With the next Wolverine movie already on the cards, director James Mangold to show off a movie that doesn’t really focus on sci-fi action scenes or based on 3D, but on the character of the story’s protagonist.
Recently, IGN spoke to Mangold about the upcoming Wolverine movie where Mangold revealed that he will not shift from his usual ways of making a movie even though the character involved is someone we all know for usually sprouting his hidden adamantium claws and ripping his enemies into shreds.
According to IGN, “Mangold is approaching the Marvel poster boy as he would with any of his sociopaths and his addicts; with a confidence that here is a multi-faceted, flawed human, waiting to be probed and exposed.”
Mangold, at The Wolverine set in Sydney’s Chinese gardens, stated that one of the most interesting things about Logan is his immortality. “The fact that there’s a kind of exhaustion that sets in when you’re here forever. And I wrote these lines on the back of my script when I first met with Fox: ‘everyone I love will die.’ I felt that the saga I wanted to tell was the story about a man who in a way felt cursed. And everyone he’d ever cared about in the world, whether it be the people he fought with – the X-Men, his wife, or others – had perished.”
Mangold doesn’t really want to highlight Logan’s achievements, but wants to show the character when he’s suffering an all time low. He says: “There’s this idea of the ‘ronin’. Which in a sense is exactly what Logan is. A hero without a purpose. A hero without a mission. Does he even have interest in a mission any more? Or is he so bored with them because mankind keeps f*cking up. What’s the point?”
“I think that’s a really interesting place to start a film. And a really interesting place for this character to go on a journey.”
The Wolverine is currently set for a July 26 release in the United States and July 24 in other markets. The movie is set sometime after X-Men: The Last Stand, and has Logan travelling to Japan.
