'Wolverine 3' Now 'Logan': Plot, R-Rated Swearing, Power Drill Torture And Alcoholism Revealed In Screenplay Release

The official title for Wolverine 3 has been revealed as Logan, thanks to a huge-ass banner on the side of a building (looks like it might be for New York Comic Con).

Director James Mangold released a page from the Logan script shortly after Hugh Jackman tweeted the title reveal. The Logan script page points to a more violent, “gritty” movie, with an older Wolverine.

Also, Hugh Jackman hung out with Larry David recently, which was probably fun for both of them.

Here’s the billboard, which shows a child’s hand clutching the hand of old man Wolverine, reveals the new title Logan and includes the March 3, 2017 release date:

But for the real insight into the plot of Logan , turn instead to Mangold’s account:

That’s the second page from the Logan script. Some highlights:

• A post-apocalyptic gang of “Bangers,” including a with the name Jitters, stab, shoot and tear into Wolverine with a power drill.

• Logan says the word “fuck,” presumably timed in such a way that we are meant to cheer at an X-Men comic book movie finally using the swearsies.

But the real meat of the Logan script release is an authorial interjection from screenwriters Michael Green and/or David James Kelly, who promise that Logan will be a more realistic take on the outsized spectacle we’ve come to expect from superhero movies:

“Now might be a good time to talk about the ‘fights’ described in the next 100 or so pages. Basically, if you’re on the make for a hyper choreographed, gravity defying, city-block destroying CG fuckathon, this ain’t your movie.

In this flick, people will get hurt or killed when shit falls on them. They will get just as hurt or killed when shit falls on them. They will get just as hurt or just as killed if they get hit with something big and heavy like, say, a car. Should anyone in our story have the misfortune to fall off a roof or out a window, they won’t bounce. They will die.

As for our hero, well, he’s older now and it’s clear his abilities aren’t what they once were. 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.”

While a boozin’ Logan sounds more faux-gritty than actually new and innovative, it’d be interesting to see them pull off this more down-to-earth (and likely bloodier) take on Wolverine. Perhaps third time’s the charm. Or maybe, for all of Hugh Jackman’s efforts, Wolverine will never be more than a disposable trilogy. We’ll find out March 3.