The Wolverine (2013)
26 Jul 2013 ● English ● 2 hrs 6 mins
In modern day Japan, Wolverine is out of his depth in an unknown world as he faces his ultimate nemesis in a life-or-death battle that will leave him forever changed.
Vulnerable for the first time and pushed to his physical and emotional limits, he confronts not only lethal samurai steel but also his inner struggle against his own immortality, emerging more powerful than we have ever seen him before.
Cast: Famke Janssen, Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee
Crew: James Mangold (Director), Ross Emery (Director of Photography), Marco Beltrami (Music Director)
Rating: U/A (India)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Release Dates: 26 Jul 2013 (India)
Tagline: When he's most vulnerable, he's most dangerous.
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as Jean Grey
as Logan / Wolverine
as Kenuichio Harada / Silver Samurai
as Noburo Mori
as Dying Yakuza (as Garret T. Sato)
as Yashida
as Shingen Yashida
as Allied POW
as Young Yashida
as Allied POW
Supporting Actor
as Professor X
as Yukio
as Viper
as Mariko Yashida
Direction
Director
Production
Production Company
Executive Producer
Unit Production Manager
Distribution
Distributor
Writers
Screenplay Writer
Camera and Electrical
Director of Photography
Music
Music Director
Casting
Casting Director
Costume and Wardrobe
Costume Designer
Editorial
Editor
Makeup and Hair
Makeup Artist
Film Type:
Feature
Language:
English
Spoken Languages:
English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu
Colour Info:
Color
Sound Mix:
Datasat Digital Sound, Dolby, Dolby Atmos
Camera:
ARRI ALEXA Plus, Phantom Flex
Frame Rate:
24 fps
Aspect Ratio:
2.35:1
Stereoscopy:
No
Archival Source:
QubeVault
Captions:
English (Open Caption), Hindi (Open Caption), Tamil (Open Caption), Telugu (Open Caption)
Taglines:
When he's most vulnerable, he's most dangerous.
The hero. The fugitive. The warrior. The survivor. The legend.
The fight of his life will be for his own.
When enemies rise... when immortality ends... the ultimate battle begins.
The hero. The fugitive. The warrior. The survivor. The legend.
The fight of his life will be for his own.
When enemies rise... when immortality ends... the ultimate battle begins.
Movie Connection(s):
Follows: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (English)
Followed by: X-Men: Apocalypse (Tamil)
Dubbed into: The Wolverine (Hindi)
Dubbed into: The Wolverine (Tamil)
Dubbed into: The Wolverine (Telugu)
Follows: X-Men: First Class (English)
Follows: X-Men 2 (English)
Follows: X-Men: The Last Stand (English)
Follows: X-Men (English)
Followed by: X-Men: Days of Future Past (English)
Followed by: X-Men Apocalypse (English)
Followed by: Logan (English)
Followed by: X-Men: Dark Phoenix (English)
Followed by: The New Mutants (English)
Reference: Throne of Blood (Japanese)
Reference: Alien (English)
Reference: RoboCop (English)
Reference: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (English)
Referenced in: Deadpool (English)
Referenced in: X-Men: Days of Future Past (English)
Followed by: X-Men: Apocalypse (Tamil)
Dubbed into: The Wolverine (Hindi)
Dubbed into: The Wolverine (Tamil)
Dubbed into: The Wolverine (Telugu)
Follows: X-Men: First Class (English)
Follows: X-Men 2 (English)
Follows: X-Men: The Last Stand (English)
Follows: X-Men (English)
Followed by: X-Men: Days of Future Past (English)
Followed by: X-Men Apocalypse (English)
Followed by: Logan (English)
Followed by: X-Men: Dark Phoenix (English)
Followed by: The New Mutants (English)
Reference: Throne of Blood (Japanese)
Reference: Alien (English)
Reference: RoboCop (English)
Reference: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (English)
Referenced in: Deadpool (English)
Referenced in: X-Men: Days of Future Past (English)
Filming Locations:
Mumbai, Maharashtra
Fox Studios, Moore Park, Sydney, New South Wales
Tokyo
Omishima Island
Tomonura
Chinese Garden of Friendship, Darling Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales
Oberon Forrest, Oberon, New South Wales
King Street Wharf, Sydney, New South Wales
Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales
Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales
Picton, New South Wales
Wollondilly Shire Hall, Picton, New South Wales
Sydney, New South Wales,
Kurnell, Sydney, New South Wales
Parramatta, Sydney, New South Wales
Fox Studios, Moore Park, Sydney, New South Wales
Tokyo
Omishima Island
Tomonura
Chinese Garden of Friendship, Darling Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales
Oberon Forrest, Oberon, New South Wales
King Street Wharf, Sydney, New South Wales
Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales
Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales
Picton, New South Wales
Wollondilly Shire Hall, Picton, New South Wales
Sydney, New South Wales,
Kurnell, Sydney, New South Wales
Parramatta, Sydney, New South Wales
Goofs:
Continuity
When Wolverine and Yukio came to Noburo place, in the car Yukio cries and her eyes are wet. In the second after that, her eyes are dry.
