User blog comment:Mark4518/mystique join x-men/@comment-1751305-20130117203427/@comment-4651179-20130117205122

Fox is treating The Wolverine (in Mark Millar's words) as: "Our Iron Man".

They are hoping this movie can open a new gate for new X-Men (and Marvel/Fox) movies and refresh the X-fanchise. Hopefully, he could see new X-Movies set in the present, after all Charles Xavier is still alive and maybe Scott Summers survived his encounter with Jean (I hope so).