It appears that The Wolverine director James Mangold has settled on his next project, and it’s looking like it will mark a reunion of sorts for the helmer and his Oscar-winning Walk the Line star Reese Witherspoon.  THR reports that Witherspoon will star in an adaptation of Ashley Rhodes-Courter’s memoir Three Little Words, which Mangold will produce and direct.  Rhodes-Courter entered the child welfare system in Florida at the age of four, and years later an unpaid volunteer discovered the girl and set out to convince her biological mother to surrender her parental rights so that the teen could begin a new life.

Witherspoon will play the volunteer and Amanda Seyfried is in talks to play the young girl’s biological mother.  The project, written by Lewis Colick (The Fighter) and Michael Petroni, marks a bit of a palate clenser for the versatile Mangold after The Wolverine, but he’s already proven adept at the Western (3:10 to Yuma), biopic (Walk the Line), and action-comedy (Knight and Day) genres so one presumes he’ll do a fine job with the drama-leaning Three Little Words.  Production is hoping to begin this September in Florida.  Hit the jump to read a synopsis for the memoir.

Summer movie season has officially begun with the release of Iron Man 3 this weekend, and now a new poster has landed online for another of this year’s superhero pics.  In the latest trailer for The Wolverine, we caught a glimpse of the villain Silver Samurai.  Given the reveal, director James Mangold has now decided to share a Silver Samurai-centric new poster for the film.  It’s a really swell piece of art that’s in keeping with the Japanese-influenced initial posters for The Wolverine, and I’m interested to see how many more posters like this we’ll be getting.

Hit the jump to check out the poster.  The film stars Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Hiroyuki Sanada, Brian Tee, Rila Fukushima, Tao Okamoto and Svetlana Khodchenkova.  The Wolverine opens on July 26th.

20th Century Fox has released a new trailer for The Wolverine.  This is the footage that was shown a few weeks ago at CinemaCon, a convention for theater owners, and it’s understandably heavy on the action.  Whlie the previous trailers have played up director James Mangold’s Western approach to the story, this one is very much focused on staging The Wolverine as a big summer movie with loads of action and a badass turn from Hugh Jackman.  There are bits and pieces of new footage folded in, with a brief look at Wolverine fighting Silver Samurai and Svetlana Khodchenkova’s Viper seemingly ripping her face off.

Hit the jump to watch the CinemaCon trailer.  The film also stars Will Yun Lee, Hiroyuki Sanada, Brian Tee, Rila Fukushima, Tao Okamoto and Svetlana Khodchenkova.  The Wolverine opens on July 26th.

A new Japanese trailer for director James Mangold’s sequel The Wolverine has made its way online.  The film finds Hugh Jackman’s titular character isolated in modern day Japan where he faces his ultimate nemesis “in a life-or-death battle that will leave him forever changed.”  There are a few bits of new footage to be found in this trailer, including an increased focus on Wolverine’s possible mortality in the face of danger.  The action sequences continue to look impressive, and I’m hoping the reliance on CG is minimal since the most promising stuff in all of the trailers we’ve seen thus far is the tight, hand-to-hand combat scenes.

Hit the jump to watch the trailer.  The film also stars Will Yun Lee, Hiroyuki Sanada, Brian Tee, Rila Fukushima, Tao Okamoto and Svetlana Khodchenkova.  The Wolverine opens on July 26th.

We don’t often feature Sweded trailers here on Collider, but when we do you can bet that they’re worth a watch.  Today’s installment features The Wolverine and came to our attention via director James Mangold himself, who proclaimed the Sweded version “FANTASTIC” over Twitter.  I’m inclined to agree.  Both versions are matched up shot for shot with the Sweded version having to get creative with their special effects on a shoestring budget.  You can check out the original trailer for The Wolverine here and hit the jump to see the Sweded version and a side-by-side comparison.

