Wolverine set to live on, says Jackman
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ACTOR Hugh Jackman isn’t ready to give up playing popular X-Men character Wolverine, he said yesterday as he visited China to promote the franchise’s latest movie, which includes elements intended to appeal to Chinese audiences.
He also said he thinks he will need future treatment for skin cancer after a second cancerous growth was removed from his nose last week.
“X-Men: Days of Future Past,” the seventh movie in the mutant superhero franchise that has grossed US$2.3 billion worldwide, premiered in Beijing yesterday. The Australian actor, who has appeared in every X-Men movie over 14 years, said it may have been premature for him to have said previously that the next would be his last.
The new film sees Jackman travel back to 1973 to change history and save humans and mutants from destruction.
The Chinese elements include the casting of Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, highlighting how Hollywood studios are keen to attract audiences in the world’s second-biggest movie market as box-office revenue growth flattens out at home.
Fan, who has a small role as teleporting superhero Blink, said the movie would gross more in China because of her participation.
When the movie’s action moves to the superheroes’ last place of sanctuary, a remote monastery, the Chinese subtitles indicate it is “China.” However, Fan told reporters yesterday that some of the columns looked “European.”
Jackman said there was a change in Hollywood owing to China’s growing might.
“The Chinese market in particular is just booming, so the larger the market becomes the more the stories are going to reflect what that market wants,” he said. “I see collaboration in every way as a positive. At the end of the day audiences sniff out cynicism, they sniff out if something is just a marketing driven thing.”
Jackman, 45, whose nose was bandaged after the removal of a basal cell carcinoma, said his type of skin cancer was slow-growing and often recurs, but was highly treatable.
“X-Men: Days of Future Past” will go on general release in China and the United States next Friday.
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