Hugh Jackman, who played Wolverine in X-Men, told Sci Fi Wire in an interview that the highly anticipated sequel to his 2000 hit movie will start next year. "January [or] February we start shooting," Jackman said at the premiere for his new film, Swordfish, in Los Angeles.

X-Men director Bryan Singer, meanwhile, told the Comics Continuum Web site that he's hard at work on X-Men 2. "I'm working very diligently on the sequel to X-Men," Singer told the site. "I'm doing some science fiction programming stuff for television. I'm shepherding some small projects that interest me on a [producer] capacity, and I'm just looking at other things that interest me." One of those projects happen to be the Sci Fi Channel's update of Battlestar Galactica, in which Singer and X-Men producer Tom DeSanto are developing.

Singer also added, "I try to focus on one picture at a time and not attach myself to dozens of things and then see whichever thing is ready and jump on it. I really try to focus on a few things and whatever it is I'm really involved in at the time. Right now, I'm sort of at the development stages of a few different things, X-Men 2 obviously. A lot of characters will be back, and there will be a couple of new characters, but beyond that I couldn't really tell you anything--anything you can't read on the Internet in two weeks, anyway."