You may think you really want Wolverine to be in one of the next Avengers movies, but the man who plays Wolverine probably wants it more.
Actor Hugh Jackman, speaking with IGN while promoting X-Men: Days of Future Past, says he’d love for the character to join the Paramount/Disney franchise.
Jackman explains the appeal for him (and the character): “Because there’s a great dysfunction among that team, and I think Wolverine would fit right into that. He’d like that.”
Marvel famously added the loner mutant to the comics version of the team with the debut of the New Avengers some years back. But thanks to some pretty cut-and-dry contracts made before the big Marvel movie boom, the chances of Fox agreeing to let the character start hacking and slashing at the Mandarin are pretty slim to nil.
Still, Jackman has some ideas about what he’d like to see in a potential Wolverine and the Avengers movie. The actor seems to be eying all of the potential beefs that Wolverine could get into on the team, including brawls with Iron Man and the Hulk. “There’s no doubt he’d get in a fight with Hulk at some point. Those two bad, rage-filled characters are going to square off at some point. It would be quite fun. I don’t know how much fun to shoot it would be because I’m sure I’d be on the worst end of it, but hey, he can heal.”
You heard it here first, guys: Hugh Jackman says Wolverine would totally get owned by the Hulk and he’s okay with that.
In the meantime, Jackman is on board for another Wolverine sequel as well as X-Men: Apocalypse.
[Source: IGN]
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If you ask me, the biggest factor in determining whether or not Wolverine becomes an Avenger is the attachment moviegoers have with Jackman himself as Wolverine. The dude’s been the centerpiece of a highly successful franchise, and moviegoers have grown very attached to him, but he even admitted that he’s getting too old for this. When Wolverine gets recast, the new guy will have to garner the same amount of audience affection that Jackman had. Should he fail in doing that, Wolverine will likely stop being the center of the X-Men franchise, and he won’t be as hot of a commodity. Rather than drag around a dead character that will never be as loved as the original, Fox might be interested in selling the rights of Wolverine to Disney for the right price (this is a HUGE maybe though, extremely huge). Granted, since ‘mutant’ is a forbidden word in the MCU, they’ll probably have to doctor up a new backstory for him like they did with Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, but hey, I’ll let somebody buy me lunch even if they insist on calling it breakfast, so that’s fine with me.
Canadian Nazi Experiment then
Or hell, Canada’s attempt at Super Soldier… Done.
Already done. He’s called the Sentry
uhhh, The Sentry is NOT a canadian super solider. The Sentry is 1- American 2- a god-level character that has enormous power
You are thinking of “The Guardian”, but he is not a super solider, he wears a battle armor suit that lets him fly and have super strength and such.
You mean Vindicator.
It’s the same issue with SONY and SPIDER-MAN – who needs to appear in an AVENGERS movie.
I don’t underestimate the power of DISNEY when it comes to just buying what they want, so if they think that they can profit from it, they’ll surely pay SONY/FOX to acquire the rights to the characters and terms they want.
BUT – the simple fact is as much as I would love to see Hulk, Thor, Spider-Man and Wolverine together, having these various studios compete is GOOD for the moviegoers, as the competition creates better movies.
I for one would love to see this happen. I wrote an article for another site a few months ago stating that I think that this would be one of the best story lines to play out in a movie.
This , additionaly to Civil War, Planet Hulk ( there is an anime but a movie could be better) and World War Hulk
What is the graphic for this story from?
Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk. And yes, Hulk tore him in half in the first issue, and THEN Wolverine had to crawl up a mountain to retrieve his legs. That’s actually how the series begins.
I vaguely remember some comment about “Five miles. He threw my legs FIVE MILES.”
Four miles, he threw my F@#$in’ legs four miles away. Ultimate Hulk Vs. Ultimate Wolverine.
My original thought was World War Hulk, but some searching has led me to Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk. I’m not a Hulk reader, so that is about all I can do to help.
Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk
if hugh jackman cared so much about the wolverine character, what happened?
What happened, Chad, is that Hugh Jackman isn’t a screenwriter.
Well that and Marvel made a real mess of things when they started selling off rights here and there. So this will never happen unless they call Logan something else besides “Wolverine” and make him an inhuman or something like that vs calling him a “Mutant”
Or maybe Marvel/Disney could pay Fox to use him in one of their movies? Surely a little money (Or in this case… a lot?) will tempt them? 😛
But if Marvel hadn’t sold the movie rights off to those characters, you wouldn’t have a Marvel right now. They sold the rights because they were near bankruptcy.