Hugh Jackman Shoots Down Wolverine MCU Speculation

| August 11, 2021 |

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Hugh Jackman and Kevin eige in Wolverine Rumors — *Photo: Jonathan Leibson / Getty Images*

Hugh Jackman insists that it started as an innocent enough day. Getting on Instagram to engage with fans, and mayhap revisit some fond trips down memory lane, he reposted a few images: a fan art design of Wolverine'south claws here, and a meeting with Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige in that location. So, walking abroad to go live his life, he was completely unaware the net was abuzz with speculation and gossip.

This is how it played out concluding calendar month when Jackman shared a Boss Logic fan image of the Wolverine claws he wore in nine X-Men movies and and then an image taken of himself chatting with Feige back in 2013 when they were hanging out in a talent lounge at San Diego Comic-Con. Innocuous stuff, right? Well, according to more than one publication, from comic book sites to major print magazines, it was all a clever wink and nod that Jackman was planning to reprise his signature role of Logan, aka the Wolverine, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Of class Jackman emphatically killed Logan off in Logan , a rather terminal and elegiac moving picture which we would contend is one of the best superhero movies always made. Yet Marvel just introduced the multiverse in Loki , right? And then maybe he does want to play the office once again right?!

Agape not.

When we bring up the social media posts during a conversation about Jackman's new sci-fi noir movie, Reminiscence , a sheepish smiling spreads beyond the Oscar nominee's face and he lowers his caput in bemusement at how even a fleeting Instagram Story can come back to haunt him.

"I'thousand going to tell you lot that you lot guys, you comic volume fans, are besides quick for me," Jackman says. "That was a very innocent repost of some cool fine art, and I practice information technology quite a scrap. And I think I was with my family or had people over or something, and was away from my phone and when I came dorsum, I was similar, 'What have I done!? I didn't mean to do that!'"

He continues, "That was just fan art, I'm really deplorable guys. And I was like the equus caballus has bolted, I don't call back anything I say at present volition be able to calm this downwardly. Just it was just you guys are too quick for me."

Jackman's anaesthesia at fan civilization is understandable. Later all, it helped catapult the Australian performer to superstardom in a role that obviously meant a lot to him. Only his desire to move on is besides understandable. After 17 years and well-nigh x films, he said farewell to his mutant change-ego in a adequately perfect swan vocal, and has since seen more than success in different arenas, such as the pop civilization musical phenomenon, The Greatest Showman , and the highly underrated dark one-act, Bad Instruction . And later this fall, he returns to Broadway where he's already won a Tony to star as the legendary Prof. Harold Hill in The Music Man .

In the meantime, Jackman can next exist seen as the wounded antihero of Lisa Joy's Reminiscence , which we will accept more about, including from our chat with Jackman, next week.