Christopher McQuarrie to Write 'Wolverine' Sequel

Just the other day, Hugh Jackman more or less confirmed that the next Wolverine movie would take place in Japan, following the storyline Frank Miller helped develop for the anti-hero back in the eighties. Now, it appears that sequel is getting ramped up sooner than later. Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie) has been hired to write the script, which is not at all a bad choice, since he helped shape an early version of the script for X-Men, which was a better Wolverine origin story than the one we saw in theaters this summer. Soon after its release in May, Wolverine was tapped for a sequel by Fox and Jackman, who is also producing the series nowadays. The timeline is a bit sketchy, though. Marvel movies start the summer, and next year it's Iron Man 2. In 2011, you've got Spider-Man 4. The next year? Avengers. So unless they wait four years, Wolverine won't kick off a summer blockbuster season. Memorial Day 2011 or 2012 is an option, with 2012 being more likely because 2011 is loaded with Thor and Captain America, plus the DC movie, Green Lantern, which stars Wolverine's rival, Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds). So just to space out the comic book movies, you would have to think we're going to wait three years for this one. Could the addition of McQuarrie signal that Bryan Singer might come back to the land of the X-Men? He mentioned eariler this year that the franchise means a lot to him, and the two Wolverine movies without his guidance clearly weren't as good as the ones that were.

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I thought he was writing-directing the stanford experiment movie... busy boy.