Although an official trailer is still a little ways out, director James Mangold has offered some pretty insightful info on what's in store for his take on The Wolverine

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One thing we haven't seen much from Hugh Jackman's Logan in any of the previous films is the character's "berserker rage," a trait depicted in the comics as a state of pure, animalistic aggression in close combat.In a recent interview with MTV , Mangold confirmed that the rage will make an appearance in his movie. "The whole point is not about violence or rating; it's about intensity," he explained. "I wanted to make a film that in a way captures the intensity of his character. One of the things that has always been a feature of Wolverine in the comics is that he has a berserker rage, that he has anger and some of his abilities are driven by something more primal... Honestly, to get really pissed off -- not cute pissed off, not quippy pissed off, not funny pissed off or cigar-chomping pissed off, just pissed off -- that can then help drive the fighting, drive the combat. That is interesting for me and then for the character, some of the jet fuel underneath some of the combat in the film."Additionally, Mangold described the darker tone of the film, comparing it to traditional Japanese cinema. "There is a significant amount of Japanese spoken in the movie, and the cast is almost entirely Japanese," he continued. "So there is this wonderful sense of cross-pollination between a very Western character and a far Eastern culture, and I think it's very cool and something we haven't seen so far... I think there is a lot of ways that Japanese film, Japanese fighting, Japanese martial arts have had an effect on this movie. And certainly the movie is dripping with Japanese tradition both cinematically, fighting-wise and philosophically as well."The Wolverine SNIKTs into theaters July 26.

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