Nobody much likes X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Ryan Reynolds has just pulled Deadpool from its ashes, and there's a new Gambit on the way with Channing Tatum replacing Taylor Kitsch. So it's refreshing to remember that something in the troubled Logan prequel actually worked. Liev Schreiber's Sabretooth, AKA Wolverine's half-brother Viktor Creed, was a definite highlight, and he may now be coming back for Hugh Jackman's third solo outing in the adamantium, the still as-yet untitled Wolverine 3.
"We've talked about it," Schreiber told MTV on the Oscar red carpet. "Hugh’s mentioned it to me. The Old Man Logan story: that’s appealing. That’s something I can do. Old being the operative word..."
Details of Wolverine 3 have been thin on the ground so far, although the Old Man Logan storyline has been regularly mentioned. Mark Millar's comics run is a bonkers post-apocalyptic affair in which Sabretooth doesn't actually appear (although he does show up in a later return to the futuristic setting during the Secret Wars crossover event).
Given that a large number of Old Man Logan's Marvel characters are ones that Fox can't use, however, we're already looking at a pretty drastic adaptation. The thinking is that Patrick Stewart's Professor X may be swapped in for some of the heavy lifting: something that Stewart has indicated is true more than once.
What we definitely do know is that James Mangold - who made 2013's The Wolverine - is directing from a screenplay by Michael Green, and that Wolverine 3, Jackman's intended swansong in the role, currently has a release date of March 2, 2017.