During a sitdown interview with Mark Millar about his comics Jupiter’s Circle and Chrononauts -- keep an eye out for the full interview soon -- IGN asked Millar about the third and final Wolverine movie coming from Fox. Being a comic book veteran with numerous hits under his belt, Millar is a creative consultant for Fox and has insight on their upcoming projects. He wrote the fan-favorite Wolverine: Old Man Logan comic, so we asked him about the possibility of that being the third Wolverine movie, and then he went on to explain how Fox could make that story work -- name-dropping two well-known mutants in the process -- even though the movie can’t use major Avengers characters that appeared in the story because they belong to Marvel Studios.

On Old Man Logan Being the Third Wolverine Movie

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“Obviously I know what the final [Wolverine movie is] going to be, so I can't say, but I can just say what Hugh Jackman said. Hugh Jackman walked out on stage at Comic-Con a few months back and he said, ‘I've got three words for you: Old Man Logan.’ and everyone went crazy and everything.“What would be nice actually is Hugh Jackman playing an old Wolverine and he wouldn't have to go on that diet, he eats 5 chickens every day. He can just slob out a little bit.”How It Could Work Without Marvel Studios Characters"They're not important to the story. The way I worked that thing is I actually structured it as, I broke it down mechanically - I figured out going from this part of America to that part of America and what he would encounter along the way, and then I added in the adversities later. Basically Wolverine doing The Road movie is the important thing and he has a friend [a blind Hawkeye] with him. But that friend could be Cyclops and he could be blind by the fact that his ruby-quartz visor is broken and he has to keep his eyes closed the whole time and everything, but still insists on driving the car they're crossing America with. There's lots of stuff. Instead of the Hulk, you could have the Blob or something.“Honestly, the continuity stuff is the most boring side of it. I kind of like it, keeping it in the X-Men universe a little, too, because comic fans are different from the mainstream world. I know this stuff backwards because I've lived my whole life loving this stuff, but most people don't know all the minutia and everything so I think keeping it simplified and keeping it generally X-Men universe is a smarter thing to do.”

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