For fans of the X-Men movie, you’ll be happy to learn that the script for Wolverine’s solo outing has been completed. Which is nice for fans of the super-sideburned mutant hero.

The X-Men franchise may take a break, but Hugh Jackman isn’t done playing Wolverine. The long rumored Wolverine spinoff movie is still underway, and Hugh told IESB that they now have a script. It’s been signed off on, but that doesn’t mean the movie will happen right away. “We’re a year away from shooting the film and we have the script,” he says.

As for me, I’m a little worried about the franchise. While X3 wasn’t a bad movie, it really didn’t reach the same level as the first two. Somewhere between overexposure and the sort of mediocrity that grows as most movie series drag on (James Bond, Matrix, Star Wars, Revenge of the Nerds), there is a great movie to be made about the most popular of the mutants. He has the sort of compellingly dark and tragic history that makes every teenage boy wish they could be mysterious, complex, and close to invulnerable, too.

Besides my fear of overextending series, though, is the news that the screenwriter is the cat who wrote Troy. That is something less than inspiring.

Still, the Wolverine movie has to be better than the surprising Chicago-Arizona game going on right now.

Just sayin’…