Wolverine: The way of the warrior

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Movie
German title Wolverine: The way of the warrior
Original title The Wolverine
Wolverine Way of the Warrior.png
Country of production United States ,
United Kingdom
original language English , Japanese
Publishing year 2013
length 125 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director James Mangold
script Scott Frank ,
Mark Bomback
production Hugh Jackman ,
John Palermo
Hutch Parker ,
Lauren Shuler Donner
music Marco Beltrami
camera Ross Emery
cut Michael McCusker
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
X-Men: First decision

Successor  →
X-Men: The future is the past

Wolverine: Weg des Kriegers (Original title: The Wolverine ) is an offshoot of the comic book adaptation series X-Men and after X-Men Origins: Wolverine the second single adaptation of the title character. The plot follows on from the events of X-Men: The Last Stand . Wolverine: Weg des Kriegers had its world premiere in London on July 16, 2013 and was released in Germany on July 25, 2013. The film, which was also released in converted 3D , is based on a story by Frank Miller and Chris Claremont . With Logan - The Wolverine a sequel was released in March 2017.

action

During the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, the prisoner of war Logan alias Wolverine saves the life of the Japanese officer Ichiro Yashida. Yashida witnesses how the mutant's completely burned skin regenerates within a short time.

Many years later, after the events in X-Men: The Last Stand , Logan lives as a hermit in the Canadian wilderness. Visions of his great love Jean Gray haunt him and memories of having to kill her plague him. Finally, the young Japanese girl, Yukio, locates him and invites him to Tokyo. Yashida, suffering from cancer, who has now built up a powerful corporate empire, is dying and would like to personally say goodbye to Logan.

Reluctantly, Logan travels with her to Tokyo, where he meets Yashida's son Shingen and his daughter Mariko. Yashida offers Logan to rid him of his immortality so that he can lead a normal life. The Japanese wants to transfer Logan's self-healing powers to himself in order to cure his cancer. In the laboratory, Logan sees two containers filled with a liquid, in each of which a mechanical-looking parasite is swimming.

Logan refuses and decides to leave the next day. But during the night Yashida's doctor instills something into him, which Logan dismisses as a dream. When he finally found out the next morning that Yashida had died that night, he attended the funeral. During the ceremony, Yakuza try to kidnap Mariko. Supported by the ninja Harada, whose clan is indebted to the Yashida family, Logan and Mariko manage to escape. In doing so, he notices that his self-healing powers are weakening. After repelling another attack by the yakuza in a Shinkansen express train, the two seek refuge in a love hotel. While Mariko is sleeping, Logan keeps vigil on the balcony until he passes out after another vision of Jean.

When he wakes up, Mariko is having his wounds tended by the hotel owner's grandson, a prospective veterinarian. In the meantime, Harada meets with Yashida's doctor, who reveals herself to be a mutant named Viper. After a brief demonstration of her mutant power - an immunity to poisons and the ability to transfer them by touch or to heal them again - she orders Logan and Mariko to be located. She tells him that she suppressed Logan's self-healing powers to make it easier to capture.

At Yashida's old house in Nagasaki, Logan and Mariko eventually grow closer, and Logan tells Mariko about his past. In the meantime, Yukio has a vision of Logan's imminent death and immediately sets off to warn him. Shortly before their arrival, Mariko is kidnapped by Shingen's henchmen, whereupon Logan and Yukio go straight to Mariko's fiancé, Justice Minister Noburo Mori. During the interrogation, he finally confesses that Yashida's will is in favor of Mariko as his heir and not Shingen, which is why the latter had put the Yakuza killers on her.

Shingen, who is holding Mariko prisoner in the Yashida mansion, is attacked by Harada and his ninjas, who finally manage to take Mariko away. When Logan and Yukio arrive there, Logan notices that the two containers with the parasites are empty. With the X-ray machine, he finds out that one of the parasites has attached itself to his heart, which is also the reason for his dwindling self-healing powers. While cutting himself open to remove the parasite, Shingen attacks the two. However, Yukio manages to fend off him long enough until Logan, who has suffered cardiac arrest in the meantime, is back on his feet and can finally kill him.

Logan then follows Mariko's trail to Yashida's home village, where the Yashida group's laboratory is located. However, the ninjas guarding the village turn out to be too numerous. They manage to capture Logan, who has regained his old strength. In the laboratory, Viper reveals to him that it was she who wanted to rob him of his immortality. She also introduces him to the "Silver Samurai", a giant machine made from adamantium.

Meanwhile, Mariko talks to Harada, who still believes he is protecting her. She manages to deceive him, injure him, flee and free Logan. Harada, realizing that he has chosen the wrong path, helps the two of them, but is shortly afterwards killed by the Silver Samurai. Now Yukio has also reached the scene. While Wolverine is fighting the Silver Samurai, after a tough fight, she succeeds in killing Viper.

