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ON OUR RADAR - The Wolverine All the updates & Images, Posters, Trailers and news

We can expect to see James Mangold's The Wolverine in UK cinemas on 26 July, 2013 In the meantime here are all the updates you need for The Wolverine.


As with many comic readers The Wolverine was a favourite character of mine along with Angel aka Archangel, Banshee, Iceman and Colossus. His particular brand of rogue ferocity and mysterious background made him a firm favourite as he is often ranked in the top comic character polls. Introduced as a plucky feral warrior who goes up against both the Hulk and Wendigo at the same time in 1974 he only got his own ongoing comic series in 1988 thanks to Chris Claremont and John Buscema.

Since then he has had some great highlights as he slashed and bashed his through the Marvel universe and his mysterious origin was teased at and slowly unravelled over the almost 3 decades he had been in print till then. He has also had some low points accumulating in X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009 which set Wolverine back as well as comic book films a couple of steps.

Wolverine has one of the most interesting albeit clichéd and convoluted back stories of almost any comic character, he has 130 years of combat experience including military and martial arts training, a feral animal instinct, super healing powers, an almost indestructible adamantium skeleton and an almost unmatchable *cough Hulk* berserker rage. He is the dark reflection of Captain America's Super Soldier with better physical enhancements. This should all add up to one of the most kick ass comic characters on screen. Yet Hugh Jackman keeps trying to play the basically he's a good guy card to soon every time trying to equate him to the 1977 version of Superman which would be mind blowingly awesome, if it was 1977. Wolverine isn't Superman and when stop trying to turn him into Superman on screen they'll engage audiences.

Hugh Jackman is a very talented and pleasant man but seems to miss that we are waiting for the Wolverine that the comics have led us to - an unreasoning feral bad ass.  The closest we have seen the Wolverine's spirit captured on on screen was in Pitch Black where Vin Diesel plays an animalistic warrior out for himself as well as this little gem cameo from X-Men: First Class where Logan rejects Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr's offer to join there class which you can see here: http://youtu.be/lvHI7IQmK4Q

But I am ever hopeful that between James Mangold and Hugh Jackman they create some movie magic and take this opportunity to bring The Wolverine to screen in either a way that is closer to The Wolverine the fans envision or exceed our expectations in the same way Marvel has with their other comic character films.

Based on the celebrated comic book arc, The Wolverine finds Logan, the eternal warrior and outsider, in Japan. There, samurai steel will clash with adamantium claw as Logan confronts a mysterious figure from his past in an epic battle that will leave him forever changed.

In modern day Japan, Wolverine is out of his depth in an unknown world as 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.

ALL THE WOLVERINE UPDATES!
- We get a peek at 4 new photos from the set of Wolverine
- We get 5 new hi-res Wolverine pictures
- The other lead characters get their Eastern ink style posters
- The Silver Samurai gets his own Eastern style poster
- We get the International version of the Cine Con The WOLVERINE Trailer
- We get 3 more hi res Wolverine images of Yukio, Viper, Marika & Logan
- The US The Wolverine trailer is released with some new footage
- The Wolverine gets a new Facebook oriental Ink teaser poster
- We get 4 new hi-res The Wolverine images
- We have The Wolverine International trailer
- We get a third The Wolverine Motion Poster
- We get another The Wolverine Poster
- We get an official The Wolverine Teaser Trailer
- We get a second The Wolverine International Motion Poster
- Director James Mangold tweets The Wolverine Teaser Trailer see my analysis here!
- We get an official new The Wolverine Poster
- I rework the ComingSoon.net/SuperHeroHype The Wolverine poster into something half decent
- ComingSoon.net/SuperHeroHype claim to have an exclusive poster for The Wolverine
- Entertainment Weekly release 8 new The Wolverine photos

- We get a peek at 4 new photos from behind the scenes on the set of Wolverine


- We get 5 new hi-res Wolverine pictures

The Wolverine Viper Eastern Style Poster (Click to Enlarge)

The Wolverine Yukio Eastern Style Poster (Click to enlarge)

- The Silver Samurai gets his own Eastern style poster

The Wolverine Silver Samurai Eastern Style Poster (Click to Enlarge)

- The Wolverine gets a new Facebook oriental teaser poster

- We get 4 new hi-res The Wolverine images
- The Wolverine gets a new Facebook oriental Ink teaser poster





- We get a third The Wolverine Motion Poster




- We get a second The Wolverine International Motion Poster




- Director James Mangold tweets a The Wolverine Teaser Trailer or Tweaser



I fixed the new poster to make it a little more palatable, it is still way off from looking its best but I'm just a design wizard not a miracle worker.


ComingSoon.net/SuperHeroHype are claiming that this is also a new poster although it is a neat concept it is so badly executed that I question its providence.
Entertainment Weekly released these 8 images giving us a proper look at most of the lead characters in context as well as the first look at Viper in costume. Sadly looking at these images if this is the level of effort that is to be expected from The Wolverine I have a bad feeling about this.


Update: Most of these images have been officially in hi-res and can be found above.

- We get 4 new hi-res The Wolverine images

The Wolverine in Japan The past is always behind you, but the memories still remain (Click to enlarge)

The Wolverine is expected to be released on 26 July 2013 in the UK
Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan.

Director: James Mangold
Writers: Mark Bomback, Chris Claremont, Scott Frank, James Mangold, Christopher McQuarrie, Frank Miller
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Tao Okamoto

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Craig's is a retired superhero, an obsessive hobbyist, comics fan, gadget lover & flâneur who knows an unhealthy amount about Ian Fleming's James Bond. When not watching or making films he takes pictures, eats, drinks, dives, mentally storyboards the greatest film ever made & sometimes utilises owl-themed gadgets to fight crime.  A list of his 131 favourite films can be found here! If you would still like to contact Craig please use any of the buttons below: