A superb new motion poster for The Wolverine has debuted over at the movie’s international site, showing Hugh Jackman’s mutant getting shirtless and rather damp on a Japanese roof. Although it’s not the most action packed on images, it certainly makes us want to know what he’s going to do with that sword.
Here’s the synopsis: ‘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.’
The Wolverine opens on July 26th, 2013.
Guillermo Del Toro loves animation. At one point he had a deal at Disney, which for various reasons fell apart and didn’t lead to any movies. Then he signed up to help oversee Dreamworks Animation movies such as Megamind and Rise Of The Guardians.
A few weeks ago it was revealed that Johnny Depp had signed up to star in Transcendence, the directorial debut of Christopher Nolan’s longtime cinematographer, Wally Pfister. However as the time there was no info on the plot.
Penn Badgley (Greetings from Tim Buckley), Teresa Palmer (I Am Number Four), Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls) and Hill Harper (CSI: NY) have joined the already pretty good ensemble cast for writer/director Brian Horiuchi’s indie flick Parts Per Billion.
Peter Jackson is going to be a very, very busy man in 2013, as he’s already got two more Hobbit films to prepare for release in December 2013 and July 2014, and now he’s revealed that he plans to shoot the motion capture elements for a sequel to Tintin next year too.
Mark Wahlberg seems to like movies based on magazine articles at the moment, as he’s got Pain & Gain coming to cinemas next year and now THR reports that he has signed up to produce an untitled hacker-themed project for Universal Pictures, loosely based on a January article in GQ Magazine by David Kushner.
John Barrowman has been popping up every so often on the new superhero TV series Arrow, as a mysterious man who seems to be plotting nefarious things, and is somehow bound up in a conspiracy that resulted in Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) getting trapped on an island for five years.
I have to admit I wasn’t that impressed with the recent Jack The Giant Slayer trailer, which came across as a little silly, but I still have hope that director Bryan Singer can pull off this fantastical fairytale. This latest poster certainly makes it look a little more cool, with a man (presumably Nicholas Hoult’s Jack) preparing to enter the watery mouth of a stone giant.