The Wolverine Finally Gets A Release Date - What Will It Be Up Against?

[Brendon Connelly]

James Mangold's X-sequel The Wolverine is yet to start production, but it seems that Fox are confident they've lined their ducks up nicely this time as they've set an official release date.

Get your diary. The one you haven't bought yet. And use pencil just in case. Here it is: July 23rd, 2013.

So what does this set the film against?

At the moment, no other film has that exact release date. This may be because The Hollywood Reporter have mistakenly listed a Tuesday when they actually meant the Friday, the 26th. That does seem to be the case, as they specifically acknowledge the two films already set to open on that weekend - the Dirty Dancing remake and Disney's big screen spin on Phineas and Ferb.

Its being assumed that neither of those will put up much of a fight for the same audience, though I can see some crossover between Dirty Dancing and a Hugh Jackman movie.

The nearest "sci-fi or fantasy" film is Joseph Kosinski's The Movie Previously Known As Horizons, Or Even More Previously As Oblivion, with Tom Cruise. That one is set for the previous week, the 19th.

If this were politics, the slur campaigns would be vicious. Disney would start with "From the director of Knight and Day", Fox would counter with "From the director of Tron: Legacy", and back would come "The Sequel To Wolverine: X-Men Origins."

[Mad_Man_Moon]

The Wolverine Finally Gets A Release Date - What Will It Be Up Against?

I'm going with fanboy hatred. But it's anyone's guess, I suppose.

[Roman]

Actually, I like the concept of a standalone Wolverine movie (i.e., it's not a direct sequel to the relentlessly "meh" Origins), but my money is going to Phineas and Ferb.

[WeaponX2099]

WOW Phineas and Ferb's got a big screen movie! Oh yeah, yay Wolverine.

[Matt Spatola]

I just loving saying 'Ferb'.

[Dans07sti]

Id rather see a cyclops movie. We already have wolverine origins.

[ahlhelm]

Id rather see a cyclops movie. We already have wolverine origins.

James Marsden by himself would be terrible. The biggest problem with the original X-Men ensemble is that only Wolverine could ever support his own film. That's what happens when you make the franchise so totally focused on him.

That being said, Wolverine deserves a good solo film... so hopefully this will actually be it.

[Maniacmatt]

I was going to say it can't get worse, but I said that after X3 and it got worse.

[ahlhelm]

I was going to say it can't get worse, but I said that after X3 and it got worse.

Watch what you say or it will literally just be a movie with two characters running at each other for 2 straight hours.

[_OM_]

Watch what you say or it will literally just be a movie with two characters running at each other for 2 straight hours.

...Which will be about 11 minutes more than Ang Li's pathetic version of The Hulk, but with at least some recognizable blood-n-guts here and there.