2000’s X-Men made Jackman a household name, and
while he was mostly absent from last year’s stinker that was X-Men:
Apocalypse and 2011’s “soft
reboot” X-Men:
First Class (with the
exception of some fun cameos), Jackman has, for the most part, dominated the X-Men cinematic landscape, serving as the
figurehead for the original trilogy, spawning his own now-trilogy of spin-off
films and saving the franchise from certain doom in 2014’s critically-acclaimed X-Men:
Days of Future Past. Now, after having played the character to whom he is
forever inseparably affiliated for a whopping seventeen years, Hugh Jackman
finally hangs up the claws as he reprises his role as The Wolverine in what it
to be his final outing.