Starring Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Hiroyuki Sanada, Brian Tee, Rila Fukushima, Tao Okamoto and Svetlana Khodchenkova,  The Wolverine opens on July 26th.

Some new behind-the-scenes images from two highly anticipated summer movies (one in 2013 and one in 2014) have made their way online.  First up, director James Mangold has shared some fascinating behind-the-scenes look at his sequel The Wolverine.  The images give us a look at the big-budget production, specifically unveiling a peek at how Mangold crafted that nifty-looking bullet train action sequence and a couple other interesting scenes.

Additionally, director Marc Webb has shared a rather tantalizing image from the set of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which is currently in production in New York City.  Webb prefaced the photo by noting that it’s a look at some destruction from Jamie Foxx’s Electro, and it appears that the villain will be very skilled at causing fires.  Hit the jump to take a look at the images.  The Wolverine opens in 3D on July 26th and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 hits theaters in 3D on May 2, 2014.

The international trailer for director James Mangold’s sequel The Wolverine was released about a half-hour ago, and now the domestic version is online.  The film finds Hugh Jackman’s titular character isolated in modern day Japan where he faces his ultimate nemesis “in a life-or-death battle that will leave him forever changed.”  The U.S. trailer contains new footage, and while I think the international version is slightly better, both trailers hammer home the “life-or-death battle”. The big difference is that the U.S. version reveals the man offering Wolverine a chance at mortality.

Hit the jump to watch the trailer.  The film also stars Will Yun Lee, Hiroyuki Sanada, Brian Tee, Rila Fukushima, Tao Okamoto and Svetlana Khodchenkova.  The Wolverine opens on July 26th

A new international trailer for director James Mangold’s The Wolverine has been released online. The upcoming film follows the events of X-Men: The Last Stand where a guilt-ridden Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) doesn’t want to live with the curse of immortality, so he’s offered the chance to lose it thanks to a mysterious benefactor.  I really like this premise, although it reminds me a little of this comedy video.  Mangold looks like he’s found a nice balance between action and drama, and I’m eager to see where this story goes.

Hit the jump to watch the international trailer, and click here for the domestic version.  The film also stars Will Yun Lee, Hiroyuki Sanada, Brian Tee, Rila Fukushima, Tao Okamoto and Svetlana Khodchenkova.  The Wolverine opens on July 26th.

20th Century Fox is kicking its marketing campaign for James Mangold’s (3:10 to Yuma) superhero pic The Wolverine into high gear this week, and it all started this morning with a batch of new images and two new posters.  Now comes the continuation of the “trailers for trailers” trend, as Fox has released a six-second teaser for the film’s first trailer on Vine.  It’s basically an incredibly brief flash of a lot of action with zero context, but the film does look to be fairly intense.  Also, is that Jean Grey I spot? Fox will release a 20-second teaser of the trailer tomorrow, and then on Wednesday we get the full first trailer.  Welcome to the future, folks.

Hit the jump to watch the teaser teaser trailer.  The film stars Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Hiroyuki Sanada, Brian Tee, Rila Fukushima, Tao Okamoto and Svetlana Khodchenkova.  The Wolverine opens in 3D on July 26th.

We’ve been getting teased with new images from The Wolverine since September, and three more have arrived online today.  Director James Mangold and star Hugh Jackman have promised that the second Wolverine spinoff will be true to the spirit of the badass character fans have come to know and love.  In fact, in one of the images, which were scanned from Total Film, Jackman is quoted as saying, “It’s the badass Wolverine I know everybody wants to see.”  I’m not sure who we were seeing the last five times (I’ll count the First Class cameo), but no one’s going to turn down seeing that version of the character again.  As for when we might actually see the character in motion, Mangold has tweeted that a sneak peek of the trailer will arrive on March 26th, the 1-minute and 51-second debut trailer will premiere online on the 27th, and the trailer will arrive in 2D and 3D in theaters on the 29th.

