Last week, the directing job on Fox’s Wolverine 2 was reportedly down to Twilight Eclipse’s David Slade and Robert Schwentke (Time Traveler’s Wife, Red). Today, Deadline reports that Slade is still the front runner, but now says Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler, Pi) is also in the mix.  Which is weird, because he generally seems drawn to projects that are… good.

20th Century Fox is between David Slade and Darren Aronofsky, I’m told. Slade, who just directed the summer hit The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, met over the weekend with Hugh Jackman on location where he is shooting Real Steel for DreamWorks. Aronofsky has also been talking with Jackman, and they have a good relationship that dates back to The Fountain.  Aronofsky has some momentum of his own because of Black Swan, I’d say Slade has the edge.

Aronofsky has never done a sequel before, let alone one that reeks of someone else’s musk.  I’m assuming the paycheck is good, because this just seems like a thankless job.  Gavin Hood was coming off an Oscar when he took Wolverine and look what happened.  I’d be interested to see what a Darren Aronofsky Wolverine would look like, but Fox has a knack for making good directors look terrible.  In much the same way that they can make Martin Lawrence look like a fat lady in Big Mommas: Like Father Like Son, coming this Spring from Fox. (Not a joke).

It’s Friday, so I broke some stories into spicy, bite-sized nuggets.

Twilight Eclipse director David Slade is the leading candidate to direct Wolverine 2. According Vulture, it’s down to Slade or Flightplan/Time Traveler’s Wife director Robert Schwentke (and this guy still gets work why?).  Hugh Jackman will make the final decision after he meets with them next week. “A well-placed source inside the production insists, ‘It’s going to be Slade.’”  I’m guessing Slade will spend most of this week on the phone saying, “Yeah, sure, Hugh, I could definitely see Wolverine exploring his love of musical theater, great idea.” |Vulture|

Carla Gugino in negotiations to star in MILF. …Which stands for “Mothers I’d Like to Fight” — “a revenge story about a woman who, recently released from prison, returns to the street to take care of some unfinished business.”  Speaking of unfinished business, it looks like I’ve got some of my own.  I came here to chew bubble gum and wank dismissively, and I’m all out of bubble gum. |LATimes|

A guy committed suicide at a Swell Season show last night. Swell Season is the folk rock duo of Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova from that movie Once, and at a show last night in Saratoga, CA, a guy climbed onto the roof three stories above the stage and jumped just as the band was finishing a song, landing three feet from Hansard. Their music isn’t really my cup of tea, but Glen Hansard once said something nice about FilmDrunk on Twitter, so I won’t make the obvious joke here. Anyway, it’s a sad story, and I can only hope Olivia Munn doesn’t do any live readings of her book so it doesn’t get repeated. |SFWeekly|

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^{Felt Bella wombs? I’ll take two.}

After 30 Days of Night director David Slade was announced as the director for the third Twilight movie, /Film uncovered some comments from his since-deleted Twitter account in which he’d discussed the possibility of seeing Twilight…

“Twilight drunk? No, not even drunk. Twilight on acid? No, not even on acid? Twilight at gun point? Just shoot me.”

…Which the Twihards naturally weren’t too happy about.  A sampling of responses:

Lola says: “I’d be happy to do the last thing he asked.”

Water Lily says: “I didn’t like those comments, they are embarrasing to the project. Kinda like you kissed a boy and then found out he told every one the week before that you had bad breath.” [editor's note: clearly a hypothetical, given the source]

Joan says: “i vote summit fires this guy b/4 they lose tons of money and make tens of thousands of girls vry vry angry.”

Which brings us to today, and Slade furiously apologizing to Twilight fans, because as we all know, hell hath no fury like a delusional cat lady scorned.  Slade’s PR flack Slade writes:

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