EXCLUSIVE: Twentieth Century Fox has begun negotiations with James Mangold to return for another installment of The Wolverine, with Hugh Jackman bringing back his signature character with the razor sharp adamantium hooks. This comes after The Wolverine played very strongly overseas, enough to now sit as the second highest grossing X-Men film of all time. The film has grossed $413 million worldwide, with $132 million domestic and $280 million in international revenue.
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Here’s where it is right now. Mangold is making a deal to write the treatment, with X-Men franchise matriarch Lauren Shuler Donner producing. The storyline is being kept under tight wraps. I think Mangold did a bang up job on his first superhero film. When I met him at Comic-Con San Diego, he said he tried to veer from the usual superhero formula–if hero doesn’t succeed, world is doomed–and instead make it a character-driven storyline. There were plenty of action pieces, samurai swordplay and reasons for Logan to work up that famous temper, but at its core the film worked because the stakes were subtler and the storytelling somehow more intimate. Mangold is repped by WME and Management 360, Jackman by WME.
Jeah, let’s have fifteen X-Men films, we’re truly running short on those….
What’s your problem? Why NOT have 15 Wolverine flicks as long as people enjoy them?
Good news, The Wolverine was excellent, for the very reasons mentioned above.
Remember when this one was “a flop”? lol good news, now try to keep it more serious and violent like this one.
I understood Jackman was no longer contracted to play Wolverine past Days of Future Past – I’m guessing a truckload of money is involved. Good for him.
Enough of Wolverine !! Hugh needs to get on with his career in serious roles as well as singing and dancing.
Susie Gray, I completely agree. Hugh Jackman is better than this , because he is a tremendous actor . We don’t see Leo DiCaprio & Matt Damon starring in many comic book films. Hugh’s reps are giving him the worse career advice , and hurting his credibility .
Yeah, he’s totally above all this stuff. That’s why there aren’t any other Oscar nominated or winning actors appearing in the next X-Men film.
Except Halle Berry (Monster’s Ball).
And Ian McKellen (Lord of the Rings, Gods and Monsters).
And Anna Paquin (the Piano).
And Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone, Silver Linings Playbook).
And Ellen Page (Juno).
Well, ok, maybe this film is the exception.
But never would the likes of the following Oscar nominess or winners ever stoop to being in a silly comic book movie: Morgan Freeman, Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Tommy Lee Jones, Stanley Tucci, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Redford, Geoffrey Rush, William H. Macy, William Hurt, Jennifer Connelly, Nick Nolte, Bradley Cooper, Anne Hathaway, Jack Nicholson, Mark Ruffalo, Kevin Spacey, Michael Caine, Uma Thurman, Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner, Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle, Terrence Howard, Mickey Rourke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Nicolas Case (yes, he’s even a winner), Warren Beatty, Ned Beatty, Angela Bassett
*gets tired of snarkily listing nominees/winners who actually did appear in comics book movies, including even a few obscure ones and duds*
…and the winning post is!!!
Yea don’t you just hate it when people assume that if it’s a superhero move then it must be low level crap that only kids would like. You’d think Nolan’s Batman films would have taught them otherwise by now. Oh well, more enjoyment for us.
Haha…awesome man. Yeah, I hate how people always look down on CBM. What actor wouldn’t want to take part in franchise that already has a huge fan base and the potential make your name a house hold name. That what actors shoot for. Fame.
This is only my opinion but I would never believe Leonardo Dicaprio or Matt Damon as superheros. Maybe that is why they don’t play them because they can’t pull it off.
Hugh stated a long time ago that he would play the role as long as he could because of what it did for his career. He loves the character and doesn’t want to let his and the fans of the character down. That’s something to be respected since other pompous actors are only looking for the bigger paycheck after fame hits.
I don’t get the negativity. There’s way more than enough source material to tell interesting/unique stories if they want to.
Noooooooooooo!!! Please no more Wolverine movies!!! They have been terrible and I have seen enough of him in all of the X-Men movies too. After this upcoming X-Men movie they need to take him off screen for a while and let someone reboot him so he can be done the right way.
Your are a moron. That is all.
Archangel — You are SO right. There is A LOT more to the X-Men universe than a guy with claws and healing.
So much for Hugh Jackman bleating to anyone who’d listen that the recently released Wolverine movie would be his last because he wanted to concentrated on real movies. Proves everyone’s a whore at the right price. And someone whose word means nothing. He really fits in.
he never actually said that. So go make up your stories somewhere else.
He never actually said that…Why don’t you know what you’re talking about before spewing nonsensical garbage?
