Stephen Merchant is to star with Hugh Jackman in Wolverine 3.
According to Deadline, the comedian and co-creator of The Office is taking an unspecified role in the sequel and will also join the recently announced Richard E Grant, rumoured to be playing a mad scientist.
Jackman has stated that it will be his final film as Wolverine. He also makes a cameo in this summer’s X-Men: Apocalypse, which director Bryan Singer claims has a deeper meaning for the whole franchise.
“I will say, it’s not simple,” he told Empire. “There’s something more pivotal that occurs with that. It hints to a sequence that again fits within the canon of all six movies, and the birth of a new direction. It’s not insignificant, nor is it simply just a throw in.”
Director James Mangold will return for Wolverine 3 after his work on The Wolverine garnered stronger reviews than the critically loathed X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Merchant is next to be seen in comedy Table 19, set at a single’s table at a wedding. The film also stars Anna Kendrick, Lisa Kudrow and June Squibb. He has also been rumoured to be taking a supporting role in Transformers 5.
