AICN broke a “scoop” yesterday suggesting that “Slumdog Millionaire” scribe Simon Beaufoy was “employed” to write a sequel to the upcoming “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.” However, a little digging didn’t necessarily refute that the film was in some sort of development, but it did seem to call Beaufoy’s involvement in question.
The quotes from the AICN piece weren’t verbatim, so it was possible Beaufoy was referring to being approached at an Oscar party with the possibility, as his agent claims he was, though he felt that having written “The Full Monty” and “Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day” probably didn’t qualify him for the job (seriously, Fox, have you eveb seen any of Beaufoy’s movies?).
Considering the earlier Wolverine idea was a multi-million dollar pitch by David Benioff later re-written by names like David Ayer, James Vanderbilt and Skip Woods, it does seem like Fox’s vision for these films are pretty malleable, so perhaps Beaufoy will realize that he’ll get a nice payday, even if no one gives a shit about his interpretation of the character, but it still seems highly unlikely. Instead he’s doing…something that could potentially involve Danny Boyle again.
