Wolverine Gets New Screenwriter And Gavin Hood Reveals Sequel Plans

Published: October 2, 2007, 7:39 am

Hugh Jackman and 20th Century Fox have bought screenwriter Skip Woods (Swordfish, Hitman) to revise David Benioff's draft for the upcoming X-Man spin-off prequel, Wolverine. David Wood, director for Wolverine who is currently promoting his new film Rendition, has been pestered by online journalists for information about his upcoming comic book adaptation. Finally he's caved and has told why he is interested in making Wolverine: What appeals to me about the Wolverine character of all the other characters is that my feeling that he's the one that suffers from the most existential angst. Since I'm a guy who loves emotional complexity, it seemed to me that when I was first approached to do it, my first thought was, What? Me? Do this? What is that? I don't know enough about comic book characters.' And of course, I then did some further research and I realized that the character of Wolverine, I think his great appeal lies in the fact that he's someone who in some

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