From the previous x men series Wolvirine gets trained in japan by a samurai, he learns to Kung Fu with any ways he can learn to force himself as a viliain. He gets himself into a temple where he defeats The Empire of Japan where he falls in love with Catvirine better known has Jian Yun Sao. Empire Monkey also known as Hao Leong Wen he gets into the last battle with him and he reveals he returns as himself from the beginning and starts to have a relationship with Jian in the US and their will be no more defeats anywhere to be heard from!
His life in japan changed his life that he will leave where he first became the most popular villain of a life time.
X Men will have it's last stand and reprises a new Villiain Norman Osbourn as The Green Goblin.

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The Wolverine will film in Japan [27th April 2012 00:00:00]

The Wolverine continues to inch its way ever closer to our screens, with Fox announcing that filming will take place in Japan, where much of the story is set.

It was recently announced that part of the film will be shot in Sydney, although it now transpires that that will be the location for the stage work, with location shooting shifting to Japan.

"It's set in Japan," confirmed Fox CEO, Tom Rothman. "A great number of Japanese actors will be in it and it's based on the very famous run of the comics. I can tell you on behalf of [Hugh Jackman], his goal is to make the ultimate, badass, berserker-rage Wolverine."

Sounds promising, doesn't it? As to that famous comic-book run, Rothman is likely referring to the 1982 miniseries by Frank Miller and Chris Claremont, in which Logan heads to Japan and falls in love with Mariko Yashida, heiress to a powerful Yakuza family.

The film has been delayed numerous times, with various directors coming and going, but it does sound like Fox are going to push this one through at long last. Source: www.totalfilm.com

Hugh Jackman: The Wolverine will be less complicated [10th October 2011 20:36:13]

If Hugh Jackman's recent chatter about The Wolverine promises one thing, it's that the filmmaking team won't make the same mistakes that blighted X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

We all thought that one was a bit masculine, right?

"I think we've got the chance to nail the character this time, to do the hole-in-one. We haven't managed that yet. On the last movie we complicated it with too many other characters. And there'll be more women this time, which is good. The last one was so masculine!" Jackman told The Guardian.

Oooooo-K. Please tell us less masculine doesn't mean less action? If this thing turns into some kinda weepy-eyed, touchy-feely, 'What's wrong with Wolvie?'-type flick you can count us out now.

"The new film will go more into the character. I don't think we've ever seen his rage expressed properly. We're letting go with this one of the whole 'Who am I? Where did I come from? Oh no, I've lost my memory' thing. I feel like that's sent us all to sleep. 'Yeah, whatever pal. We're bored! Fine, you were a sushi chef, whatever it was, can we just get on with the story now?'" Jackman added.

Sounds like we're back on track. But watch out Wolverine, we're jacking into Cerebro to track the movements of this one very closely. Source: www.totalfilm.com

Mark Bomback to rewrite The Wolverine [1st September 2011 17:31:26]

Mark Bomback (Jack The Giant Killer, the Total Recall reboot) has been handed scripting duties for The Wolverine ahead of next year's shoot.

Christopher McQuarrie wrote the current version of the script, with director James Mangold on board to direct.

The plot sees Hugh Jackman's X-Man searching for clues to his past amongst the Japanese criminal underworld, finding love but suffering tragedy along the way.

The shoot is still expected to begin in Tokyo and Vancouver next year, as soon as Jackman finishes shooting Les Miserables. Filming had originally been planned for November 2011 in Vancouver.

Bomback's previous work includes scripts for Live Free Or Die Hard, Unstoppable and the Jackman film Deception. Source: www.totalfilm.com

The Wolverine filming start date pushed back to 2012 [25th August 2011 05:01:37]

The troubled development of X-sequel The Wolverine appears to be getting no easier, with Deadline reporting that filming has been pushed back from an initial autumn 2011 start date to some time in early 2012.

This is thought in part to be a move designed to allow Hugh Jackman to begin work on Les Miserables, but there are also huge question marks over where exactly filming is going to take place.

Much of the film was to have been filmed in Japan, but in the wake of the recent earthquake, many planned locations have been compromised.

As a stopgap cameras were set to begin rolling in Vancouver in November (presumably to cover some of the plot's non-Japanese elements) although Jackman's commitments elsewhere mean that even that now seems unlikely.

Indeed, Fox are reportedly considering pulling out of Japan altogether, which would presumably represent a significant setback, given that nearly all of Chris McQuarrie's script is set there.

Its yet another hurdle to be cleared by this most beleaguered of super-projects. All had looked rosy last autumn, with Darren Aronofsky set to begin filming in March 2011. Since then, Aronofsky has dropped out and the film has suffered one delay after another.