Continuity
The private jet that Wolverine boards in Alaska is different than the jet shown mid-air on the way to Tokyo.
Continuity
When Logan and Mariko spend the night at the Nagasaki house, it is pouring rain most of the night. The next morning when Logan exits the house to find Mariko (and subsequently chase after her kidnappers), the ground is completely dry, not even a puddle is seen.
Continuity
When Logan and Mariko run into a small Japanese casino, they run into a room to take shelter from the people chasing them. A mobster shoots at Logan three times before he closes the door. However, when the camera cuts back to the now closed door, there are three bullet marks on the door.
Continuity
At the funeral, Viper is shown using a cell phone to film Logan fighting. When she is interrupted by the gang member with a gun, she shifts the angle of the phone to the right, and then lowers it completely. The image on the phone does not reflect these movements, it continues to show Logan centered in the image.
Continuity
When Viper is walking into Shingen's office she is taking off her glove as she is entering, camera pans to Shingen, then back to her and she is taking off her glove again.
Continuity
Wolverine and Mariko are traveling in the same compartment in the Bullet Train. During the fight on the roof of the train, Wolverine and his enemies fall back many compartments. However when one of the assailants looks down through an overhead window, he can still see Mariko, and Wolverine appears way ahead of Mariko's seat.
Miscellaneous
Logan is shot in the back with many arrows as he tries to make his way to rescue Mariko. After he is captured and taken to Viper, we see the back of his t-shirt and there is not a single hole in it.
Continuity
The first scene with Jean and Logan switches between two shots portraying them in bed together. However, in one of the shots, Logan is on his side, and in the other, he is on his back. This results in him appearing to go from his side to his back to his side to his back without actually moving or interrupting the conversation.
Continuity
Logan loses his healing powers, is shot several times, bleeds and is left with wounds that take time to heal. However, he extends his claws through the skin between his knuckles multiple times, and this leaves no blood or wounds of any kind.
Continuity
When Mariko and the Wolverine say goodbye, Mariko is standing in front of the plane and someone brings her a yellow briefcase which subsequently disappears.
Continuity
Shingen is poisoned by Viper during the ninja assault on the Yashida residence, causing scarring across half his face. These scars are missing when Logan and Yukio arrive right after this and Shingen attacks them in the medical room.
Errors in Geography
Logan and Mariko catch a shinkansen (bullet train) from Ueno Station and head South West towards Nagasaki. This is not possible, shinkansen departing from Ueno only travel North.
Errors in Geography
The ground zero for the nuclear bomb explosion in Nagasaki is shown to be on the western coast of Nagasaki Bay. The actual ground zero was further north, up the stream of Nakajima River, on the eastern (left) bank.
Factual Mistake
The plane drops the atomic bomb on Nagasaki from a low altitude. In fact it was flying at 30 000 feet (9100 metres) and would not have been visible in this way above the city.
Factual Mistake
When Logan is pulling the X-ray machine up his body, an X-ray of his legs is shown. In this X-ray, he has no knee-caps.
