The third and final Wolverine movie is titled Logan. Further, director James Mangold has shared some interesting plot details.
You may have noticed Twitter flipping out and sharing a picture of a billboard this morning, and no wonder: It’s the first official look at Wolverine 3, which we now know is titled Logan. Or, possibly, LOGAN! Either is good with us:
LOGAN pic.twitter.com/IeIvcvFyTE
— Hugh Jackman (@RealHughJackman) October 5, 2016
Here’s a better version of the poster:
Director James Mangold also shared a page from the screenplay, furthering our LOGAN! theory:
Page two of our screenplay. pic.twitter.com/5X93NtWuVS
— Mangold (@mang0ld) October 5, 2016
Cleverly, the page he shares also doubles as a short description of the pic, or rather the type of action we can expect:
“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 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.”
“He’s older now,” indeed. If fan theories prove accurate, Logan will follow the “Old Man Logan” storyline from the X-Men comics, in which the world has been taken over by villains, and Logan is one of the only surviving superheroes.
Logan is no longer Wolverine in this future world, which would explain why the movie’s title is Logan rather than Wolverine 3. Of course some aspects of the comics, like Old Man Hulk and a blind Hawkeye, won’t be part of the movie for obvious — read copyright — reasons.
But who knows? Maybe there’s more to Ryan Reynolds’ jest here than simple Deadpool-Wolverine rivalry:
That's my hand holding Logan's in the new poster. #tender
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) October 5, 2016
He’s joking, and yet: After so much speculation about Wolverine potentially popping up in Deadpool 2, might it instead be the other way around? We’ll have to wait and find out.
Logan hits theaters on March 3, 2017.
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