Donner On Wolverine, Magneto and Others
Lauren Sheler Donner, the producer that is involved in many great comic book franchise films, recently talked to the IESB about the progress of certain movies, like Wolverine, Magneto, Gambit, and Constantine 2.
Wolverine
People have been wondering if Bryan Singer was going to run the Wolverine movie, and Donner said that she would love it, but because he is working on the sequel to Superman, who knows. They hope to do the Wolverine project sometime in the fall because they do have the script ready to go and the project out to directors.
Magneto
I love Magneto, he is probably one of my favourite superhero, supervillian, super powered character. A Magneto movie would be great, and thankfully it is still moving forward. “We have a really great script, we have a director that is interested and he’ll do a rewrite on the script”.
Gambit
One of the biggest disappointments for me was the lack of a Gambit character in the X-Men movies. They left him out because they already had two strong male roles in Wolverine and Cyclops, but I’d still like to see the character come out on top with his own movie. “I think we would weave Gambit within our story, it wouldn’t be “The Gambit Movie”". Who would she like to see in the role as Gambit? “In “Lost” the guy, what’s his name, there was a guy in there that was the perfect Gambit, the guy with the straight hair, good-looking, the bad boy, Sawyer, Sawyer [Josh Holloway]”. Interesting choice, and it’d probably have a fair bit of women in the theatre to see that, but I don’t think he could do the accent all that well.
Constantine 2
Yes, Keanu Reeves will be back in Constantine 2, and she says its going to be scary. “We have been working with a team of writers to come up with a story… We are really going to go for it this time. The area that we found is great…it’s really scary, it’s good”. Unlike most movies these days being shot in a set outside the US, they did not use the UK. I am curious to see what location they chose. Francis Lawrence will produce but a new director is being sought.
