Caffeinated Clint
Hugh Jackman’s thrown out the razor for a couple of months. He’s getting all Wolverine-ized again, for both "X-Men 3" and his own hairy spin-off.
David Benioff, talked to Suicide Girls, about the latter, which he’s currently penning.
DRE: I read that you pitched 20th Century Fox for you to write the Wolverine movie, then you got it and you also pitched Warner Bros on Troy. You must be pretty good at it.
BENIOFF: Well with Wolverine it was easier because Troy was already being done. For Troy it was a leap of faith because I had only done a $12 million Spike Lee movie. With Wolverine the story is already there so the people at Fox and Marvel know everything about Wolverine. That meeting was just showing them how passionate I was about this character. I’ve been reading Wolverine comics for 23 years.
DRE: Can you talk about what the story of the Wolverine movie will be?
BENIOFF: I’m not allowed to talk about it. Fox is pretty careful about that. It’s not even totally finalized what story we are doing. What I can say is that in the X-Men movies we’ve seen a lot of the sweet Wolverine so I think it’s time to mess him up a little bit because all the fans know that he’s the best there is at what he does but what he does isn’t very nice. Also getting to write “Snikt” in a comic book is the coolest thing.
DRE: Did Bryan Singer leaving change your timetable at all?
BENIOFF: He had already left before I came on. But I did get to meet Hugh Jackman the other day which was pretty cool.
DRE: Any Japanese stuff going into the Wolverine movie?
BENIOFF: [laughs] I can’t talk about it. Nice try though. For what it’s worth that’s definitely the best Wolverine saga, the whole Lady Mariko and The Hand storyline. I went back and reread the Chris Claremont and Frank Miller miniseries and the Barry Windsor Smith Weapon X.
DRE: Have you been catching up on recent Wolverine comics to prepare?
BENIOFF: Yeah I hadn’t read any of the recent stuff so I’ve been catching up with the Grant Morrison X-Men comics and some of the new Greg Rucka stuff. One of the coolest things about this job is that I can call up Marvel and say send me whatever X-Men and Wolverine I want. It makes my 12 year old self so happy.
Rumour floating around the traps is that Anna Paquin might appear in the film, as Rogue.
