The Wolverine is a 2013 superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Wolverine. The film, distributed by 20th Century Fox, is the sixth installment in the X-Men film series, the second installment in the trilogy of Wolverine films, a standalone sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and a direct sequel to X-Men: The Last Stand (2006).
Directed by James Mangold, from a screenplay written by Scott Frank and Mark Bomback, based on the 1982 limited series Wolverine by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller, it stars Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine, alongside Hiroyuki Sanada, Famke Janssen, and Will Yun Lee. In the film, which follows the events of X-Men: The Last Stand, Logan travels to Japan, where he engages an old acquaintance in a struggle that has lasting consequences. Stripped of his healing factor, Wolverine must battle deadly samurai while struggling with guilt over Jean Grey’s death.
- Starring : Hugh Jackman / Hiroyuki Sanada
- Genre : Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
- Country : United States / United Kingdom
- Language : English / Japanese
- Director : James Mangold
- Production : Twentieth Century Fox / Marvel Entertainment / Donners’ Company / TSG Entertainment / Ingenious Media / Big Screen Productions / Bad Hat Harry Productions
- Distributor : 20th Century Fox Argentina / 20th Century Fox / 20th Century Fox de Venezuela / Big Picture 2 Films / China Film Group Corporation (CFGC) / Geo Films / Hispano Foxfilms S.A.E. / InterCom / Manfer Films / Odeon / Twentieth Century Fox C.I.S. / Twentieth Century Fox / Warner Bros. / Westec Media Limited / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Film1 / Hotstar / KVH Media Group / SF Film Finland / Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment / Veronica
The Wolverine movie
The Wolverine release date
- July 16, 2013 : UK (London) (premiere)
- July 24, 2013 : Spain
- July 24, 2013 : France
- July 25, 2013 : Australia
- July 25, 2013 : Germany
- July 25, 2013 : UK
- July 25, 2013 : Ireland
- July 25, 2013 : Israel
- July 25, 2013 : Philippines
- July 25, 2013 : Singapore
- July 26, 2013 : Canada
- July 26, 2013 : India
- July 26, 2013 : Sweden
- July 26, 2013 : USA
- August 15, 2013 : United Arab Emirates
- September 13, 2013 : Japan
The Wolverine cast
- Hugh Jackman as Logan
- Tao Okamoto as Mariko
- Rila Fukushima as Yukio
- Hiroyuki Sanada as Shingen
- Svetlana Khodchenkova as Viper
- Brian Tee as Noburo
- Hal Yamanouchi as Yashida(as Haruhiko Yamanouchi)
- Will Yun Lee as Harada
- Ken Yamamura as Young Yashida
- Famke Janssen as Jean Grey
- Nobutaka Aoyagi as Security
- Seiji Funamoto as Servant
- Shinji Ikefuji as Pock-Face
- Qyoko Kudo as Aya
- Nobuaki Kakuda as Buddhist Priest
The film’s development began in 2009 after the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Christopher McQuarrie was hired to write a screenplay for The Wolverine in August 2009. In October 2010, Darren Aronofsky was hired to direct the film. The project was delayed following Aronofsky’s departure and the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. In June 2011, Mangold was brought on board to replace Aronofsky. Bomback was then hired to rewrite the screenplay in September 2011. The supporting characters were cast in July 2012 with principal photography beginning at the end of the month around New South Wales before moving to Tokyo in August 2012 and back to New South Wales in October 2012. The film was converted to 3D in post-production.
The Wolverine was released on July 24, 2013, in various international markets and on July 26, 2013, in the United States. It received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for its action sequences, performances (especially Jackman’s) and thematic profundity, though some criticism was directed at the predictable story and climax. The film earned $414 million worldwide, making it the fifth highest-grossing film in the series. A third film titled Logan was released on March 3, 2017.
In 1945, Logan is held in a Japanese POW camp near Nagasaki. During the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Logan saves an officer named Ichirō Yashida by shielding him from the blast.
In the present day, Logan lives as a hermit in Yukon, tormented by hallucinations of Jean Grey, whom he was forced to kill to save the world. He is located by Yukio, a mutant with the ability to foresee people’s deaths, on behalf of Ichirō, now the CEO of a technology zaibatsu. Ichirō, who is dying of cancer, wants Logan to accompany Yukio to Japan so that he may repay his life debt. In Tokyo, Logan meets Ichirō’s son, Shingen, and granddaughter, Mariko. There, Ichirō offers to transfer Logan’s healing abilities into his own body, thus saving Ichirō’s life and alleviating Logan of his near-immortality, which Logan views as a curse. Logan refuses and prepares to leave the following day. That night, Ichirō’s physician Dr. Green introduces something into Logan’s body, but Logan dismisses it as a dream.
The next morning, Yukio informs Logan that Ichirō has died. At the funeral, Yakuza gangsters attempt to kidnap Mariko, but Logan and Mariko escape together into the urban sprawl of Tokyo. Logan is shot and his wounds do not heal as quickly as they should. After fighting off more Yakuza on a bullet train, Logan and Mariko hide in a local love hotel. Meanwhile, Ichirō’s bodyguard Harada meets with Dr. Green who, after demonstrating her mutant powers on him, demands he find Logan and Mariko. Logan and Mariko travel to Ichirō’s house in Nagasaki, and the two slowly fall in love. In Tokyo, Yukio has a vision of Logan dying, and goes to warn him. Before Yukio arrives, Mariko is captured by the Yakuza. After interrogating one of the kidnappers, Logan and Yukio confront Mariko’s fiancé, corrupt Minister of Justice Noburo Mori. Mori confesses that he conspired with Shingen to have the Yakuza kidnap Mariko because Ichirō left control of the company to Mariko, and not Shingen.
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