Finally there is some new news about the upcoming ‘Wolverine’ prequel. Moviesonline had a chance to talk to the director Gavin Hood about the film, and his answer to why he’s doing the film was very surprising and interesting.
Moviesonline gives us this:
I’ll give you two answers really quickly. One is called a college fund for my twins. That’s what you’re going to say so why don’t we say it? You know, it’s not often that a script like Rendition comes across your desk. We think that scripts are just out there and they’re not. I read 70 scripts…And if you want to know about Wolverine, I’ll tell you why I love Wolverine. I love Wolverine partly because it will pay my [daughters’] college fund. I’m doing it because that’s the cynical answer but the truth is, I didn’t, at first, when Wolverine was offered to me, I went, ‘Well, I’m the wrong guy for this.’
And then I spoke with Hugh Jackman and the truth is that what’s great about the Wolverine character, he’s really a character who suffers from a great deal of existential angst. So you want to know why Gavin Hood is interested as somebody who loves actors and emotions is because looking at it more closely, and I was raised on Greek mythology, not comics. I don’t know anything about the details of the movie yet but what I do love about the Wolverine character is that there is within that character a great deal of disconnection from who he really is and what it means to be human. So what we’re really getting a chance to do is do opera.
Hmm….I appreciate his honesty, (which I found refreshing and amusing) yet I am having my doubts about this project now. Can Gavin Hood bring the passion and bring justice to the comics based off Wolverine’s prequel story arc? Well, I won’t give up hope. Tim Burton didn’t know anything about Batman before filming, and he was able to make two great ‘Batman’ films. It just seems like true fans have been presented with a ‘red flag.’ What do you guys think? If you guys would like to read more of the interview, click HERE.
