Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie), one of the best character driven screenwriters in Hollywood right now has returned to the X-Men franchise he worked on at the beginnings of the decade by signing on to pen Wolverine 2. That’s according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Which doesn’t mean I’m ready to give 20th Century Fox a clean slate over the retarded mess they served up this year and I can’t imagine Tom Rothman will change his recent policy with this series when it made $158 million on it’s opening weekend back in May, but at least it’s something to latch onto.
Hugh Jackman is already on board to play Logan/Wolverine for the fifth time in his career, with a storyline that will follow the very famous 1980’s Chris Claremont/Frank Miller run that saw Logan travel to Japan, to live under the samurai’s code of honor and respect.
According to Quint at AICN, although McQuarrie did work on the original X-Men movie all that remained of his early draft was the origins of Magneto in the Jewish concentration camp. Which by all accounts was a very smart opening, but not enough of his material to keep his named credited on the screenplay.
McQuarrie is a frequently collaborator with Bryan Singer. You know he’s gonna make that phone call…
