Hugh Michael Jackman, also known as Hugh Jackman, is an Australian actor born on October 12, 1968. He began his career in theater and television before landing his breakout role as Wolverine / Logan in the X-Men film series from 2000 to 2017, earning him the Guinness World Record for ‘longest career as a live-action Marvel superhero.’
The Wolverine is a 2013 superhero movie featuring Wolverine from Marvel Comics. It is the sixth movie in the X-Men movie series, the second in the Wolverine film trilogy after X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), and a spin-off/sequel to X-Men: The Last Stand (2006).
Hugh Jackman stars as Logan / Wolverine, alongside Rila Fukushima, Tao Okamoto, Hiroyuki Sanada, Famke Janssen, and Will Yun Lee. The film is directed by James Mangold from a screenplay written by Scott Frank and Mark Bomback and based on the 1982 limited series Wolverine by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller.
Logan travels to Japan after the events of X-Men: The Last Stand, where he fights an old acquaintance in a battle that has long-term ramifications. Wolverine is stripped of his healing abilities and forced to fight deadly samurai while grappling with guilt over Jean Grey’s death.
After the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009, the movie’s development began. In August 2009, Christopher McQuarrie was contracted to develop a script for The Wolverine. Darren Aronofsky was hired to direct the movie in October 2010. Following Aronofsky’s departure and the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, the production was put on hold. Mangold was hired to take over for Aronofsky in June 2011. The movie grossed $414 million worldwide, making it the franchise’s fifth highest-grossing picture.
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