Darren Aronofsky seemed an odd fit as a potential director for Superman, but it must have got someone thinking. Because now that he is out of consideration there, Marvel has offered him the job to direct Wolverine 2
According to producer Lauren Shuller Donner, the sequel “will really focus on the relationship between Wolverine and Mariko, the daughter of a Japanese crime lord, and what happens to him in Japan. Mariko’s father has this stick-like weapon, so Wolverine will have to fight against that. There will be samurai, ninja, katana blades, different forms of martial arts – mano-a-mano, extreme fighting.”
The sequel is written by Chris McQuarrie who did Valkarie and The Usual Suspects, so I am expecting more from the story than the first Wolverine film, and dealing with the crime family in Japan distances him from anything that happened in the first movie.
It also means we are likely to see Silver Samurai. We better!
What do you think of Aronofsky doing Wolverine… or any superhero film for that matter?
