October 17, 2024

XMF / the SUPER

Celebrating X-Men Films And Beyond

‘The Wolverine’ is not your standard superhero saga.

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THE WOLVERINE is setting itself up to be one of the more unique comic book films to release this Summer. Director James Mangold went into detail on how his film stand out from the others, when speaking with Total Film Magazine.

“The graphic novel [Chris Claremont’s fan-favourite comic arc] is so adventurous,” says Mangold. “It plunges into these ideas of destiny, honour and revenge – as opposed to your standard superhero sagas, which are generally about some gigantic villain out to destroy the Earth, a city or a football stadium.

“Japan’s such an exotic location, in the sense that language and culture play such a huge role in the movie” he continues. “Usually you don’t find that at all in these kinds of films. To be staking out our own ground and be saying something unique was really liberating for me.”

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