I remember when Darren Aronofsky was attached to direct his own take on Wolverine and I was super-duper pumped about it but now it seems like The Wolverine is just struggling to make itself known in a crowded summer of high profile blockbusters. Without a visionary talent like Aronofsky, the bad taste left in people’s mouths from X-Men Origins: Wolverine paired with an over-saturated superhero market make a film like The Wolverine easy to be side-lined.

I’ve yet to make any judgements as I’ve only seen the first trailer (no need to spoil any more details) but I like the direction of a superhero stripped of his powers, although that had technically been done before in Spiderman 2. As far as I can tell, The Wolverine looks a lot more stripped down and atmospheric than that not-so-great Origins film.

Take a look at this new trailer coming to you straight from CinemaCon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skYPWMM9W1A

The Wolverine stars Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, Svetlana Khodchenkova as Viper, Rila Fukushima as Yukio and Tao Okamoto as Mariko and opens on July 26.

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