Director James Mangold and lead actor Hugh Jackman are currently working, through the success of this year’s The Wolverine, on a sequel and although still in development director James Mangold spoke a little bit more about the sequel to The Wolverine and it’s titular and iconic character, in an interview to the Wall Street Journal’s blog.
What will the next solo adventure be for the
character?
“I would just say it is always going to be about his
relationships to other characters. We are very much trying to work with
existing text. There are other great Wolverine stories out there but suffice it
to say there are great texts about his connections to others, villains,
characters from the lore and from the comics that we can bring out and have
another great and meaningful adventure.”
“…other villains, characters from the lore…” well let’s
see. There is the Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight, which features besides
Wolverine, the Guardian, Shaman, Sasquatch,
Vindicator, Northstar, Aurora, Puck, Snowbird and Marrina. There is Team X with
Victor Creed (before being Sabretooth), Kestrel, Mastodon, Maverick, Silver
Fox, Vole and Wildcat. And there are lots of other teams that Logan was part of
before leaving. There are also quite a number of villains for Wolverine like
Wendigo, Ogun, Daken, Gorgon, Lady Deathstrike, Omega Red and of course
Sabretooth.
One of the things that made The Wolverine different
from the rest of the other superhero genre movies was the fact that the stakes
were smaller; there wasn’t the sense of the World being in any kind of major
danger, and that seems to be one thing that Mangold is intending on keeping.
“The simple thing is when the world is in danger. I
think it is a cheat that a lot of movies do to create stakes, about how the
world will blow up or a stadium or a planet or a region will blow up if x and y
doesn’t happen by this time. Much more than the genre being tired, when every
movies is about the destruction of the universe or the globe, it makes it hard
to tell a meaningful story when the scale gets so huge, it dwarfs the
characters.”
Last month or so, the alternate ending of the film was
released and it showed Logan receiving the iconic Wolverine costume. Is there a
chance that we might see Wolverine in full superhero costume in the next film?
“A lot of fans keep asking about when he’s going to
wear his uniform. It’s a struggle for us in relation to question, because
Logan’s personality as developed onscreen and in comics is one in which he
hates publicity. The filmmakers, even on X-Men, have struggled with an outfit.
Finding the rationale for a uniform when the character disdains self promotion,
why he would put on some outfit that promotes himself as some kind of hero?
It’s like Dirty Harry didn’t walk around with special outfit. There’s a
difficult line to walk. He’s not a show off, he’s the last one to put on a team
jersey. The flesh and blood character is very loyal to that iconoclastic rebel
who doesn’t seem to be the first to don spandex. It isn’t something I’ve talked
about much. Some fans may be frustrated, but we’re trying to be true to his
character. Who knows whether that will change, I cannot verify and will not
deny.”
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