McQuarrie has been hired to pen the sequel. The Christopher McQuarrie. That weird noise you hear is the sound of my hopes going up despite my best efforts.As you might remember McQuarrie is no stranger to the X-Men universe, having originally penned the first X-Men script before David Hayter came in. A very brief Google search doesn't reveal what McQuarrie's script would have been like, so maybe someone else can offer up what might have been. I think I can safely say that if he had written Origins, there wouldn't have been gaping continuity errors and laughable memory-removal MacGuffins.
Like most Wolverine fans, I love Frank Miller's Japan saga. It's the first time Wolverine was actually shown to have those things called "feelings," experienced something known as "failure," and it deepened his character beyond the berserker who did nothing more than hack, slash, and hit on Jean Grey. If done right, we could honestly pretend Origins never happened, and this is Wolverine's cinematic origin story.
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8-13-2009 @ 6:25PM
Batzarro said...
Deathstrike in suit? One can hope!
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8-13-2009 @ 6:28PM
Batzarro said...
Dathstrike in suit? One can hope!
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8-13-2009 @ 6:55PM
Jason said...
I read the McQuarrie draft of x-men. It's largely similar to the finished product, just with a little ironing.
Most of the ideas they struck ended up in the second film, and even the third. So, yeah. As you would expect, it's made of awesome.
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8-14-2009 @ 10:18AM
ElevatorHappyFun said...
I can forgive 'Wolverine' for being a mediocre movie. I want to see Logan in full armor; katana in one hand and sake in the other. Ohh, and some blood too.
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8-20-2009 @ 3:12PM
Janie Pooh said...
I actually liked the movie and can't wait to see what they come with in the sequel. I'm actually lookin' forward to seeing how many spinoffs they can do off this movie. there's also an article about Sabretooth... it questions if he'll be making an appearance in the sequel or perhaps maybe even a spinoff. Here's the article if you are interested: http://www.trigeia.com/article.php?id=78481
what are your thoughts on that?
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