Benioff Talks Wolverine

That would be so awesome to write a Marvel or DC movie just to get to look at all the archives.

 

Benioff is doing the interview rounds for "The Kite Runner" and "Wolverine" of course comes up:

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/80-12122007-1455028.html

 

Here's another with info on how involved he was/is (the picture of him sort of looks like Wolverine!):

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=39932

 

I hate the idea of that spoiler scene in the above post. Wolverine doesn't strike me as that kind of weedy kid at all. Is his comicbook origin like that?

 

I don't like this scene either but since a young logan has been cast its probably still in the script.

In the Origin story alot of people on this forum are fond of, James Howlett is a sickly boy, insecure, and can't stand up for himself until his mutant powers develop.

In the early '90's Sabretooth still believed he was Wolverine's father and there's flash backs that suggest Creed was abusive.

Wolverine also has a memory of getting beat up at Silver Fox's high school dance.

So a few of his proposed origins show him being abused or picked on as a youth.

 

I like that scene. Kid Logan getting punked, just to beacome the ultimate badass.

Well if done right. It could be cheesey.

 

I hate that scene, I really hope it got cut from the shooting script. But, apart from that and

Spoiler

the Sabre-clones

, the Benioff script that I read was excellent, I hope they didn't get rid of too much.

 

Similar scenes have been done in other superhero (Spider-Man, Daredevil) and non superhero films (History of Violence). Kid gets picked on by bigger, older or richer kids and then one day he/she snaps and unleashes hell on the abusers.

As long as the excecution is good, it never gets old.

 

I think it does get old. I'd imagine young Logan to be a tough little kid, which is how he'd end up being a logger in northern Canada. I see Weapon X as enhancing his already brutish, bestial nature.

I'd like the character development in this movie to be something less cliche than weedy kid becomes hunky warrior brute. It could be the reverse - that a warrior brute has to learn sensitivity and compassion and has to accept his more human side; that he is not just an animal with primal instincts; that despite his mutancy and his adamantium enhancement, he is a person after all.

 

In the script last year, Logan as a kid sounded pretty rough. I don't think it'll come off corny. I actually think it'll be a fresh approach compared to what other comic films show in terms of the hero being picked on.

Spoiler

In the 1st four pages we meet Logan as a 12 yr old boy, undersized and feral on a rural road on his way home from school. I couldn’t help stop thinking of feral kid from the Mad Max films. But anyway 4 towering high school football players pick him on. They pick on him because Logan’s dad robbed the local truck stop last year. Logan doesn’t back down as GILMAN punches Logan in the face twice. The gash on Logan’s face heals itself in front of Gilman and Logan goes into an inhuman rage and beats the **** out of the football players. Three bone claws spring from Logan’s hand, serrated and razor sharp as he goes in to finish Gilman. This is the first time that Logan’s bone claws appear to him and he is shocked more than his attackers. The football players’ escape alive and Logan looks at his bone claws and screams out…

I hope those bits are still in the shooting script.

 

I'm not interested in a seeing young wolverine at all, I'd rather if the film started out with a war scene or special ops mission where Logan loses some of his best friends.

 

That actually sounds like a really good opening scene, i hope they keep it in the movie.