Replacement director James Mangold will be hoping that Fox can come up with a viable solution sooner rather than later. Logic would suggest the studio will find a way ? with the first Wolverine taking around $400 million worldwide, they won't be giving up easily... Source: www.totalfilm.com

Hugh Jackman's The Wolverine heads to Vancouver [18th August 2011 16:41:04]

Wolverine 2 - AKA The Wolverine - will begin shooting in Vancouver later this year, according to a report from the Vancouver Sun.

Hugh Jackman will be getting his claws out once more, in a cast that also includes Kelly Hu (Lady Deathstrike), Ken Watanabe (Wilson Jones Jong) and Naturi Naughton (Cecilia Reyes).

The plot sees Wolverine travel to Japan to train with a samurai warrior, so expect to see an Asian theme at the Canadian Motion Picture Park in Burnaby where the production will be housed.

Filming takes place between 11 November 2011 and 1 March 2012 and The Wolverine will open summer 2012. Top Wikipedia fact: The Wolverine, AKA Gulo gulo (Gulo being Latin for glutton), is also called the carcajou, quickhatch, gulon or skunk bear. Source: www.totalfilm.com

James Mangold close to signing to direct The Wolverine [16th June 2011 03:15:40]

Knight And Day director James Mangold is in final negotiations to direct The Wolverine.

He's long been on 20th Century Fox's list of potential directors, with fan favourite Darren Aronofsky having departed the sequel earlier this year.

Now Variety reports that Mangold is all but on board, with just the specifics of his contract to be ironed out.

Though Mangold's Tom Cruise vehicle Knight And Day wasn't exactly the greatest film of last year, Fox clearly caught his previous, more polished tension-crankers Identity and 3:10 To Yuma.
Hopefully the 3:10 Mangold will turn up on set, not the one who (valiantly) tried to resurrect Cruise's post-sofa-hopping career.

Mangold will reportedly work from the same script that Aronofsky would have, which has been penned by Christopher McQuarrie.

If the director's deal is confirmed soon, expect production to kick off this autumn. Source: www.totalfilm.com

Doug Liman added to The Wolverine directors shortlist [26th May 2011 06:31:04]

A shortlist of directors who are currently favourite to take on comic-book sequel The Wolverine has surfaced online.

Among them are the expected 'trending' names like Justin Lin (who's been attached to Terminator 5 and Fast & Furious 6 as well as a handful of other projects) and the RoboCop reboot's Jose Padilha.

Other names include James Mangold, Antoine Fuqua, Gavin O'Connor, Mark Romanek, Gary Shore and Doug Liman.
The latter is a particularly interesting addition ? though his sci-fi Jumper is almost universally derided, he's deftly handled gritty action with The Bourne Identity and Fair Game.

Whoever lands the gig, they'll be working from a script by Christopher McQuarrie, which whisks Wolvie off to Japan.

One thing's for sure ? the director who eventually takes on The Wolverine will have a lot to live up to in the wake of Darren Aronofsky's upsetting departure from the film. Source: www.totalfilm.com

Darren Aronofsky no longer directing The Wolverine [18th March 2011 08:18:21]

Just when things were looking so good for The Wolverine, the comic book sequel has hit a devastating snag ? it's just lost director Darren Aronofsky.

The Black Swan filmmaker, who signed on last year to helm the follow-up to 2009's middling X-Men Origins: Wolverine, has departed the production, citing the film's long production schedule as a problem.

"As I talked more about the film with my collaborators at Fox, it became clear that the production of The Wolverine would keep me out of the country for almost a year," Aronofsky says in a press statement.

"I was not comfortable being away from my family for that length of time. I am sad that I won't be able to see the project through, as it is a terrific script and I was very much looking forward to working with my friend, Hugh Jackman, again."

No matter how you look at it, this is a massive disappointment. Aronofsky has sounded genuinely amped to be helming the comic sequel, and everything he's said about it has given the impression that his Wolverine was going to be something really special.

Now that he's walked away, 20th Century Fox will "regroup and move forward aggressively", which basically means they'll be grabbing the closest director and handing them the keys to Aronofsky's project.
Our interest in this project just went out the door with Aronofsky. Source: www.totalfilm.com

Darren Aronofsky talks Wolverine [22nd November 2010 10:29:52]

Darren Aronofsky is everywhere at the moment - with Black Swan opening in a few weeks in USA and the new two-year deal with Fox - and the director has now opened up about his plans for The Wolverine. Source: www.totalfilm.com