Patrick Stewart May Co-Star in Next 'Wolverine' Movie

Much like Marvel Studios' brilliant move in pairing Chris Evans with Robert Downey Jr. to co-star in Captain America: Civil War, 20th Century Fox looks to be taking a page out of their same playbook for the next Wolverine movie.

According to Professor Xavier himself, Patrick Stewart states he may in fact co-star with Hugh Jackman in the forthcoming third Wolverine entry, due out March 3rd, 2017.  In a recent interview, the distinguished English actor states:

“Magneto, Ian McKellen, is certainly going to be in [X-Men: Apocalypse].  And what I’m very excited about is that we have been talking about a Wolverine movie, which would team Hugh Jackman and myself together.  Wolverine and Professor Xavier.  That would be a very different sort of X-Men from the four movies that I’ve already done.”

As you can see, Stewart also lets slip that his good friend Sir Ian McKellen is set to appear in the next X-Men (likely a cameo) - due out next year - when it was previously thought the two were finished with the franchise after last year's X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Back to Wolverine though.  I think it's a great idea to pair Professor Xavier with Logan for the next entry as it would certainly add a new dynamic to the franchise as well as bring in something familiar to excite old fans.

Wolverine 3 (tentative title) is likely to begin filming late this year, early next year under the direction of the returning James Mangold (who did a great job with The Wolverine) with a script by David James Kelly.

Stay tuned for more as this year should definitely be another exciting one for comic book fans everywhere.

Source: The Oregonian