{"id":9225,"date":"2013-07-25T08:17:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T15:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=9225"},"modified":"2013-07-25T08:17:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T15:17:35","slug":"flashback-jackman-and-mangold-before-the-wolverine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2013\/07\/flashback-jackman-and-mangold-before-the-wolverine.html","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Jackman and Mangold before The Wolverine<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>Tonight marks the release of The Wolverine<\/a><\/i>, the sixth installment in the X-Men<\/a><\/i> franchise and the sixth film to feature Hugh Jackman as the self-healing Canadian mutant with the retractable adamantium claws.<\/p>\n

The Wolverine<\/i> is also the second film, following X-Men Origins: Wolverine<\/a><\/i> (2009), to feature the title character as a stand-alone protagonist, and one fun bit of trivia is that both of the stand-alone movies have represented a reunion of sorts between Jackman and one of his key collaborators on the time-travelling romantic comedy Kate & Leopold<\/a><\/i> (2001). The first film co-starred Liev Schreiber as Wolverine\u2019s half-brother; he had previously played Jackman\u2019s great-great-grandson in Kate & Leopold<\/i>. And now, the second film is directed by James Mangold, who directed Kate & Leopold<\/i>. (If there\u2019s a third Wolverine<\/i> film, perhaps it will co-star Meg Ryan?)<\/p>\n

So, to mark the occasion, I have re-posted the review<\/a> of Kate & Leopold<\/i> that I wrote way back when. Incidentally, the version of that film that was shown to critics was different from the version that was released to theatres<\/a> a week or two later \u2014 and, among other things, the theatrical version of the film deleted a few of the scenes that I focused on in my review, including the scene that I based my entire first paragraph on. I believe both versions of the film have since been released on DVD<\/a>, though.<\/p>\n

I also had the opportunity to interview Mangold on the press junket for the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line<\/a><\/i> (2005); I spoke to that film\u2019s co-stars Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon, as well. You can read my junket report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t seem to have written formal reviews of any of the X-Men<\/i> movies, apart from a few paragraphs in a film column<\/a> on the prequels or quasi-prequels of 2009. (The column also looked at Star Trek<\/a><\/i> and Terminator: Salvation<\/a><\/i>.) I did, however, write a blog post on the possible political subtexts<\/a> to X-Men: The Last Stand<\/i> (2006).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To mark the release of The Wolverine<\/i>, a look back at previous James Mangold films Walk the Line<\/i> and Kate & Leopold<\/i> — the latter of which starred the Wolverine himself, Hugh Jackman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1326,1325,1323,1336,403,1328,1333,1077,1335,1334],"class_list":["post-9225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-hugh-jackman","tag-james-mangold","tag-kate-and-leopold","tag-liev-schreiber","tag-terminator","tag-walk-the-line","tag-wolverine-2013","tag-x-men","tag-x-men-origins-wolverine","tag-x-men-the-last-stand"],"yoast_head":"\nFlashback: Jackman and Mangold before The Wolverine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"To mark the release of The Wolverine, a look back at previous James Mangold films Walk the Line and Kate & Leopold -- the latter of which starred the Wolverine himself, Hugh Jackman.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2013\/07\/flashback-jackman-and-mangold-before-the-wolverine.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Flashback: Jackman and Mangold before The Wolverine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"To mark the release of The Wolverine, a look back at previous James Mangold films Walk the Line and Kate & Leopold -- the latter of which starred the Wolverine himself, Hugh Jackman.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2013\/07\/flashback-jackman-and-mangold-before-the-wolverine.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-07-25T15:17:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/files\/2013\/07\/wolverine-mangoldjackman-300x175.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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