Darren Aronofsky Nearing Deal to Direct Wolverine Sequel

Last we scanned on Darren Aronofsky's front, Warner Brothers sent over their red-hot Tales from the Gangster Squad script in hopes for him to direct. According to "TOLDJA," he wasn't enticed enough (or at all, for all we know) to make it his Black Swan follow-up.

So you guessed it, things are pointed right back to the Canadian, adamantium-filled comic-hero and that less-than-anticipated sequel. A deal has yet to be closed out, but it's inching closer to happening with him reportedly clawing for a "$5 million against 5% of the gross" deal.

One can see where he found appeal in the Robocop and Superman reboots. There he's starting from the ground-up with a chance of making his mark on those franchises revivals. But Lord help me, I don't see the upswing in helming Wolverine 2, besides the money and a chance to work with Hugh Jackman again. Not that either is necessarily poor reasoning.

The one plus-sign for this (assuming it goes though, which at this rate, I'd be surprised if it didn't) is it shows 20^th Century Fox is content with getting talent behind the cameras for their newest batch of X-Men movies. We're getting the Matthew Vaughn-directed, Bryan Singer-produced X-Men: First Class for release next June and a Darren Aronofsky-helmed Wolverine sequel would certainly raise eye-brows in the nerd/geek/fanboy community.