Excitement In Travel: Extended Sequence From The Wolverine Released

The week before San Diego Comic-Con is pure bleeding hell. We here at the Crisis On Infinite Midlives Home Office are busy collecting and testing the new equipment for covering SDCC (Amanda and I both have new smartphones that can act as WiFi hotspots for the actual writing equipment, and a new camera that can hopefully take pictures at panels from further back than the front row is working out swimmingly – if I can take a zoomed photo of a flower from across a backyard at twilight while shitfaced, I think I can get Bob Harras screwing up his face while trying to come up with an answer that doesn’t include the phrase, “indiscriminate firing” from halfway back in Room 6BCF). But not only that, we are squaring away both of our day jobs, which are each of the type where when you tell your boss you won’t be around for a week, they act like you’re telling them you FDISK’ed the database server and shit in the payroll filing cabinet.

So not only are we are busy as hell, but we can’t even make a command decision as to whether or not we want to brave Hall H on Saturday because the entirety of 20th Century Fox’s panel description is: TBA. Now, the smart money is on that panel including something about Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, but it is possible there will also be something about The Wolverine, which opens a couple of weeks after SDCC ends. Sure, the odds are long on that count – two weeks before opening, the only way any real buzz is gonna arise from Comic-Con is if Hugh Jackman is caught disposing of a dead hooker in the bay behind the Hyatt – but I guess it’s possible.

But let’s face reality: the odds we’d spend all day in Hall H to catch footage of The Wolverine are pretty long. So let’s all pretend that we spent a long morning in a sun-blasted line behind a kid in an anime costume that makes him smell like hot PVC insulation and foot, and take a look at the first extended sequence from The Wolverine right here. You can catch it after the jump.

The Wolverine opens in the United States on July 26th.