Wolverine 3 Director Reveals a Striking New Professor X Image

Earlier this week the official title for the upcoming third Wolverine movie was revealed. The film will be called Logan, and it hits theaters in March. Now director James Mangold has tweeted a new image of Patrick Stewart, who will play a very old Professor X.

According to Stewart, this is likely to be his final appearance in the X-Men universe. In August the star told ITV News: "[You'll see] a very different Charles Xavier. Nothing like the Charles Xavier you've seen in the past. I would imagine this is probably the end of this franchise for me.

"But the thing about science fiction and fantasy is that you can never, ever say it's the end, it's over."

Logan will also be Hugh Jackman's last time playing Wolverine. The star recently hinted that the movie would take a different approach to its predecessors. "Basically it's going to be different. Very different in tone and hopefully to anything we've done," he told ET Online.

The notes contained in a page of script that Mangold tweeted earlier this week certainly suggest something more hard-hitting than the previous Wolverine movies. "If you're on the make for a hyper choreographed, gravity defying, city-block destroying, CG f**kathon, this ain't your movie," they state. "In this flick, people will get hurt or killed when s**t falls on them."

Logan hits theaters on March 3, 2017.