Wolverine pics!

The other day when I was perusing IMDb.com I came across 'The Wolverine' and it was seeming to say that the story for this was about how Logan/Wolverine fell in love with a girl who had been promised to marry another guy, but now it seems to be saying that Logan is trained by a samuri warrior.

This has made me very confused and on top of this according to ComicBookMovie.com's "sources" Logan/Wolverine will head into town to get some camping gear and a bar will feature in the movie as well...which has got them thinking that:

"...that this could be scenes emulating the beginning of Frank Miller's "Japanese Saga" in "Wolverine #1". In that version of the tale Wolverine/Logan is seen in the Canadian Rockies pursuing a man-eating grizzly bear. During the eventual confrontation Wolverine notices that the bear has an arrow lodged in it's back. A closer examination reveals that the tip of the arrow has traces of poison and is the cause of the bear's erratic behavior."

But at this point this is all unofficial, but what is know about this film is that the story will be a stand alone story and won't feature any mutants (as Hugh Jackman has said), that the filming is taking place in Japan and that apart from Hugh Jackman there is Will Yun Lee who will play Kenuichio Harada/Silver Samuri, Hiroyuki Sanada will play Shingen Yashida, Rila Fukushima will play Yukio, Brian Tee will play Noburo Mori, James Fraser will play an allied POW, Hal Yamanouchi will play Yashida, Tao Okamoto will play Mariko Yashida and Luke Webb will play another allied POW.

James Mangold will direct this, (he also directed Knight and Day which starred Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz) and the script has been written by Christopher McQuarrie.

Here are the behind-the-scene pics for you to peruse at:



This last picture if you can't see it has Hugh Jackman sporting the statement Logan beard that you will have seen in the X:Men films with rag-tag unkempt shoulder length hair.

Update: As of today, thanks to Empire Magazine 20th Century Fox has today released a statement,-so there is no more guessing games to play-, summing up in a word what 'The Wolverine' story will be:

"Based on the celebrated comic book arc, The Wolverine finds Logan, finds Logan the eternal warrior and outsider in Japan, There, samurai steel will clash adamantium claw as Logan confronts a mysterious figure from his past in an epic battle that will leave him forever changed".

If you are like me and have no clue what this "arc" is then I have to again thank Empire Magazine for filling this in for me, according to them it is the Chris Claremont and Frank Miller's run in the wolverine comics back in 1982...these comics if your interested to read them were only called Wolverine with this front cover: