The Wolverine - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of The Wolverine or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to The Wolverine

[norma]

Hugh Jackman said that with this movie, he finally achieved the physique that he always envisioned in his mind that Wolverine should have. He said that for some reason, on each of his five prior takes at the character, he felt that he never had enough time to get in shape. For this movie, he finally had enough time, and got his body exactly the way he wanted it to look. Will Yun Lee also said that it was Jackman's best physique for the role of Wolverine.

[francisco]

This is Hugh Jackman's sixth portrayal of Logan, a.k.a. Wolverine.

[duane]

The movie is written as a stand-alone story, with very little connection to past or future X-Men movies. Twentieth Century Fox embraced the idea of this movie being different, and were even the ones to come up with the title "The Wolverine". The story does feature other mutants, and that includes other mutants from the X-Men universe. James Mangold says there was no pressure from the studio to connect this story with the other X-Men movies, previous or future. There is no set-up in this story for future movies, as far as he knows. Mangold says "Our goal is to make something that doesn't rely on franchise."

[wallace]

David Leitch says the stunt work in this movie is grittier, and grounded in reality, in contrast to the previous movies. They have decided to tackle more of the stunts using practical means, and not rely as much on post-production CGI.

[ray]

Rogue was involved in one version of The Wolverine script, she was going to try to convince Logan to return home, and she was going to end up joining him in the adventure, however, she was cut from the story due to Director James Mangold wanting to focus on Logan's isolation.

[terry]

A cynical James Mangold was shocked that Twentieth Century Fox agreed to let him end the movie in the way he wanted.

[toni]

(at around 48 mins) The receptionist and owner of the hotel pets her cat behind the front desk. In Japanese culture, it is called a "maneki-neko" (beckoning cat), a good luck charm used for all who enter an establishment.

[morris]

(at around 1h 3 mins) Young Yashida gives Wolverine a samurai sword with six Kanji letters engraved on it. These kanji read, "Never Died, Never Aged, Never Destroyed." This is appropriate for Wolverine.

[kenzi]

Simon Kinberg wrote the mid-credits sequence, and it was shot on the set of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014).

[bryan]

Body count: one hundred twenty-seven.

[toni]

In the comics, Viper and Yukio are both normal humans with enhanced fighting abilities, not mutants. On the contrary, the Harada character's alter ego in the comics is initially a mutant known as the Silver Samurai.

[kim]

This movie was scheduled to be released in Japan in mid September, more than a month after its worldwide release. This was to avoid insensitive screenings during the early August anniversaries of the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (the movie opens with the Nagasaki bombing).

[chris]

In the comics, Yukio is known for short hair and black leather outfits. In this movie, Yukio has long red hair, and wears clothes influenced mostly by Generation X and animé.

[addison]

Famke Janssen filmed her Jean Grey cameo in three days. Hugh Jackman said, "There's no doubt that the most important relationship in his life is, we've seen through the movies, is his relationship with Jean Grey. Yes, we saw her die at the end of X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), but in this movie, she has a presence which I think is vital to the movie, particularly for him confronting the most difficult thing within himself."

[nicholas]

The Silver Samurai (Ichiro Yashida), in this movie, is a combination of Kenuchio Harada (a skilled mutant samurai with a tachyon blade), and his son Shin Harada (who possesses a technologically-advanced suit of armor). Shin is a separate character in the movie. The Silver Samurai is also based on Ogun, a supervillain and enemy of Wolverine, who had given him a sword and tried to steal Wolverine's immortality.

[tammy]

Almost all of the promotional materials for this movie featured a shirtless Hugh Jackman. In contrast, he appears shirtless only in a few scenes in the final cut. This was done in order to emphasize the superior shape he got into for the movie.