Writer Chris Claremont talks The Wolverine and X-Men: Days of Future Past

“Well, the sad reality of Hollywood, especially as it relates to comic books, is that there is never a direct adaptation of source material. I think “Watchmen” was maybe the only time that that was tried. “The Wolverine” was a project that the producer, Lauren Shuler Donner, has wanted to do ever since I’ve known her, which is going on better than fifteen years, now. She’s loved the story that Frank Miller and I did and has wanted to bring it to the screen. In the story’s original incarnation, in Christopher McQuarrie‘s original screenplay, that was what it was and it was really cool. I mean, I read it; it was good. This is when Darren Aronofsky was going to direct, and then, after last year’s Oscars, he decided he had other things that were more pressing and withdrew from the project. The new director came in wanting to bring his own writing crew on the project, wanting to express his own vision, and it has, as I understand, morphed somewhat considerably from the original story. I believe there’s a photograph, for example, of Hugh Jackman with the bone claws. Which — that’s really cool, it looks great, but that’s not in my story. So I would assume it has morphed considerably. We’ll find out this summer.”