If a sequel to this weekend’s number one movie, “Wolverine” gets a nod by 20th Century Fox, actor Hugh Jackman already has ideas of where he’d like to see his comic-book-based character go next–Japan.
“I won’t lie to you, I have been talking to writers,” Jackman told MTV News. “I’m a big fan of the Japanese saga in the comic book.”
“However, it was also another one of my goals that you could see the end of this movie parlaying straight into [‘X-Men’], finding that guy in the bar, fighting, drinking, with not much recollection of what’s going on,” added Jackman. “I thought that was important. However, we’ll find out beginning of May if there’s still an audience for it, if people still like the character. There’s no point in telling the story if no one wants to hear it.”
This isn’t the first time Jackman has thrown-out the idea for sending Wolverine to Japan. The actor bantered the idea about before the script for “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” was a reality.
“There are so many areas of that Japanese story,” Jackman said. “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.”
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