Jeff Vespa/Getty ImagesWolverine was a huge success, regardless of its mixed reviews, so like all things in T-town, you keep pimping out one idea until there's simply nothing left. Hugh Jackman's solo Origin's flick was already an offshoot itself, so now it's time for a spinoff of the spinoff, if you all are following.
Ryan Reynolds has already scored the next movie, and Fox has 87 million reasons to ride this X-Men franchise out.
So what's next? Another rip-, I mean spinoff, obviously. We're getting dizzy thinking about it. And the front-runner for the next flick is...
Taylor Kitsch as Gambit.
When we talked with producer Lauren Shuler Donner at the Wolverine premiere, she told us that they were currently in the middle of "internal discussions" about who would star in the next film, and that they would hopefully be deciding in the next month.
Looks like things went much faster than planned, thanks to Reynolds' hit performance.
At the time, when we pressed Lauren to see who she would like to get the solo shot, she told us "Deadpool," (Reynolds' character). Ladies do always know best about man-muffin situations like this, right? And it looks like Laur wasn't the only one pushing for Reynolds.
Since originality has faded about as fast as Lohan's career, we knew we wouldn't be jumping the gun when we asked Donner who the next next star would be.
"I think we would all love to see more of Gambit," Lauren said, rather knowingly.
This geek babble is over our head, but as long as there's a hot shirtless guy like Jackman nearby, we're in.