Hugh Jackman's Logan dons the cover of the latest issue of Empire as 20th Century Fox prepares to unleash The Wolverine this July and inside the magazine there are several new images from the upcoming X-Men solo sequel featuring Wolverine (Jackman), Mariko (Tao Okamoto), Harada (Will Yun Lee), Shingen (Hiroyki Sanada), Yukio (Rila Fukushima) and Viper (Svetlana Khodchenkova), which you can check out right here courtesy of ComicBookMovie:
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Update - Thanks to Collider, we have a few more stills / behind-the-scenes images:
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Based on the celebrated comic book arc, this epic action-adventure takes Wolverine, the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day Japan. Out of his depth in an unknown world 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.
Meanwhile, Jackman is currently filming his SEVENTH outing as Wolverine, linking up with the likes of Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Anna Paquin (Rogue), Shawn Ashmore (Iceman), Daniel Cudmore (Colossus) and Halle Berry (Storm) under director Bryan Singer for X-Men: Days of Future Past, and the actor had a few words for Empire about how he felt when he got the call for next year's mutant epic: "I thought, I wonder if they'll want me to cameo again? I was like, 'Okay, this is a slam-dunk idea. This, actually, is phenomenal. I think this will be, for X-Men, like The Avengers.' And I think it is... I was a little frustrated because I was nearing the end of a 12-to-18 month physical odyssey and getting ready to have Christmas off - and lasagnes. And I'm, unfortunately, not as young as I was, so I have to start earlier and go for longer. So I was like, Okay, we gotta keep going.' But I'm really excited about it, and I never thought in a million years I would play one character in seven movies."
The Wolverine is set to hit cinemas on July 26th, while X-Men: Days of Future Past is currently slated for release on July 18th, 2014.
Update - Thanks to Collider, we have a few more stills / behind-the-scenes images:
Based on the celebrated comic book arc, this epic action-adventure takes Wolverine, the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day Japan. Out of his depth in an unknown world 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.
Meanwhile, Jackman is currently filming his SEVENTH outing as Wolverine, linking up with the likes of Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Anna Paquin (Rogue), Shawn Ashmore (Iceman), Daniel Cudmore (Colossus) and Halle Berry (Storm) under director Bryan Singer for X-Men: Days of Future Past, and the actor had a few words for Empire about how he felt when he got the call for next year's mutant epic: "I thought, I wonder if they'll want me to cameo again? I was like, 'Okay, this is a slam-dunk idea. This, actually, is phenomenal. I think this will be, for X-Men, like The Avengers.' And I think it is... I was a little frustrated because I was nearing the end of a 12-to-18 month physical odyssey and getting ready to have Christmas off - and lasagnes. And I'm, unfortunately, not as young as I was, so I have to start earlier and go for longer. So I was like, Okay, we gotta keep going.' But I'm really excited about it, and I never thought in a million years I would play one character in seven movies."
The Wolverine is set to hit cinemas on July 26th, while X-Men: Days of Future Past is currently slated for release on July 18th, 2014.