It’s reported that Richard E. Grant has been cast in a villain role for the untitled third Wolverine movie.
THR reports Grant joins Hugh Jackman in Wolverine 3 playing a villainous mad-scientist type role with the specific character not known.
British actor Richard E. Grant is known for Doctor Who, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, Dig and Downton Abbey.
The Wolverine 3 has a March 3, 2017 release directed by James Mangold also starring Patrick Stewart as Professor X. and Boyd Holbrook as Jackman’s nemesis.
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