Old Man Logan is all but confirmed as the comic book source for the final Wolverine film starring Hugh Jackman. Some of us, the fans, are excited this prospect, while some of the fans still don't know what to make of it (with all the bring-back-to-Marvel thing). But it can all work out pretty well, even if Fox doesn't own all most of the characters who have appeared in the Old Man Logan comic book. How can this storyline be adapted?

First things first "“ the latest news is that Patrick Stewart was finally confirmed to appear in the third solo Wolverine film, while Hugh Jackman teased the appearance of a Wolverine archenemy in the final movie "“ Sabretooth.

Adapting Old Man Logan

Most of the major characters (if not all) from the Old Man Logan comic book aren't with Fox "“ Mysterio, Hawkeye, Hulk, Red Skull. But this doesn't really matter "“ until now, we haven't had a single comic book movie to follow the original source to the letter. And some of the movies we have seen have been simply gorgeous and entertaining.

What would matter when adapting the Old Man Logan storyline for the big screens is, in fact, what is written between the lines. And that is an apocalyptic future in which the villains have won, a future in which the man's duality is underlined: a fight between the human and the beast.

This is what made Old Man Logan a success and this should be the one thing that must be taken from the comics and translated into a movie. You don't really need all the Marvel characters in order to do that. The studio only needs a handful of powerful mutants, mutants that we already know from the movies (or which will most likely appear in the coming X-Men: Apocalypse).

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