‘The Wolverine’ Director James Mangold Chats ‘X-Men’ Setting & Rage

“What I wrote on the back of the script when I first read it was ‘Everyone I love will die.’ The story I’ve been telling, he enters it believing that.” Continuing the buzz for the 2013 summer season, EW.com writer Anthony Breznican conducted and posted an interview with The Wolverine director James Mangold. It’s worth pointing out because it once and for all gets down to the setting, within the X-Men timeline, and where/how exactly The Wolverine fits in – without giving away spoilers. The full interview is worth reading in its entirety, but there are a few other specific selections I wanted to highlight for the sake of discussion. Breznican’s interview with Mangold covers a lot of the important details, confirming that “a lot of that story and a lot of beats from that saga are in there — and a lot of characters” come from Chris Claremont / Frank …