{"id":33003,"date":"2014-03-22T08:51:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T12:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=33003"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:45:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:45:55","slug":"fox-hires-writer-for-wolverine-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/22\/fox-hires-writer-for-wolverine-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Hires Writer For WOLVERINE Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Wolverine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29565\" alt=\"Wolverine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Wolverine.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Wolverine.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Wolverine-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a move that feels a bit like putting the cart before the horse, Fox is following up on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/21\/fox-announces-dates-for-wolverine-fantastic-four-sequels-mystery-marvel-and-ridley-scott-projects\/\" target=\"_blank\">announcement of a release date<\/a> for a sequel to last year&#8217;s <strong>The Wolverine<\/strong> by hiring a writer to pen the film.<\/p>\n<p>David James Kelly is the screenwriter to land the job and is no stranger to writing Marvel Comics superheroes for the studio. He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/30\/daredevil-reboot-gets-new-writer\/\" target=\"_blank\">previously worked<\/a> on Fox&#8217;s attempt to relaunch their <strong>Daredevil<\/strong> franchise with <strong>Hard Candy<\/strong> director David Slade attached to direct. He&#8217;ll be working from a story outline already developed by director James Mangold. There&#8217;s no word as to whether it will be adapting an existing comic storyline or an original idea.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly is also working on an adaptation of the Dark Horse comic <strong>Mind MGMT<\/strong> for Ridley Scott and has also recently sold a pitch to Fox titled <strong>Sentinel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Although Hugh Jackman has publicly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/06\/hugh-jackman-doesnt-know-if-hell-be-starring-in-wolverine-film-hes-developing\/\" target=\"_blank\">stated<\/a> his participation in the film will depend on how the screenplay turns out, as he is already signed on as a producer I don&#8217;t think him appearing the film is much of a doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Glad they got the release date nailed down first.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/22\/fox-hires-writer-for-wolverine-sequel\/\" title=\"Fox Hires Writer For WOLVERINE Sequel\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[5160,7182],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-david-james-kelly","8":"tag-the-wolverine-2"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33003"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=33003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}