Lauren Shuler Donner has been pimping her X-Men franchises to Empire Magazine again and tells us a little bit about the direction with Wolverine 2, and a puzzling look at First Class
First Showing quotes Lauren Shuler Donner talking about Wolverine 2:
“It’s actually the story we wanted to use for the first Wolverine film, but [Fox head honcho] Tom Rothman preferred to set the character up with an origin story first. What’s cool about this part of the saga is that Wolverine will be fighting in a different style to what we’ve seen before. Mariko’s father has this stick-like weapon, so Wolverine will have to fight against that. There’ll be samurai, ninja, katana blades, different forms of martial arts — mano-a-mano, extreme fighting.”
And again talking about First Class:
“We want it to be like the recent, darker Potters. It should not be a kiddie movie: we’re in the X-Men world so you can’t suddenly change the tone. The First Class comics are really fun — they’re funnier than any other comics I’ve read. Basically in each one the kids are fighting strange villains, sometimes it’s aliens, sometimes it’s monsters. I want to get a [taste] of that world.”
Now I am a little confused that she wants the film to be like the more recent darker Potter films, but admits you can’t suddently change the tone of the X-Men movies – which are not darker like the Potter films. But she is still pretty vacant about the real direction or plot of the film.
It seems the flip flopping on the roster (prequel stories like the comic or a next gen of X-men story) is still back to an early X-Men story with a younger cast members. Considering how some are not introduced until later we can only speculate that Scott, Jean, Hank and Ororo might be present. No Iceman or Angel.
