Was/Is Hugh Jackman the right "Wolverine"?

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Almost everyone shared this memory -- of tears! Sniff!

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Comments from film sites on Hugh Jackman's reminiscence of the 3rd year anniversary of the release of LOGAN.


www.joblo.com/movie-news/hugh-jackman-pays-tribute-to-logan-on-films-third-anniversary




www.superherohype.com/comics/478516-hugh-jackman-shares-unseen-logan-shots-for-release-anniversary?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hugh-jackman-shares-unseen-logan-shots-for-release-anniversary




www.cinemablend.com/news/2491269/hugh-jackman-pens-thank-you-to-x-men-fans-on-anniversary-of-logans-release

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This post has really made quite the impact.  Some of the individual comments are generaring 100s of likes and initiating many replies.

Mar 3, 2020 9:32:49 GMT -5 jo said:

http://instagr.am/p/B9RXl0zHdQS

Keep swiping...

Logan is reminiscing


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Most iconic and most artistic!

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This post was LIKED by Hugh ( see his Twitter account)

I wonder if it is a hint

Bosslogic is well-known among superhero fans.

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Funny reply --

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BossLogic also posted this --


It's true -- Logan and Laura were two of the last few mutants alive

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"Dougray Scott claims Tom Cruise blocked him from Wolverine role that made Hugh Jackman a star."


www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/dougray-scott-wolverine-tom-cruise-hugh-jackman-xmen-mission-impossible-a9385912.html

Excerpts --

Dougray Scott claims Tom Cruise blocked him from Wolverine role that made Hugh Jackman a star
Jackman subsequently played Wolverine in nine ‘X-Men’ movies

Adam White
@__adamwhite
3 hours ago

Hugh Jackman only played Wolverine after Tom Cruise blocked his Mission: Impossible II co-star Dougray Scott from assuming the role, Scott has claimed.

The Scottish actor was signed up to play Wolverine in the original 2000 X-Men film, but had to back out at the last minute as production on the Mission: Impossible sequel overran.

“Tom Cruise didn’t let me do it,” Scott told The Daily Telegraph. “We were doing Mission: Impossible and he was like, ‘You’ve got to stay and finish the film’ and I said I will, but I’ll go and do that as well.

“For whatever reason he said I couldn’t.”
Scott continued, “He was a very powerful guy. Other people were doing everything to make it work.”

The casting swap has since gone down in filmmaking lore, with Jackman’s casting transforming him from an unknown Australian theatre actor and into a bona fide movie star.

Scott was an up-and-coming actor at the time with roles in Ever After and Deep Impact.

Despite their varying trajectories since 2000, Scott said he holds no ill will towards Jackman.
“I love what Hugh did with it,” he said. “He’s a lovely guy.”

On the other hand --

David Hayter, screenwriter for the first XMen film writes about the real reason why Dougray Scott, the originally-cast Wolverine, could not join the movie when it started filming.


www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/x-men-screenwriter-hugh-jackmans-wolverine-casting-drama-982045

Hugh Jackman replaced Dougray Scott as Wolverine several weeks into production. What's the story there?
[Then-Fox executive] Tom Rothman really wanted Dougray Scott to play Wolverine and he was shooting Mission: Impossible 2 and Tom Cruise kept calling Byran and saying, "We just need him a little while longer, a little while longer." We were starting to shoot and Wolverine was the lead and we didn't have him. Bryan suspected something was hinky, and so he sent the costume designer down to Australia, ostensibly to get wardrobe shots, but really it was to find out what was going on. What we found out was Dougray had been in a motorcycle accident filming the climax of MI2. He was pretty messed up. It was a real shame he couldn't do it. And Hugh had been somebody who had been in the mix earlier and it was [executive producer] Lauren Shuler Donner who said, "Why don't we bring him?"

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Hey, looking great as Deadpool! Now Deadpool has sex appeal

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Another Wolverine

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movieweb.com/wolverine-hugh-jackman-rob-liefeld/

‘Deadpool’ Co-Creator Really Hopes Hugh Jackman Returns as ‘Wolverine’

Deadpool Co-Creator Really Hopes Hugh Jackman Returns as Wolverine
Jon Fuge — May 10, 2020 in Movie News


Arguably, no actor has become so synonymous with a comic book character as Hugh Jackman has with X-Men favorite Wolverine. Having played the role for almost twenty years, Jackman bowed out with the excellent Logan back in 2017, but since then fans have struggled to move on. One of those fans is comic creator Rob Liefeld, who was asked in a recent interview which actor he envisions as the spiky-haired X-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Like most of us, Liefeld said that he is finding it hard to picture anyone other than Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.

