According to Deadline, 20th Century Fox is looking towards "3:10 to Yuma" and "Walk the Line" director James Mangold to helm the Hugh Jackman-starring THE WOLVERINE. Mangold previously worked with Fox on "Knight and Day". The studio has furiously been on the search for a new director after Darren Aronofsky left the project. Formal negotiations with Mangold will soon take place, as the studio is hoping to get cameras rolling this Fall in the USA and Japan.

Written by Christopher McQuarrie, THE WOLVERINE follows Logan as he treks Japan on a top secret assignment and falls in love with a mysterious woman whose hand in marriage is already promised to another. When Logan chooses not to back down from his primal instincts he finds himself in-arms with her powerful crime lord father and samurai-wielding brothers.