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First Look: Prequel Gets Its Claws Into ‘Wolverine’
As if a guy with temper issues, iron blades for fingernails and a penchant for cage fighting needed it, Wolverine is about to get even surlier.
“I know it seems odd given, you know, the guy is already half animal,” says Hugh Jackman, who revives the character in Wolverine, due in theaters May 1, 2009. “But with all the success of the X-Men, you feel the pressure to keep pushing it further.”
Jackman, also a producer on the film, says he never expected the story of mutants trying to fit in “to catch on the way it did.” (Since the first film hit screens in 2000, the X-Men franchise has taken in more than $1.1 billion worldwide.) “But I became a fan of Wolverine like everyone else. That’s why I keep holding on to the character.”
Wolverine will be a prequel to the X-Men saga. It will center on the origins of the superhero with animal-like reflexes, an alloy skeletal system and the ability to heal from virtually any wound. He also could use a friend.
