And now, we here at Nerd Bastards bring you some more teasers to wet your appetite for the upcoming barrage of super hero flicks. This time around, we have Bryan Singer tweeting a ridiculous teaser for X-Men: Days of Future Past, along with some new set pics from the upcoming Wolverine and Spider-Man 2 flicks. Check it all out after the jump.
The first full length trailer for James Mangold‘s The Wolverine starring Hugh Jackman has finally hit the internet. I was expecting a lot more singing and dancing from Jackman, instead we get a lot of hard eyed glaring and kung fu fighting. Wait, I think I may be mixing up my Jackman trailer reviews.
We’re getting a good look at the main twist in The Wolverine‘s story line. What’s wrong with Wolverine’s healing powers and does Wolverine want to be human? Take a look and meet me on the other side to discuss.
*Added Domestic Trailer that was also released, there are a couple of differences in the two.
Well, what did you think? There’s plenty of action, of course, and we get a little more of Rila Fukushima as Yukio. The train fight scene looks pretty intense, and the snow covered ninja fight scene looks to be off the kung fu chain, I tried to count the ninjas, but there were too many. Just the way I like it. Will this sequel erase the bad taste Wolverine: Origins left in most of our mouths?
The Wolverine slashes its way onto theater screens on July 26th. I’ll be in the theater about halfway back in a dark corner.
Spinning out of the events of X-Men: The Last Stand, Logan (Hugh Jackman) travels to Japan where he falls for the beautiful Mariko Yashida (Tao Okamoto) to the grave displeasure of her father Yashida (Hal Yamanouchi) and her half-brother, the fearsome Silver Samurai (Will Yun Lee). But this isn’t Logan’s first trip to the Land of the Rising Sun or his first encounter with the Yashida clan. Based on a screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie) and Mark Bomback (Live Free or Die Hard, Total Recall )and the comic book by Frank Miller and Chris Claremont.
Via: CBM
Yesterday there was a new poster and a quick teaser from James Mangold‘s The Wolverine. Today Hugh Jackman brings us a different teaser trailer with new, unseen footage. The full trailer debuts tomorrow so stay tuned for more Wolverine as the week progresses.
Some interesting stuff in that short 20 seconds. The funeral that brings Wolverine to Japan ends up in a huge fight scene, hints that Wolverine’s transformation at the hands of the Weapon X program might not be permanent, more ninja fighting. I wonder if we’ll get a little of the classic Kung Fu Fighting song in the mix at some point.
What do you think? Will this movie redeem the solo Wolverine movie franchise? Let us know what you think in the comments section below.
Via: Comicbookmovie
Hugh Jackman: singer, dancer, actor, mutant, and still the best Oscar host in recent memory. Even with a flop like Wolverine: Origins I’m excited as all hell to see him back in The Wolverine. The man can do no wrong. And it doesn’t hurt he never looks bad, either. Here’s the latest snapshots from the set of James Mangold‘s flick, shared by Mangold himself via Twitter,
A production snap from shooting a wood chopping scene in Omishima. We found an eight inch caterpillar that morning. twitter.com/mang0ld/status…
— James Mangold (@mang0ld) February 23, 2013
A shot from when we finished work on one of Francois Audouy’s amazing sets. There’s a world through that blast hole. twitter.com/mang0ld/status…
— James Mangold (@mang0ld) February 26, 2013
Look forward to the first trailer, expected next month, and come July 26th The Wolverine will be unleashed in theatres!
Source: Geek Tyrant
James Mangold‘s The Wolverine begins after the X-Men trilogy. This means we’re seeing a Wolverine that has just gone through some pretty traumatic times and is still struggling to come to grips with his returned memories, the death (by his own hands) of an extraordinary woman in his life (Jean Grey). Those kind of things mark a man, even a man like Wolverine.
That’s the emotional setup one must consider when looking at the story line in The Wolverine, but why set the movie in Japan, why would Logan go to Japan after all he’s been through, wouldn’t he want to be left alone? That’s more in line with his character. In a recent article in Empire, The Wolverine Producer Hutch Parker talked about the story behind Wolverine’s journey to Japan:
“We pick up Logan in a very isolated state, full of self-loathing. He is sought out by a young Asian woman for reasons he doesn’t fully understand, who is asking him to follow her to Japan where he is meant to reconnect with someone he spent prison-time with in Nagasaki. And the legacy of that experience – effectively Logan saved him – is that this man is on his deathbed, and is looking to give him a gift, to thank him for the life he’s had. But this gift draws Logan into a very complex and very unexpected world within both contemporary Japan, and to some degree the feudal history of Japan. The quality of this story is that it takes Logan on such a challenging personal journey. He’s so in isolation, so out of his element. It’s a much more powerful distillation of his character than you’ve seen before. It’s why people have always love this particular story.”
