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Wolverine filming to start within three weeks...
Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in X Men Origins: Wolverine. Picture: Fox Source:
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The Daily Telegraph reports
Get ready celeb spotters. Hugh Jackman will arrive in Sydney within the next three weeks to begin filming of his upcoming X Men instalment The Wolverine.
The follow-up to Jackman's hugely successful blockbuster X-Men Origins: Wolverine - which took $375 million at the box office - The Wolverine will begin filming at Sydney's Fox Studio's next month and is expected to inject about $80 million into the local economy.
Confidential hears some of the filming will be at outdoor locations - which could prove challenging given the Marvel-produced flick is set mostly in Japan.
However, given Baz Luhrmann transformed parts of Sydney and the Blue Mountains into upstate New York - anything is possible.
The film had previously been scheduled to shoot in Japan. However it's understood those plans were skittled by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The film is to be directed by James Mangold (Knight and Day, 3:10 To Yuma) following the decision of previous director Darren Aronofsky (currently shooting Noah with Russell Crowe) to step down.
The first Wolverine was also filmed in Sydney.
Meanwhile, Jackman is reportedly set to splash out $20 million on a luxury base for his family on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula while The Wolverine is in production.
Sydney-born Jackman and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness are expected to fly in soon to inspect top-end properties around Mornington and Mt Eliza.
Jackman, 43, will spend most of his time in Sydney though he is expected to visit Melbourne on weekends.
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