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The Daily Telegraph reports
Hugh Jackman has comes as close as he ever will to conceding that the last Wolverine movie was a dud.
In an online Q&A with fans, Jackman said his new Wolvie movie was the Wolvie movie he always wanted to make.
"This movie is called The Wolverine, we really wanted this movie, better than any before, to encapsulate that character. You’re going to see every side to him. There’s going to be some surprises in there too. You have to see him lower, more desperate, more at stake than ever before.
"Finally, physically, what is on film is what I had in my head. This is not a vanity thing. It’s important that that rage inside is seen in his body. I wanted to see veins, I wanted him to be animalistic."
The last time Jackman popped the claws, comic fans and movie-goers were less than impressed. X-Men Origins: Wolverine suffered from a patchy script and disjointed, over-the-top action scenes and its box office was down on previous entries in the X-Men saga.
The Wolverine, which is almost finished shooting in Sydney, is based on the celebrated Chris Claremont-Frank Miller comic series from 1980s and finds Wolverine caught in a gang war in Tokyo.
Director James Mangold, who sat in on the Q&A, said he didn't want to make just another superhero / action movie. "We don’t want to succumb to what has been going on for years now which is sort of an arms race of action movies where they try to out do in terms of spectacle. Music can only get so loud," he said.
Mangold also scotched rumours that The Wolverine would be another prequel.
"This film (takes place) after the X-Men movies and finds Logan at a point where the X-Men are gone. A lot of the ties he had to the world are gone. Almost every intimate connection he had to the world is either destroyed or broken."
He told fans that the film would explore "what it's like to live essentially forever, to keep losing the ones you love", although Jackman teased that his character's immortality would be tested: "Actually, in this movie, how do we put it? Let’s say, he discovers his Kryptonite."
The Q&A came as the teaser poster made its debut online.
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