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LAUREN SHULER DONNER talks about Wolverine

LAUREN SHULER DONNER talks about Wolverine
by Wilson Morales

November 18, 2006

While in LA to promote her latest film, "Unaccompanied Minors", Producer Lauren Shuler Donner also talked about her other



What's the superhero update?


Lauren Shuler Donner: Well, we're going to do "Wolverine". I hope in the Fall. We're out to a director now; and I think we're going to do "Young Magneto". We have a really great script. We have a director that's interested, and he'll do a rewrite on the script. It's young Magneto and young Xavier. When Magneto got out of the Holocaust and when Erik Lehnsherr became Magneto.




Byran Singer had said he's interested in directing the film, but he had a schedule regarding "Man of Steel" and "Wolverine". Is there a possibility that Bryan can direct it?

LSD: I love it. We would nothing more than to have Bryan direct "Wolverine", but Bryan is developing the sequel to Superman, so I don't know. It depends on scheduling. Nothing would please all of us more.


Hugh said that he would need 4 months to bulk up and he's thinking maybe January or February of next year.

LSD: I know. He's thinking that. We're thinking Fall. Sorry Hugh!


Any chance of a whole year of X Men sequels and spin offs?

LSD: Yes, we could, and there are some other ideas that we are going to be delving into, but it's often availability of actors, availability of directors and weather conditions so you don't always have that luxury. Most importantly, the release date. What else is coming out? What other comic book are we going up against? So we always set our release dates before we start filming those movies.


Did you expect what you got out of X Men and what it has become?

LSD: In our wildest dreams we wanted it to be a franchise. We wanted it to be able to spin-off. There's 40 years of comics but I will tell you, we never previewed it and there was a day when Bryan [Singer], myself, our editor and, I think Tom Rothman was in the room, and we all looked at each other and said, “We'll never work again.” Because, we didn't know what we had…


Tom Rothman had mentioned that even though X3 was the last of that ensemble of mutants, what of Gambit, any chance for a movie with him and what else is in the future?

LSD: Probably, the reason we didn't use Gambit was because in a sense his persona is a bit like Wolverine in that he's got attitude and his power is not quite as exciting as the others. That's why we went to Nightcrawler on X2 because he looked different than everybody else and he had a great power. So yes, I think we would weave Gambit into our story, but it wouldn't be “The Gambit Movie.” I love him and remember in “Lost” there was a guy in there that was the perfect Gambit, the guy with the stray hair, he's good-looking, the bad boy, Sawyer [Josh Holloway]…


Is there a Constantine sequel in the works?

LSD: Yes, with Keanu [Reeves]. We have been working with a team of writers for a story and yes, we will. We are really going to go for it, it will be a hard R and Keanu will be in it. The area that we found is great…it will be outside of America. It will be a different director but Francis [Lawrence] will produce it, we will maintain his vision.


 

 

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