Director Gavin Hood talks 'Wolverine' movie

Director Gavin Hood has been speaking to SuperHeroHype about his next job, helming the X-MEN spin-off WOLVERINE. The film will star Hugh Jackman once again as Wolvey, and is said to be a prequel to the successful X-MEN flicks. But what attracted the acclaimed director to the movie? "What appeals to me about the Wolverine character of all the other characters is that my feeling that he's the one that suffers from the most existential angst... Since I'm a guy who loves emotional complexity, it seemed to me that… when I was first approached to do it, my first thought was, 'What? Me? Do this? What is that? I don't know enough about comic book characters.' And of course, I then did some further research and I realized that the character of Wolverine, I think his great appeal lies in the fact that he's someone who in some ways, is filled with a great deal of self-loathing by his own nature and he's constantly at war with his own nature. It seemed to me that really what it is, is that it's a little like great Greek mythology, which is something I've always been in love with where the Greek Gods threw thunderbolts and Poseidon conjured up storms, but those mythological stories were designed to examine emotional truths. It seems to me that the character of Wolverine epitomizes in a modern context, a kind of great mythical tradition of using larger-than-life characters in order to play with and examine human emotion at a sort of operatic level."