Looking For Logan
The next two films also focus on younger casts, as Hugh Jackman made Logan his last outing as Wolverine. Shuler Donner indicated that Feige would look for a new Wolverine as he inherits the X-Men.
“Yes,” she said. “I don’t know what Kevin’s thinking honestly. I don’t even think Kevin knows. I think Kevin’s still dealing with this wealth of characters and trying to make sense of them.”
She acknowledged that now is the time to pass the torch, or the claws as it were, from Jackman to a younger actor.
“Yes, because Hugh, just the physicality of it all, just to bulk up,” she said. “This man worked so hard to bulk up, would get up at four in the morning to bulk and eat protein meals every two hours because his natural state, they used to call him Worm when he was a kid. So his natural state is a very skinny guy. Once you reach a certain age, the body just won’t go anymore. I think he was wise to say, ‘I’m at that point. I can’t do it.’ Now, that doesn’t mean he can’t come back as older Wolverine. You never know. Future Wolverine, you never know.”
Kevin Feige Will Take Over The X-Men, Disney Will Search For New Wolverine [TCA 2019]
By Fred Topel/Feb. 4, 2019 4:44 pm EST
X-Men in the MCU
This suggests something a little different than the Spider-Man: Homecoming merger. Sony made a deal to include Spider-Man in the MCU and have Feige involved in their films. With the X-Men, Disney owns it out right now, so they have a controlling stake as it were. They have the entire stake.
Looking For Logan
The next two films also focus on younger casts, as Hugh Jackman made Logan his last outing as Wolverine. Shuler Donner indicated that Feige would look for a new Wolverine as he inherits the X-Men.
“Yes,” she said. “I don’t know what Kevin’s thinking honestly. I don’t even think Kevin knows. I think Kevin’s still dealing with this wealth of characters and trying to make sense of them.”
She acknowledged that now is the time to pass the torch, or the claws as it were, from Jackman to a younger actor.
“Yes, because Hugh, just the physicality of it all, just to bulk up,” she said. “This man worked so hard to bulk up, would get up at four in the morning to bulk and eat protein meals every two hours because his natural state, they used to call him Worm when he was a kid. So his natural state is a very skinny guy. Once you reach a certain age, the body just won’t go anymore. I think he was wise to say, ‘I’m at that point. I can’t do it.’ Now, that doesn’t mean he can’t come back as older Wolverine. You never know. Future Wolverine, you never know.”
She acknowledged that now is the time to pass the torch, or the claws as it were, from Jackman to a younger actor.
“Yes,” she said. “I don’t know what Kevin’s thinking honestly. I don’t even think Kevin knows. I think Kevin’s still dealing with this wealth of characters and trying to make sense of them.”
“Yes, because Hugh, just the physicality of it all, just to bulk up,” she said. “This man worked so hard to bulk up, would get up at four in the morning to bulk and eat protein meals every two hours because his natural state, they used to call him Worm when he was a kid. So his natural state is a very skinny guy. Once you reach a certain age, the body just won’t go anymore. I think he was wise to say, ‘I’m at that point. I can’t do it.’ Now, that doesn’t mean he can’t come back as older Wolverine. You never know. Future Wolverine, you never know.”
The X-Men Spinoffs In Flux
Deadpool 2 suggested an X-Force spinoff movie could be on the way, but that falls under Disney’s purview now too.
“That is up to Disney,” Shuler Donner said about Gambit. “That really is up to Disney. I hope so, but that’s up to them. The problem is you can’t have too many Marvel, X-Men superhero movies out there because we will cancel each other out. Each one has to be distinctive and yet you’ve got The Avengers to follow through. You’ve got so many distinctive story canons to follow through and yet we want new ones, but I don’t think you can have more than four. Four is a lot because people are going to get sick of them so we have to be careful. He has to be careful.”
Honestly, given the rocky development of each, it seems Disney has a better chance of getting them made. If Feige wants X-Force and Gambit to exist, they shall be so.
We’ll have a report on the Legion panel out of TCA coming soon.
