Talk about disappointing. Due to the fact that shooting would last almost a year and in a foreign country to boot, Academy Award nominated director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) has bowed out of Fox's upcoming The Wolverine. At present Aronofsky is in a bit of a custody battle with his ex, actress Rachel Weisz and felt that the logistics of shooting for a year in Japan just wouldn't work. (For the record Japan probably isn't the best place on the planet to be filming a movie right now either.)
In my opinion Aronofsky is a phenomenal director. Black Swan and The Wrestler were amazing pieces of cinema and it's tragic that Aronofsky won't be helming The Wolverine. His take on the film could have been just as good, if not better than Christopher Nolan's work on Batman. However, I can't fault a guy for wanting to be with his family and in any case Aronofsky states that the script is excellent. I definitely breathed a sigh of relief after he said that because quite frankly David Benioff and Skip Woods' script for X Men Origins: Wolverine was atrocious.
Fox says they will be moving "forward aggressively" with the film so I expect a new director will be picked shortly if Fox wants to keep a summer 2012 release date for the film. In the meantime the departure leaves fans wondering what Aronofsky's next film will be and pondering what might have been.
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