Although they have just soft-rebooted the franchise
and are yet again introducing new actors to play old roles, I assume that Fox
is running simulations on the upcoming loss of one of their marquee players,
Hugh Jackman, whose tenure as the iconic Wolverine is about to come to an end.
The actor recently sat down with Collider to discuss Joe
Wright's Pan, where he plays Blackbeard, and he offered a somewhat extensive update
and plan for his last film as Weapon X, including the status on the script,
which he is currently helping developing with The Wolverine director James
Mangold.
"I’ll be really honest with you, the actual
script in its full form we’re up to about Page 60. Obviously there’s a
treatment, so it’s not fully done yet, we’re not fully there. Patrick does
figure in it that’s for sure. I think it’s a really important relationship but
I want to see signs of that quasi-father/son sort of relationship that has not
been seen before, and sides of particularly Professor X that have not been seen
before. So we have some really, really cool ideas."
Although we've seen more shadings to Professor X in
recent movies, it is good to hear that Patrick Stewart's take on the character is
being fleshed out in the upcoming movie, especially since it will probably be
his last movie in the X-Men franchise as well.
But and despite his excitement over the project,
Jackman cautions that he won't officially sign off on the project until he
thinks the script is where it has to be.
"I’m saying ‘but’ and I’m sounding a little cagey
because this is the last time I’m playing him, and I have just made the
commitment to myself, really, and told everyone that until that script is
perfect, until it is that perfect way to sign out, I’m not gonna start
shooting. So that’s why I don’t wanna say ‘Yes’ for sure, because until Page
115, 120, whatever it is…"
With it being his last time playing the character that
opened him a lot of doors in Hollywood, the actor says that he will bleed on
the studio floor if he has too (please don't Mr. Jackman).
"I feel that I’m pushing harder than I’ve ever
pushed before. I suppose the stakes just go up when you announce before your
last season that this is your last season, you don’t want one game to not be
your best… People ask me, ‘How are you gonna be able to let it go?’ To me the
only way you can let it go is if you left blood every day on the studio floor."
And yet the show must go on, and regardless of script
quality production is already scheduled.
"The ultimate plan is let’s start shooting next
year… I’m starting the training, I’m starting the eating and mentally really
preparing for it. It’s not just me, the studio as well—I’m trying to do
something with this that’s a little special, a little different. I’ve got a
very, very strong idea of what that is. I really have known for quite a long
time how I want to finish this sort of odyssey that I’ve been on, this amazing
journey. And I won’t let it fall anywhere in between. I won’t fall short of it."
As for locations Jackman doesn't have an answer but
thinks that they could return to Australia, but it all depends on a myriad
details like family and script.
"Possibly. They do [have great soundstages], and
the dollar’s being nice right now. That is one of the things that is up in the
air a little bit, not 100% sure where we’ll shoot. And that’s part script, part
life, family life and all of that."
I hated the
first Wolverine standalone, and really enjoyed the second up until the Silver
Samurai showed up, so I'm hoping the third one wows me from beginning to end,
what about you?
Source - Collider
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