{"id":7760,"date":"2011-10-29T00:54:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T05:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xmenfilms.wordpress.com\/?p=7760"},"modified":"2011-10-29T00:54:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T05:54:14","slug":"james-mangold-opens-up-about-the-wolverine-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=7760","title":{"rendered":"James Mangold opens up about ‘The Wolverine’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Playlist<\/a> recently spoke with THE WOLVERINE director James Mangold<\/strong> who, for the first time ever, opened up about his reasons for signing on to the film and how he will tackle the character and create a more unique comic book film.<\/p>\n

On directing an established character without having to tell an origin story:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYou could actually just tell a story about this amazing character from the start, just the way they do when you really read a comic,\u201d Mangold said. “You don\u2019t have to spend the first hour saying how they were born; you can actually just find them in an emotional space, in the middle of action, and what happens is you\u2019re not crowded with cutting to nine other action heroes. You can really make a movie about this dude.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the film’s Japanese setting:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a kind of adventure following such a unique character also in a really unique environment,\u201d he said. \u201cI mean, the fact that half of the characters in this movie speak Japanese, this is like a foreign-language superhero movie that\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On why he decided to direct ‘The Wolverine’:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI think part of the reason I\u2019m doing this picture has been because it isn\u2019t to me a conventional superhero movie. It isn\u2019t an origin story, so I\u2019m freed from that burden, and it also isn\u2019t a save-the-world movie, which most of them are. It\u2019s actually a character piece; I actually think it has more in common with \u2018The Outlaw Josey Wales\u2019 and \u2018Chinatown,\u2019 what we\u2019re doing, than the conventional, \u2018will Wolverine and his compatriots save the world from this thermonuclear device\u2019 question.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On plot and the fighting-style in the film:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI think that this movie is much more an intense psychological and action-packed character piece, that\u2019s much more about Logan getting lost in this very unique and insulated world of Japanese culture, gangster culture, and ninja culture,\u201d he said. \u201cThe fighting is going to be unique because it\u2019s all influenced by Japanese martial arts.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On delving deeper into the character of Wolverine:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI think more than anything, it\u2019s 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\u2019ve 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\u2019s the toll it takes on you as a living being that is somehow living this Frankensteinian, eternal life? And there\u2019s a lot of interesting dramatic questions we\u2019re going to deliver on as well as some really inventive action.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On creating a fantastic Wolverine film fans expect:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI like to think that we\u2019re out to make that Wolverine movie that people have been looking forward to seeing, which takes on some of the darker and more intense aspects of the character, and his own journey, that have not necessarily been possible in the origin story that they did or obviously when he\u2019s sharing so much time as a character with so many others in X-Men.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s lots more you can read from the interview here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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