"I'm stuck on Hugh Jackman. Having met Hugh, having loved Hugh, there is only Deadpool because of Wolverine... I was doing Deadpool [in the comics] to get to Wolverine. Wolverine was always the goal."

Much like Wolverine, Liefeld's Deadpool, whom he created alongside Fabian Nicieza, possesses a superhuman healing factor and was once a member of one version of the Weapon X program. Though he is, of course, much more chatty than his fellow Marvel character.

"I can't answer the question on Wolverine, I'm stuck on Hugh Jackman. I hope to God he comes back, I do. He's been seriously firm that he's not going to be Wolverine, and I foolishly don't believe him."

The comments from Rob Liefeld no doubt echo the thoughts of many Wolverine fans, who have been left wondering who can match the passion, aggression, and unruly charisma of Jackman's take on the character.



Jackman himself has been quite assertive that he is indeed done with the role for good, and spoke recently about why he felt now was the right time to hang up his claws and leave them for someone else.

"I knew it was the right time for me to leave the party - not just for me, but for the character. Somebody else will pick it up and run with it. It's too good of a character not to. It's kind of like, you're on your way home and your friend rings you and goes, 'Oh, dude, a new DJ just came on and the music is awesome, are you going to come back?' And you say, 'Sounds good but... no.' They're fine with someone else."


Jackman certainly picked the right movie to make his last, with 2017's Logan receiving much critical acclaim and even calls for the actor and movie to be considered by the Academy. Logan is set in a future where mutants are nearly extinct, with the story following an elderly and weary Logan as he is forced to come out of retirement to escort a young mutant named Laura to a safe place. He meets with other mutants, who run from an evil corporation that has been experimenting with them, along the way.

Liefeld is not alone in wanting to bring Jackman back into the fold, with Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds trying time and again to persuade the X-Men star to suit up once again for a much-desired Wolverine/Deadpool team-up. While Jackman is likely finished with the role, Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios are expected to reboot and recast Wolverine, with one of the more popular fan choices being none other than Danny DeVito. Whoever they cast, here's hoping they get it right. This comes to us from Inverse.

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Danny DeVito?! 🤮

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Over the years --

from the cigar-chomping cage fighter ... to the weary Logan.

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Parents name their newly born kids Logan or put on Wolverine-wear on them.

Almost ironic that they name their kids for someone who is not even-tempered, who lashes with metal knives at anyone in the way, uses language not meant for kids


Lolol- they must find him a lovable character, despite his behavior that is often R-rated ( for violence & language)


But we all love him


I wonder - is part of it ( or even the most part of it) because we have come to love the Wolverine in the person of simpatico Hugh Jackman


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The Wolverine toys keep coming...

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Jul 22, 2020 9:51:45 GMT -5 jo said:

Once a wolverine, always a Wolverine

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Jul 22, 2020 10:10:50 GMT -5 jo said:

Remember when Joe Quesada designed special covers of XMen comic books, as Hugh's Thank You gift to Bryan Singer, for their collaboration from 1999 to 2016?

ew.com/article/2016/10/02/x-men-hugh-jackman-bryan-singer-comic-book-art/

The filmmaker posted an image of the artwork to Instagram, writing, “Thank you so much [Hugh Jackman] for commissioning the brilliant comic artist [Joe Quesada] to make these fantastic and very personal covers for me. I will cherish them and our long friendship and collaboration always!”

Jackman signed one of the pieces with a message to Singer that read: “Dear Bryan, It all started with you, Bub! 1999-2016! From the bottom of my heart, thank you.”

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The interview with Joe Quesada --





Interesting fact that he shared -- it is enclosed with spoiler tags in case you want to see the interview first!

SPOILER: Click to show

He lost his falsetto ( voice) for 7-8 years while he was doing Wolverine ( with all the growling, the voice went too deep? )

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