The much awaited trailer for The Wolverine starring Hugh Jackman and directed by James Mangold has finally made it’s way to the internet and the result looks measurably better than Wolverine’s last solo outing aside from the fact that the poster above makes him look like he’s taking a really aggressive shit.

While this project once was in the hands of Darren Aronofsky, he unfortunately backed out after the Japanese tsunami which would have halted production for up to a year. From there, directing duties were passed down to Mangold who directed 3:10 to Yuma and the Oscar nominated Walk the Line. While Mangold is hardly Aronofsky, the deliberate choice to go with a director with a penchant for the dramatic rather than a weathered actioner or a new director that the studios would just boss around.

While originally slated as a direct sequel to the inexcusably dull X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the events of The Wolverine actually follow up on X-Men 3: The Last Stand. This is directly evident through things like Logan’s dream sequences of his lost love, Jean Grey. The trailer is noticeably light on the superhero element as I don’t think we see more than one mutant throughout this venture but that makes sense in the context of the the narrative which focuses on Wolverine losing his super abilities.

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