Newsarama scored an interview with Wolverine screenwriter David Benioff and the Troy scribe talked about his job writing the "Wolverine" spin-off movie. Benioff says he wants to "rough" Wolverine/Jackman up a bit, giving him an opportunity to show sides the first two movies didn't afford the character aside from the Mansion invasion scene in X2.

Promising his story will be a "bit darker and a bit more brutal", Benioff says he's writing an 'R' script and that Marvel Studios and director will have to decide where to go from there.

Benioff also confirmed his script and vision stays away from the more "fantastical" elements associated with the X-Men franchise. "I'm going to stay away from the 'Four Riders' kind of stories and the science fiction stories where he was battling aliens or demons...I'm sticking with something more realistic...my concept of him for this movie is the one I grew up with: He's a gritty character, a tough, working-class Canadian guy who was born with certain special powers and granted more through a series of brutal experiments - for more that's my Wolverine reality."

The full interview is in the new issue of Comics Buyer's Guide on sale now.

Thanks to 'JHBlade'