Yes, I’m eager to see Hugh Jackman fight, slice and dice ninjas and the Silver Samurai in The Wolverine. I’m also intrigued by how Logan’s greatest romance will play on the big screen. Mariko Yashida became Logan’s great love in the pages of The Wolverine limited series, X-Men and Wolverine solo comic books. Director James Mangold shared how he planned to capture that romance on screen and convince movie fans this woman is the love of his life.
“Well, one of the ways you do it is the way you do it in any love story, which is you just, you get terrific actors who have a connection with each other, but you also—I think that it’s been no secret, and we talked about this in the chat, that the Logan we’re finding in this movie is someone who’s adrift, who is without anybody, so a connection to anyone, and certainly doesn’t really believe in love anymore. So, the job in relation to his relationship with Mariko in this film is certainly one from he’s starting from a place of zero, which is as someone who’s made romantic films before, a good place to be starting when you have a romantic element in the film, that someone doesn’t believe even in the possibility anymore,” Mangold tells ScreenRant.
Newcomer Tao Okamoto plays Mariko, daughter of a Japanese crime lord and who woman who almost married Wolverine!
For the best of the best of Chris Claremont’s Logan stories and more epic tales of the fan favorite X-Man, check out Wolverine: The Adamantium Collection.
The Wolverine opens July 26th.
By Editor