MTV caught up with X-Men Origins: Wolverine star Hugh Jackman at the Teen Choice Awards and he gave what sounded like a pretty firm confirmation that Wolverine is heading to Japan for the next installment:

Offering an update of sorts for the sequel, Jackman told MTV News “Japan is where we’re heading, [and] we’re starting to work on it now. We’re in the … first steps of developing that story.”

Reiterating his desire to Miller and Claremont’s story arc brought to the screen, Jackman said he’s “made no real secret” of his fondness for that particular chapter of Wolverine’s history. “I think the fans love that saga. It’s my favorite saga of the Wolverine stories.”

“That’s a movie I’ve longed to make from the beginning, so that’s where we’re heading,” he said.

Okay. Allow me to geek-out and digress for a moment here.

Over the course of X-Men 3, X-Men Origins, and now the sequel to Origins, Jackman has continually mentioned something along the lines that “I really think this is what the fans want to see.” He kind of gets out in front of these movies and starts hyping them up that they are going to be true to the character etc. From my vantage point, fans haven’t been exactly thrilled with the last X-Men movie nor with X-Men Origins: Wolverine;l in fact, some have been quite upset. Are some of them oversensitive fanboys? Definitely. But even the average fan such as myself has been terribly disappointed by what’s been produced by FOX with regards to this franchise. Even more frustrating for me now is that Jackman gets up and starts toting that this is going to be what the fans want to see… well, he said the same thing about the first Origins, and look how that turned out.

Don’t get me wrong, I actually like Jackman as Wolverine, I think he plays the character well enough, but everything else about these movies have been mostly garbage. If Jackman and/or FOX has any idea what to do with this character and what the fans want to see, X-Men 3, and X-Men Origins wouldn’t have been the movies that they were.

My guess? Whoever is in charge of this sequel will not even come close to doing Frank Miller and Chris Claremont’s infamous storyline justice, and it will be another round of a bad X-Men/Wolverine movie. So send Logan to Japan, at this point, I guess it really doesn’t make a difference…