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A big rumor going into 2019 Comic-Con was that Taron Egerton was going to be announced as the next Wolverine.

Speaking with MTV, the 29-year-old Rocketman actor shut down the rumor that we would take over the role from Hugh Jackman.

“I think you need better beard game for Wolverine than I have,” he said. “Look, there’s no grounding for the rumor. I know that that’s probably in the pipeline at some point for Marvel but I would imagine it’s a little way off.”

“If I was asked it would be incredible. I have to confess, I think sometimes there are better candidates,” Taron added. “Or actually, you know, who knows, because in five years maybe I’d be grizzly enough.”

Hugh has played the role in the X-Men universe in many films over the last 19 years. Hugh and Taron have worked together previously on the film Eddie the Eagle.

Hugh Jackman‘s Hollywood career was almost very different.

On stage during his latest Hugh Jackman: The Man, The Music, The Show stop in London, the 50-year-old actor revealed that he was almost fired from the role of Wolverine during production of the first X-Men movie back in 2000.

“I was told that things weren’t really working out as they hoped,” Hugh admitted, according to The Daily Mail. “I was about to get fired from my first Hollywood movie, the biggest of my career. I was angry, I went home to my wife and I complained. I was whinging an Olympic level of whinging to Deb, my wife, and moaning about this person and that person.”

Hugh then went on to explain how his wife helped through his issues and was able to keep his job thanks to her.

“She listened to me very patiently for about an hour and finally she just said, ‘Listen, I think you have just got to trust yourself,’” Hugh explained. “‘You are worrying way too much about what everything else is thinking. Just go back to the character, focus on that, trust your instinct. You’ve got this.’”

Thanks to Deb‘s advice, Hugh starred as Wolverine in 10 films.

The fans have spoken: they want Danny DeVito to be Wolverine!

The It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia star is the subject of a petition going around online asking for Marvel to cast him as the new version of Wolverine after Hugh Jackman stepped down from the role.

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The Change.org petition has already acquired over 12,000 signatures and counting.

“The only man able to take the throne after Hugh Jackman. We believe that if Wolverine is to make an appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that the only man able to pull it off is Danny Devito,” the petition reads.

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Hugh Jackman will be playing his famous role of Wolverine in the upcoming movie Logan and a new poster for the film has been released!

The 48-year-old actor is seen in a suit with his claws outstretched while walking against the sunset.

Hugh posted the photo on his social media accounts and promoted the movie’s release date of March 3, 2017.

In the upcoming movie, Logan’s healing abilities are slowly fading away and he must defeat a villain with the help of a young girl who is a female clone of him. See a new still that Hugh just shared below!

Boyd Holbrook will be starring in the upcoming movie Logan, the third installment in a separate franchise for X-Men character Wolverine.

The 35-year-old actor will be playing the role of Donald Pierce, a cyborg who has superhuman strength and hunts down mutants.

A photo of Boyd sitting in the driver’s seat of a truck was shared on the the film’s Instagram account with the simple caption, “Pierce.”

Hugh Jackman will be playing an older version of his famed character. In the movie, it will be clear that “his abilities aren’t what they once were.”

Hugh Jackman shaves off his beard in a new video posted to his Twitter account on Monday morning (August 22).

The 47-year-old actor has wrapped production on the third Wolverine movie and he is now free to change up his looks!

“My wife is going to be very happy. #GoodbyeChops #TheDebs,” Hugh captioned the video.

The upcoming movie is rumored to be about the “Old Man Logan” story from the Wolverine comics. He was seen looking much older in a recent Instagram photo that he posted and photos from the set of the film seem to confirm the rumor.

Hugh Jackman escapes out of a bullet-ridden limousine while filming a scene for the upcoming third Wolverine movie on Wednesday afternoon (June 15) in New Orleans, La.

The 47-year-old actor, who is rumored to be playing the “Old Man Logan” version of the character in the new movie, was seen driving the limo for the scene.

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Hugh was in New York City this week and flew to set on Tuesday to get back to work. Last week he was seen filming other scenes in the limo as well!