10 Radical Ideas To Reboot Wolverine On Film

Although the film Logan nicks bits of Mark Millar’s Old Man Logan storyline, it’s not a straight adaptation (which is a good thing, since the book is nothing to write home about).

There’s one good thing that came out of that book, however: and that’s a grizzled old man Logan. The Logan in this year’s movie isn’t really ‘old’ so much as ‘broken’: his healing factor is screwed up, he’s ill, in pain, drinking too much and has begun aging normally.

So if Logan is set in a possible near future, couldn’t Old Man Logan come back to the present from a further future? Skip the awful backstory about murdering the X-Men; ignore the redneck Hulk rubbish; just give us that great character, a lost, withdrawn and ancient Logan, still powered up and mean as a rattlesnake on PCP.

Careful use of CG and stuntmen can eliminate the issue of an arthritic action man. More importantly, it takes the thorny problem of recasting Hugh Jackman and turns it into a freakin’ joy.

Imagine sixty-six-year-old Ed Harris as Logan, those penetrating eyes behind that feral snarl. Imagine sixty-nine-year-old Ted Danson, that tall, scowling cowboy of a man. Imagine HARRISON !*$% FORD.