Creative tuffle on the set of ‘Wolverine’

Jeffrey Wells over at Hollywood-Elsewhere.com  posted an interesting bit about alleged tensions between ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ director Gavin Hood and Fox Chairman and CEO Tom Rothman. Apparently, Gavin Hood had been away from the rather large set of ‘Wolverine’ for a period of a few days and when he returned he was surprised to find his set completely repainted. Essentially, Hood had been going for a darker, moodier and less upbeat tone for the Wolvie spin-off movie that is to present a brief history of the life of Logan. Once Hood returned from his [fill in the blank], he found his entire set was completely repainted to be more vibrant and less dark and moody… all on the orders of Tom Rothman. yeah, I’d be pretty pissed if I were the director! Anyway, its unclear how much of this is entirely accurate and/or how much is over/under stated. I just hope this movie doesn’t get botched due to another Hollywood studio exec taking over and messing with something he has no true knowledge of to begin with.