WHO’S IN IT?
Hugh Jackman (Real Steel), Patrick Stewart (Star Trek: Generations), Boyd Holbrook (A Walk Among The Tombstones), Richard E. Grant (Jackie), Stephen Merchant (Hall Pass), Dafne Keen (film debut), Eriq La Salle (Johnny Was), Elise Neal (Hustle & Flow), Elizabeth Rodriguez (Miami Vice), Doris Morgado (2 Guns)
WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?
James Mangold (Walk the Line), director, writer; Michael Green (Green Lantern) and Scott Frank (Minority Report), writers; Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Days of Future Past), Hutch Parker (The Wolverine) and Lauren Shuler Donner (Deadpool), producers; Marco Beltrami (The Hurt Locker), composer; John Mathieson (Gladiator), cinematographer; Michael McCusker (3:10 To Yuma) and Dirk Westervelt (Men of Honour), editors
WHAT’S IT ABOUT?
In the near future, mutants are all but extinct and the X-Men have disbanded. Logan, aka Wolverine (Jackman), is working a quiet job as a chauffeur, and also looks after an ailing Charles Xavier (Stewart), whilst also struggling with his self-healing powers slowly fading away. One day, a female stranger asks Logan to drive a young girl named Laura (Keen) up to the Canadian border, a task he at first refuses until Xavier reveals he has been waiting for her. As the three of them are pursued by sinister figures working for a large corporation, young Laura reveals abilities that are very much like that of Logan’s, leaving him to figure out how to save her if it comes at a very personal sacrifice…
IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?
It’s time for Hugh Jackman to put on the claws one more time, but as this is the actor’s final appearance as everyone’s favourite mutant, they’ve gone all out to make this the most violent, adult and dramatic Wolverine film – or better yet, X-Men film – ever.
