Early last month, Mark Bomback, the writer for two highly anticipated films that are currently in production, director Bryan Singer’s forthcoming film, Jack the Giant Killer and director Len Wiseman‘s remake of Total Recall has been brought on board to rewrite Christopher McQuarrie‘s screenplay for The Wolverine.

Production on the film is said to begin after Hugh Jackman (Real Steel) completes Les Miserables next spring, so we still have quite a long wait until we see if they can top X-Men Origins: Wolverine (which shouldn’t be difficult), but will they go as dark and violent as some of the comics?

Jackman told MTV,

“There’s such great temptation to make an R-rated ‘Wolverine’,” he says, “I’ve always felt that. I know a lot of fans would like that. I totally get it. If there was ever a superhero that was going to be R-rated, it’s Wolverine. However, in the last ten years, I’ve also met many, many 12, 13, dare I say 10, 14, 15 year-olds who, for them, Wolverine is not just cool, you see it in their eyes. He’s everything to them. So my thing is — which James Mangold and I talked about — is let’s not put it off the table. There’s even a talk of us doing two versions, as in finding a way for us to do both as you shoot it, which could be really cool. But you need to have a really good reason to exclude those fans.”

The Wolverine is slated to hit theaters in 2013.