Who Will Logan Fight In The Upcoming Wolverine 3 Movie?

This weekend's release of X-Men: Apocalypse rounds out the "First Class" trilogy, and the untitled Wolverine 3 movie coming out next year will complete the Wolverine trilogy.  It will also be the end of Hugh Jackman's time as this character.  His first two solo movies did well at the box office, but were released to mixed reviews, and considering how violent the comic book version of Wolverine is, those first two movie were pretty tame and given a PG-13 rating.  They did this, of course, in order to reach a wider audience and hopefully make more money, but in doing this they lost the essence of the beloved character.  They didn't just lose the essence of Wolverine, they also lost it with other characters that they included in these films, most notably Deadpool. 

Enter Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the writers for the Deadpool movie.  They came along and showed everyone that you could make an R-rated superhero movie and still make money...all while staying true to the character.  Who'd a thunk it, right?  Now, 20th Century Fox is giving us what we've wanted from the get go...an R-rated Wolverine movie, and it should be a blood-bath of a good time!  But who is Logan going to be going up against?

There are two possibilities that are being floated around chat rooms right now.  The first one is Mister Sinister.  This is being considered as one because of the post-credit scene at the end of X-Men: Apocalypse.  In that scene, it shows a man walking over a bunch of bodies  until he reaches a vial of Wolverine's blood.  He picks it up and puts it into a briefcase that says "Essex Corporation" on it.  That puts Nathaniel Essex (a.k.a. Mister Sinister) front and center as the possible villain in the movie, with many people believing that this scene was put in to set up the character for Wolverine 3. Like I said in an earlier post, that may be the case, but it might not be.  They could be using the scene to set up the introduction of X-23, a clone of Wolverine that is also rumored to be making her debut in the film. 

The second possibility of villains are the Reavers.  The Nerdist recently claimed that through inside sources, these guys are the ones that Wolverine will do battle with.  The Reavers are cybernetically enhanced mercs that hunt mutants.  They've gone through a bunch of different forms, making their first appearance in Uncanny X-Men #133, but their most recent form has them as a group of mutant hunters led by Donald Pierce, who brought members of the Hellfire Club together and refitted them with advanced cybernetics.  They went on a tear trying to take down the X-Men, with a specific focus on Wolverine.  Whichever version they decide to use, the fact that Jackman is claiming that the movie will be loosely based on the comic book story Old Man Logan, chances are that we will be given a "Mad Max-ish" style of movie if either of these last two rumors are true.  In Old Man Logan, Wolverine sets across a dystopian United States (which is no longer the United States), and most of the story takes place in deserts and rocky terrain, which is why I think it'll be similar to a Mad Max movie.  But that's just my two cents on the matter.

Whoever Wolverine goes up against, it's looking to be an epic battle, one deserving for a character and a man who's entertained us for so many years.  Wolverine 3 will hit theaters March 3, 2017.