Jackman: The Wolverine is "Different From the Other X-Men Movies"

During a recent interview, actor Hugh Jackman said that James Mangold's The Wolverine isn't just [...]

Hugh Jackman as The Wolverine

During a recent interview, actor Hugh Jackman said that James Mangold's The Wolverine isn't just (yet) another X-Men sequel, and that he's happy 20th Century Fox sees that and is branding the film appropriately. "I'm thrilled the studio called it The Wolverine instead of Wolverine 2, because we're trying to set it up as a standalone picture," Jackman told Total Film. "Tonally, it's different from the other X-Men movies. It's got massive action sequences, as people would expect, and it'll be great fun. But it is a character-driven movie. It's about a guy completely out of his element, in this world that's foreign to him, and how he copes with that. I feel like we have the opportunity to deliver that badass, kick-ass Wolverine I know everybody wants to see." The star, who has appeared in five films as the character of Wolverine and will appear in two more over the next two years (The Wolverine and X-Men: Days of Future Past) is not committed to any more after 2014.

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