The samurai, who can charge his Adamantium sword with energy, cuts off Wolverine's Adamantium claws during the fight. Logan manages to behead the samurai with one of his own swords, but he falls out of a hole in the outside wall of the building. Shortly before he crashes, he is held by the Silver Samurai, who was believed to be dead. This begins to extract Logan's self-healing power from the claw stumps. He reveals himself to be Yashida, who is still alive, who is inside the Silver Samurai and who is still after Wolverine's forces. While Yashida is getting younger and younger and Logan is getting noticeably weaker, Mariko manages to stab Logan's severed adamantium claws in the skull and neck. Logan takes the opportunity and gives him the fatal blow with his regrown bone claws, so that Yashida and his armor fall into the abyss.

Eventually Logan collapses and has one last vision in which he says goodbye to Jean, since he has now made his peace with himself. When he decides to let her go, Jean replies that she is now "all alone here".

Mariko becomes the new owner of Yashida Corporation and says goodbye to Logan at the airport. Yukio announces that she will not leave his side as Logan's "bodyguard", and both leave.

Two years later, during the credits, Logan is standing at an airport metal detector. A monitor shows advertisements for the company "Trask Industries", which is making groundbreaking advances in robot technology (a reference to the Sentinels from the film X-Men: Future is Past ). Magneto and Charles Xavier arrive and tell him that dark times are ahead.

production

Trailer
Lead actor and producer Hugh Jackman (2012)

Like the rest of the X-Men series, the film is being marketed by 20th Century Fox . With a budget of at least $ 100 million, Wolverine: Path of the Warrior was filmed in Australia and Japan from July 30th to November 21st, 2012. The film was originally supposed to be shot in spring 2012; However, after leading actor Hugh Jackman was needed to shoot Les Misérables at the scheduled time , the start of shooting for Wolverine: The Warrior's Way was postponed.

The original scriptwriter was Simon Beaufoy , who previously wrote the script for Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours , among other things . However, this refused. Instead, the script was co-produced by Christopher McQuarrie , who also worked on X-Men , and Mark Bomback .

Hugh Jackman , again actor in the title role, produced the film through his Seed Productions production company with John Palermo , Hutch Parker and Lauren Shuler Donner . To embody Wolverine, Jackman had to change his diet and eat six meals a day for six months before filming, which totaled 6,000 kilocalories . The distributor confirmed James Mangold as director in May 2011 . Bryan Singer , director of the previous films X-Men and X-Men 2 , declined in advance to direct Wolverine: Way of the Warrior . Instead, he directed X-Men: The Future Is Past . Guillermo del Toro initially showed interest in the Wolverine film adaptation , but after talks with Jim Gianopulos , CEO of 20th Century Fox, and Hugh Jackman , he distanced himself from the project because he did not want to work on Wolverine: The Warrior's Way for three years . The 22-track soundtrack was created by Marco Beltrami.

In July 2012, numerous supporting actor casts were announced: It was announced that Hiroyuki Sanada would play Wolverine's enemy Shingen, Hal Yamanouchi would be seen as Yashida, Tao Okamoto would play Shingen's daughter Mariko, and that Rila Fukushima would play the ninja Yukio.

On October 29, 2012, Jackman and Mangold offered fans a personal chat about the film on YouTube and on the official website. Less than five months later, the first trailer for Wolverine: Path of the Warrior was released.

synchronization

The German synchronization was for a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Tobias Meister on behalf of Interopa Film GmbH in Berlin .

role actor Voice actor
Logan / Wolverine Hugh Jackman Thomas Nero Wolff
Mariko Yashida Tao Okamoto Anita Hopt
Yukio Rila Fukushima Rubina Nath
Shingen Yashida Hiroyuki Sanada Marcus Off
viper Svetlana Khodchenkova Katharina Spiering
Yashida / Silver Samurai Hal Yamanouchi Fumio Okura
Kenuichio Harada Will Yun Lee Nico Sablik
Dr. Jean Gray Famke Janssen Christin Marquitan
Noburo Mori Brian tea Nicolas Boell
Charles Xavier / Professor X Patrick Stewart Rolf Schult
Erik Lensherr / Magneto Ian McKellen Jürgen Thormann

reception

Reviews

Wolverine: Way of the Warrior received mixed reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rating of 69% and Metacritic 60 out of 100 points.

Josephine Drews criticizes “the soft-boiled story”, which “cannot exploit its potential”. Thomas Zimmer also criticizes "[T] the weak script [...] which does not dare to explore the original premise in detail and instead relies on worn-out Japanese clichés and meaningless confrontations". For this he praises "[T] he idea of ​​placing the superhero as the protagonist in a yakuza thriller". Dietmar Dath thinks the film is the best Wolverine adaptation of the series to date.

Gross profit

Box office earnings [million]
territory U.S$ € CHF
world world 414.8 347.4 374.3
Production costs 120 100.5 108.3
United StatesUnited States United States Canada
CanadaCanada  		132.6 111.1 119.7
GermanyGermany Germany 11.7 9.8 10.6
AustriaAustria Austria 1.4 1.2 1.3
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland Not available
(Access date: February 1, 2015)

The film grossed around $ 132.3 million in the United States. Outside the USA, around $ 273.5 million in box office income was generated.

In 2013, 890,306 visitors were counted at the German box office nationwide, making the film the 38th place of the most visited films of the year.

Web links

Individual evidence

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