Lauren Shuler Donner has produced every single X-Men related film to date, and is producing all the ones that are coming.
In an interview with Empire Mag as part of the promotion of the X-Men Origins: Wolverine DVD and Blu-ray release, she’s provided a detailed update on the status of X-Men: First Class, X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2, Deadpool, and X-Men Origins: Magneto.
Following are summaries of what she had to say.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2
“That’s the furthest along of all the X-Men projects on the boil. It’s actually the story we wanted to use for the first Wolverine film, but [Fox head honcho] Tom Rothman preferred to set the character up with an origin story first. This movie will really focus on the relationship between Wolverine and Mariko, the daughter of a Japanese crime lord, and what happens to him in Japan…There’ll be samurai, ninja, katana blades, different forms of martial arts – mano-a-mano, extreme fighting. We’re going to come up with a new style of fighting. It’s going to be awesome.”
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Bryan Singer loves Hugh Jackman, interested in more X-Men
Though X-Men and X2 director Bryan Singer has a ton of projects on his plate there’s been plenty of talk about his potential return to the X-Men universe over the last few months.
More recently, X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner confirmed there was a possibility that Singer would direct X-Men: First Class, the new X-Men prequel movie Fox has in development.
On Sunday Singer weighed in, confirming that he’s interested to make more X-Men films, but X-Men: First Class wasn’t the film he might have hinted at.
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Director Gavin Hood recently attended a special event to promote the soon to be released X-Men Origins: Wolverine DVD and Blu-ray.
During the event Hood confirmed that there are no guarantees that he will return to direct X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2 and, even if he does, that the sequel is a long way off.
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Fox have hired Christopher McQuarrie to write the script for X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2.
McQuarrie’s previous credits include Valkyrie, Way of the Gun, and he won an Oscar for his screenplay to The Usual Suspects. He also worked with Bryan Singer to write X-Men but isn’t on the credits (he pulled his name as he felt the final product was more David Hayter’s than his).
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MTV caught up with Hugh Jackman after X-Men Origins: Wolverine won the Teen Choice Award for the best action/adventure film over the weekend.
They posted a snippet of their interview a few days ago in which Jackman confirmed development on the sequel had started and that it would be based on the Japanese story featured in the 1982 Chris Claremont and Frank Miller four issue miniseries Wolverine.
They’ve now posted another snippet from the same interview in which Jackman says the sequel will be the “sexiest” yet and hints at a 2012 release date.
Watch the snippet after the jump.
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Over the weekend X-Men Origins: Wolverine won the Teen Choice Award for the best action/adventure film.
“Who knows, maybe Wolverine will use one of these when he heads to Japan,” Hugh Jackman told the crowd as he held up the surfboard award.
Later MTV caught up with Jackman who was quick to clarify the surf comment was a joke. He then confirms that they’re working on the sequel now and that the sequel will follow the famous Japan based storyline from the 1982 Chris Claremont and Frank Miller four issue miniseries Wolverine.
Watch the interview after the jump.
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