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'The Wolverine' is NOT a Prequel Movie

James Mangold clears up a few things about the next Wolverine film.

As much as we dig Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, there were some big problems with X-Men Origins: Wolverine. With the follow up movie, The Wolverine, we're all hoping for better things. In one of the endings for Origins, Wolverine is drinking in a bar in Japan. This seemed to be the lead in to the next movie.

Earlier this week, word spread that Famke Janssen was in Australia last week to film a cameo as Jean Grey for the movie. How could that be if this is set before the X-Men trilogy of movies? It turns out The Wolverine will take place after X-Men: The Last Stand.

But what about this image from Empire magazine CBM posted?

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James Mangold spoke to Empire magazine and an image of Wolverine with his bone claws appears. Obviously this has to be a flashback. That could also mean that if Famke Janssen was reprising her role as Jean, it would be another flashback.

Empire Online did reveal one statement from Mangold in the interview in the magazine:

Where this film sits in the universe of the films is after them all. Jean Grey is gone, most of the X-Men are disbanded or gone, so there’s a tremendous sense of isolation for him.

It's also mentioned that most of the action takes place in Tokyo where Wolverine falls for Mariko and gets involved in a gang war which will all take place "outside of all previous X-film continuity."

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Those Bone claws actually look better than the old ones

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Hmmm. I'm cautiously hopeful for this one.

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"continuity" and "Xmen movies" are not terms that are compatible.

WTF not... with the continuity all messed up already, no reason to try to establish any at all.

They should make another spin-off starring an adult Iceman teaming up with a hairless Beast that takes place during Vietnam.... lol... would it matter at this point?

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Sounds stupid to me.

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@ApatheticAvenger: i agree with you 100%. last stand was stupid it did not feel like it was conected to 1 and 2 at all in my opion.

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"As much as we dig Hugh Jackman as Wolverine"

Please speak only for yourself, because the only way I 'dig' Hugh Jackman as Wolverine is when a X-men movie comes out and I dig a small hole in the ground to hide my head in.

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i hope this film dose not suck. i wish Rogue had a cameo instead of jean cause Logan in my opion was closer to her then Jean Grey ik he had the hots for Jean but i think he got along better with Rogue in the x-men films. my one friend told me he heard a rumor that in the first x-men they were gonna make Rogue a little older and maybe have her as his love interest in the films but they decided to do the logan jean scott think and stuck Rogue with icekid. now idk if what i just described was rumor or if it was fact so don"t jump down my throat.

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I hope this movie would lead Wolverine to join the Avengers in 2015

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@RedheadedAtrocitus said:

If this was meant to make things clearer, I think the explanations failed. Just muddles the waters of continuity more to say this takes place after Last Stand and yet show us an image of bone claws. If its a flashback fine, but if its otherwise it just creates a big headache. Gosh, and just when I was starting to get psyched again. Oh well, maybe I'm just making a mountain out of a molehill here...

I don't think you are. The whole thing sounds very head scratching to me as well

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@SupremeHyperion: They do all of these needless changes because they donot believe in the characters. So Hollywood's Ego constantly thinks it can write a better story than anyone else ever.

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Im not gonna get my hopes up but it sounds good.

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The continuity is these X-Movies (particularly with First Class & Origins) is absolutely chaotic and confusing. Probably my biggest issue with these movies in general.

It's like they said, "Eff the two 'C's' - continuity and canon."

Most of the X-Men are disbanded or gone? WTF? SMH in frustration and annoyance.

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Setting it "current" makes way more sense to me. If the First Class series is supposed to be its own thing, that's fine. Throw the rest of the film continuity out the window and go with it. This film can be more-or-less standalone without the continuity problems of Origins and First Class, and they can set their own tone. Continuity-wise The Wolverine ties to the original three movies, but it's definitely not X-Men 4. I'm cool with that.

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I love how people say "these X-men movies" in their posts about the franchise, as if any of the X-trilogy movies weren't just "Wolverine and the X-men."

Props to First Class for not having him aside from a hilarious cameo.

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As long as they don't make it another kid movie I'm fine. I'm going to be honest I want the gory Wolverine, I want to see him ripping into people, wounding them. You know how mad it made me when my students came and told me the movie was boring (I'm a pre-k teacher and yes my parents took their kids to see Wolverine lol). No blood and guts Marvel no glory, give us the Logan/James we've grown to love to see kill and get killed.

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This sounds super cool!!!

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so the film is simply going to be all over the places.

:/

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Unexpected but cool twist to see the modern day X-Men era brought back into focus after being ignored for so long. Hopefully the team here will be able to salvage that universe from the onslaught of crap that happened as a result of Last Stand. This also makes me think that future presented in Days of Future Past, although the future to the First Class characters, might be the present to us. Hope both of these films can get a lot of the returning cast of the early X-Movies back.

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I think they're going to use Jean as some sort of nightmare or whatever - she did play a big role in Logan's life at the mansion, so I guess she could appear alive or as an hallucination for motivation perhaps.

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Even though origins sucked really bad, there was something about it that made me watch it. I almost liked the X-men trilogoy except for the last stand. However this seems like a brilliant idea! Finally wolverine just might have a great storyline and possibly be part one of a new trilogy. Also the great silver samurai is in this one, so if that doesn't get you excited then I don't know what will. Lol

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If this was meant to make things clearer, I think the explanations failed. Just muddles the waters of continuity more to say this takes place after Last Stand and yet show us an image of bone claws. If its a flashback fine, but if its otherwise it just creates a big headache. Gosh, and just when I was starting to get psyched again. Oh well, maybe I'm just making a mountain out of a molehill here...

