Merrick here...
THE WOLVERINE, the sequel to 2009's X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE, has set a release date - 26 July, 2013.
Hugh Jackman returns to the Logan/"Wolverine" role he assumed in the first three X-MEN films, with James Mangold (COP LAND, KNIGHT AND DAY, 3:10 TO YUMA, and WALK THE LINE) directing. Christopher McQuarrie (WAY OF THE GUN, THE USUAL SUSPECTS) is scripting - LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD's Mark Bomback also worked the screenplay. Bomback is also a scripter on Len Wiseman's forthcoming TOTAL RECALL reinterpretation.
THE WOLVERINE is finds Logan in something of a forbidden love, and squaring off against Silver Samurai.
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