Hugh Jackman plans Japanese set WOLVERINE sequel & wants CAROUSEL remake with Anne Hathaway!
$87 million ($158 million worldwide) opening weekend for Hugh Jackman and Wolverine. Just goes to show how little movie piracy really effects movies in 2009 (I wouldn't have expected this movie to make $100 million plus regardless) and we maybe all exaggerated over the workprint leak last month. Still, it did cost Marvel millions of dollars, so it was still significant, just not quite as significant as we thought it could have been. Jackman still has awesome star power in this role (but for none others it seems) and there's still lots of money to be made from this X-Men series.
"I'm a big fan of the Japanese saga in the comic book ... I love the idea of this anarchic character the outsider being in this world. I can see it aesthetically, too, full of honor and tradition and customs, and someone who's really anti all of that, trying to negotiate his way."Fox are now on the hunt for a writer but Slumdog Millionaire scribe Simon Beaufoy recently announced he had secured the job. I like the idea of taking Wolverine to Japan but I don't want to see it becoming a character journey film where he is almost playing a video game character who moves from location to location, fighting a progressively harder bad guy each time. And is it just me, or without the presence of Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, without the rest of the core X-Men characters, this Universe is pretty damn boring. Also on Jackman's potential slate of upcoming movies according to the trade are; Personal Security - Jackman would play a tough Gotham police detective forced into bodyguard duty for a spoiled teen heiress who is receiving kidnapping threats. That one is setup again at Fox from one of the writers on Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief. Oooooh kay. Drive - A Steve McQueen esque movie which has taken the fancy of Jackman recently. He would play a solitary man who drives race cars by day and getaway cars by night. We spoke about the project, which was then setup for director Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The Descent) last March and would likely be shot quickly, on a small budget.
