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‘The Wolverine’ Credits Scene: Director James Mangold Explains How It Came About

July 29, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

If you haven’t seen “The Wolverine” and are still planning to, this is where you’ll want to stop reading.

After “The Wolverine” story ends, there is a mid-credits scene that teases the next X-Men adventure, “X-Men: Days of Future Past.” Since you’re only supposed to be reading this if you’ve seen “The Wolverine,” there’s no need to spoil the details of that scene, except to say that a couple of old friends from the past X-Men movies show up.

There’s been some speculation that Bryan Singer (who is directing “Days of Future Past”) directed the mid-credits scene — actually, as he confirms here, it was “The Wolverine” director James Mangold. (We resisted the tantalizing headline “Movie Director Directs Scene In The Movie He Directed.”) Though, Mangold did travel to Montreal (where “Days of Future Past” is being filmed) to film the extra scene and, here, discusses how it came about and how it ties together “The Wolverine” and “X-Men: Days of Future Past.”

Comic-Con: The X-Men Reunited

July 21, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

At the start of this afternoon’s Fox panel at San Diego Comic-Con, The Wolverine director James Mangold started things off with a bit of a dig at that other solo Wolverine movie — “It ended up with a lot of other mutants in it as well,” he joked.

Well, the funny thing is, this panel also ended up with a lot of other mutants! As in, practically the entire cast of X-Men: Days of Future Past: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Anna Paquin, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Peter Dinklage, Evan Peters, and Omar Sy. Director Bryan Singer and producers Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg, and Hutch Parker were also in attendance.

Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies

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What Does The Wolverine Vine Trailer Reveal?

March 26, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

Teasers of teasers are the hot new thing in movie marketing these days. The Wolverine director James Mangold got in on that action yesterday when he posted a six-second clip on Vine featuring footage from the upcoming trailer that will be hitting later this week. In between various quick cuts of Wolverine stabbing and growling, there were some intriguing glimpses of Marvel characters both new and old to the big screen. MTV followed that up today with a slightly longer but still very brief teaser.

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Wolverine Gets His Claws Dirty At Last

March 19, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

20th Century Fox has released three new official images from The Wolverine, showcasing Hugh Jackman in full beardy Logan mode, but most excitingly, we get to see some blood on his fabled adamantium claws for once.

James Mangold‘s take on The Wolverine takes place in a post- X3 timeline, and sees Logan in Japan confronting a mysterious figure from his past.

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Mangold's Wolverine Has Berserker Rage

January 24, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

Although an official trailer is still a little ways out, director James Mangold has offered some pretty insightful info on what’s in store for his take on The Wolverine.

One thing we haven’t seen much from Hugh Jackman’s Logan in any of the previous films is the character’s “berserker rage,” a trait depicted in the comics as a state of pure, animalistic aggression in close combat.

In a recent interview with MTV, Mangold confirmed that the rage will make an appearance in his movie. “The whole point is not about violence or rating; it’s about intensity,” he explained. “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… 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.”

Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies

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The Wolverine Director on the Film's Chronology

January 8, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

In a recent interview, director James Mangold explained his process for approaching his latest film The Wolverine, which centers on Logan (Hugh Jackman) in Japan and his complicated past, present and future. Of course, what’s really interesting is that — unlike Wolverine’s previous solo film — Mangold’s story takes place after the events of X-Men: The Last Stand. But just how tied is The Wolverine to the X-Men films?

“It’s set after X-Men 3, but I wouldn’t call it a sequel to X-Men 3,” Mangold told Entertainment Weekly. “You have a choice the second you enter a world like this with a huge amount of comic books, backstories, three movies, a Wolverine origins movie… You have decide where you’re going to exist in relation to all these other things, particularly if you’re working with an actor who actually played the character in other films.”

Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies

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‘The Wolverine’ Credits Scene: Director James Mangold Explains How It Came About

Comic-Con: The X-Men Reunited

What Does The Wolverine Vine Trailer Reveal?

Wolverine Gets His Claws Dirty At Last

Mangold's Wolverine Has Berserker Rage

The Wolverine Director on the Film's Chronology

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