Patrick Stewart Confirms Professor X Will Appear in 'Wolverine 3' - Movie Will Be Hugh Jackman's Final outing as the Famous X-Man

Patrick Stewart Confirms Professor X Will Appear in 'Wolverine 3'

Movie Will Be Hugh Jackman's Final outing as the Famous X-Man 

By Alex Burns

Patrick Stewart has revealed he will be part of the upcoming third Wolverine film. Earlier this year he  revealed that he'd been present for discussions concerning a team up with Hugh Jackman for the next solo Wolverine movie, he called it a “very different” type of movie when compared to other his other “X-Men” films. Now it's official, well more or less, in an interview with Collider, Stewart confirms that not only will he be starring the new movie but he also dishes out some pretty interesting information regarding the possible plot of the movie.

“There is a project in development. I understand that Professor Xavier will be making more than an appearance, however, and that intrigues me.”

Collider also brought up the notion of the film being based on the Old Man Logan story arc, something our own Cape and Cowl contributor Steven Carter predicted a while back but has yet been unconfirmed, check out Stewart's answer...

“The idea of an old Wolverine – I’m really looking forward to Hugh Jackman getting old. You know, damn him. He looks so great! So I’m hoping to see him covered in prosthetics, you know? And then he’ll make me look better if that’s the case.”

Come on it's as good as a done deal, Professor X even said so! Old Man Logan will surely be a huge influence on the picture just without all the crazy Marvel universe cameos from the likes of The Hulk and co. Hugh Jackman is always heavily involved with the script and story of these solo Wolverine pictures and he took Chris Claremont and Frank Miller's run on the Wolverine comicbook from the 80's to heart when producing 2013's 'The Wolverine', the guy reads his comics!

The third entry into the solo Wolverine series will also be Jackman's last outing as Wolverine and will be directed by James Mangold with a script by David James Kelly. The film is set for release March 3, 2017, following fellow X-Men universe films released in 2016, Deadpool and X-Men: Apocalypse.