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It's been a long and grueling road that's definitely tried our patience, since we first saw those pictures of Old Man Logan teased by Hugh Jackman, till now. He was out there sporting that new grey beard, and we weren't sure what to believe...didn't want to get our hopes up too high.





And then we all saw that new movie poster, with Wolverine holding some mysterious little hand. 



Part of me hoped that we were in fact looking at Deadpool's baby hand, as he so humorously teased on Twitter:



But definite nope there. Just this little 'sweetheart.':



Boyd Holbrook co-starring as the main villain, Donald Pierece looks like it's about to be epic too:



Anyways, thoughts, initial reactions, etc, on the first trailer? 

The Instagram account revealed that Boyd Holbrook will play Donald Pierce in Wolverine 3; Pierce was a notoriously formidable cyborg villain in the MCU, who was a member of the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle. After Pierce is beaten by the X Men he goes on to lead the cyborg group, The Reavers.



Pierce might be one of two badass villains for this film though, as we've previously confirmed that Richard E. Grant is playing a mad scientist who might be potentially be Mister Sinister. Logan's being directed by James Mangold who directed The Wolverine, and it stars Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, Patrick Stewart as Professor X, Boyd Holbrook as Donald Pierce, Richard E. Grant, Stephen Merchant as Caliban, Eriq La Salle and Elise Neal.

The sequel will be simply titled 'Logan' (is it just me or is the whole 'less is more' thing running rampant with these movie titles lately, "Batman" for instance).



The movie's director James Mangold said the following regarding the premise/atmosphere of the film:

"As for our hero, well, he’s older now and it’s clear his abilities aren’t what they once were," Mangold said, confirming the aged nature of Wolverine in the film for the first time. "He’s fading on the inside and his diminished healing factor keeps him in a constant state of chronic pain – hence booze as a painkiller."

The post-credit scene of X-Men Apocalypse teased the introduction of a one Nathaniel Essex, who is better known as Mister Sinister. Mister Sinister was one of the most powerful villains in the X-Men comics. He was driven by an obsessive desire to understand the genetics of mutants, and he would regularly experiment on them as test subjects until he all but achieved immortality for himself.

Many out there are hopeful right now that we'll be looking at Richard E. Grant as Mister Sinister, after news broke a while ago about Grant being cast as a 'mad scientist.' 



Wolverine 3 comes out in March 2017.