The Wolverine Alternate Ending with different original blue & yellow costume

In an interview with Superherohype, The Wolverine director James Mangold talks about the upcoming DVD release as well as an alternative ending for the film...he also answers the questions about why the blue and yellow costume came about.

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Superherohype: Oh definitely. Now before I let you go, I have to ask about that alternate ending where we see Wolverine's classic costume (pictured below), was that your idea and why didn't it make the final cut?

James Mangold: It was my idea and it was something I tried, I improvised on the set. The box was actually empty on the set when shot the material with Hugh and Rila, but I tried it out because I was just curious. I had also felt the fans' desire to see something like that, obviously the fans' desire to see something more than that. The trick was that I felt like, and I think the studio felt strongly that I was kind of handing a hot potato to whatever films followed in the sense that it's one they couldn't fulfill or one that we didn't know if they could fulfill since we hadn't even scripted them yet. So this implication that he would be wearing them in the next film which I couldn't guarantee since I didn't even know where I or who or what would be making one, and I certainly didn't want to burden Bryan (Singer, director of X-Men: Days of Future Past) with suddenly based upon the last six seconds of the film throwing a wrench in the works of what he was up to. But I also have to say, for Wolverine fans I felt it would be hugely rewarding, but when we screened it, and we did with that ending on, it was very interesting that 60% of the audience didn't understand what was in the box. So you also have the fact that you're going to be ending a movie with a moment where a huge majority of the audience was going to be going “Huh?” So that definitely wasn't a feeling I wanted, but I was very torn about it and thought it worked. It also bumped a little when I went to Montreal and shot the credit scene that kicks you toward “Future Past,” it seemed to bump against that. You're showing him open the box and have a costume in the end and then you're coming from black and having him wearing street clothes. It just seemed like we were creating more questions than we were answering and maybe it wasn't the most responsible thing to do.