Cinematical reports that Patrick Stewart thinks there might be more X-Men movies, even though the upcoming third installment is called X-Men: The Last Stand. Apparently Stewart speculated on the British TV show Richard & Judy that “labeling the third film as ‘the last one’ could be just a tease to draw audiences to the theater.”
Well, I wouldn’t take this too seriously. For one thing, it has been public knowledge for months now that Hugh Jackman is developing a Wolverine spin-off — so the fans already know there will be more of his character, at least. Plus, four years ago, Stewart said pretty much the same thing about Star Trek: Nemesis; the posters called that movie “A Generation’s Final Journey” and Stewart said it wasn’t necessarily so.
Of course, that film turned out to be the biggest flop in the entire franchise, so the studio had no incentive to break its implicit promise to end the series there. If this new X-Men is a hit, on the other hand, then who knows, Wolverine may not be enough.
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