Hugh Jackman Thinks Next Film Will Be His Last as Wolverine

Wolverine 3 slated for release March 3, 2017

Hugh Jackman is pretty confident that the next time he plays Wolverine on film, it will be his last as the X-Men mutant.

Speaking with SFX, Jackman was asked about the third Wolverine movie and where it could take his character. "I don’t know yet," he said. "We’re talking it through. I still am very ambitious for the character. And tonally I feel like we corrected the ship with the last one. But I feel we can still go further, in a way. If I did another one, I’m 99.9 percent sure it would be the last, so that will inform what it is for me."

This isn't the first time Jackman has acknowledged that his time portraying Wolverine is coming to a close. Earlier this year, he told IGN that it's "inevitable" that the character is recast at some point. While Jackman is expected to return for Wolverine 3, with David James Kelly reportedly writing the script and James Mangold returning to direct after helming The Wolverine, the actor said nothing is finalized yet.

"I’m excited to see what we can come up with, but I haven’t signed on signed on," Jackman said. "I’m genuinely at that point where unless it’s better than the last one, I’m not going to do it." The third Wolverine solo film is slated for release March 3, 2017.

Jackman will next be seen in X-Men: Days of Future Past, which hits theaters stateside May 23. He'll also be tackling director Joe Wright's Peter Pan and Captain Hook film project.

Source: ign

Wolverine Gets the Spotlight in a New X-Men: Days of Future Past Character Video

20th Century Fox has brought online a new character video that spotlights Hugh Jackman's Wolverine in the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past. Check it out in the player below!

Opening in theaters on May 23, the film also stars Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Nicholas Hoult, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Peter Dinklage, Omar Sy, Daniel Cudmore, Fan Bingbing, Boo Boo Stewart, Adan Canto, Evan Peters, Josh Helman, Lucas Till and Evan Jonigkeit.

The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in X-Men: Days of Future Past. The beloved characters from the original "X-Men" film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from X-Men: First Class, in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.




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THE WOLVERINE Sequel Announced

X-Men: Days Of Future Past Writer Explains Why Wolverine Is The Time Traveler

It's not exactly a secret that Wolverine is the A-list star of 20th Century Fox's X-Men movies. Including the cameo in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class, the anti-hero mutant is the only character to appear in all of the franchise's titles, and as a result Hugh Jackman holds the record for playing the same superhero the most times in a live action comic book film. As a result, it wasn't a complete surprise when it was revealed this past summer that the plot of Bryan Singer's upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past will feature Wolverine in the story's most important role. But now screenwriter Simon Kinberg has revealed to Total Film (via SlashFilm) why having Logan be the key to the new movie's plot actually makes the most sense logically as well as economically.

James Mangold & Hugh Jackman To Return For 'The Wolverine' Sequel

“I wasn't even sure after the first [stand-alone] film if I would do another,” Hugh Jackman said about returning for another "The Wolverine" movie in the run-up to this summer's film. “I won’t say never, because I’m still loving it. But there would have to be a pretty compelling reason.” And while those compelling reasons are yet to be declared, it's probably a safe bet that the movie's $413 million worldwide haul—making it the second best performing X-Men movie ever—has something to do with it.

Deadline reveals that both director James Mangold and Jackman are in negotiations to return for a sequel, and really, was there any doubt this was going to happen? With Fox pretty much planting the seeds of massive world building with next year's "X-Men: Days Of Future Past" (which was given a credits stinger in "The Wolverine" with the appearances of Charles Xavier and Magneto), it was only matter of when they were going to get the ball rolling. So now they have a director and star, but what about a script?

Well, Mangold will apparently pen the treatment but no word yet on whole will write the first of what will probably be many drafts, given Fox's usual operating method. But as they watch Marvel now churn out two movies per year, we'd wager this won't be one Fox will want to keep in development hell for too long. Will "The Wolverine 2 But Actually 3" serve as the buffer between 'Days Of The Future Past' and whatever X-Men adventure comes after that? If we were betting men...

Source: indiewire