8:05AM Defamer Hollywood | If there’s one important lesson that can be drawn from the
blockbuster performance of Warner Bros.’
The Dark Knight, it’s that audiences aren’t afraid of a comic-book movie that takes a walk on the dark, grim side. However, the same can’t necessarily be said for Fox topper Tom Rothman (the
bane of AICN) who greenlit two
Fantastic Four movies, hired Brett Ratner to direct
X3, and now is allegedly mucking with the
X-Men spinoff
Wolverine. Despite the fact that the gritty, Hugh Jackman-topped film was met with a
giddy response at this year’s Comic-Con,
Jeff Wells says that Rothman is pressuring director Gavin Hood to make the movie more kid-friendly — and when Hood won’t cave, Rothman is taking matters into his own hands:
