He's getting angry! Hugh Jackman flexes his ample muscles and unleashes his rage in new Wolverine posters
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His character has a fiery temperament and Hugh Jackman is unleashing his anger as Wolverine in the latest poster for the new film.
The actor is pictured kneeling on the floor in an alley way with his shirt off and his muscles flexed.
Hugh is letting out a scream and throwing his head back with his arms stretched out and his claws on show.
Ripped and toned: Hugh Jackman flexes his muscles as she screams out in anger as Wolverine in a poster for the new film
The actor shows off his gym-honed shape and has his impressive biceps, abdominal muscles and pectorals on display.
In another picture Hugh is seen with his arms crossed over his torso and his claws take centre stage.
The 44-year-old sports is raging and the veins are popping out of his neck as he screams.
Eye-popping: The 44-year-old actor has veins popping out of his neck in another new poster for the film
Arty: A previous poster for the movie shows a Japanese-inspired image
It might be more than 12 years since Hugh first took on the role of the enraged superhero but he is looking in the shape of his life.
The new posters come after a series of the film's stills were released earlier this month.
The film bosses are teasing fans with imagery from the flick ahead of its release in July.
Ready for action: New film stills show Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in what appears to be a Japanese garden
Other new stills from the forthcoming picture promise a similar dose of action to the franchise, with Jackman photographed soaked to the skin in the rain on a ship, looking at what appears to be a robot.
Another picture shows him in the snow against a backdrop of Japanese houses and red lanterns.
The plot to the hotly anticipated film has been kept closely under wraps but is believed to follow Logan travelling to Japan where he engages in a fight from a character from his past.
As well as training with a samurai warrior, Logan will fight against the Yakuza, a corrupt minister of justice, and he will watch his fiancé fall into the arms of his enemy.
Robotic: One still shows Jackman's Wolverinme coming across a mysterious entity on a ship
Snow bound: Hugh is seen in his superhero guise investigating a snowy Japanese town
With a reported budget of $100million, director James Mangold has opted to begin the film where 2006 movie X-Men: The Last Stand ended.
X Men: Origins Wolverine was released back in 2009 and followed the beginnings of the character, as well as introduce Marvel comic favourites The Deadpool and Gambit.
And Jackman was interested in setting the film in Japan, even before the 2009 film was released.
'There are so many areas of that Japanese story,' he told MTV that year, referring to a story originally told in the comic.
Back with a vengeance: Hugh Jackman looks super ripped as Logan in an official photograph from The Wolverine
Between a rock and a hard place: Hugh Jackman shows off his bulky pectorals in one shot where he appears to be in a cave
Six pack: The role gives Hugh the chance to show off his muscly figure and toned torso
'I love the idea of this kind of anarchic character, the outsider, being in this world - I can see it aesthetically, too - full of honour and tradition and customs and someone who's really anti-all of that, and trying to negotiate his way,' he mused.
'The idea of the samurai, too -- and the tradition there. It's really great. In the comic book he gets his ass kicked by a couple of samurai -- not even mutants. He's shocked by that at first.'
Jackman has been steadily building his fitness levels up in order to prepare for the role, and spoke to Dwayne Johnson for advice on how to bulk up.
The former professional wrestler advised him to eat six meals a day and gain a pound a week for six months by consuming 6,000 calories a day which consisted mainly of chicken, steak and brown rice.
'It’s not easy for me,' Jackman told Entertainment Weekly. 'Because I’m actually quite long and lean.'
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Jackman has also said that the tone of the new film will be different from the first Wolverine instalment.
'I'm thrilled the studio called it The Wolverine instead of Wolverine 2, because we're trying to set it up as a standalone picture,' he told Total Film magazine.
'Tonally, it's different from the other X-Men movies. It's got massive action sequences, as people would expect, and it'll be great fun.
'But it is a character-driven movie. It's about a guy completely out of his element, in this world that's foreign to him, and how he copes with that. I feel like we have the opportunity to deliver that badass, kick-ass Wolverine I know everybody wants to see.'
The Wolverine will arrive in UK and US cinemas on July 26.
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