The Wolverine Lands Director James Mangold

James Mangold set to direct The Wolverine
James Mangold set to direct The Wolverine
Walk the Line and Knight and Day director James Mangold has signed on to helm Twentieth Century Fox's The Wolverine, which has been on the prowl for a director since Darren Aronofsky dropped off the project in March.

Other directors who had been circling the project include Gavin O'Connor, Antoine Fuqua and Doug Liman.

James Mangold will direct from a script by Christopher McQuarrie, which takes place mostly in Japan.

No production date has been set.

The Wolverine comes to theaters July 26th, 2013 and stars Hugh Jackman, Famke Janssen, Will Yun Lee, Brian Tee, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima. The film is directed by James Mangold.



Sources: Variety

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Comments (33)

  1. Lautarous

    James Mangold has a variety of bad and good films. His last two were mediocre. So, I'm not convinced . . . not one bit.

    2 years agoby @LautarousFlag

  2. Silas Enterprises

    Not sure how this is going to end but I will try to keep an open mind.

    2 years agoby @Silas-EnterprisesFlag

  3. Ryan Moran

    awesome make the movie

    2 years agoby @nightwing18Flag

  4. Nautical

    Finally, so much director trouble.

    2 years agoby @nautical05Flag

  5. Dan

    @johnnyblazetb82 Scientologist acting? lol

    2 years agoby @dan1Flag

  6. The First Avenger: JohnnyBlaze

    could be worse i guess. Knight and Day was a bomb due to in part to the sappy overedone plot and the horrible scientologist acting.

    2 years agoby @johnnyblazetb82Flag

  7. Bane5000

    3:10 to Yuma was an awesome movie, but Kight and Day brings down my expectations for this director

    ...i say again...WHY ARONOFSKY, WHY , WHY DID U HAVE TO GO LOL

    2 years agoby @bane5000Flag

  8. moviegeek

    This won't work any better than the first time around. Oh well, I have no extreme interest in this one.

    2 years agoby @moviegeekFlag

  9. Mutant

    I'm going off subject, as of yesterday the Star Gate franchise has been shelved. All future projects are no longer happening, but it's going to be auctioned off.

    2 years agoby @zenderFlag

  10. Salem6777

    well this movie is f*cked

    2 years agoby @Salem6777Flag

  11. CUPID

    Okay.

    2 years agoby @cupidFlag

  12. Rufio

    of all the spinoffs and sequels i am least excited about this one.

    2 years agoby @rufioFlag

  13. Mutant

    I enjoyed Knight and Day, I just hope he does a great job.

    2 years agoby @zenderFlag

  14. Zak Lee Ferguson

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    2 years agoby @Zak-Lee-FergusonFlag

  15. m2

    Good choice. He has done great work except for Knight & Day.

    2 years agoby @m2Flag

  16. ejk1

    Alright.

    2 years agoby @ejk1Flag

  17. bud2fresh

    Nice ! Can't wait till they start shooting :)

    2 years agoby @bud2freshFlag

  18. thedude-abides

    I said he was the only name in consideration that would be satisfactory after losing Aronofsky. Glad to see this movie back in the hands of one of the better directors in the business.

    2 years agoby @thedude-abidesFlag

  19. Disciple419

    This dude's career is all over the place. His movies are all very different so I don't know what to expect. I didn't hate the first Wolverine but I hope this one will be a little less colorful. Logan didn't have that attitude like the XMen movies. They need it to come back.

    2 years agoby @disciple419Flag

  20. Daveactor7

    Excellent! I told you he was gonna get it!

    2 years agoby @daveactor7Flag

  21. Cripple

    Out of the short list they had, I think he is the best choice. Will it be anything like Aronofsky's? No. But it should not be. I don't want to see anyone try and make the same movie Aronofsky would and mess it up. I am looking forward to seeing Mangolds vision of it.

    2 years agoby @crippleFlag

  22. HighCaliberINC

    I like how movieweb mentions "walk the line" and "knight and day" -Are you serious ?? The director of "knight and day" is supposed to make me excited about him directing Wolverine. Good job movieweb. Leave it to everyone else to mention that he did "3:10 to yuma" which was great. ..and does anyone else remember "cop land" ? -it was a while ago, but i remember it being pretty good as well. -anyway, we'll see what happens i guess

    2 years agoby @highcaliberincFlag

  23. Josh

    No real opinion about this. I really enjoyed Walk the Line and Yuma, like everyone else here. But I was so excited for Aronofsky that it wouldn't have mattered who they got. This project has kind of just deflated from my radar for the time being.

    2 years agoby @shuabertFlag

  24. fanboy

    Not a bad choice.

    2 years agoby @fanboyFlag

  25. Nicholaus XX

    This will be awesome ! I love 'Walk The Line' and '3:10 To Yuma' was a really, really good movie.This guy knows how to make a movie suspenseful/tense, which is exactly what we need for 'The Wolverine'.

    2 years agoby @XxNickTheFilmCriticXxFlag

  26. T.Clark

    3:10 to Yuma was great. I haven't seen his other movies. He's no Darren Aronofsky, though. He was perfect. We'll see how this plays out.

    2 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag

  27. Agent-Cooper

    A good alternative. Walk The Line and 3:10 To Yuma are both great movies (I havent seen Knight and Day) so this could very well turn out to be a good flick after all..

    2 years agoby @Agent-CooperFlag

  28. Photoman

    I don't know........

    2 years agoby @photomanFlag

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