Logan: New clip reveals X-23's origins

This R-rated take - and Hugh Jackman's final outing as Wolverine - promises to offer something very different to the X-Men universe

Logan may mark the end of Hugh Jackman's tenure as Wolverine, but it may also mark the beginning of another's - X-23.

Wolverine's successor in the comics, Laura Kinney is a cloned version of him who eventually takes over both his name and costume after he dies. That's not to say that's how things will work out here, but the Laura (Dafne Keen) in Logan does bear X-23's trademark two adamantium claws.

Footage has shown she's just as brutal a fighter as Logan too, which does beg the question as to where the mysterious little girl comes from, and how her experiences have shaped her as a mutant.

A new clip has hinted at just a little of her origins, a low-res clip taken from inside a hospital suite where Laura is being operated on, held there alongside what appears to be several other children.

Is she there for her own safety? Is this facility actually some kind of laboratory testing on mutant children?

Set in the near future - of what Jackman has stated is a "slightly different universe" - in which Wolverine finds his healing factor is losing its effectiveness and he's begun to succumb to the effects of age, he attempts to hide out on the Mexican border with an ailing Professor X, though everything soon comes under risk when the young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.

Logan hits UK cinemas 1 March.