James Mangold talks "The Wolverine"

Director James Mangold has given us a little inside to his upcoming film "The Wolverine", he is claiming that there will be a much darker tone to this instalment plus about 90% of it will be set in Japan. He has also said that his intentions are to completely "reboot" the film with a couple of tie ins to "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" the main one being Hugh Jackman.

The mixing of cultures will give the film an added dynamic that the last didn't have, Wolverine's stories that take place in Japan are incredible if you haven't read them I recommend you read them somehow. They could translate amazingly onto the big screen if done correctly although Mangold wanted to incorporate a lot of martial arts into the film, he also wants to preserve the animalistic nature of Wolverine's fighting style.

"The wonderful opportunity for me with this film is that 90 percent of it takes place in Japan, and even though other elements remain constant from the other pictures, namely Hugh Jackman, we kind of got our chance to reboot the tone and go a little darker and a little deeper than they’ve gone before with this character."

"There is a significant amount of Japanese spoken in the movie, and the cast is almost entirely Japanese. So there is this wonderful sense of cross-pollination between a very Western character and a far Eastern culture, and I think it’s very cool and something we haven’t seen so far. I think there is a lot of ways that Japanese film, Japanese fighting, Japanese martial arts have had an effect on this movie. And certainly the movie is dripping with Japanese tradition both cinematically, fighting-wise and philosophically as well." 

"One of the things that has always been a feature of Wolverine in the comics is that he has a berserker rage, that he has anger and some of his abilities are driven by something more primal… Honestly, to get really pissed off—not cute pissed off, not quippy pissed off, not funny pissed off or cigar-chomping pissed off, just pissed off—that can then help drive the fighting, drive the combat. That is interesting for me and then for the character, some of the jet fuel underneath some of the combat in the film."