We’ve talked already about Patrick Stewart bigging up X-Men 3, well now Hugh Jackman is at it.
From Entertainment Weekly through Coming Soon has a short interview with him, the crux is below.
Will fans of the comic book be satisfied — especially since Bratt Ratner is new to the franchise?
Oh, yeah. There’s a lot of things we really tried to get in 1 and 2 which — I don’t mean to be blunt — were just real expensive and we couldn’t get them in until 1 and 2 were so successful. So there’s some sequences there that the fans — if you go to that midnight screening on the first night, they’ll just be going ballistic. There’s some specific choreography, famous fighting moves, that we use in this movie that we haven’t been able to do before……Trust me. No decision is made without considering the history of each character.
Well that’s comforting, two major stars of the franchise are saying it’s big, is it time to start getting excited? He also goes on to talk about the Wolverine spin off.
We’re actually working on a script…I may be biased, but I think there’s so much still to be mined, still to be learned from that [character]. I think it will stand up to a feature-length movie. And we’ve had some really amazing interests from some great filmmakers and great writers also really intrigued by the character.
I am starting to think that Ratner could be about to prove his worth on X-Men 3 and that it’s not going to be the franchise killer that we all began to worry it might be. On the Wolverine movie front though, I’m not so sure if he would hold up a movie on his own, doesn’t he need some other X-Men onscreen with him?
