Fox releases two trailers for The Wolverine

20th Century Fox has sure made us wait to get a glimpse of Hugh Jackman in his latest X-Men solo offering, but after delivering a series of sneak peeks yesterday, the studio has now released the official full-length trailer for The Wolverine - and from first impressions, it looks like director James Mangold (3:10 to Yuma, Knight and Day) will finally lay to rest the ghost of X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

The Wolverine is based on a screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie) and Mark Bomback (Live Free or Die Hard, Total Recall) and the 1982 comic book miniseries by Frank Miller and Chris Claremont. Taking place after X-Men: The Last Stand, the film sees Logan travelling to Japan where he falls for the beautiful Mariko Yashida (Tao Okamoto) to the grave displeasure of her father Yashida (Hal Yamanouchi) and her half-brother, the fearsome Silver Samurai (Will Yun Lee).

Also featuring in the cast of The Wolverine are Rila Fukushima as Yukio, Brian Tee as Noburo Mori, Hiroyuki Sanada as Shingen and Svetlana Khodchenkova as Viper, while Famke Janssen also reprises the role of Jean Grey from the original X-Men trilogy.

Check out the trailer for The Wolverine here:


Update - Well, Wolverine trailers are just like buses - you wait forever, and then two come along at once. Here's a shorter domestic trailer:


Meanwhile, the film's official Facebook page has also debuted a new promotional banner:


The Wolverine is set to hit cinemas on July 26th.