Hit the jump to check out the new images.  The film also stars Will Yun Lee, Hiroyuki Sanada, Brian Tee, Rila Fukushima, Tao Okamoto and Svetlana Khodchenkova.  The Wolverine opens in 3D on July 26th. [Update: We've been asked to take the images down.]

Though we should be getting our first look at footage from The Wolverine by way of a debut trailer any day now, director James Mangold has taken to Twitter to share some photos of a few of his actors taken on the final day of principal photography.  It’s admittedly not much, but seeing as how we’ve only seen a couple of images of Hugh Jackman as the titular character thus far, it’s nice to see the film’s other castmembers Rila Fukushima and Tao Okamoto.  Fukushima plays Yukio in the film, while Okamoto plays Logan’s love interest Mariko.

Hit the jump to take a look at the black-and-white photos.  The film also stars Will Yun Lee, Hiroyuki Sanada, Brian Tee, and Svetlana Khodchenkova.  The Wolverine opens in 3D on July 26th.

Director James Mangold has unveiled a new image from the set of The Wolverine, and in case you had somehow forgotten, this photo is a nice reminder that Hugh Jackman lifted bunches of weights in preparation for the film.  The title character looks to be hanging out on a fairly gorgeous beach in Omishima, Japan, but I doubt a moment of luxury is in the cards for The Wolverine.  Mangold said that the scene in question involved the character chopping some wood, and this set image makes a nice contrast with the darker, nighttime official image that was released yesterday.

Hit the jump to take a look at the set photo.  The film also stars Will Yun Lee, Hiroyuki Sanada, Brian Tee, Rila Fukushima, Tao Okamoto and Svetlana Khodchenkova.  The Wolverine opens in 3D on July 26th.

While James Mangold’s The Wolverine doesn’t open in theaters until July, fans have been curious about when we’ll see the first footage from the Hugh Jackman starrer.  There were rumors that the first trailer would play in front of this week’s release A Good Day to Die Hard, but sources at Fox tell us that this is not the case.  The studio is targeting a trailer release in late March, with a possibility of it airing in front of G.I. Joe: Retaliation, though nothing has been confirmed.  Mangold himself mentioned on Twitter today that the marketing would indeed start in late March.

The Wolverine opens July 26th.  Hit the jump for our latest coverage on The Wolverine, including images, posters, interviews and more.

There is good reason to hope The Wolverine will improve on the mediocrity of the last two entries in the X-Men series.  [Edit: Meant the last two Wolverine-centric X-Men movies, The Last Stand and Origins.  I really liked First Class.]  That hope can be explained with one word: Japan.  A unique setting is a great way to stand out among the countless comic book movies, and the Japan arc is well-loved by fans of the comic.  Director James Mangold is thrilled that he gets to take the character to Japan:

“The wonderful opportunity for me with this film is that 90 percent of it takes place in Japan, and even though other elements remain constant from the other pictures, namely Hugh Jackman, we kind of got our chance to reboot the tone and go a little darker and a little deeper than they’ve gone before with this character.”

Hit the jump for more from Mangold, including what he plans to do with the Japan setting and his approach to releasing footage (he says the first trailer is coming “soon”).

There’s a pretty hefty round of superhero films headed our way in 2013, with Iron Man, Superman, and Thor all set to grace theaters with their own separate films, and many are eagerly looking forward to the return of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine in the sequel The Wolverine.  The film is in an odd position because it’s not a reboot, but it’s also not closely tied to either X-Men Origins: Wolverine or any of the other X-Men films.

A number of exciting directors flirted with the Wolverine gig over the course of its development, but 3:10 to Yuma helmer James Mangold won out in the end.  The Knight and Day filmmaker recently spoke at length about The Wolverine, discussing how closely it follows the Chris Claremont/Frank Miller comics arc, its relation to the other X-Men films, why it was important for the film to take place after the events of X-Men: The Last Stand, and much more.  Hit the jump to see what he had to say.