PHOTO First official look at a seriously ripped Hugh Jackman in “The Wolverine”

First official look at Hugh Jackman as The Wolverine

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That is the first official image of a seriously jacked up Hugh Jackman, (43), from his upcoming film The Wolverine.

I know there will be cries of photoshopping and that’s fair, but it’s also fair to say that all the skilled graphics peeps in the world couldn’t make 99.9% of us look like that!

A brief snippet from IMDB describes the film as having the signature comic book character traveling to Japan to train with a samurai warrior. You can catch up on the backstory about that along with some hairy pics on set from the film here.

Jackman recently told Empire of Wolverine, “I always thought of him as being lean, animalistic, not necessarily pretty.” Lean – check. Animalistic – check. Not necessarily pretty – not necessarily a check.

The Wolverine is due for a July 23rd, 2013 release date. Along with Hugh’s rediculous bod, the motion picture will also feature Brian Tee and Svetlana Khodchenkova.

I will now return to eating my gas station honey bun in flab-ab shame…