Factual Mistake
The Bullet train is an electric train, yet there are no overhead wires. Wolverine leaps and ducks to avoid being knocked over by the gantries which are there to support the overhead wires.
Miscellaneous
When Logan and Mariko are seeking shelter from the rain, the camera pans from right to left and the rain moves in line with the view.
Miscellaneous
During the end credit scene, a woman coming up the staircase behind Professor X blinks when she (along with everyone else) is meant to be frozen.
Factual Mistake
The bombing altitude for Nagasaki was 30 000 feet (~10 km), but in the opening scene the planes bombing Nagasaki are a lot lower than that. The bomb also detonated at 1,500 feet, not at ground level as shown.
When Wolverine and Yukio came to Noburo place, in the car Yukio cries and her eyes are wet. In the second after that, her eyes are dry.
Continuity
The private jet that Wolverine boards in Alaska is different than the jet shown mid-air on the way to Tokyo.
Continuity
When Logan and Mariko spend the night at the Nagasaki house, it is pouring rain most of the night. The next morning when Logan exits the house to find Mariko (and subsequently chase after her kidnappers), the ground is completely dry, not even a puddle is seen.
Continuity
When Logan and Mariko run into a small Japanese casino, they run into a room to take shelter from the people chasing them. A mobster shoots at Logan three times before he closes the door. However, when the camera cuts back to the now closed door, there are three bullet marks on the door.
Continuity
At the funeral, Viper is shown using a cell phone to film Logan fighting. When she is interrupted by the gang member with a gun, she shifts the angle of the phone to the right, and then lowers it completely. The image on the phone does not reflect these movements, it continues to show Logan centered in the image.
Continuity
When Viper is walking into Shingen's office she is taking off her glove as she is entering, camera pans to Shingen, then back to her and she is taking off her glove again.
Continuity
Wolverine and Mariko are traveling in the same compartment in the Bullet Train. During the fight on the roof of the train, Wolverine and his enemies fall back many compartments. However when one of the assailants looks down through an overhead window, he can still see Mariko, and Wolverine appears way ahead of Mariko's seat.
Miscellaneous
Logan is shot in the back with many arrows as he tries to make his way to rescue Mariko. After he is captured and taken to Viper, we see the back of his t-shirt and there is not a single hole in it.
Continuity
The first scene with Jean and Logan switches between two shots portraying them in bed together. However, in one of the shots, Logan is on his side, and in the other, he is on his back. This results in him appearing to go from his side to his back to his side to his back without actually moving or interrupting the conversation.
Continuity
Logan loses his healing powers, is shot several times, bleeds and is left with wounds that take time to heal. However, he extends his claws through the skin between his knuckles multiple times, and this leaves no blood or wounds of any kind.
Continuity
When Mariko and the Wolverine say goodbye, Mariko is standing in front of the plane and someone brings her a yellow briefcase which subsequently disappears.
Continuity
Shingen is poisoned by Viper during the ninja assault on the Yashida residence, causing scarring across half his face. These scars are missing when Logan and Yukio arrive right after this and Shingen attacks them in the medical room.
Errors in Geography
Logan and Mariko catch a shinkansen (bullet train) from Ueno Station and head South West towards Nagasaki. This is not possible, shinkansen departing from Ueno only travel North.
Errors in Geography
The ground zero for the nuclear bomb explosion in Nagasaki is shown to be on the western coast of Nagasaki Bay. The actual ground zero was further north, up the stream of Nakajima River, on the eastern (left) bank.
Factual Mistake
The plane drops the atomic bomb on Nagasaki from a low altitude. In fact it was flying at 30 000 feet (9100 metres) and would not have been visible in this way above the city.
Factual Mistake
When Logan is pulling the X-ray machine up his body, an X-ray of his legs is shown. In this X-ray, he has no knee-caps.
Factual Mistake
The Bullet train is an electric train, yet there are no overhead wires. Wolverine leaps and ducks to avoid being knocked over by the gantries which are there to support the overhead wires.
Miscellaneous
When Logan and Mariko are seeking shelter from the rain, the camera pans from right to left and the rain moves in line with the view.
