However, Mangold recently said this isn't the case. In fact, The Wolverine isn't a prequel at all. "Where this film sits in the universe of the films is after them all," the filmmaker told Empire. "Jean Grey is gone, most of the X-Men are disbanded or gone, so there's a tremendous sense of isolation for him."
Having said that, there will still be some sequences set
during World War II, but the rest of the film will take place post-X-Men: The
Last Stand.
"That's something that for me was very important, that
I land in a very specific place in his timeline," Mangold continued.
"I wanted to be able to tell the story without the burden of handing it
off to a film that already exists and having to conform to it. The ideas of
immortality reign very heavily in this story and the burden of immortality
weighs heavily on Logan. For me that's such an interesting part of Logan's
character that is nearly impossible to explore if you have a kind of league or
team movie."
While most X-Men films have been categorized as "comic
book action adventure," Mangold said this latest entry is more of a
"Japanese noir picture with tentpole action in it."
The Wolverine stars Hugh Jackman, and is scheduled for
release on July 26, 2013.
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