A Villainous Group for WOLVERINE 3 Reportedly Revealed
Wolverine 3 is currently shooting in New Orleans with director James Mangold and Hugh Jackman. This is going to be Jackman’s final film in the X-Men universe, and in case you’re wondering who exactly Wolverine will be facing off with in this next chapter of his story, we have a possible answer for you!
We know that this latest Wolverine adventure is inspired by Mark Millar’s Old Man Logan story arc, which features the Logan living in a future world that has been taken over supervillains. The movie is said to be getting an R-rating and so far we know that Jackman will be joined by Patrick Stewart and newcomers Stephen Merchant, Richard E. Grant, Eriq Lasalle, and Boyd Holbrook who is playing a “relentless, calculating… intense head of security for a global enterprise”.
Nerdist claims to have a source close to the production who revealed who the main villains in the story will be. According to that source, the villains will be the Reavers, who are cyborgs created specifically for the elimination of mutants. The site reports:
A source close to the production told us that Reavers will be battling old man Logan in Wolverine 3. For newbies to the X-Men, Reavers are a group of cyborgs who’ve operated both as a gang of thieves and an elite military task force. Oh, and they’ve got a history of hatin’ on mutants under the leadership of major X-baddie Donald Pierce. In addition to being half-robot, Pierce allegedly built Reavers to wipe out the mutants and some humans.
There’s no word on if Pierce will actually be a part of the film yet. Actor Richard E. Grant is said to be playing a "mad scientist," maybe that will turn out to be Donald Pierce. There’s also a chance that Nathaniel Essex, aka Mr. Sinister, could be a part of the story because his character was teased at the end of X-Men: Apocalypse. In regards to that, Essex Corp. could possibly be behind the creation of the Reavers in the X-Men cinematic universe. Both these options are plausible, but we’ll just have to wait and see.
If the Reavers are in fact a part of this film, how do you think they’ll be incorporated into the story? Wolverine 3 will be released on March 3rd, 2017.