Marvel President Told Hugh Jackman Not To Return as Wolverine

The president of Marvel originally didn’t want Hugh Jackman to reprise his role as Wolverine.

According to Kevin Feige in an interview with Empire, he warned Jackman against returning. “I said, ‘Let me give you a piece of advice, Hugh. Don’t come back’,” says Feige.

“‘You had the greatest ending in history with Logan. That’s not something we should undo.’” During 2016’s Logan, Wolverine is laid to rest in a touching moment, which gave the character a fitting send-off.

With Jackman once again wielding his pair of adamantium claws in Deadpool and Wolverine, there’s the danger that conclusion could be damaged. However, Jackman reveals he made the right decision after a long drive.

“I was about an hour into the drive,” he says. “And that question came into my head: ‘What do I want to do?’ And as soon as I asked the question, I wanted to do Deadpool & Wolverine. I just knew it. I drove for another hour. Couldn’t stop thinking about it. And I got out of the car, called Ryan, and said, ‘Ryan, if you’ll have me, I’m in.’”

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Another revelation Jackman tells Empire regards that iconic yellow and blue suit, donned for the first time in Deadpool and Wolverine. As Jackman says, it was close to happening sooner.

“We almost did it in [2013’s] The Wolverine,” Jackman says. “But from the moment I put it on here, I was like, ‘How did we never do this?’ It looked so right, it felt so right. I was like, ‘That’s him.’”

Deadpool and Wolverine hits cinemas 25 July.