It looks like this is the doorway in which Wolverine will encounter the Yashida family, Mariko (Logan’s love interest in the comics) and her half brother Keniuchio Harada, the Japanese mutant known as The Silver Samurai. Mariko’s father is the head of the Yashida clan and the family is heavily involved in criminal activities as part of the famed Japanese mafia, the Yakuza. Throw in one pissed off, clawed out, mutant and you’ve got a movie worth seeing.
The other good news is that we now know when we’ll get a look at the first trailer for James Mangold‘s The Wolverine. The trailer will make it’s way onto fan boy and girl computer screens everywhere on February 12th. The trailer will then make it’s movie theater debut in the previews for screenings of A Good Day To Die Hard the following weekend, but don’t get too excited. Mangold has hinted that this is really a buffed up teaser trailer without many story line details.
Via: Screenrant
While fans are still waiting for the first trailer for director James Mangold‘s The Wolverine, perhaps checking out what Mangold has to say about the movie. Mangold recently sat down with MTV to discuss the project.
“The wonderful opportunity for me with this film is that 90 percent of it takes place in Japan, and even though other elements remain constant from the other pictures, namely Hugh Jackman, we kind of got our chance to reboot the tone and go a little darker and a little deeper than they’ve gone before with this character. That was exciting for me.”
Considering that the majority of the film takes place in Japan, it’s an easy assumption that the Japanese location and actors would influence the style, tone, and action in the film.
“There is a significant amount of Japanese spoken in the movie, and the cast is almost entirely Japanese. So there is this wonderful sense of cross-pollination between a very Western character and a far Eastern culture, and I think it’s very cool and something we haven’t seen so far.”
MTV notes that it: also lets Mangold add a few elements from traditional Eastern films, like storytelling, levels of mystery, fighting, combat techniques and shooting style.
“I think there is a lot of ways that Japanese film, Japanese fighting, Japanese martial arts have had an effect on this movie,” he said. “And certainly the movie is dripping with Japanese tradition both cinematically, fighting-wise and philosophically as well.”
Mangold went on to confirm that one of Wolverine’s dark traits, and fan favorites, from the comic books, his Berserker rage, will make an appearance in the new film.
“The whole point is not about violence or rating; it’s about intensity. I wanted to make a film that in a way captures the intensity of his character. One of the things that has always been a feature of Wolverine in the comics is that he has a berserker rage, that he has anger and some of his abilities are driven by something more primal.”
Finally, we’re going to see Wolverine lose it and go nuts. Although I wonder how much that vaunted berserker rage might be toned down to ensure a PG-13 rating. An R rated The Wolverine is not going to happen. The loss of ticket sales would be too much for any studio to handle. How Wolverine usually gets to that Berserker rage point is anger and Mangold talks about how Wolverine will get angry:
“Honestly, to get really pissed off , not cute pissed off, not quippy pissed off, not funny pissed off or cigar-chomping pissed off, just pissed off , that can then help drive the fighting, drive the combat. That is interesting for me and then for the character, some of the jet fuel underneath some of the combat in the film.”
The Wolverine claws it’s way onto theater screens July 26th, and stars Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hal Yamanouchi, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima and Brian Tee.
Via: Comingsoon
Hugh Jackman is a serious triple threat. The man can act, sing, and dance. All pretty damn well, too. Jackman can do serious, intense drama, light-hearted comedy, and of course, rousing action. There’s really nothing he can’t do, so why would anyone doubt that’s his actual bod in the promo image for The Wolverine? Y’know the one (seen above) that shows Jackman off as a completely ripped uber-mensch.
There’s been some talk the image was digitally altered to add in the rippling muscles and poppin’ veins, but Jackman calls bullshit. It’s all him. On a recent episode of The Jeff Probst Show, Jackman said,
That’s all me, man. Because it was brutal getting there. And by the way, I asked the company if they could just… you’re spending millions on special effects, just help me out. I want to eat pizza and drink beer. And they said no. For that kind of body, I had to go up in weight, big, lift big and heavy, then strip down.
And I guess he really doesn’t have the option of pigging out again anytime soon since he’ll need to keep the killer bod for his bit in X-Men: Days of Future Past. Unless one of the horrors in the future is that Wolverine really lets himself go.
