That’s right Bub, Wolvie’s off to the far East in an adaptation of the popular storyline from the 1980’s, when Frank Miller and Chris Claremont were writing for the character.

In the comics, Wolverine had long been portrayed as longing to explore Japan, with Miller and Claremont’s yarn finally granting him that wish. The story sees Logan travel to Japan, where he falls in love with a woman named Mariko Yashida. However, Mariko is rather inconveniently the heiress to a powerful Yakuza crime family, with her villainous old man less than thrilled with Wolvie’s sudden arrival on the scene…

A fairly meaty storyline for our hero to get his claws into then, and happily it’s been transformed into a script by Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie. Having already helped pen the first X-Men film with Bryan Singer, McQuarrie should already know the territory, and his pedigree as a screenwriter should allay any residual fears of another knuckleheaded action-fest.

So with a script in place, who would be stepping up to fill the director’s chair?