10 Radical Ideas To Reboot Wolverine On Film

Most people know that the skeleton of Logan’s narrative comes from the Old Man Logan comic, but plot points were also adapted from the 2014 Death Of Wolverine mini-event.

Oh yes, that’s right - Wolverine’s been dead in the mainstream Marvel Universe for three years now. All manner of pseudo-Wolverines (Fauxgans?) were initially thrown up in his absence, just as occurred immediately after the 1992 Death Of Superman mini-event that Marvel totally didn’t rip off.

But there was never any question who’d inherit Logan’s legacy: it would be Laura Kinney, sometimes known as X-23, who’d become the new Wolverine (or the All-New Wolverine, in fact, as written by the redoubtable Tom Taylor).

Laura Kinney was created for the X-Men: Evolution cartoon series in 2003, to give the kids a Wolverine-equivalent they could identify with. Marvel brought the character into mainstream comics continuity a year later, designed to be a mutant Pinocchio: “a samurai sword trying to become a real little girl”, as her creator Craig Kyle eloquently put it.

As a central part of this year’s Logan, X23’s origin story has already been told onscreen. If it’s good enough for Marvel, it’s good enough for Fox: make Laura Kinney the (all) new Wolverine.