{"id":3997,"date":"2011-06-16T13:39:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T17:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=3997"},"modified":"2011-06-16T13:39:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T17:39:06","slug":"james-mangold-selected-to-direct-the-wolverine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/james-mangold-selected-to-direct-the-wolverine\/","title":{"rendered":"James Mangold Selected To Direct The Wolverine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/film_wolverine_mangold_director.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3998\" title=\"film_wolverine_mangold_director\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/film_wolverine_mangold_director.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/film_wolverine_mangold_director.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/film_wolverine_mangold_director-300x124.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Director James Mangold (<em>Walk the Line<\/em>, <em>3:10 to Yuma<\/em>) has been officially tapped to direct <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxmovies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twentieth Century Fox<\/a>\u2018s <em><strong>The Wolverine<\/strong><\/em>.  Those who have been following the progress of the project may remember  that Darren Arnofsky dropped out of the film back in March and the  studio has been soul-searching a shortlist of hopeful directors since  then, including Doug Liman, Gavin O\u2019 Connor, Antoince Fuqua, Justin Lin  and others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mangold will be directing off a screenplay being written by Christopher McQuarrie (<em>The Usual Suspects<\/em>) which will have most of the film taking place in Japan.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Wolverine<\/em>, starring Hugh Jackman, is expected to arrive in theaters in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Director James Mangold (Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma) has been officially tapped to direct Twentieth Century<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3999,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions\/3999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}