Will Liev Schreiber be in Wolverine 2?

At the beginning of the month we reported that a script  for a Wolverine sequel had been finished and was set to start shooting in 2011. The film is supposed to pull from Chris Claremont’s and Frank Miller’s comic that takes place in Japan and, as I recall, doesn’t have Sabretooth in it. io9 reports that Liev Schreiber had dinner with Hugh Jackman who has read the first draft of the script and seemed ” really excited”. At this point there is no director attached and the cast remains a mystery for the time being. So, will Liev Schreiber be in the sequel?

Read what he had to say after the jump.

“It’s still not clear whether or not Victor will be present in the Japan storyline. In the Japan storyline as I remember it from the Wolverine comics, Victor wasn’t there. So I don’t know, of course I’ve got my fingers crossed because I love the character so much, to have the chance to do it again would be a lot of fun, but I’m not sure.”

One of the few saving graces from X-Men Origins: Wolverine was Schreiber’s Sabretooth. His look, posture and swagger were a great update from page to screen and it would be a shame not to have him back. I know, as a comic book fan, that Sabretooth has no business in the Japan storyline, but it could make for an attractive tweak to a story that is 20 years old. I actually hope that they just loosely base the script on Claremont’s tale and throw in some other X-Men related characters like the Silver Samurai or Sunfire. Either way the film just needs to be more coherent than the first one and have better CGI and I know I will be happy.

Would you like to see Liev Schreiber in the sequel or should we get some fresh characters? Post below.