Hugh Jackman Officially Quashes Hopes for a Deadpool-Wolverine Crossover Movie

Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman are now in the middle of press junkets for their Wolverine film Logan, and fans are pestering them with questions about future Marvel movies. “Right now Fox is doing advance screenings for critics without this scene and from what I’ve been told it won’t be shown until opening day”.

Stewart first played Professor X nearly two decades ago in the franchise starter X-Men (2000). When Jackman does hang up the claws, the search for a new actor will be extremely daunting. “I couldn’t have made this film if I didn’t make the decision within myself that this was the last one”.

The 76-year-old sat down at a SiriusXM Town Hall with Jackman, as well as, “Logan” director, James Mangold, and shared how he became sure that it was time to retire his version of Professor X.

It will be sad to see Jackman hang up the unbreakable claws, but 17 years of Jackman’s Wolverine is worth celebrating.

During past press conferences, Stewart, who had played the elder Professor X in The X-Men movie series, had said that he would be more than happy to return in future mutant-centric films.

The film, directed by James Mangold and starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stuart and Dafne Keen, has received rave reviews from critics after it premiered at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival on February 17.

If Logan should be the final outing for the Wolverine brand, Mangold, Jackman and co are certainly putting this stand-alone X-Men franchise out to pasture on a memorably gritty high.

We’ve now just got one week to wait until Logan is finally with us, as Hugh Jackman’s farewell will be released on March 2.

The comic writer, who was closely involved in the development of the X-Men Wolverine comic character, told International Business Times, India, that, firstly he didn’t know that Jackman was leaving: “Thanks for spoiling the movie, Dude!”

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