Ever since this totally awesome motion poster for The Wolverine came out fans have been waiting on pins and needles for a full blown trailer. This week it finally arrived. Hugh Jackman is back as one of the X-Men’s most formidable members in a standalone installment directed by James Mangold. Here’s the official synopsis:
Based on the celebrated comic book arc, this epic action-adventure takes Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern-day Japan. Out of his depth in an unknown world, he will face a host of unexpected and deadly opponents in a life-or-death battle that will leave him forever changed. Vulnerable for the first time and pushed to his physical and emotional limits, he confronts not only lethal samurai steel but also his inner struggle against his own immortality.
The Wolverine hits theatres July 26. After the break catch the international trailer that plays out quite differently than what you see here.
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Wolverine director James Mangold preceded these trailers with a six-second “tweaser” on Twitter via Vine. Watch that here. Below, the movie’s latest poster.
Here we have a new international trailer for Kick-Ass 2 which focuses on everyone’s favorite little ass-kicker Hit-Girl. Chloë Moretz truly does kick ass in this role. Opens August 16.
Trailer #2 for World War Z starring Brad Pitt battling a zombie outbreak on a worldwide scale is even better than our first peek at the film adaptation of Max Brooks’ popular novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. Frankly the stakes are higher (see the scenes with Pitt’s family) and the action is more gripping (see the final sequence in the airplane). Opens June 21.
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