The team on project Wolverine 3 really ought to get cracking.
Despite having a reported March 2, 2017 release date pencilled in, casting isn't even yet finalised, let alone the start of filming.
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All we know so far is that The Wolverine (2013) director James Mangold is back at the helm, Patrick Stewart is signed up to reprise his Charles Xavier role and Narcos' Boyd Holbrook is in the picture, too.
However, talking to CinemaBlend, X-Men franchise producer Simon Kinberg did reveal a nugget of information as to the location of the final Wolverine chapter (Hugh Jackman has confirmed that this will be his last outing as the clawed mutant).
"The Wolverine story takes place in the future," he confirmed.
The most recent X-Men films, all prequels to the original trilogy, take place during different eras in history.
X-Men First Class was set in the 1960s; Days of Future Past, the '70s; and upcoming Apocalypse - not featuring Wolverine - in the '80s.
The presence of Stewart as the older Xavier suggests that Wolverine 3 will take place after all the recent events.
And Old Man Logan - eight spin-off Marvel comics published between 2008 and 2009 by writer Mark Millar and artist Steve McNiven - is also heavily rumoured to influence the story.
Old Man Logan was a Wolverine story set in a post-apocalyptic world 50+ years into the future.
Of course, the term 'future' is nebulous. Though playing an old man would certainly suit Jackman who is, after all, at the ripe old age of 46 - positively ancient by Hollywood standards.
(Love you really, Hugh!)
X-Men: Apocalypse is released in the UK on May 18.
