Hugh Jackman recently finished up his run as Wolverine on the big screen, and he went out with a bang. His last Wolverine film was “Logan” and fans and critics around the world seem to agree that the movie delivered.
Jackman really made the role his own, and it’s tough to imagine anybody else picking up the claws and playing Wolverine in a movie. But eventually the role will have to be recast.
Although Hugh Jackman made the role iconic, he wasn’t the first choice for Wolverine. “X-Men” director Bryan Singer was good friends with Russell Crowe around the time the movie was being made, and Crowe says Singer was really putting pressure on him to play Wolverine in the film.
At the time Crowe was associated with the film “Gladiator” which he starred in, and he recently revealed that there was supposed to be a bigger connection between Maximus and a wolf, and he didn’t want to get typecast as “Mr Wolf.”
“If you remember, Maximus has a wolf at the centre of his cuirass, and he has a wolf as his companion … which I thought was going to be a bigger deal [at the time],” he explained. “So I said no, because I didn’t want to be ‘wolfy’, like ‘Mr Wolf’.”
In the end the wolf aspect of his character didn’t really come into play, so it doesn’t seem like he had anything to worry about. However, if he didn’t turn the role down, Hugh Jackman never would have played Wolverine, so all’s well that ends well, right?
In the near future, a weary Logan (Hugh Jackman) cares for an ailing Professor X (Patrick Stewart) at a remote outpost on the Mexican border. His plan to hide from the outside world gets upended when he meets a young mutant (Dafne Keen) who is very much like him. Logan must now protect the girl and battle the dark forces that want to capture her.
