Jackman reveals "The Wolverine" details

[CBR News]

In an interview with Parade Magazine, Hugh Jackman reveals a few brief plot details about the upcoming film, which opens next July.


Full article here.

[Global Honored]

Looking forward to this one, even though I didn't enjoy the Origin film much. Mangold has done good work (3:10 was terrific and Cash movie was masterful) and it is based off my fave Wolvie story. Jackman is a freak of nature. What a talented, hard working and generally good dude.

[anthony!]

Interesting that this is a Last Stand sequel. I wonder if that was the plan from the beginning, or if it came late in the project. I'm willing to wager that cameo is Jean Grey.

[Dusk]

Cameo? Stan Lee?

[Trey]

Cameo? Stan Lee?

its Jubilee

[HeroxMatt2.0]

and the fact that "The Wolverine" image released in September is indeed all him.

I knew Hugh Jackman had claws!

[MarvelMaster616]

I believe it has already been confirmed that Jean Grey will make a cameo. But I can see no good coming from a movie that ties into X3. That movie was just so terrible that it taints every movie linked to it. But I like Wolverine's history in Japan and I think the Claremont run from the 80s is great material to draw on. I still hope that in the end Days of Futures Past does a Star Trek style reboot of the whole X-men franchise because the past few movies have just been awful compared to other Marvel properties. X3 completely screwed up the entire movie franchise and while I love Hugh Jackman playing Wolverine, I think he needs a fresh template to work with.

[XPac]

I believe it has already been confirmed that Jean Grey will make a cameo. But I can see no good coming from a movie that ties into X3. That movie was just so terrible that it taints every movie linked to it. But I like Wolverine's history in Japan and I think the Claremont run from the 80s is great material to draw on. I still hope that in the end Days of Futures Past does a Star Trek style reboot of the whole X-men franchise because the past few movies have just been awful compared to other Marvel properties. X3 completely screwed up the entire movie franchise and while I love Hugh Jackman playing Wolverine, I think he needs a fresh template to work with.

Hugh Jackman is probably the only reason they haven't rebooted the X franchise (like they did with Spider-Man and like they'll probably do with FF). It's hard to do a reboot when you're using the same people since it's potentially confusing, and I think they still wanna milk Jackman as Wolverien for a bit longer.

I'll bet once Hugh is done playing the character, they'll recast Wolverine and reboot the whole thing.

[WeaponX7373]

Marvel Master I think you can relax. Millar came out a bit back and said that the Wolverine is going to serve as a soft reboot. I think the only way they are connecting it to X3 is that it happens after it. After all they state there are no X-men and no school and no Xavier all of which very much existed at the end of X3. I figure we will see some rebooting in the Wolverine and Days will then serve to further reboot it. By the end of it I bet we will have most of what happened in X3 erased.

[WeaponX7373]

Heck it could be that the Jean cameo happens at the end and she resets things to shortly after X2. I picture Logan crying over Mariko and white pheonix Jean appearing to fix what dark pheonix set in motion.

[Free-Man]

But I can see no good coming from a movie that ties into X3.

I doubt X-3 is going to have a huge impact on the plot. I'd be willing to bet that the Jean Grey cameo is going to be little more than a flashback to a more pleasant time in Logan's life. It sounds like the sequel aspect wasn't even added until relatively late in the game anyway so I don't think it'll matter one way or another.

[FigLogan]

I'm totally looking forward to this, probably more so than the next X-Men flick.

[listenuscrewheads]

I doubt X-3 is going to have a huge impact on the plot. I'd be willing to bet that the Jean Grey cameo is going to be little more than a flashback to a more pleasant time in Logan's life. It sounds like the sequel aspect wasn't even added until relatively late in the game anyway so I don't think it'll matter one way or another.

My guess about the Jean Grey cameo is....*spoiler cause this is what it'll def be*.....

there was a Larry Hama Wolverine comic where Logan was stabbed through the chest with some mystical samurai sword by a Yakuza guy, he apparently died and was buried, whereupon he met JG in the 'afterlife', before fighting his way back to life and digging himself out of his grave.

[motherofpearl1]

Looking forward to this one, even though I didn't enjoy the Origin film much. Mangold has done good work (3:10 was terrific and Cash movie was masterful) and it is based off my fave Wolvie story. Jackman is a freak of nature. What a talented, hard working and generally good dude.

Agree with most of what you say here - love Jackman's Wolverine; he seems straight out of Claremont's writing. Origins was fun but could have been so much better. This film hopefully will correct all the mistakes.

[T Hedge Coke]

I'm still holding out for Wolverine 3: The Crunch Conundrum.

Wolverine. Mystique. Jubilee. Spyral. Bars in New York and outposts at the end of time. Lightning-veined horrors wrapped in electrical tape and buckles. Cheap paintings of bullfights on motel walls.

Good times.