Miscellaneous
During the end credit scene, a woman coming up the staircase behind Professor X blinks when she (along with everyone else) is meant to be frozen.
Factual Mistake
The bombing altitude for Nagasaki was 30 000 feet (~10 km), but in the opening scene the planes bombing Nagasaki are a lot lower than that. The bomb also detonated at 1,500 feet, not at ground level as shown.
Trivia:
Famke Janssen filmed her Jean Gray cameo in three days.
The first X-Men film to be released in 3D and IMAX.
Producer Lauren Shuler Donner approached writer Simon Beaufoy to write the script, but Beaufoy did not feel confident enough to commit.
Hugh Jackman is a self-confessed fan of the Chris Claremont-Frank Miller "Wolverine" comic (1982), especially the Japanese saga: "There are so many areas of that Japanese story. I love the idea of this kind of anarchic character, the outsider, being in this world full of honor and tradition and customs; someone who's really anti-all of that, and trying to negotiate his own way. The idea of the samurai too, and the tradition there - it's really great. In the comic book he gets his ass kicked by a couple of samurai - not even mutants."
Darren Aronofsky was originally set to direct and worked on the project for six months before departing, citing the long overseas shoot would prevent him from seeing his family (he had just separated from Rachel Weisz, the mother of his child). During his time attached to the film, he rewrote the screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie and it is speculated that the real reason for his departure was the studio's unwillingness to approve his draft - which aimed for a hard 'R' rating due to heavy sexual content and brutal violence.
This will be the first time Wolverine will be in a movie without X-Men attached to the title.
This is Jackman's sixth portrayal of Logan/Wolverine.
Jessica Biel was offered the role of Viper but a deal couldn't be reached and she dropped
Togo Igawa was considered for the role of Shingen.
Guillermo del Toro expressed interest in directing, being a fan of the Japanese saga in the "Wolverine" comics. He met with James Gianopulos and Hugh Jackman about directing the film, but ultimately decided he did not wish to spend 2-3 years of his life working on the film.
In May 2011 Fox was down to a short list of eight candidates to direct: Jose Padilha, Doug Liman, Antoine Fuqua, Mark Romanek, Justin Lin, Gavin O'Connor, Gary Shore and James Mangold. Out of that list Mangold was chosen.
According to James Mangold, this film is a sequel to X-Men: The Last Stand ("Jean Grey is gone and most of the X-Men are disbanded, so there's a tremendous sense of isolation for Wolverine") but with extended flashbacks.
To prepare for the role, Hugh Jackman contacted Dwayne Johnson for advice on bulking up for the movie. Johnson suggested Jackman could gain a pound a week over six months (24 weeks) by eating 6,000 calories a day of "an awful lot of chicken, steak and brown rice."
According to James Mangold, the film had started out as a prequel to X-Men, but later he decided to make it a sequel to X-Men: The Last Stand: "I wanted to tell the story without the burden of handing it off to a film that already exists and having to conform to it. The ideas of immortality reign very heavily in this story, and the burden of immortality weighs heavily on Logan. For me that's such an interesting part of Logan's character that it is nearly impossible to explore in a prequel."
Hugh Jackman confirmed on having discussions with director James Mangold about test screening a PG-13 rated cut and an R rated cut, but did not comment on filming sequences for them.
Director of photography Amir Mokri was replaced during filming by second unit director of photography Ross Emery.
According to James Mangold, this film is influenced by the Japanese samurai films 13 Assassins and Hiroshi Inagaki's Musashi Miyamoto Samurai trilogy; the Westerns Shane and The Outlaw Josey Wales; the crime films The French Connection and Chinatown; and the dramas Black Narcissus, Floating Weeds, Chungking Express and Happy Together.
Hugh Jackman said that with this film, he finally achieved the physique that he always envisioned in his mind that Wolverine should have. He said that for some reason, on each of his 5 prior takes at the character, he felt that he never had enough time to get in shape; for this film he finally had enough time, and got his body exactly the way he wanted it to look. Co-star Will Yun Lee also said that it was Jackman's best physique for the role of Wolverine.
