Gavin Hood Talks Wolverine Film

Posted on October 1, 2007

Gavin Hood confirmed to IESB.net that the Wolverine spin-off film will indeed hit theaters in Summer, 2008. While on a junket for his new film Rendition, Gavin -- with a little prodding -- did answer a few questions about Wolverine, which he is slated to direct.

I'll tell you why I love Wolverine. I love Wolverine partly because it will pay my college fund. But partly because, I'm doing it because, that's the cynical answer, but the truth is, I didn't. At first, when Wolverine was offered to me, I went, "Well, I'm the wrong guy for this." And then I spoke with Hugh Jackman and the truth is that what's great about the Wolverine character, he's really a character who suffers from a great deal of existential angst. So you want to know why Gavin Hood is interested as somebody who loves actors and emotions, is because looking at it more closely, and I was raised on Greek mythology not comics...

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Get away, give me a chance! Let me finish this answer. [laughter] I don't know anything about the details about the movie. But what I do love about the Wolverine character is that there is, within that character, a great deal of disconnection from who he really is and what it means to be human. And so what we're really getting a chance to do is do opera. We're taking human emotion, and in the way that you would have Zeus throwing thunderbolts, it's writ larger. I happen to be a big fan of the X-Men movies...especially what Bryan Singer did. Those are movies about prejudice, they're a movie about absence of prejudice. And they happen to be done in a very accessible and commercial way. And so I think there's a great deal of themes and ideas to explore in Wolverine beyond just three claws. And I'm not going to say anything more about the movie because we're hear to talk about Rendition.

He also confirmed that the film will be rated PG-13 and that the shoot will begin around December last 3-4 months. IMDB lists the film as having a release date in 2009, which seems more likely. But that's what the director said: Summer, 2008.

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