The Wolverine Will Be Unlike Any Other Superhero Film

The Wolverine director James Mangold declares that "we're out to make that Wolverine movie that people have been looking forward to seeing."

In a chat with The Playlist, Mangold said he and screenwriter Mark Bomback are aggressively revising the screenplay and that he is glad to be free from having to tell an origin story or a save the world yarn. "I think that this movie is much more an intense psychological and action-packed character piece, that's much more about Logan getting lost in this very unique and insulated world of Japanese culture, gangster culture, and ninja culture," said Mangold of the Japan-set tale.

Saying it has more in common with classics such as The Outlaw Josey Wales and Chinatown than it does other comic book movies, Mangold said The Wolverine "is like a foreign-language superhero movie that's as much a drama and a detective story and a film noir, with high-octane action as it is anything like a conventional tentpole film."

He called the film "a character piece, asking really interesting questions that are what pulled me in about what it means to be immortal. What is it to live forever, when you lose everyone you've ever loved? Either you watch them get killed, or you just lose them by attrition. What is it to feel the burden of saving mankind through all of its mistakes, over and over and over again. What's the toll it takes on you as a living being that is somehow living this Frankensteinian, eternal life? And there's a lot of interesting dramatic questions we're going to deliver on as well as some really inventive action."

The Wolverine aims to finally start filming next year.

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