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Cautiously Optimistic

Ready Your Claws: Hugh Jackman To Begin Filming Wolverine In Three Weeks

by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 2:46 pm, July 5th, 2012


Our favorite adamantium-coated mutant is set to return to the big screen soon, hopefully in a feature film not quite as terrible as X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Hugh Jackman is set to travel to Sydney, Austrlia,within three weeks to begin filming The Wolverine, the actor’s second one-mutant show. According to The Daily Telegraph, and the film’s presence is expected to inject about $80 million into the local economy of Sydney. The film was originally going to be shot in Japan but those plans were nixed in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunami of 2011. Although production is officially slated to begin in August, Jackman is arriving early to reportedly scope out a $20 million home for his family while he’s busy brooding convincingly for the camera. Swanky.

Although Darren Aronofsky was initially attached to the film, director James Mangold, best known for Walk The Line and 3:10 To Yuma, has taken his place. In an interview with MTV News, the director stated that this film was not going to be a reboot on his origin story. “We are going deeper into something than anyone’s ever gone, and we’re finding a way to do that in a really original way,” Mangold said. ”I think it also goes more deeply into some really great questions about Hugh’s character and his journey and where he’s going,” namely, his relation to immortality and how a person might deal with that.

Hopefully, we won’t be getting another moneymaking bust of an X-Men film. Mangold says that it will feature Wolverine’s life “in a place that will be a little more intense than we’ve ever seen him. In that sense, we’ll be examining his look and everything else through that prism. That would affect everything from his level of musculature to his look.”

The Wolverine will premier July 26th, 2013.

(via MTV Splash Page.)

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  • PenguinGrenade

    cautiously optimistic?  Never really understood the rage over the origins movie.  Mean not saying it was great solid B- movie, but man some just rage on it like it blew up some early morning school buses.

  • http://twitter.com/LJo83 Lindsay Beaton

    Too early to buy my ticket now, I suppose? And I won’t lie–I liked the Origins movie just fine. Then again, I’m coming from a largely movie-and-cartoon-only background when it comes to X-Men, so I suppose people would consider me part of the problem. Alas. In any case, Hugh Jackman/Wolverine can take my money any day. 

  • http://twitter.com/loerwyn Kathryn

    I think I’ll have to side with “cautiously optimistic”. The Fox-made X-Men movies have a lot of flaws, and I mean a lot, but some of their casting has been perfect – the best casting of all? Jackman as Wolverine. He’s been stellar in a main role in four films (with a great cameo in the fifth) and he nailed Wolverine.

    But that said, the plots are always a bit weak and the first Wolverine film had a few too many Michael Bay moments where stuff blew up or collapsed for no reason other than “because we can”, and I’ll never forgive them for what they did to Deadpool in it (nor Mystique in First Class), yet I do think that if they take a deep breath before going into this, we’ll have one of the better films based on a Marvel property.

  • Anonymous

    I liked the Origins movie too but I didn’t read the comics. I still find them entertaining. And Hugh Jackman is adorable.

  • Anonymous

    Sounds like an interesting pick for a director, and I hope they’ve learned from the wreck they made of Origins. (wolverine’s howl at the moon – rly?)
    That being said, I thought Liev Schrieber was an inspired pick for Sabretooth. Guess it’s too much to hope for him to return in this movie…

  • Anonymous

    *shrugs*

    no odffense but i don’t really care for it. An i’m going to say this now; be careful with flooding the market with low end genre rubbish. If you aren’t careful Super Heroes are going to be our generations version of the late 80′s Ninja genre, or the 90′s Science Fiction genre… done to death, never to be heard from again on the silver screen

  • Anonymous

    Also mention how much you understand and are a fan of the character. I’m sure that will reveal why you are so forgiving.

    Hugh Jackman, while a good actor, isn’t really Wolverine. Wolverine isn’t a tall heroic character. He’s a short Byronic, anti-hero. Bill from True Blood is more like Wolverine. Hugh Jackman fans ≠ Wolverine fans.

    The portrayal of Wolverine was best in the first X-Men movie but since then he’s been made more of a leading figure as if replacing Cyclops.

    X-Men Origins: Wolverine also took great liberties away from the source material. It’s a C movie at best and even worse as a comic book movie. Have you read the origin comics of Wolverine? It plays more like an indie period piece which would have been way more interesting than cramming in mutants and bastardizing his origin. Weird version of Gambit and Will.I.Am. in Wolverine’s origin story… did you forget that happened?

  • Anonymous

    I found Mystique in First Class to be one of the more acceptable changes.

  • http://twitter.com/loerwyn Kathryn

    Her presence made sense in the context of the film.

    Her being young did not. She’s supposed to be older than Wolverine, if my memory is correct.

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