Movie News: The Wolverine.

tazmaniak

6 roles have been cast.

Hiroyuki Sanada as Shingen
Tao Okamoto as Mariko
Rila Fukushima as Yukio
Will Yun Lee as Harada/Silver Samurai
Hal Yamanouchi as Yashida
Brian Tee as Norubo Mori

SuperHeroHype

The Hollywood Reporter

tazmaniak

Director James Mangold confirms the movie isn't a prequel to the original films, but takes place after The Last Stand.

Empire Online

Torchsong

Wow. They hired actual Asian actors to play Asian roles. Did anyone let the guys at Iron Man know about this? :)

hauberk

tazmaniak said:

Director James Mangold confirms the movie isn't a prequel to the original films, but takes place after The Last Stand.

Empire Online

This makes me sad. I'd much prefer that they pretend that Last Stand doesn't exist. I know that I'm happier that way.

tazmaniak

Torchsong said:

Wow. They hired actual Asian actors to play Asian roles. Did anyone let the guys at Iron Man know about this? :)

I think it's kinda different as the characters in The Wolverine are being portrayed as Asian in the film, whereas The Mandarin isn't in Iron Man. He's European. And to be fair, Ben Kingsley is of Indian descent, so he is Asian. He's not Chinese, but he is Asian.

There's also the issue of a Chinese studio co-financing the film. The Chinese government isn't too keen on negative portrayals of the country and it's people in films that are released in their country. So much so that they've edited films and even refused to have them released in China. Having a Chinese character be the villain opposite a white American hero was pretty much out of the question. And seeing as how China is a huge overseas market for American films (Titanic 3D made $67M in just one weekend), they went for a European/international background for the Mandarin.

hauberk said:

tazmaniak said:

Director James Mangold confirms the movie isn't a prequel to the original films, but takes place after The Last Stand.

Empire Online

This makes me sad. I'd much prefer that they pretend that Last Stand doesn't exist. I know that I'm happier that way.

It's still a stand alone film that probably won't directly reference the movie. They're just giving us a timeframe to let you know it doesn't take place directly after Origins and that everything that happened to the character in the original films happened before this movie.

DoctorDoom

Torchsong said:

Wow. They hired actual Asian actors to play Asian roles. Did anyone let the guys at Iron Man know about this? :)

Nobody's Asian in the movies, nobody's Asian on tv...

Torchsong

Oh, I get the why's and wherefores, tazmaniak...and you don't turn down Kingsley if he wants to do your movie...but it's sad that the character for some 40 years has been chinese, and in fact conflicted with China often (just finished a trade about such a thing). I wish James Hong was about 20 years younger. He'd have been perfect.

tazmaniak

Matt

Cool, but when is the trailer released?!

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tazmaniak

Tomorrow.

Matt

tazmaniak said:

Tomorrow.

You're right:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z88fLD1rjU

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bamfbamf

sigh... this looks kind of bad
why is it so sterile looking?
the actress playing Yukio is SO UNATTRACTIVE
story seems dumb
this pains me

shroud68

bad vibes off that trailer.

Matt

Wow, you guys are rough. I wouldn't describe it as The Dark Knight, but this movie looks like exactly want I want to see...an entertaining movie. Maybe it looks entertaining to me because I haven't read the source material for the story. Is Yukio supposed to be overly attractive?

I will give you, the fact it'll be released in 3D does nothing for me. No more, at least, then anything else that has been released in 3D.

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shroud68

I'm not even basing it on any "source material" they say they are basing it on. It looks like a mess. I'm no slave to continuity or need my movies to mirror the books but Ninjas on motorcycles, 3-D fear, a ridiculous looking Viper and an unimpressive looking Hugh Jackman just sent out the bad vibes.

batlaw

I like the tone I'm sensing off it but it does look a little bland visually and possibly even a bit dull? I'm assuming its just the cut of the trailer and what they've chosen to show / not show.
It can't be worse than origins and I suspect it'll be better. If its as good at least it'll be entertaining enough.
I agree the fem co star isn't exactly what I would expect or prefer.

John_Steed

I remember liking the trailer of the first Wolverine - and then the movie turned out to be a mediocre B-movie at best.

tazmaniak

IGN Rewind Theater.

http://youtu.be/Gd_tcEmUya8

LibraryBoy

I don't know, I think it looks alright. As long as it's better than the last Wolverine movie, that will be a major step forward.

jaydee74

I thought it looked really cool. I'm quite looking forward to this movie.

Planeis

shroud68 said:

I'm not even basing it on any "source material" they say they are basing it on. It looks like a mess. I'm no slave to continuity or need my movies to mirror the books but Ninjas on motorcycles, 3-D fear, a ridiculous looking Viper and an unimpressive looking Hugh Jackman just sent out the bad vibes.

Unimpressive? Geez. Tough crowd

Fade2Black

Snikt!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skYPWMM9W1A

tazmaniak

New trailer.

http://youtu.be/th1NTVIhUQU

bamfbamf

still looks lame

Matt

I'm going to have to dissent on that opinion; I think it looks cool. Origin is done, time to see some good popcorn eating summer flick. Not the strong desire I have for Man of Steel, but on the small list of summer movies I'm gonna see.

I'm hoping there's some connecting scene with Days of Future Past.

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