With "The Wolverine" start date pushed back to spring 2012, Fox has plenty of time to tinker with the latest installment of the X-Men film series. They already are making one such change by hiring Mark Bomback to rewrite Christopher McQuarrie's script for the movie.
Variety is reporting that the "Jack the Giant Killer" and "Total Recall" scribe is being brought on to bring his vision to the project. The story so far finds Wolverine suffering from amnesia, trying to find answers about his past in Japan's criminal underworld.
This is just one of several overhauls "The Wolverine" has undergone since Darren Aronofsky first left the project.
The hunt for a new director took almost half a year, and was a very public process. At first it seemed like David Slade and Duncan Jones were the frontrunners, but then it was reported that there were actually eight directors in the running, and neither of them were the previous two mentioned. Mark Romanek came out in June and said he wasn't going to be the man behind the camera. Finally in mid-June, James Mangold was announced as director.
Then the plan was to start filming in October, but that has since been pushed back to next spring. At least lead actor Hugh Jackman remains confident about the project.
"There were a number of directors who wanted to do this because we have the best script yet, but his take was the strongest," Jackman told MTV News at Comic-Con. "[Mangold is] phenomenal, he’s going to really knock this one out of the park."
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