X-Men Origins: Wolverine being terrible wasn’t enough to keep people from actually seeing it, and that means there’s going to be another film. There had been rumors and reports of a sequel, possibly set in Japan, but now it all looks like it’s going – according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Apparently Christopher McQuarrie has handed in his script for the film, which is set to start shooting in January in the Land of the Rising Sun. The script leans heavily on some of Frank Miller’s work on Wolverine, which set the character in the far east and had him in a doomed romance with a beautiful Japanese woman.
This story, of course, spins out of one of the multiple endings for Wolverine; in one Wolverine sits in a Japanese bar, downing shots. When the bartender asks if he’s drinking to forget, like the audience soon will be, he replies ‘No, I’m drinking to remember.’ Which doesn’t really make a lot of sense.
That ending was added as blatant fan service, by the way, following work on the film where Tom Rothman personally stepped in to fuck with fan-favorite Deadpool. There’s going to be some weird books written about the making of the Fox X-Men movies, and the Wolverine chapter could be the weirdest.
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It's not so much Miller's work as Chris Claremont's. Like all things X-Men at the time, Chris Claremont wrote that first Wolvering mini series. Frank Miller just drew it.
I'm pretty sure they at least co-plotted it.
Watching X-men 1 lastnight made me realize just how much better Leiv was compared to Tyler, not only in appearance but also in acting and story.
Now, why didn't he remember Wolverine, he's not the one who got shot in the head?
It's ashame that the only good thing out of Origins was Sabretooth and it was one of the things I thought I was going to hate the most when I first saw pics.
Go figure.
WolverDoodie
Great. Just what we need.
Not only more Wloverine, but more stereotypes of japanese women as beautiful, exotic, and mysterious to feed the fetishism.
#2 – Clarmont mentions in the intro to the TPB spending a long car trip with Miller, hashing out ideas for the plot. But Miller does not have any official writing credit on the story.
I just mentioned the Miller not writing it thing to prevent the "Fuck Miller! The Spirit sucked dick!" posts that could have possibly followed. To be fair though, I wouldn't be surprised if Claremont ran with a lot of Miller's ideas, as Miller had just come off of a long, hugely-successful run on Daredevil that was full ninjas and Japanese themes, so he probably had a better grasp on that stuff than Claremont.
It starts filming in January? I presume you're talking pick-ups…cause if it's actual serious production then they either plan to hold on to the movie for a whole year until summer 2012, or they're gonna release really late 2011 or really early 2012.
I found it weird that at the midnight showing I went to, they had the Japanese bar scene after the credits, but on the DVD it was the Deadpool scene with the bar scene in the deleted scenes. I was confused as to why they'd switch it. At least both scenes are on the disk.
Christopher McQuarrie? Really? That's interesting, at least, and kinda weird. I wonder if Bryan Singer will sneak over to his house at night to fuck with the script. "Haha! Take that, Rothman! I removed all the punctuation!" And Rothman wouldn't notice. Because he can't read anyway.
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