James Mangold Offers Update On The Wolverine Sequel

James Mangold Offers Update On ‘The Wolverine’ Sequel

By Germain Lussier/March 5, 2015 12:30 pm EST

The director was asked, via Twitter, when the film would shoot. He offered up a concrete, albeit obvious piece of information. The Wolverine 2 will begin filming in early 2016. Read more about the Wolverine 2 update below.

Thanks to Superhero Hype for pointing out the following tweet:

@R_0_B_89 early next year.

— Mangold (@mang0ld) March 5, 2015

Of course, this makes a whole bunch of sense. Jackman has to make X-Men Apocalypse this year, as well as promote Pan and shoot The Greatest Showman on Earth, a P.T. Barnum film which will be out three months before The Wolverine 2. That would put him right on schedule to play Wolverine this time next year, and then give Mangold a year for post. Not to mention another year to work with writer David James Kelly to get the script where they want it to be.

The only real clue we have about The Wolverine 2 came from one of the other X-Men, Patrick Stewart. He recently suggested Professor X could team up with Logan in the sequel, a sentiment that Jackman himself hinted was one of the ideas that was being thrown around.