The Wolverine Gets A Rewrite From Jack The Giant Killer And Total Recall Scribe Mark Bomback

‘The Wolverine’ Gets A Rewrite From ‘Jack The Giant Killer’ And ‘Total Recall’ Scribe Mark Bomback

By Russ Fischer/Sept. 1, 2011 1:47 pm EST

Along with that hire, we’ve got a few details, as Variety says the cast will be all Japanese and Japanese-American actors except for Hugh Jackman and “a newly-expanded character named Viper, who’s the Caucasian secretary for Japan’s Minister of Justice.” (Here’s a wiki entry on Viper.)

We already knew the script was based on the early ’80s Wolverine comics miniseries by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller, but the trade offers this synopsis: “Story will find Wolverine suffering from amnesia and searching for answers about his past in the Japanese criminal underworld where he finds both love and tragedy.” Let’s hope this rewrite is for the better, or at least a lateral move at the very worst.