Hugh Jackman Talks "Wolverine" & "Fountain"
ComingSoon.net got Hugh Jackman to skip over the "X-Men: The Last Stand" chatter for just a few minutes, and the guy had a few fairly intriguing things to say about his upcoming "Wolverine" spin-off...
From CS.net: "We have two drafts and David (Benioff) is going to do another draft, and then we'll find our director," he said. "I'm not going to make a decision until I have the script right, but I'll definitely look at Brett [Ratner]. I don't want Wolverine to appear to be 'X-Men 4' in disguise; I don't want to make it stylistically the same. I want to do something different. That's my idea. Until we have the script, I don't really know who's right, but there's been a lot of interest from a lot of really amazing directors, so I'm really excited."
And then over at Latino Review, Jackman gave up some info on the hotly-anticipated Darren Aronofsky film "The Fountain."
"Well it's got to do with…Basically its like nothing you've ever seen before this movie is…I'm so proud to be in that movie that when I watched it I go 'I'm so glad I'm in it' because Aronofsky (Darren) I think is like a Kubrick (Stanley) but from a marketing point of view you've got to be very careful with how you position this. So they always had a plan, starting kind with film festivals the right film festival to build momentum before they release it. The movie has been ready for a few months I think, but they just had to wait for the right film festival, which I can't announce. It is a special movie."
From CS.net: "We have two drafts and David (Benioff) is going to do another draft, and then we'll find our director," he said. "I'm not going to make a decision until I have the script right, but I'll definitely look at Brett [Ratner]. I don't want Wolverine to appear to be 'X-Men 4' in disguise; I don't want to make it stylistically the same. I want to do something different. That's my idea. Until we have the script, I don't really know who's right, but there's been a lot of interest from a lot of really amazing directors, so I'm really excited."
And then over at Latino Review, Jackman gave up some info on the hotly-anticipated Darren Aronofsky film "The Fountain."
"Well it's got to do with…Basically its like nothing you've ever seen before this movie is…I'm so proud to be in that movie that when I watched it I go 'I'm so glad I'm in it' because Aronofsky (Darren) I think is like a Kubrick (Stanley) but from a marketing point of view you've got to be very careful with how you position this. So they always had a plan, starting kind with film festivals the right film festival to build momentum before they release it. The movie has been ready for a few months I think, but they just had to wait for the right film festival, which I can't announce. It is a special movie."
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 on May 16 2006 09:25 AM He doesn't want the Wolverine movie be X4 in disguise? That's funny, because all the X-Movies seem like Wolverine movies in disguise as X-Men films. I like Jackman and his portrayal of Logan, but this seems like a bad idea, and even being the huge X-Men fan that I am, I'm not really interested. (Reply to this) |
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on May 16 2006 12:36 PM I dont know, could be cool. Really excited for XIII though. (Reply to this) |
 on May 16 2006 01:54 PM [b]wolverine makes "bucks"[/b] He's an exiting dark charactor, who has had his own comic book spin offs in the past , it's a great idea and hugh jackman plays a great wolverine,without him there is no x movies!! (Reply to this) |
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on May 16 2006 05:58 PM jackman seems very smart about all this. if they do the spinoff i hope they have the right sense of mind to make it dark and gritty. hell if it came out rated "R" it'd be a brilliant marketing move for the hardcore crowd. (Reply to this) |
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on May 17 2006 01:11 AM I never really liked jackman as wolverine, but when i saw him in the x3 trailer with a cigar...SOLD! (Reply to this) |
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on May 17 2006 01:19 PM Any Wolverine movie is going to suck. I love comics and a lot of comic movies, but just how much are they going to do with him in one film? Where is his character going to go... will he ge back to his comando for the Canadian government days, or back to his time in Japan, or back to his time being a simple little guy in the countryside. It'll just be a movie of bad-assed posturing and fighting, which is all good, but seeing seeing films trying to dig in to Wolverine will just be clumsy. Villains? Other heroes? Property rights? I don't know, this one seems a lot harder to get right than an X-men movie. (Reply to this) |
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on May 30 2006 09:23 AM hugh jackman is an INCREDIBLY DYNAMIC actor with talent to spare. he falls right in line with your marlboro man, dirty harry character without flinching. the only problem i had with the first two x-men movies was a high-focus on character development and the huge cast of characters! the only problem i see with the wolverine project is if they hire that hack, brett ratner, to do it. (Reply to this) |
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