This could make the odds, for a change, seem insurmountably difficult in a superhero movie, which would undoubtedly feel refreshing. They teamed up and wiped out the majority of the superheroes, with Logan doing plenty of things he regrets in the process of trying to stop them. The basic premise of the narrative could be a really interesting shift for the comic book movie sub-genre, too – recycling a similar premise to his Wanted series, Millar tactically placed the grouchy slasher-upper in a dystopian future – a world where the villains had already won. The book even contains an overt reference to Clint Eastwood’s brilliant Unforgiven, the influence of which could only aid the cinematic X-Men universe. At the very least, shots of a grey-and-old Hugh Jackman skulking around in a barren wasteland would be an absolute visual treat. The western-inspired style of Mark Millar and Steve McNiven’s eight issue 2008 Wolverine arc created a hugely engaging read – by taking a much-loved character and pushing him into new territory, but with familiar genre touchstones for the readers to enjoy, Millar created a series with heaps of cinematic potential. Offering the same genre-transcending opportunity to Fox’s X-Men universe, Old Man Logan could be the perfect choice for the next standalone Wolvie movie. To get, all of a sudden, to the point, here’s why we think it should be a movie…Īrguably, the superhero films that fare best at the moment (critically, at least) are those that mix up the formula a bit, with Captain America: The Winter Soldier’s political thriller tone and the space opera stylings of Guardians Of The Galaxy being the two main examples. You may have guessed, not least from the title of this article, that we’re talking about Old Man Logan. Who could forget the scene in X-Men: The Last Stand where he and Patrick Stewart were seemingly smeared with tub-loads of cream for the purpose of an establishing flashback-esque sequence? Certainly not this writer.īut is regularly smearing Hugh Jackman in cream a good idea? It sounds hugely arousing and great fun, but there is in fact an older Wolverine adventure in the comics that could make for a hugely entertaining motion picture, if handled correctly. McKellen has been de-aged in the X-Men universe too, of course. This is Hollywood after all – if Ian McKellen can play a younger Gandalf in The Hobbit over a decade after his original performance in the role, anything is fair game. But can they get away with pretending that 45-year-old Hugh Jackman is still the fresh-faced spring chicken of 2000’s X-Men forever? Maybe.

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