During a recent interview for his new show Blunt Talk, Patrick Stewart revealed that he’s in talks to reprise his role as Professor X in the forthcoming Wolverine 3, also known as Hugh Jackman’s final outing with him portraying Wolverine, also known as possibly an adaptation of the “Old Man Logan” comics storyline from 2008.
Stewart described the role as more than just a cameo, and since 2014’s X-Men Days of Future Past essentially rewrote the X-Men movie timeline, the inclusion of Stewart’s Professor X seemingly opens the door for other members of the “old class” to appear, as well, from Famke Janssen’s Jean Grey to Anna Paquin’s Rogue and onwards. Stewart talks about Jackman playing an older Wolverine in the forthcoming film, which means that we may actually see what happens after those final, rosy, scenes in Days of Future Past. The X-Men are alive and happy and mutantkind and humanity seem at peace with each other. Is there much use for a warrior like Logan in that kind of environment? Perhaps not. And perhaps that’s the point.
Showcasing a post-X-Men generation of mutantkind could also allow for a lot of fun cameos from a number of different X-Men student bodies: Beak, the Stepford Cuckoos, Cannonball and his sister Husk, Chamber, Skin, Glob Herman, Pixie, maybe even Doop. Wolverine 3 could establish a very weird, very interesting, mutantkind. And hey, there is a New Mutants film in development…
Hmm… how about an adaptation of that Wolverine and the X-Men comic where Logan becomes headmaster of the school? That could be fun.
Any opportunity to have Famke Janssen on screen should be greenlit.
That was one of the biggest strenghts in the Days of Future Past film adaptation. Neither the original comic book nor the 90’s animated series ever showed us whether the future was truly repaired over the time travelling actions of either Kitty or Bishop. As far as I know, Singer’s film is the only version to give us a glimpse of a happy future, one that really moved me and gave me hope, especially when we got to see Jean alive and well.
I’m all for a Days of Future Past sequel focused on Logan. Although I’d still would have liked to see what happened to 70’s Logan who had pretty much the nastiest ending a character could get in a film, following Magneto’s brutal concrete slab assault and his capture by Stryker/Mystique.
@3/Eduardo: In the comics, it was eventually established that the dark future hadn’t been changed or prevented, and it was retconned into a parallel future. In the animated version, it was shown at the end that Bishop’s timeline had been changed, but to one that was just as screwed up for different reasons, setting up his second appearance later in the series. Which is much the same thing done by the more recent animated series Wolverine and the X-Men (no relation to the later comic of that name). That show’s whole first season was basically “Days of Future Past,” and its finale resolved that dystopian future but set up a different dystopian future based on Age of Apocalypse, which would’ve driven the second season if the show hadn’t been cancelled.
I remember it well. It had to do with the plague wiping out mutants, which led to the Bishop vs. Cable scenario.
The point is, previous writers have always tried to keep the dystopian aspect alive (presumably to keep fueling more stories), while the filmmakers chose to reward viewers with a well deserved happy ending for future Logan, therefore putting a definite end to the original cast’s adventures, and giving Logan the joy of seeing Jean alive (he no longer needs to feel guilt over having killed her in X3).
Retconning X3 out of existence was a pretty good payoff. I especially liked Tor.com’s interpretation of why X3 was averted.