Hugh Jackman Announces Hell Hang Up His Wolverine Claws
Hugh Jackman has played Wolverine in seven movies now. Jackman's role in the original X-Men trilogy led to mainstream stardom, and in the near-decade since X-Men The Last Stand, the actor has oscillated between carrying his own solo spinoff series and appearing in the period-piece prequel series. A third Wolverine film will arrive in 2017and according to Jackman, it will be mark the end of his time playing the clawed Canadian badawith a healing factor that can cure everything. Except his broken heart. Only time travel can cure a broken heart., "This will be my last one," Jackman tells Dr. Oz, and now pause to imagine the futuristic utopia we apparently live in, where superhero-movie announcements happen on syndicated alt-medical talk shows. "It is my last time," Jackman reiterates. "It felt like it was the right time to do it. Seventeen years, I never thought in a million years it would last this long.", Jackman didn't reveal anything about Wolverine 3's plot. Behind-the-scenes, the current plan is to reteam Jackman with James Mangold, the journeyman director who gave 2013's The Wolverine a lean, mean charm as of last month, screenwriter Michael Green is working on the screenplay. There's no shortage of "final" Wolverine stories in comic-book lore. The vaguely popular Old Man Logan imagined a grizzled elderly Wolverine living in a bleak future Sacramento, while last year's Death of Wolverine story arc robbed Wolverine of his healing factor and sent him on a spirit journey throughout his history as a superhero. Jackman's rumored to appear in next year's X-Men Apocalypse, alongside the 500 other people playing mutants. That would bring his total comic-book-movie count up to nine, currently a record for leading-man superheroes. Downey's on his tail, though Counting his cameo in Incredible Hulk and assuming no major narrative twists, Tony Stark will have appeared in nine movies after 2019's Infinity War Part 2.