The Next Wolverine Solo Movie Will Be Called...
Sensing our increasing confusion when it comes to exactly what do we call the new Wolverine film (Wolverine 3, The Wolverine 3, Wolverine: The New Batch), the movie Gods have smiled upon us and released the title and a preview of a script page for…Logan.
That’s right, it looks as though we’re getting Old Man Logan and, if the script page is anything to go by, it’ll be an R-rated adventure for the X-Man’s finest (Yeah, up yours Scott!)
As we know, this will be the last appearance of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, and as James Mangold has tweeted, the script will feature an F-bomb on page 2! Page 2!
The script also boasts something of a mission statement for the film with some very terse stage direction which, thanks to the eagle-eyed sleuths at Empire, reads:
“Now might be a good time to talk about the ‘fights’ described in the next 100 or so pages. Basically, if you’re on the make for a hyper choreographed, gravity defying, city-block destroying CG fuckathon, this ain’t your movie.
In this flick, people will get hurt or killed when shit falls on them. They will get just as hurt or just as killed if they get hit with something big and heavy like, say, a car. Should anyone in our story have the misfortune to fall off a roof or out a window, they won’t bounce. They will die.
As for our hero, well, he’s older now and it’s clear his abilities aren’t what they once were. He’s fading on the inside and his diminished healing factor keeps him in a constant state of chronic pain – hence booze as a painkiller.”
There’s also this strangely tender poster for the now newly christened Logan - which, we have to admit, has a pleasing Rambo vibe to it.
Filming has wrapped on the project, which is said to take loose inspiration from the Old Man Logan comic storyline (though it may just take the element of Logan's advanced age) and will star Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant and Stephen Merchant alongside Jackman.
Logan is aiming for a March 2017 release date
