James Mangold has frequently stated that The Wolverine will be influenced by more than just the X-Men comics, and has taken to his Twitter feed to make his point in picture form.
The director tweeted a series of images from ten films that have influenced him while making The Wolverine , and very interesting reading they make too.
You can see all 10 below, and for a bit of amusement, you can see how many you recognise. They’re not labelled you see… there’s at least ten minutes of fun right there!
Take a look at the images below…
I'm posting images from films that inspired / influenced THE WOLVERINE. Name the movies. Even better, go see them. twitter.com/mang0ld/status… March 2, 2013
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Last Image #10. (and if you don't know it, its just too sad and I ain't telling you.) twitter.com/mang0ld/status… March 2, 2013
For those of you wondering, those images are from…
1) Chungking Express
2) The Outlaw Josey Wales
3) The Samurai Trilogy
4) Floating Weeds
5) Black Narcissus
6) Happy Together
7) 13 Assassins
8) The French Connection
9) Chinatown
10) Shane
Co-starring Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee and Rila Fukushima, The Wolverine will open in the UK on 26 July 2013.
