The official Facebook page for James Mangold's The Wolverine has been updated with a new short plot summary for the highly anticipated film.
Based on the celebrated comic book arc, THE WOLVERINE finds Logan, the eternal warrior and outsider, in Japan. There, samurai steel will clash with adamantium claw as Logan confronts a mysterious figure from his past in an epic battle that will leave him forever changed.
Hugh Jackman is awesomely reprising his role as the badass superhero, and in a recent interview he talked about the movie being a stand alone story explaining,
We've deliberately not called it Wolverine 2 because we want it to be placed and feel like a standalone picture. With an all-new cast and setting it in Japan, it's going to give us a whole new visual aesthetic. The approach to character means we won't be overloaded with mutants and teams and the like, so it'll be more character-based. I think in many ways it will feel like a completely different X-Men film.
The movie is based on the 1982 comic series created by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller, and is currently shooting. It's scheduled to hit theaters on July 26th, 2013, and also co-stars Will Yun Lee, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hal Yamanouchi, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima, and Brian Tee.
I know the last Wolverine movie left a bad taste in a lot of fans' mouths, but have you been warming up to this new movie, and are you excited about seeing it?