This year's The Wolverine got mixed reactions, the final verdict seeming to be that what it got right, it did very well and the bits that might not have worked so well didn't spoil it - it was, at least, a huge improvement on the mutant's first cineamtic solo outing. But given the box-office and the buzz about next year's X-Men: Days of Future Past, it was probably inevitable that talk of another Wolverine movie would eventually come to the fore.
Industry site Deadline is saying that Twentieth Century Fox and director James Mangold are negotiating another film, with Hugh Jackman (of course) returning to the role once more (technically, an eighth outing if you count not just the three original X-Men movies, 'Origins', this year's outing and the 2014 reteaming, but also his brief, two-word cameo in First Class) .
Impact sat down with Mangold during promotion for the recent 'The Wolverine' and can confirm he's a big fan of the source material with an eye for needed set-pieces and real character moments. Given those character-moments were the best-received of the film, we have strong hopes that the balance will be even better for a follow-up.
When will it show up in cinemas? While a timeline would allow it to lens in 2014 for a 2015 release, surely 2015 is already far too busy and full of superheroes - indicating that it could be 2016 before 'Snikt!' happens once more.
