It looks like the Oscars are not going to go with a comedian or TV personality as host, as was previously buzzing around the internet in rumor form.

As a matter of fact, it currently looks like the offer is out to Hugh Jackman, Wolverine himself, to step in and shake up the Oscar broadcast in hopes that the ceremony can scrape up enough ratings to become relevant once again.

DHD reports that the deal has yet to be sealed, because Jackman’s camp wants a solid idea of what is expected of their client, especially in the show’s opener. An unnamed source, when asked if Jackman will be doing an opening monologue, said: “I don’t want that for him…He is an actor with big movies behind him and one coming this summer. He didn’t work the last 20 years to suddenly be a stand-up comedian.”

I guess that makes sense.

Though if you have a series of classy and good writers on it, it might at least live up to Jackman’s 2004 Tony appearance:

Details on when this announcement might solidify, inside…

From DHD:

I’m told the Jackman announcement could come as soon as Tuesday but more likely after the holidays if all the i’s are dotted and t’s get crossed in time. Jackman was one of the presenters at the 2002 Academy Awards, but said he’d think twice about doing it again because “getting up there in a suit and talking for a little bit is kind of bizarre.” Also, he’s supposed to be very near-sighted with extremely blurry vision when he isn’t wearing contacts, so, reportedly, when he hosted the Tonys and even Saturday Night Live, Jackman memorized almost everything he had to say so he wouldn’t have to struggle to read. And then there’s just the terror of appearing live before Hollywood and the world. But Jackman once said about his own courage, “I’ve always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. So I’ve always said ‘yes’ to the thing I’m most scared about. The fear of letting myself down — of saying ‘no’ to something that I was afraid of and then sitting in my room later going, ‘I wish I’d had the guts to say this or that’ — that galvanizes me more than anything.”