Oooh Hugh Jackman. I'll go and see it ;)

The original POTC went from an initial meeting to a release in 12 months, so good films can be made under that kind of pressure, but it's pretty unusual...

ahh - Mr John, you beat me to the headline! The film is scheduled to begin production in November for a 2008 release. Lauren Shuler-Donner, Hugh Jackman (through his Seed Productions) and Jackman’s production partner John Palermo will produce. The film will be written by David (Troy) Benioff and although drafts for the film have leaked out over the past few months ( featuring Sabretooth, Silver Fox and Logans past) there is still no definative script locked. However workd from film trade press suggest that the film will be based on... ...several resources that include the Marvel Comics lore, along with the more recent Weapon X graphic novels by Frank Miller, "Wolverine" mixes action with an origin story about how Logan emerged from a barbaric experiment as an indestructible mutant with retractable razor-sharp claws. Hmm it seems that the producers, directors and money men do not really know their mutant lore - as Frank Miller hasnt written Wolverine ( or indeed worked for Marvel for nearly twenty years) and that the recent Weapon X story they mention (which was actually written by Frank Tieri) didnt star Wolveine at all! - My theories for this lapse of knowedge is either 1- they wanted to add Frank Miller in as it seems with 300 and Sin City around the writer/aritst is 'hot' at the moment or 2 - They have been replaced by Skrulls ( see recent Marvel books ) or 3 - They have never picked up a comic in their lives.

Wow, interesting choice. I hope this doesn't suck, because we all remember the disappointment of X3... Hope the Magneto film gets a good script and director too.

I'd wish they'd use some of the Wolverine far-back-story from the comics, which takes place in the 18th Century, and before he is surgically modified. Even in flashback they could make this deeper than it currently sounds.