Hugh Jackman says goodbye to Wolverine after 17 years

In Logan, an ageing Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) cares for the ailing Professor X (Patrick Stewart), whose psychic powers have spiralled out of control as age erodes his extraordinary mind. Photo: 20th Century Fox

New X-Men film Logan will mark the end of the road for not just Australian film star Hugh Jackman as the eponymous mutant superhero, but also for acclaimed British thespian Patrick Stewart as his mentor and father figure, the powerful psychic Professor Charles Xavier.

At a press conference in Taipei, Taiwan recently, Stewart, 76, said he, too, made the decision to leave the franchise recently, after watching the film premiere with Jackman, 48, in Berlin, Germany in January.