Back in October, Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) signed on to direct Hugh Jackman (Real Steel) in the forthcoming Wolverine movie. Since then, Aronofsky has referred to the movie as a “one-off,” and emphasized that the film isn’t a sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine in any conventional sense. He also confirmed that the official title for the film will be simply, The Wolverine.

The LATimes recently got a chance to chat with Hugh Jackman, and the actor spoke a bit about the film and how his look will differ from his previous appearances as Wolverine.

Jackman said,

“Darren said with the last one, ‘Hey you looked great, but you’re so tall that in those long shots you looked kind of like Clint Eastwood, and that’s not Wolverine.” He said that Wolverine, in the comics, is powerful, stocky, you know, he’s short and thick. So he said, ‘I want you to go there, get bigger.’ He’s going to come down after he gets done with all the black-tie events over and done with.”

About finally being able to tackle the the iconic Japan storyline from Chris Claremont and Frank Miller‘s 1982 Wolverine miniseries:

“I feel like all the planets are finally aligned to make a great movie. We finally have the character and with this mythology — ever since [the 2000 Bryan Singer film] “X-Men,” when I was kind of hanging around and reading all these comics,  because I was cast before I ever read any X-Men comics, so I was trying to get my hands on everything. I remember saying to [producer] Lauren Shuler Donner, “Lauren, I don’t know about you, but I’ve seen this Japanese story, and I think it’s so good. It’s just genius, it’s brilliant.”

The Wolverine is slated to hit theaters in 2012.