Representing where the movie is set, James Mangold's The Wolverine has had a nice line in arty, Japanese style character posters, featuring Wolverine and The Silver Samurai. Now Fox have unveiled two more posters in the series, this time focusing on Yukio (Rila Fukushima) and Viper (Svetlana Khodchenkova). Same as the other two, they are really cool images, and I like that the promo campaign is doing something different, but, and this is speaking purely as a grumpy comic book fan, I don't like how literal the Viper poster is, giving her a forked tongue. Unless something changes drastically in the movie, she is not a snake woman, and I think using green, the colour the character is most associated with (and the colour of Khodchenkova's costume in the movie), ink instead would have been a better way to represent her. Thank you for indulging my mini fanboy rant there.
Synopsis: Based on the celebrated comic book arc, “The Wolverine” finds Logan (Hugh Jackman), the eternal warrior and outsider, in Japan. There, samurai steel will clash with adamantium claw as Logan confronts a mysterious figure from his past in an epic battle that will leave him forever changed.
Released: 26th July 2013 (U.S./U.K./IRL)
