Is Wolverine in Avengers: Doomsday? Hugh Jackman Issues Coy Response When Asked if He'll Have to Play the X-Men Superhero Again, Joking Marvel Has Enough to Build an AI Version

Hugh Jackman has issued a coy effect erstwhile asked level retired if he’ll person to reprise his relation arsenic Wolverine successful the MCU, aft past year’s Deadpool & Wolverine was specified a large hit.

As fans await what seems astatine this signifier to beryllium the inevitable confirmation that Jackman volition play Wolverine erstwhile again successful either adjacent year’s Avengers: Doomsday oregon 2027’s Avengers: Secret Wars, the histrion insisted connected The Graham Norton Show that he’s done saying “never.”

Jackman famously vowed that helium was done playing Wolverine aft Logan came retired successful 2017, but changed his caput for what was past Deadpool 3. It proved to beryllium a astute decision, with Deadpool & Wolverine going connected to go the highest-grossing R-rated movie of each clip aft making implicit $1 cardinal astatine the planetary container office.

Now, the thought of 2 of the MCU’s astir fashionable and bankable stars and characters not being successful either Doomsday oregon Secret Wars seems ridiculous, but for present some Marvel and Jackman are keeping their cards adjacent to their chest.

“Maybe,” Jackman said with a smirk erstwhile Norton asked him if helium was going to play Wolverine again. “I americium ne'er saying ‘never’ ever again. Because I did mean it erstwhile I said ‘never’ until the time erstwhile I changed my mind. But I truly did, for rather a fewer years, I meant it.”

Norton past asked if Jackman had got to the constituent present wherever Marvel could usage AI to make Wolverine’s assemblage and conscionable plonk the 57-year-old actor's caput connected top. “A 100 percent,” helium joked, successful response. “I deliberation I’ve done 10 films, truthful I deliberation they’ve got capable successful there!”

Jackman’s co-conspirator successful each this, Ryan Reynolds, is heavy rumored to beryllium acceptable to play Deadpool again, with aggregate reports indicating he’ll yet transverse paths with the Avengers. Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday formed uncover was dense connected seasoned X-Men actors. Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, and James Marsden are each acceptable to look successful Avengers: Doomsday, confirming the X-Men are successful the movie successful a large way. Grammer famously played Beast successful the Fox X-Men franchise earlier making his MCU debut via The Marvels' post-credits scene. Stewart played Charles Xavier/Professor X successful the X-Men films earlier appearing concisely successful the MCU via Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness arsenic a subordinate of the Illuminati. McKellen, who played Magneto, has not yet appeared successful the MCU. Neither has Cumming, who played Nightcrawler, Romijn, who played Mystique, nor Marsden, who played Cyclops. It begs the question: is Avengers: Doomsday secretly an Avengers vs. X-Men movie?

Neither Jackman nor Reynolds’ names were connected the agelong database of stars confirmed to look successful the superhero extravaganza (Channing Tatum, who played Gambit successful Deadpool & Wolverine, did marque the cut). But Marvel has said much is to come, and Reynolds himself has teased an engagement of immoderate kind.

Perhaps each we’re looking astatine present is simply a amusive cameo for the duo, arsenic opposed to a much progressive relation that proves important to the plot. Maybe this is much astir mounting up Secret Wars, oregon the upcoming X-Men films. Either way, it seems Deadpool and Wolverine are heading backmost to the MCU.

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