Wolverine didn’t manage to release all of his anger in the last movie, so plans are afoot to give him another piece of all-action therapy in a sequel. As they so often do, Deadline reported the news that another Hugh Jackman-as-Wolverine movie could well be on the way.

Hugh Jackman as The WolverineWolverine will be doing more of this, more of this.

Their golden man? Well you can probably guess by that tired pun that it’s James Mangold. They want him to return to direct the follow up, which, ideally, would star the Australian actor who has become synonymous with the role.

“Here’s where it is right now,” writes Deadline. Mangold is making a deal to write the treatment, with X-Men franchise matriarch Lauren Shuler Donner producing. The storyline is being kept under tight wraps.”

Read our review of The Wolverine.

So with Mangold writing the treatment and longtime X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner set to get involved once again, a lot of the ingredients that made The Wolverine somewhat of a success are back in place. Jackman is apparently waiting to see a script before he signs anything with those razor sharp hand claws.

It would be difficult to describe The Wolverine as a summer blockbuster; it seemed to move under the radar while accumulating a decent set of reviews and an ever more impressive box office. A worldwide total of $413m – the second best outing for an X-Men film – brings us closer to understanding the reasoning for a second film.

More of this? Why not.

Deadline are certainly into the idea of another film from Mangold: “I think Mangold did a bang up job on his first superhero film. When I met him at Comic-Con San Diego, he said he tried to veer from the usual superhero formula – if hero doesn’t succeed, world is doomed – and instead make it a character-driven storyline,” explained Mike Fleming Jr.

“There were plenty of action pieces, samurai swordplay and reasons for Logan to work up that famous temper, but at its core the film worked because the stakes were subtler and the storytelling somehow more intimate,” he continued.