It's a big week for fans of Marvel's adamantium-clawed X-Man, with 20th Century Fox finally set to debut the first trailer for director James Mangold's solo X-Men sequel The Wolverine on Wednesday. To whet our appetites, two new posters have been released this morning, the first which features Hugh Jackman as a rather-furious looking Logan on the rain-soaked streets of Japan...
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...and the second, which arrived via Coming Soon, sees him surrounded by a bunch of ninjas (and doesn't look anywhere near as impressive as the first, if you ask me)...
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On top of the two posters we also have eight new stills from The Wolverine via Entertainment Weekly, which includes our first official look at Svetlana Khodchenkova (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) as Viper and newcomers Rila Fukushima as Yukio and Tao Okamoto as Mariko Yashida...
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“Based on the celebrated comic book arc, The Wolverine finds Logan, the eternal warrior and outsider, in Japan. There, samurai steel will clash with adamantium claw as Logan confronts a mysterious figure from his past in an epic battle that will leave him forever changed.”
The Wolverine is set for release on July 26th, with a cast that also includes by Will Yun Lee (Total Recall) as Harada (a.k.a. the Silver Samurai), Brian Tee (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift) as Noburo Mori, Hiroyuki Sanada (The Last Samurai) as Shingen and Hal Yamanouchi (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou) as Yashida.
...and the second, which arrived via Coming Soon, sees him surrounded by a bunch of ninjas (and doesn't look anywhere near as impressive as the first, if you ask me)...
On top of the two posters we also have eight new stills from The Wolverine via Entertainment Weekly, which includes our first official look at Svetlana Khodchenkova (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) as Viper and newcomers Rila Fukushima as Yukio and Tao Okamoto as Mariko Yashida...
“Based on the celebrated comic book arc, The Wolverine finds Logan, the eternal warrior and outsider, in Japan. There, samurai steel will clash with adamantium claw as Logan confronts a mysterious figure from his past in an epic battle that will leave him forever changed.”
The Wolverine is set for release on July 26th, with a cast that also includes by Will Yun Lee (Total Recall) as Harada (a.k.a. the Silver Samurai), Brian Tee (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift) as Noburo Mori, Hiroyuki Sanada (The Last Samurai) as Shingen and Hal Yamanouchi (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou) as Yashida.