While we await a trailer for the film, director James Mangold has revealed a list (via his Twitter) of ten films that inspired and influenced The Wolverine. It’s a pretty interesting list that you can check out below.
Chunking Express
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Samurai Trilogy
Floating Weeds
Black Narcissus
Happy Together
13 Assassins
The French Connection
Chinatown
Shane
Based on the celebrated comic book arc, this epic action-adventure takes Wolverine, the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day Japan. Out of his depth in an unknown world he faces his ultimate nemesis 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, emerging more powerful than we have ever seen him before.
The Wolverine slashes into theaters July 26, 2013.