5 Ideas The Wolverine Movie Hopefully Used From The Classic 1982 Mini-Series

3. Do Not Make Another Superhero Story

Wolverine 4 If there€™s one thing the series does exceedingly well is give the reader The Wolverine they know, while at the same time creating a story that feels qualitatively different from stories we€™d seen Wolverine in before. Yes, he still has plenty of badass €˜tude to throw around (one reason a film could work better than the comic is we likely wouldn€™t have to suffer through Logan€™s tough-guy narration €“ honestly, only rappers brag as much), but none of it ever feels like a superhero story. There is exactly one panel where we see the X-Men and that€™s on the last page of the last issue. In fact, even though it€™s set in Japan and Claremont wrote that he set out to write a €œfailed samurai€ story, if there€™s any genre the mini-series belongs to it€™s film noir with its hardboiled narration, duped hero at its center, Miller€™s evocative artwork, and Yukio€™s femme fatale. As such, the comic was not only already incredibly cinematic, but it feels refreshingly different €“ something new - from what we€™d seen before. While hardcore fanboys and corporate mandates may insist on tying this film in with the rest of the Marvel Studios Universe, it seems to me that having the likes of Silver Samurai and Viper in the film is probably a bad idea. If there was one thing X-Men Origins: Wolverine suffered from, it was an unnecessary excess of cameos by other super-powered individuals which may have some appeal to fanboys, but distracts the general audience and only makes them feel like they€™re sitting through their umpteenth superhero flick.
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