(Wolverine gets super pissed when you suggest wearing sleeves. It’s already a sore subject for his posse.)

Unlike most of the other Marvel properties, Fox still owns the rights to X-Men.  And, as I often say of your mother, that’s a cow dey gon’ milk.  Empire recently caught up with producer Lauren Shuler Donner to get a status update on all the planned X-Men spinoffs, including Wolverine 2, Deadpool, X-Men First Class, Magneto, and xXx-Men: Marvel goes Diesel.  Just kidding about that last one, but this is Fox we’re talking, don’t be surprised.

On Wolverine 2:
“That’s the furthest along of all the X-Men projects on the boil. It’s actually the story we wanted to use for the first Wolverine film, but [Fox head honcho] Tom Rothman preferred to set the character up with an origin story first.  This movie will really focus on the relationship between Wolverine and Mariko, the daughter of a Japanese crime lord, and what happens to him in Japan.
And we wanted an A+ writer, so we want to Chris McQuarrie (Valkyrie, The Usual Suspects). He came in and has tightened the story and got really immersed in the whole thing – he’s in Japan in his head!

Donner added, “He keeps rubbing up against women on the subway, and the other day he tried to buy my daughter’s panties.  Someone’s gonna have to talk to the guy.”

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