Director of Knight & Day offered The Wolverine

After Darren Aronofsky jumped ship from The Wolverine, every fan boy had a good cry.  The film is the sequel to the terrible X-Men Origins: Wolverine, starring Hugh Jackman as the clawed X-Man. 

It has actually taken a lot longer for Fox to put an offer to a new director than I thought it would.  Well it finally happened and the offer is going to director James Mangold.  You might remember him from last years under performing, Tom Cruise starring, Knight & Day. 

Mangold is actually a great director with films like Walk the Line and 3:10 to Yuma under his belt.  I liked Kight & Day, despite it's bad reviews.  3:10 to Yuma is such a great, and underrated film.  I was never really jumping up for joy for Aronofsky directing the film, this will do just fine in my book.  What do you guys think?

James Mangold's "Untitled Witchita Project"

James Mangold, director of Walk the Line and 3:10 to Yuma started filming a new untitled project in Boston recently.

The film is being shot under the code

name "Zephyr." Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood) was recently added to the cast that already included Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz.

Apparently the story has to do with "a powerful battery that holds the key to an infinite power source"

which was most likely created by Dano's character, Slashfilm reports. Cruise plays a government agent who's just met Diaz's character and they must survive conspiracy theory type action scenarios. This sounds a lot like Eagle Eye, no?

Your thoughts?