Wolverine is back on the Big Screen

Everyone's favorite mutant (favorite pertaining to popular) Wolverine is back on the big screen. After lead roles in all three X-Men movies, a hilarious cameo in X-Men: First Class and a not so popular X-Men:Origins: The Wolverine movie; Logan is back with a stand alone sequel to X-Men 3: The Last Stand and this is the action filled The Wolverine. 

Stricken by guilt at having killed Jean Grey/The Dark Phoenix, Logan is plagued by loneliness, being a century old mutant and watching the people you love (sometimes at his own hands) can really get really old, really fast. 

The uninspired and vulnerable mutant is thrown into a battle royale of ninjas, samurais, the Yakuza and the good old bad mutant as he travels to modern day Japan and is reunited with an old friend whom he saved 60 years ago in WWII. 

While every one is looking forward to the amazing fights in the film, (bullet trains, ninja, a cyber samurai-what else can you ask for?) the viewers will also get a front seat to view to the real battle and that is the one going on within Logan who has been dealing with the burden of immortality all of his life - What if he doesn't want it anymore? in the movie, Logan is offered mortality, the chance to die like any one else and after travelling the world for a century, this is indeed very tempting to him. 

Hugh Jackman who not only plays The Wolverine but is also an executive producer in the film, says that "This story takes Wolverine into a world that is vastly different from any seen before in the X-Men series- it's visually different and the tone is different. There are a lot of battles in the story, but the greatest battle of all is the one within Logan, between being a monster and becoming a human being". This chapter of Wolverine's legacy is a rare chance to see his character at a vulnerable and indestructible state.  

The Wolverine without his healing powers shows us the mutant in a never before seen light-he can actually die and this just multiplies the interesting factor in The Wolverine.   


Director James Mangold (Knight and Day) has said that "One thing I find particularly interesting about Wolverine is his immortality, the fact that with his healing factor he can go on forever like a god, and because of that he also experiences the loneliness of a god. Even when Logan loses those he loves, he knows that he will keep on". He is the tragic hero he have all come to know and love and what makes him endearing is that he is not your typical hero, he is in every essence an anti-hero. Mangold goes on to say that "He's been going on for a century now, through wars and battles and deaths of his loved ones and he's come to a point of great weariness." 

Ironically it is in this loneliness where Logan draws his strength from only now, he bleeds out instead of healing when shot. So where is that going to leave our favorite adamantium swinging mutant?       

The Wolverine opens on July 25, 2013 in more than 200 screens nationwide from 20th Century Fox and distributed by Warner Bros. 

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