New X-Force Script May Feature Female Wolverine

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know that 20th Century Fox is doing everything that it can to expand their X-Men property into multiple movie titles.  X-Men: Apocalypse will conclude the second of the X-Men movie trilogies, and Wolverine 3 will be Hugh Jackman's last appearance as Wolverine, so where do they go from here?  They've already branched out when they gave us Deadpool and they're also working on a Gambit solo film, but these movies just follow one character (even if others might show up).  What they want is another mutant team that can give them more characters to feature.  You know, like their own version of Avengers or Justice League.

Two projects that have been mentioned as moving forward are New Mutants and X-Force.  Out of the two, New Mutants seems to be moving along faster than X-Force. Fox has announced three release dates for unannounced X-Men projects, and it's being assumed that they are for the Gambit movie, Deadpool 2, and New Mutants.  That's not to say that they aren't working on the X-Force movie.  In fact, Simon Kinberg is current working on a script for the film, and some interesting news that's being said about it?  IT's going to feature a female Wolverine.

I've talked about X-23 in previous posts, so I won't go into the details of who Laura Kinney (a.k.a. X-23) is, but if you aren't familiar with her, just go to my old posts and you'll find her information there.  Getting back to her, though, if this information is true, then I think it's a good decision on Fox's part (which is surprising in itself).  The main reason why I think this is a good idea is that trying to replace Hugh Jackman as Wolverine just a few years after his stepping down from the role would be stupid.  Too many people would be comparing the new actor to Jackman, and it would take away from the movie.  Jackman has been playing Wolverine for the past 16 years, and fans love him in this role.  I just think that people would be unwilling to accept anyone else as Wolverine, and a movie with a new Logan would bomb.  So what do you do?  You stay true to the comics, and instead of replacing the actor, you replace the character...just like they did in the comic books. 

There have been rumors that X-23 will be making an appearance in Wolverine 3 (coming out March 3, 2017) so will this give us our first look at the actress that will be possibly appearing in the X-Force movie?  If the movie does well and the fans accept her as Logan's "daughter," then that might help sell the X-Force movie for when it comes out.  That, and if Cable does make an appearance in Deadpool 2, then that would give the movie studio two characters that fans are already familiar with to help in promoting the X-Force movie.  Of course, all of this is just speculation, nothing has been confirmed, not even that the movie is going to get made.

So what do you think?  Do you like the idea of X-23 becoming the new Wolverine, or do you think they should try focusing their attention on other mutants in the X-Men universe?  Let me know your thoughts in the comments section down below.