Here at IGN we occasionally like to showcase something from geekdom’s rich history — a pop-culture Time Capsule, if you will, that gives us a peek in to the past, perhaps providing a new appreciation for previous projects.
If you’d like, please check out the past few Time Capsules:
- Christian Bale auditioning in Val Kilmer’s batsuit from Batman Forever
- Kevin Feige’s 2006 tease for the Avengers and the MCU
- Bill Murray’s Peter Venkman died in Dan Aykroyd’s Ghostbusters III script
- Here’s Quentin Tarantino as an Elvis impersonator on The Golden Girls
- Watch Tobey Maguire do an R-rated screen test for Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man
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We’ve got a super-duper snikt!-y treat for you this week as we all get to take a look at baby-faced Hugh Jackman first auditioning, and then screen testing, for the part of Wolverine – a role he’d go on to play another 137 times in approximately 502 X-Men movies (including Kate & Leopold, because His Grace Leopold Alexis Elijah Walker Thomas Gareth Mountbatten, 3rd Duke of Albany was clearly the Black Rook of the Hellfire Club).
Jackman, a relative unknown at the time, was given the job of a lifetime as one of Marvel Comics’ most popular mutilators: a nearly-immortal hairy Canadian with Frederick Krueger knuckles and a super-indestructible skeleton sponsored by the best black market torture porn a shadow government could buy. Jackman’s Wolverine would go on to become the absolute glue of the series, even classing up the joint by delivering the X-verse’s first-ever “f***k” in First Class. Which is a record that would eventually, and gratuitously, get shattered over and over by Deadpool while ordering breakfast.
The first video shows Jackman and director Bryan Singer going over a few scenes — like Logan being grumpy with Rogue and Logan being grouchy with Jean — while also delving into the character’s overall usefulness, in the first film, as an expediter of exposition.
The second video comes with a choice “and Anna Paquin” credit as Jackman and Paquin run through the Riding in Cars with Bubs scene from the beginning of the film, right before he clashes with Sabretooth. Who will make no mention whatsoever of their harrowing 150-year history together as trusted friends and fierce rivals. Of course, this is why we have Wade Wilson out there Cloroxing the timeline. Check it (them) out below, or here and here!
They start off a bit bumpy, but Wolvie and Rogue would go on to be close friends. She’d become his In Case of Emergency contact for all cell phone contracts and timeshare sweepstakes while he’d give her his family’s secret recipe for Lemony Snikt, which is a delightful dessert for unfortunate events.
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One day, the MCU’s Phase 4 will officially start, and with it will come the promise of mutants. Here are four ways mutants could be introduced to the Marvel films. Of course, the unofficial fifth way would be — you guessed it — Juggalos.
And if this also means rebooting Wolverine with a new actor, Jackman is reportedly all for it. And as long as it hurts every time, we’re onboard too.
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Source: IGN.com Want to See Hugh Jackman Audition for Wolverine, the Role that Would Change His Life?