Hugh Jackman’s commitment to perfect WOLVERINE finale.

Hugh Jackman spoke with Collider about his developing WOLVERINE finale with director James Mangold. Revealing the status of the film’s script, Jackman confirmed plans for a different take on Patrick Stewart’s Professor Xavier.

“I’ll be really honest with you, the actual script in its full form we’re up to about Page 60,” he revealed.” Obviously there’s a treatment, so it’s not fully done yet, we’re not fully there. Patrick does figure in it that’s for sure. I think it’s a really important relationship but I want to see signs of that quasi-father/son sort of relationship that has not been seen before, and sides of particularly Professor X that have not been seen before. So we have some really, really cool ideas.”

Envisioning his ultimate exit from the X-Men film franchise for “quite a long time now.” Jackman says he’s stern in not committing to a filming start date until the “script is perfect.”

“I’m saying ‘but’ and I’m sounding a little cagey because this is the last time I’m playing him, and I have just made the commitment to myself, really, and told everyone that until that script is perfect, until it is that perfect way to sign out, I’m not gonna start shooting. So that’s why I don’t wanna say ‘Yes’ for sure, because until Page 115, 120, whatever it is…”

Click here to read much more from the interview, including how he’s “pushing harder” than ever before both mentally and physically. .