After grossing a huge $87 million in it's opening weekend in the US, 20th Century Fox has been quick to give the greenlight to a sequel.No writer has yet been hired but it is expected that Wolverine 2 will be set in Japan - echoing the classic Chris Claremont/Frank Miller mini series - with the Silver Samurai pencilled in as a potential villain.
Hugh Jackman is, of course, lined up to reprise his role as Wolverine for the fifth time and it seems, based upon a recent interview, that a Japanese setting would be a great direction to go in:
"There are so many areas of that Japanese story. I love the idea of this kind of anarchic character, the outsider, being in this world -- I can see it aesthetically, too -- full of honour and tradition and customs and someone who's really anti-all of that, and trying to negotiate his way. The idea of the samurai, too -- and the tradition there. It's really great. In the comic book he gets his ass kicked by a couple of samurai -- not even mutants. He's shocked by that at first."
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