Hugh Jackman has asked fans on Twitter to help decide how his 15-year career as superhero Wolverine comes to an end.
The Australian actor, who has portrayed the adamantium-clawed mutant in seven movies stretching back to 2000’s X-Men, is due to return in 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse and an as-yet-untitled third solo outing in 2017. He posted an image from the latter film on Monday night and asked fans to contribute ideas.
My last time putting on the claws. What do you want to see happen? 50 words or less. I'll read as many as I can. pic.twitter.com/ksA1Gii5tf
— Hugh Jackman (@RealHughJackman) July 27, 2015
After the post was retweeted close to 10,000 times, Jackman posted a video thanking fans for the “amazing response”. The hundreds of ideas ranged from suggestions that the superhero might don his traditional yellow suit and mask from the comic books to calls for studio Twentieth Century Fox to adapt the Old Man Logan storyline, in which the immortal hero is one of the only mutants left in a bizarre post-apocalyptic America controlled by victorious supervillains. The actor has previously hinted that Mark Millar’s graphic novel might be drawn upon for the final Wolverine outing.
AMAZING RESPONSE!! #THANKYOU pic.twitter.com/WdClW7RDap
— Hugh Jackman (@RealHughJackman) July 28, 2015
Some fans also called for Wolverine to team up with the Avengers and Spider-Man, as the mutant does in Marvel’s comic books. That situated is complicated because the three properties are owned by different studios – though Sony and Marvel Studios recently announced that Spider-Man is to appear alongside Captain America and Iron Man in the popular Marvel “cinematic universe”.
