The Wolverine movie has a director… and it’s NOT Brett Ratner (and all around the world you can hear a large collective sigh of relief). The man with adamantium blades popping out of his hands is indeed getting his own film (recently some people have been speculating the project might not happen), and he will b e in the hands of Oscar winning director Gavin Hood.
Yahoo News gives us the following:
Gavin Hood is suiting up to direct “Wolverine,” 20th Century Fox’s “X-Men” spinoff that will star Hugh Jackman. Hood, who won a foreign-language Oscar in 2005 for directing “Tsotsi,” recently wrapped “Rendition,” New Line Cinema’s political thriller starring Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal.
I really know nothing about Hood other than the fact that I loved Tsotsi… which really is nothing like Wolverine… at all. But still, I’ve always said that brining talent on board a project is never a bad idea. This is the first sign of true life we’ve seen in the Wolverine project… and with this announcement, I won’t be surprised if we do indeed see a Wolverine film in 2008.
I think with this announcement, it’ll probably start an avalanche of Wolverine news and updates. Let’s see what comes out next.
