The Wolverine Gets a Deeper, More Character-Centric Plot Synopsis

In an interview with Empire Magazine, out yesterday, The Wolverine producer Hutch Parker shared some details about the film's plot, making some sense of the set photos showing what seemed to be a World War II-era prisoner of war camp and the later revelation that the film will be a sequel to X-Men: The Last Stand. "We pick up Logan in a very isolated state, full of self-loathing," Parker said. "He is sought out by a young Asian woman for reasons he doesn't fully understand, who is asking him to follow her to Japan where he is meant to reconnect with someone he spent prison time with in Nagasaki. The legacy of that experience--effectively Logan saved him--is that this man is on his deathbed, and is looking to give him a gift, to thank him for the life he's had. But this gift draws Logan into a very complex and very unexpected world within both contemporary Japan, and to some degree the feudal history of Japan. The quality of this story is that it takes Logan on such a challenging personal journey. He's so in isolation, so out of his element. It's a much more powerful distillation of his character than you've seen before. It's why people have always love this particular story." The story he's referencing, of course, is the Chris Claremont/Frank Miller Wolverine issues on which the film is partly based. In spite of being one of the most popular characters in mainstream comics, few Wolverine solo stories are more critically-acclaimed. The Wolverine will be in theaters July 26.