It’s the role that turned Hugh Jackman into a worldwide overnight sensation. But it’s still a shock to realize that Jackman has been playing the ferocious mutant hero Wolverine for 14 years and in seven movies since his Hollywood debut in 2000’s “X-Men.”
Comic book movies now regularly dominate the box office, but this wasn’t always the case. Many may forget now, but director Bryan Singer’s “X-Men,” released in 2000 and based on the wildly popular Marvel Comics property about a heroic band of super-powered mutants, helped pave the way for the phalanx of super-hero flicks which came after it.
At this point in his uncanny evolution as an artist, Hugh Jackman is known as an astonishingly versatile actor, who sang his way to an Oscar nomination as noble Jean Valjean in 2012’s “Les Misérables,” controlled robots as Charlie Kenton in 2011’s “Real Steel,” and performed sleight-of-hand as Robert Angier in 2006’s “The Prestige.”
THERE will be special screenings of “The Wolverine” exclusively for 2bU and 2bUltimate readers on July 27, 7:30 p.m., at Robinsons Galleria Cinema 4; and on July 29, 8 p.m., at Glorietta 4 Cinema 2.
There will be special screenings of “The Wolverine” exclusively for 2bU and 2bUltimate readers on July 27, 7:30 p.m., at Robinsons Galleria Cinema 4; and on July 29, 8 p.m., at Glorietta 4 Cinema 2.
