RELATED: Hugh Jackman says he never used steroids to play Wolverine reveals 'Deadpool 3' timeline Chatting with SYFY WIRE over Zoom, The Wolverine cinematographer Ross Emery states that Mangold wanted to deviate 'from the traditional, Bryan Singer X-Men world. We were taking the character into a new environment and also placing the character into a much less superhero kind of situation.' The studio ended up choosing James Mangold (no stranger to character or action following his work on Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma, and Knight and Day) to helm Hugh Jackman's second standalone adventure as James 'Logan' Howlett. Three decades after its initial publication, the storyline loosely made its way to the big screen in The Wolverine ( now streaming on Peacock), which - along with X-Men: First Class - helped reinvigorate the public's interest in the Fox franchise after the critical disappointments of X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. In the early 1980s, writer Chris Claremont and artist Frank Miller joined their immense comic book forces for Wolverine's first solo adventure, which took the mutton-chopped mutant to the ancient shores of Japan.
