Director James Mangold recently spoke with Digital Spy about filming the mid-credits scene featured in THE WOLVERINE.

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Mangold says…

“I had finished the movie and [Days of] Future Past had started shooting, a couple months ago, and we had been talking about what to do, if anything, in the tail credits of this movie.

“It’s something I had been talking about with Simon Kinberg (X-Men producer) and Bryan Singer at that point about what we might do to kind of feed into it. My only stipulation that was important to me was just that I really didn’t want it to be tongue-in-cheek. I feel like a lot of these bonus things almost make the film into a joke, and that wasn’t interesting to me.

“I thought it would be more interesting to try and actually do something quite promising, actually say something and promise something and give people a piece of a story.

“The whole sequence was built around the shot where we’d unveil Patrick, and I created this shot where he’s weaving through all these frozen airport patrons and that is Patrick Stewart with a joystick and electric wheelchair and that isn’t easy.

“He’s doing a kind of Olympic slalom through all these extras and uh, he’s a badass on that thing.”

Mangold says he’s glad he doesn’t have to explain how Xavier makes his way back from his fate in X3, saying “Yes, it is [Bryan Singer’s] job and I know they have [an explanation], so I’ll leave it to them to unveil it.”