Hugh Jackman has never made any secret of his desire to do a Wolverine sequel, and it seems that the signing of Aronofsky, his director on The Fountain, has only got him more excited about the project.

“This is, hopefully for me, going to be out of the box,” he told Vulture. “It’s going to be the best one, I hope. Well, I would say that, but I really do feel that. I feel this is going to be very different.” And as for Aronofsky? Will a comic-book movie jar against the director’s usual subject material?

“This is Wolverine,” responds Jackman. “This is not Popeye. He’s kind of dark. But, you know, this is a change of pace. Chris McQuarrie, who wrote The Usual Suspects, has written the script, so that’ll give you a good clue. (Aronofsky’s) going to make it fantastic. There’s going to be some meat on the bones. There will be something to think about as you leave the theatre, for sure.”

And apparently, the Japanese angle has made the same impact on Jackman as it did on Aronofsky. ““The whole time from when I began,” he says, “the one story line that I went and said, ‘That’s a movie!’ while I was reading the comic books, was this whole saga in Japan… It’s really beautiful, different and fantastic. I thought, ‘That’s a movie.’”