RUMOR: Wolverine Won’t Appear in the X-Men Reboot from Marvel Studios

According to a recent rumor, Wolverine is not part of Marvel Studios’ current plan for the X-Men in the MCU.

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When Marvel Studios remakes the beloved comic book team for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Wolverine is apparently not going to be a member of the original lineup.

Wolverine is NOT included in the current plan to revive the X-Men in the MCU, according to reliable insider CanWeGetSomeToast. The scooper also makes a passing reference to Marvel “beginning to push the X-Men so hard across all mediums and will continue to push them until they’re on the big screen” in relation to the studio’s plans for the mutants. If this story proves to be accurate, it will be a sharp contrast to the 20th Century Fox X-Men movie series, which featured Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine prominently or was mentioned in practically every chapter.

Between 2000 and 2017, Jackman played Logan/Wolverine in nine X-Men movies. Jackman announced that he would be playing the character again in Deadpool 3, the first X-Men movie to be released as a part of the MCU, despite the fact that Logan was initially advertised as the actor’s final outing as the character. The popular mutant is apparently a member of the Multiversal Avengers team, and Jackman is also said to make an appearance in Avengers: Secret Wars. If Wolverine does show up after the events of Secret Wars, a new actor is likely to be cast in the lead role.

Marvel is accepting proposals for the X-Men reboot.

Marvel Studios progressively started including mutants in its movies after reacquiring the X-Men franchise in 2019, with characters like Professor X and Namor appearing in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, respectively. Also, it was revealed that Ms. Marvel in the MCU is a mutant rather than an inhuman (a change that the comics later adopted).

After the Writers Guild of America ended its strike, it’s been claimed that Marvel Studios has started scheduling meetings for writers to present ideas for their X-Men remake. An X-Men relaunch has yet to be scheduled, therefore Marvel seems to be in no hurry to fill the position. Still, the role will most likely be filled before the end of 2024. The 2016 film X-Men: Apocalypse was the most recent X-Men film to use the name of the superhero group in the title.

What Role Do Wolverine Play in Deadpool 3?

Although Jackman acknowledged that the next threequel will not touch 2017’s Logan, which initially functioned as the actor’s swan song for the character, there are currently no plot clues available regarding how Wolverine will figure into Deadpool 3. The actor also suggested that time travel will be used to bring Wolverine into Deadpool’s timeline, which might put the Temporal Variance Authority on the lookout for the beloved Marvel superheroes. Deadpool 3 will be both the first R-rated movie made by Marvel Studios and the first movie with Deadpool and Wolverine set in the MCU.

The current release date for Deadpool 3 is May 3, 2024.

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