When we first find Logan (Hugh Jackman) he is alone in the Canadian
wilderness, living in a cave with only the bare bone necessities needed
for survival. He’s still haunted by his past; a vision of Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), the woman he was forced to kill in X-Men: The Last Stand,
visits him in his dreams, asking the former Wolverine to join her in
death. But Logan can’t join her in death. He may never be able to die,
thanks to a healing factor that feels more like a curse than a blessing
at this stage in his life.
The Wolverine is a personal journey for Logan, who struggles
to reconcile the pain he’s caused with the fact that he’ll never answer
for it. In this unexpectedly deep character study, Logan will face his
past head on, dealing with not only the memories of his tortured life,
but the demons he created from the people he chose to save.
Logan finds a bear in the woods that is slowly dying from a poison.
Little does he know that the fate of this one animal will soon parallel
his own life. After heading to Japan to meet a man he saved during the
bombing of Nagasaki (Hiroyuki Sanada), Logan is given a proposition:
transfer his healing factor to the man, allowing Logan to live the
normal life he’s always longed for.