Aronofsky Speaks About His Interest in Directing 'The Wolverine'« FirstShowing.net

WithBlack Swanarriving in theaters in a few weeks (December 3rd), and production beginning next April onThe Wolverine, directorDarren Aronofskyis showing up in the news a lot as he's being interviewed and asked constantly about the project. It wasconfirmeda few weeks ago that the title of the newWolverinemovie, with Hugh Jackman back as Logan, would be titled justThe Wolverineand it isn't actually a sequel, more of a"one-off."SuperHeroHypegot a few quick words out of Darren (see below), but the video segment from Dave Poland's interview onMovie City Newsis a must watch for those wondering why he took this on.

Darren didn't havetoomuch to reveal because he hasn't really started working onThe Wolverinesince he's still finishing his promo tour forBlack Swan, but he is looking forward to starting it. Even if you're already excited and confident that Aronofsky will bring us a totally kick ass action movie (his first!), there's still the big question ofwhyhe decided to direct this next instead of many other projects, includingThe Tiger. He answers that question beautifully in this video segment and hints at how great this movie might actually be. The video is part of a full interview onMovie City News(found viaComic Book Movie) and is a must watch.

The Wolverinewill be set in Japan this time, as a solo feature, and is based on the Chris Claremeont& Frank Miller'smini-seriesfrom 1982. The screenplay, written by the very talentedChristopher McQuarrie(Usual Suspects, Valkyrie), follows Logan as he falls in love with a Japanese woman who's married to another man. But to win her heart, he must battle her samurai family. Aronofsky said toSHH:"There's all thesamuraielements that are really exciting. I'm a big fan of Japanese movies, we're going to try to have a good time."I certainly hope so! The more I hear him speak about this, the more confident I am that we're about to get the best movie featuring Wolverine we'll probablyeversee, and I already can't wait for him to start work on it!

I'm sure we can expect to hear more from Aronofsky as more interviews go up and pre-production continues onThe Wolverine. It was also officially announced last week that Darren had signed atwo-year production dealwith Fox, meaning he probably has more in the works, likeMachine Man, but that's all a long ways out. For now, I don't think there's any better way to end this than with my favorite Darren quote from the video above:"We're definitely going to make somethinggreat, but it will beverydifferent— that's what I do."

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