When is this gimmick going to be over, I find it to be insulting that they keep making The Wolverine it’s not an XMen movie ( Xmen is about unity not a one man show. ). I seen the first one, I felt his story was told, the second no for the above reason and this third I won’t either. I wish the real XMen fans like myself will boycott this garbage. Hugh Jackman should be ashame of himself.
This is such awesome news. The Wolverine, in my opinion, was the best X Men movie simply because it was so intimate and sincere with Wolverine’s character development. This movie understood Wolverine better than any other X Men movie and I feel like it was a great stand alone character piece. Chris Claremont, writer of the most famous X Men stories, was a great character writer and I feel Mangold translated Claremont’s character driven style to the screen wonderfully. The fact that Mangold and Jackman are returning is excellent news for the character of Wolverine as well as the X Men movie universe. I’m psyched!!!!
Fantastic! The Wolverine succeeded where so many other films of it’s kind fail miserably. This is great news. Mangold did a bang-up job. His film was not only character driven, it was lean and mean, exotic and just plain fun!
There’s more Japan and even southeast asia storylines they could turn to, but Wolverine can work in a lot of different settings. Fans are dying to see him properly teamed up with Ellen Page. These guys need to get him in the mask once, though…
13+ years later and all we’ve seen so far is Logan. Wolverine has a mask and costume! For a time it was the coolest comic book costume around; I’m tired of seeing Jackman’s face and shirtless torso. Please, Disney get the X-Men back from hack 20th Century Fox and adapt something like Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men run.
Wilfred, you should be ashamed at yourself for continuing to work at the gas station. Move on from the gas station, let someone else work as the attendant so all of us real Conoco fans can get the big gulps we deserve.
I suspect all the nay-sayers on here didn’t bother to see the 2nd movie. While the first Wolverine was bad, Mangold’s was terrific, I dare say up there with X-Men 2. This move tells me someone at Fox has taste and brains while the haters just have a lot of time on their hands.
As a big fan, I liked X-men Origins okay but I hated The Wolverine. Thought it was boring and awful, another film by the same people will most likely be the same and I have no interest in it. One problem is that the Wolverine comic has always been bad and this is what they are taking from- Wolverine’s stories in the X-men is what made him so popular- his solo comic has never been very good.
not complaining, it was pretty decent. actually worked well until the final act (when it actually played like the previous x men movies).
I’m surprised Hugh went back to Wolverine after his tour de force in Prisoners.
The Wolverine was frickin’ terrible. One of the worst of the Summer. Unbelievable.
Truly, the hardcore fans are missing out by being so negative. Who cares that Hugh’s Wolverine doesn’t wear a mask? You fools still wish he was shorter, like in the comics. Why? Who could play Wolverine better? Hugh Jackman is one of the best actors in the world. You should be grateful he isn’t pulling the Shakespeare thing by telling the studio that a comicbook character is beneath him.
He loves the character, his performance is simply fantastic, and above all else, he actually wants to keep making them. The Wolverine is a great picture. Don’t watch it and miss out if you must.
The only real “whores” here are the pricks at Marvel Studios who shovel out movies on an assembly line.
Jackman has had a great career balancing Wolverine and Oscar bait roles and I see no reason the man can’t continue to perform the same function for FOX that RDJ does for Marvel.
That is,serve as a high profile celebrity “face” for a line of films while the studio develops other films of the same series with lesser known talent.
Hopefully Jackman gets a multi picture payday that includes his own sequel and
a new series of X-Men films with the First Class cast members and X-Force with DeadPool.
The bar for success is set extremely low now with this franchise and any future X-related films. And for Jackman, I bet he realizes being typecast is sole destiny after all these years of trying outside of the box
In the last 12 months, we have seen Hugh show his versatility and commitment as an actor in three very different films — Les Miserables, The Wolverine, and Prisoners. He also put in a live musical one-man show for the Motion Picture and Television Fund recently. And there is buzz that sometime soon that he will be back on Broadway in the new musical Houdini. That he has chosen a career that looks at different acting and performing challenges is full credit to Hugh’s confidence that any genre is worth exploring. If you look at his fanbase, he must have arguably the widest demographics who enjoy his movies. Also, as FOX has given him the anchor to a highly sucessful career, I would view doing another movie in the studio’s most successful franchise as a quid-pro-quo. Hugh will always accept challenges when the naysayers may disagree – but his self-belief that his strangth is in a versatile career has proven him to be right.
Jackman is a great actor, but he was always poor casting for the character…
If anyone out there doesn’t like Wolverine movies….lol….don’t watch them.
How simple is that?