Hugh Jackman Staying in The Wolverine Business

Suspicions arouse X-Men: Days of Future Past would be a means not only to restart or in some cases, correct mistakes of films past but serve as a graceful exit for star Hugh Jackman. Wolverine may be ageless but the Australian star is pushing 50 and the last thing everyone wants is a repeat of Roger Moore's latter tenure as James Bond.

It "helps" the last few X-Men installments have had dwindling returns stateside. But the upswing is The Wolverine, the lowest earner domestically, sits as the second bigger worldwide thanks to a strong international gross. That, along with strong early reactions to next May's Days of Future Past, is music to Fox's ears.

The studio has begun negotiations with director James Mangold to return to the fold for a third solo Wolverine feature with Jackman once again sporting the adamantium claws and rigorous exercise regime making him the object of desire for your wife and jealous for the rest of us schmucks.

While Jackman has never ceased from his loyalty to the franchise, and character, that has made him what he is today, my hope was he would follow the path of Robert Downey Jr. Lay off the solo entries (as good as last July's Japan-set sequel was; save for the third act) and stick with the group dynamic.

Not everything X-Men related has to be about Wolverine, you know.

Source: Deadline