The Wolverine

WHO
Directed by: James Mangold
Produced by: Lauren Shuler Donner, Hugh Jackman, Hutch Parker, and John Palermo
 Starring:

Hugh Jackman as Logan/Wolverine (duh)
Famke Janssen as Jean Grey (who is dead, but will be returning, perhaps as Wolverine's conscience)
Hiroyuki Sanada as Shingen Yashida (you may have seen him as Takeda in the show Revenge)
Hal Yamanouchi as Yashida (head of the Yashida clan of the Yakuza)
Tao Okamoto as Mariko Yashida (plays love interest, was previously a Ralph Lauren model)
Rila Fukushima as Yuki the Assassin
Will Yun Lee as The Silver Samurai (he was the villain in Die Another Day)
Brian Tee as Noburo Mori (best known as DK in Tokyo Drift)
Svetlana Khodchenkova as Viper

WHAT
Wikipedia's description is as follows:

Set seven years after X-Men: The Last Stand, Logan travels to Japan, where he engages a mysterious figure from his past in a fight that has lasting consequences. Vulnerable for the first time, and pushed to his physical and emotional limits, he confronts not only lethal samurai steel, but also his inner struggle against his own immortality, emerging more powerful than ever before

Del Toro originally was on the bill to direct the movie, but upon realizing it was a 3 year project, turned it down.

One issue I have with this movie: the characters will speak mostly English, not Japanese with subtitles. That's ridiculous. If you put two Japanese people in a room together who grew up speaking the language and no one that speaks English is around, why the hell would they use English? It's inauthentic and I just don't appreciate it.

Marco Beltrami, who has scored multiple Wes Craven movies and many other horror films, will be writing the music.


Other than that, there's not much to talk about. I'm not too excited for this one, and it is the only upcoming Marvel production I may just not go see. To be honest, Origins was kind of a let down and Wolverine was never my favorite of the X-Men.

WHEN
July  26, 2013 (USA)
July 25, 2013 (Australia)
July 24, 2013 Everywhere Else