According to Hugh Jackman, Wolverine being surrounded by death while being unable to die due to his healing factor is a major theme in the film: "He realizes everyone he loves dies, and his whole life is full of pain. So it's better that he just escapes. He can't die really. He just wants to get away from everything."
The first X-Men film to be released in 3D and IMAX.
Producer Lauren Shuler Donner approached writer Simon Beaufoy to write the script, but Beaufoy did not feel confident enough to commit.
Hugh Jackman is a self-confessed fan of the Chris Claremont-Frank Miller "Wolverine" comic (1982), especially the Japanese saga: "There are so many areas of that Japanese story. I love the idea of this kind of anarchic character, the outsider, being in this world full of honor and tradition and customs; someone who's really anti-all of that, and trying to negotiate his own way. The idea of the samurai too, and the tradition there - it's really great. In the comic book he gets his ass kicked by a couple of samurai - not even mutants."
Darren Aronofsky was originally set to direct and worked on the project for six months before departing, citing the long overseas shoot would prevent him from seeing his family (he had just separated from Rachel Weisz, the mother of his child). During his time attached to the film, he rewrote the screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie and it is speculated that the real reason for his departure was the studio's unwillingness to approve his draft - which aimed for a hard 'R' rating due to heavy sexual content and brutal violence.
This will be the first time Wolverine will be in a movie without X-Men attached to the title.
This is Jackman's sixth portrayal of Logan/Wolverine.
Jessica Biel was offered the role of Viper but a deal couldn't be reached and she dropped
Togo Igawa was considered for the role of Shingen.
Guillermo del Toro expressed interest in directing, being a fan of the Japanese saga in the "Wolverine" comics. He met with James Gianopulos and Hugh Jackman about directing the film, but ultimately decided he did not wish to spend 2-3 years of his life working on the film.
In May 2011 Fox was down to a short list of eight candidates to direct: Jose Padilha, Doug Liman, Antoine Fuqua, Mark Romanek, Justin Lin, Gavin O'Connor, Gary Shore and James Mangold. Out of that list Mangold was chosen.
According to James Mangold, this film is a sequel to X-Men: The Last Stand ("Jean Grey is gone and most of the X-Men are disbanded, so there's a tremendous sense of isolation for Wolverine") but with extended flashbacks.
To prepare for the role, Hugh Jackman contacted Dwayne Johnson for advice on bulking up for the movie. Johnson suggested Jackman could gain a pound a week over six months (24 weeks) by eating 6,000 calories a day of "an awful lot of chicken, steak and brown rice."
According to James Mangold, the film had started out as a prequel to X-Men, but later he decided to make it a sequel to X-Men: The Last Stand: "I wanted to tell the story without the burden of handing it off to a film that already exists and having to conform to it. The ideas of immortality reign very heavily in this story, and the burden of immortality weighs heavily on Logan. For me that's such an interesting part of Logan's character that it is nearly impossible to explore in a prequel."
Hugh Jackman confirmed on having discussions with director James Mangold about test screening a PG-13 rated cut and an R rated cut, but did not comment on filming sequences for them.
Director of photography Amir Mokri was replaced during filming by second unit director of photography Ross Emery.
According to James Mangold, this film is influenced by the Japanese samurai films 13 Assassins and Hiroshi Inagaki's Musashi Miyamoto Samurai trilogy; the Westerns Shane and The Outlaw Josey Wales; the crime films The French Connection and Chinatown; and the dramas Black Narcissus, Floating Weeds, Chungking Express and Happy Together.
Hugh Jackman said that with this film, he finally achieved the physique that he always envisioned in his mind that Wolverine should have. He said that for some reason, on each of his 5 prior takes at the character, he felt that he never had enough time to get in shape; for this film he finally had enough time, and got his body exactly the way he wanted it to look. Co-star Will Yun Lee also said that it was Jackman's best physique for the role of Wolverine.
According to Hugh Jackman, Wolverine being surrounded by death while being unable to die due to his healing factor is a major theme in the film: "He realizes everyone he loves dies, and his whole life is full of pain. So it's better that he just escapes. He can't die really. He just wants to get away from everything."
