Bryan Singer and Simon Kinberg On Recasting Wolverine: "I Can't Imagine Anyone Else Playing The Part"

It was a given that Hugh Jackman couldn't play the role of Wolverine forever, and a while back, the actor announced that the third solo Wolverine film would be his last time donning the claws. Naturally, 20th Century Fox is going to want to keep pumping out X-Men movies for as long as they can so the rights to the characters don't revert back to Marvel Studios, which led many fans to believe that the studio was going to be recasting Wolverine after Jackman bows out. (Conan O'Brien has some casting suggestions.) But X-Men: Apocalypse director Bryan Singer and writer/producer Simon Kinberg don't seem to be convinced that's how it's going to happen.

In an interview with Digital Spy, the duo agreed that it would be incredibly tough to recast the role:

For all the recasting that's already gone on in the X-Men series, Singer and Kinberg were unanimous on one point: recasting Wolverine would be impossible. "I do think you would want to figure out how to tell more Wolverine stories," Kinberg allowed. "So either we would try to entice Hugh to come back and eat more chicken and work out for a few months, or we would have to figure out a creative way to move forward. Honestly, I can't imagine anybody else playing the part, and there's not too many characters I can say that for."

Fans would probably love to see Jackman continue to play the part for as long as possible, but let's get real: I find it very difficult to believe that the studio would just stand by and not recast him should he decide that Wolverine 3 really is the last time he'll play the character. Thanks to Jackman's stellar work playing him for over fifteen years, Wolverine is too iconic to be relegated to the back burner. So as nice as Kinberg and Singer are being about it here, when the time eventually comes, you can bet that someone else will be rocking those adamantium claws, chomping on a cigar, and calling people "Bub."

Jackman's (supposedly) last movie as Wolverine, a still-untitled collaboration with The Wolverine director James Mangold, is scheduled to hit theaters on March 3rd, 2017.

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