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.
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.
