It's been rumored for some time but now it's official. Twentieth Century Fox will be releasing a Wolverine spin-off of its popular X-Men movie franchise some time next year. Hugh Jackman will once again don the Adamantium-plated claws of Wolverine.

The announcement came at the international exhibitors conference Cine Expo in Holland. The presentation included a taped message from Jackman backing-up Fox's promise.

Here's hoping it does better than Fox's other solo superhero spin-off -- Elektra, a spin-off from 2003's Daredevil. The Jennifer Garner starrer only managed $24 million at the box office.

No word on an exact release date for Wolverine but one could surmise that it'll take some time to get this surely FX-laden film in theaters.

This is no surprise, really - it had been rumored for quite a while. Hopefully they'll have a good director and storyline.

X-Men III was done as a "final" movie, but they left loopholes so that a fourth movie could happen. Probably won't, but you never know.

They could also do X-Force and X-Factor movies, as they were X-Men spinoffs and had some of the same characters.

What? No Rogue spinoff movie?

Damn!

;)

I hope it's AWESOME. Not something like...Catwoman. :lol: