Darren Aronofsky: "It's just The...Wolverine"

"We're definitely gonna make something great, it'll be very different...it has nothing to do with anything in that franchise or whole universe."
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-Darren Aronofsky talking about The Wolverine.
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This one-on-one David Poland/Darren Aronofsky interview is pretty captivating. Of course, the majority of the time is spent talking about the beautiful and sublime Black Swan, but I really loved the way Darren talked about his upcoming venture into true Hollywood filmmaking with The Wolverine.
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It's been well-documented that Darren hasn't been comfortable filming his last two features (The Wrestler and Black Swan) because of extremely limited funding, short shooting schedules, etc. and it's been widely accepted that the confounding announcement that the Brooklyn-born auteur would be directing the next Wolverine film was a clear and well-deserved paycheck gig.
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But listening to the way he discusses it, I think we can expect something pretty special. He seems generally really excited about it, citing his freedom with the project, the comfortability with his crew (who will be working with him again) and, more importantly, completely disassociates the film from any X-Men or Wolverine franchise before it.