Hugh Jackman has repeatedly told MTV News about his desire to bring the next "Wolverine" movie to Japan, but it looks some official confirmation is making the rounds now. After the actor told us just last week that he'd been discussing the Samurai storyline with screenwriters, Jackman seems to have taken the next step for a sequel.
Earlier today, Variety confirmed our previous Splash Page report that a sequel to "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" is indeed in the works, and that it will focus on the Japanese story arc that Jackman and fans have championed for years.
"There are so many areas of that Japanese story," Jackman told MTV News in an exclusive interview. "I love the idea of this kind of anarchic character, the outsider, being in this world -- I can see it aesthetically, too -- full of honor and tradition and customs and someone who's really anti-all of that, and trying to negotiate his way. The idea of the samurai, too -- and the tradition there. It's really great. In the comic book he gets his ass kicked by a couple of samurai -- not even mutants. He's shocked by that at first."
When he spoke with us, the actor's enthusiasm for the Japanese plotline was as infectious as the Legacy Virus -- but unlike that deadly disease, we couldn't get enough of his words. His unbridled excitement probably swayed the studio heads at 20th Century Fox, too -- of course, it doesn't hurt that the movie raked in an $87 million box office despite an online security breach, a deadly outbreak in Mexico City and a harsh rating in Sweden.
Heck, after all of that, we'd say that Jackman's earned himself some clout -- and a trip back to the big screen.
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