Did you ever think it was a fake when you first saw the image? I mean, I’ll give you some credit if you doubted it. At 44 years old the man puts all of us to shame. Hey, now’s the time to make those resolutions, 2013 could be your year to be as beefy as Wolverine.
Source: Blastr
We’ve been speculating for a while about whether or not there will be another cameo from a fellow X-Men member in the upcoming Wolverine flick since young Cyclops was a thing in X-Men: Origins. We now have confirmation from Hugh Jackman himself that there will be a cameo, however he did not specify who that would be.
As he had said to Parade Magazine:
My character is at his lowest. He is supposed to be able to heal himself, but he may encounter someone who has worked out a way to really hurt him,” Jackman said. “And there is a cameo from one of the past X-Men in it.”
Perhaps it’s Jean Grey because of the rumors that Famke Janssen was in Sydney, Australia a few months ago, where parts of the movie was filmed. It’s absolutely plausible though if that were the case, chances are she won’t have a huge role to play.
What do you guys think? Who would you like to see show up?
Source: Parade Magazine, Cinema Blend
With FOX on the move to expand and improve their own Marvel Comics movie universe after a string of rather disappointing releases over the last few years, here is a taste of one that might actually be headed in a good direction.
We all know that the frenzied adamantium clawed Canuck will return in 2013′s The Wolverine, once again played by aussie beefcake Hugh Jackman, and we’ve had it on good authority that this time it will be a darker more serious take on the X-man. Well, here is a new official synopsis that seems to confirm that.
Based on the celebrated comic book arc, this epic action-adventure takes Wolverine, the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day Japan. Out of his depth in an unknown world he faces his ultimate nemesis in a life-or-death battle that will leave him forever changed. Vulnerable for the first time and pushed to his physical and emotional limits, he confronts not only lethal samurai steel but also his inner struggle against his own immortality, emerging more powerful than we have ever seen him before. (via The Lebanese Cinema Movie Guide)
While this is just a synopsis and an actual trailer for the movie is no where in sight, it sounds like the movie might be on the right track. Directed by James Mangold, the basic plot for The Wolverine is partially an adaptation of Chris Claremont and Frank Miller‘s insanely good comic arc from 1982. A story so well done it should be hard for them to screw up.
Your move FOX.
Source: Collider
I wish it was Wednesday. “Wolverine Tuesday” just doesn’t have that alliteration panache, you know?
Anyway, a couple things from The Wolverine hit the blogosphere today.
Answers from Monday’s fan Q&A with Hugh Jackman and director James Mangold are available. A new teaser poster was released, and 3D post conversion has been confirmed.
Let’s start with the Q&A. The discussion ran just about 20 minutes, and there weren’t any discernible details outside of what we already know. You can watch the video below, but here’s a list (courtesy of ScreenRant) of the most interesting bits covered:
- Villains get to Wolverine in ways other characters haven’t in the previous films
- Mangold’s aim was to avoid the “super-duper abilities” and keep the film ”grounded” in that what Wolverine does feels physical and possible for someone with his “credible abilities” - bring things down to earth, no less visually exciting, little less dependent on CG
- Action is very physical, fight choreography is amped up big time.
- Hugh: Wolverine’s ultimate weapon is his rage and that shows through more than ever.
- Mangold compares to The Bourne movies and The Dark Knight
- Hugh talks about training harder, eating better and starting earlier.
- Wolverine deals with Yakuza, industrialists, politicians, etc.
- Jackman and Mangold talk their favorite Wolverine comics and superpowers
- The Wolverine is more action-packed than any other X-film
- For Hugh, film and its development feels fresh, even after starring in four series installments already.
I always thought the most interesting thing about Wolverine was how the character -at his core- was a beast trying desperately hard to find his humanity. It doesn’t seem any of that allegory is evident in Mangold’s vision. Regardless, I think this will be the best iteration yet.
The live chat ended with the unveiling of the first official poster (above) for The Wolverine, which was inked Japanese style with broad brushstrokes. I for one, like it. Tag anything with a little Japanese flair, and it make it inherently cool.
Lastly, According to the StarkIndustries.ru (Twitter) account, Fox Russia have officially confirmed that The Wolverine will be released in 3D.
90% of the blockbusters are released in 3D, so this really isn’t a surprise. It’s just too bad because this does not seem the type of movie that will benefit in any form of 3D. On the other hand, fan-boys will flinch gleefully at the first SNIKT, and I’m sure the ladies won’t mind a shirtless Jackman in 3rd dimension either.
The Wolverine opens July 26, 2013
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