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@god_spawn: <3 You are a gentleman.

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@lykopis: Fine, I take it back :P.

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@god_spawn said:

@Crom-Cruach said:

I smell the funk of suck approaching.

Nah. That's just Logan coming in from the rain.

-_- ...take that back...

I expect nothing from this movie outside of Jackman getting really physical, hopefully some awesome fight scenes and cohesive dialogue.

Famke is doing a cameo as Jean? Bad decision. Their lack of chemistry onscreen was cringe-worthy.

Anyway -- my Hugh can do no wrong. I will still be seeing this.

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not so excited about this movie, but who knows maybe i'll watch it

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This is the studio that gave us Elektra, Ghost Rider and Origins. Not holding my breath.

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@Crom-Cruach said:

I smell the funk of suck approaching.

Nah. That's just Logan coming in from the rain.

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I smell the funk of suck approaching.

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@SHAZAM117 said:

Wow...I'm completely lost on FOX's XMEN timeline continuity

That was before or after they featured a young Emma Frost on X-Men Origins Wolverine and then as a smokin-hot woman on X-Men First Class?

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Only way this movie will be worth it for me, is if Cyclop shoots his head off in the end of the movie, turns to the camera and does the X cross arm thing.

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@Smurfboy said:

I double-checked the ends for Origin Wolverine. STILL don't see him being in Japan. (All I see is deadpool's hand reaching the head.) Um, anyone help me where you see that? Thanks.

I'm not exactly sure when, but during the credits or something. It's there. You have to believe it's there or the X-Universe will collapse.

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@Roldan said:

If this isn't a prequel, then what's up with the bone claws?

That's the first thing I wondered when I noticed the picture after reading it's post-everything. Confusing... unless they're jumping back and forth between trips to Japan [past trip and current trip maybe]? :/

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I double-checked the ends for Origin Wolverine. STILL don't see him being in Japan. (All I see is deadpool's hand reaching the head.) Um, anyone help me where you see that? Thanks.

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I think they're just gonna ignore Origins. I mean it's not like they can really tie anything from it into this movie since Origins took place in America/Canada(toward the end I couldn't tell WHERE they were) and this one is in Japan. They COULD, but since this is taking place after The Last Stand which probably took place the year it came out and Origins took place in the mid or late 70's it won't happen.

I don't HATE Origins, it's just the fact they kept having cameos of mutants and did NOTHING with them!! They brought in Team X just to kill them off.

They messed up Blob's powers because he's only invulnerable and strong BECAUSE he's fat hence his name,

The whole thing of shooting Wolverine in the head, TWICE, thus making too bullet holes in the adamantium which WEREN'T in the first X-Men movie when they x-rayed him makes a pretty big plot hole.

Honestly the whole idea of him escaping BEFORE they can wipe his memory was a bad idea. They could've played it like a mystery, like he's being hunted down and he has to figure out why and while doing so uncovers things even WE didn't know before hand about why Stryker is doing what he's doing, and accidentally frees Wade Wilson AKA Deadpool who has gone crazy and gained a faster healing factor due to Stryker's experiments that Wolverine has to fight. That would've been a good origin movie for Wolverine.

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@Vermoot

This pic of the set of the Wolverine CLEARLY show the logo of the Jean Grey school for Higher Learning. How could this be before de other X-Movies ? :) (I'm glad the school is involved, the Wolverine and the X-Men series is great !)

Actually, the 'JG' logo had nothing to do with The Wolverine. It was a leftover from the set of The Great Gatsby.

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" In one of the endings for Origins, Wolverine is drinking in a bar in Japan. This seemed to be the lead in to the next movie."

Huh? I don't remember that part? I watched that movie million of times and I do not recall him being in Japan. I think you were preferring to X-Men First Class, correct?

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Is it just me or do his bone claws look incredibly puny?

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@haydenclaireheroes said:

I am pretty excited for this movie, I hope it doesn't let us down

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Why use Famke Jansen? She's terrible as Jean Grey. And Jackman is equally as poor as Howlett.

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I can't decide if this feels like a move in the right direction or a confusing clusterf***. I think I am inclined to go with the latter. X-Men 3 pretty much killed that franchise for me, and I would rather the new movies stay completely separate.

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Maybe Days of Future Past will be like Flashpoint and change the confusing continuity! Hahaha!

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in bad news Matthew Vaughn not directing First Class sequel, but like the fact that The Wolverine is a sequl...so I feel very mixed today!!!

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this movie does seem to be going okay so far we just need a trailer to make our minds up however im sure iron man 3 will be alot better then this

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All of this make it seem like it's not going to turn out well at all...

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Famke Jensen... Alright, my interest is peaked.

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@howlettgrowl said:

@CaioTrubat said:

@Roldan said:

If this isn't a prequel, then what's up with the bone claws?

I thought the same thing. Continuity is all over the damn place in these X-Men movies.

most people say that its a flash back when Wolverine was in WW2 Japan

Oh... that makes sense. They have to pull the adamantium claws to show this isn't a prequel.

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@CaioTrubat said:

@Roldan said:

If this isn't a prequel, then what's up with the bone claws?

I thought the same thing. Continuity is all over the damn place in these X-Men movies.

most people say that its a flash back when Wolverine was in WW2 Japan

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@Vermoot said:

This pic of the set of the Wolverine CLEARLY show the logo of the Jean Grey school for Higher Learning. How could this be before de other X-Movies ? :) (I'm glad the school is involved, the Wolverine and the X-Men series is great !)

Of course I had to forget the link : http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/the-wolverine-leaked-set-picture.jpg

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Perhaps this will help towards making the third Wolverine movie be about his relationships with Daken and X-23.

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