So it's going to be Wolverine 3? It'll be fun when they finally get around to doing an X-Men film where the X-Men aren't all supporting cast to Wolverine.

Or when the Punisher shoots Wolverine in the nuts!
{it does happen in the comics - before the wolverine fans start hissing! }

yeah wolverine is abit over exposed in the films but isnt the new one likely to be about pheonix?

I'm not certain it's about Phoenix, and if it is then it's quite possible she will be the antagonist; This leaves us with the spectacle of "Wolverine vs. Phoenix": some random X-Men popping up to get beaten down straight away while Wolverine gets the job done.

It's just funny that despite Wolverine getting the most exposure in the first two films, he's still being used as the primary means of advertising the third film. This is alongside the fact that he's getting his own film (and by his own film, I mean a film explicitly titled Wolverine as opposed to a Wolverine film using X-Men as a title).

That poster looks fake. Any prick with photoshop can knock crap like that out. Where did you get the image from? Also, Wolverine happends to be the central x-men character, hes on every single cover of every single x-men comic out in quite some time (a few exceptions). The X-men suck without Wolverine, Hugh Jackman is the producer on the Wolverine movie which they promise to R rated, hoorah, finally some hardass wolvie.

I am well aware of how important Wolverine has been made in the comics. Aside from being the only X-Man to appear in more than one X-Men comic (last I heard the different titles had different teams, of which Wolverine was in at least 2), he also has at least one of his own monthly title, and is now a member of the new Avengers as well. Alongside regularly guesting in other titles. The character has been ridiculously over-used and over-written.

It has gotten to a point where he doesn't just not interest me anymore, he outright annoys me because writers still insist on giving him the most screen/panel time/space at the expense of a great many characters each with their own potential.

Even in Ultimate X-Men, Cyclops was pretty much written as Wolverines bitch, for him to beat up and deride at every opportunity to make him look that much cooler.

He was a good character that became very popular, but when his presense starts having a negative effect on every other character, it reflects negatively on him and he starts sucking the enjoyment out of everything he is associated with.

And just to continue my ramble a little farther, I gather the writer intends to write the Wolverine film as 18/R and then leave it to everyone else to edit/present as they see fit. The writer acknowledges that the character is too popular to restrict to an 18+ audience, so it is hugely unlikely that the film will not be editted down to the popular 12a or whatever it is.

Whilst a great many fans would like to see an R-rated Wolverine film, most acknowledge that it just isn't going to happen, at least at the cinema. (I remember someone suggesting/begging them to film the whole story then edit afterwards so that the R-rated version could at least make it to DVD or possibly even limited cinema release.)