Hugh Jackman: New Wolverine Is Stronger Than Darren Aronofsky’s Vision

Wolverine has been having its share of setbacks, from the leaving of director Darren Aronofsky to the tragic earthquake that ended plans to shoot in Japan. But with James Mangold as the new director and a script rewrite from Mark Bomback, it looks like things are smoothing out.

Star Hugh Jackman does sound confident in where the project is going, saying that the new script is “85 percent the same” as Aronofsky’s vision, and he thinks the 15 percent of change is for the better.

“Darren took it in a Darren Aronofsky way and it’s a version I know fans would have liked to have seen – I would have loved to have seen it,” Jackman said in an interview posted at Collider. “James Mangold’s version of the script brought Mark Bomback on. We always had a strong base there. This is the best script we have had, which is precisely why Darren signed on.”

“I tried to get Darren to do ‘X3′ and ‘Wolverine’ and he was always like, ‘It’s not really for me,’” Jackman recalled. “I knew he was looking for a comic book movie and he read this one and he goes, ‘Hey, this is the best one I’ve ever read.’ So there is a lot of meat on the bone there. Now, Mark and Jim have taken it and I think that it as strong, if not stronger, than what we would have had with Darren.”

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