Los Angeles: Although director Darren Arofonsky is not directing the sequel to the Wolverine, actor Hugh Jackman says it is similar to the former’s version.
The screenplay of the sequel has been updated since Aronofsky bowed out the project last March but Jackman, 42 still believes that the film will be a great movie with James Mangold helming and Mark Bomback penning the script, reported Ace Showbiz.
“We had a script that was under Darren Aronofsky’s directorial, it’s 85 per cent the same. Darren took it in a Darren Aronofsky way and it’s a version I know fans would have liked to have seen, I would have loved to have seen it,” he said.
Jackman added that with James Mangold helming this X-Men Origins: Wolverine sequel and Mark Bomback penning the script, he is confident the second Wolverine film is going to be a strong movie.
The actor also said that he once tried to pull back Aronofsky to the project, but failed.
“I tried to get Darren to do X3 and Wolverine and he was always like, ‘It’s not really for me’. So there is a lot of meat on the bone there. Now, Mark and Jim have taken it and I think that it as strong, if not stronger, than what we would have had with Darren.”
The Wolverine will take its cue from the early 1980s of Chris Claremont/Frank Miller miniseries, which is set in Japan and features Wolverine dealing with ninjas as he struggles whether he should follow his animal killer instincts or the samurai’s code of honor and respect. The movie is expected to hit the US theaters in 2013. (PTI)