WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN: Wolverine

Since LOGAN is confirmed capekino, might as well take a look at the road that led him there.

The X-MEN Series (2000-2016)

>In 1991, Bob Hoskins was approached for the role in movie written by Andrew Kevin Walker ("Se7en"), directed by Kathryn Bigelow ("The Hurt Locker") and produced by James Cameron. The project was scrapped when the production company, Carolco Pictures, went bankrupt and the rights were acquired by Fox.

>Fox approached Glenn Danzig for the role in 1993, but he declined due to scheduling conflicts.

>When Bryan Singer was selected to direct the movie in 1999, he approached Russell Crowe for the role, but Crowe declined over salary disputes and recommended his friend Hugh Jackman instead, but Fox passed over as Jackman only had musical theater performances to his name at the time.

>Edward Norton and Gary Sinise were Fox's top choices for the role, but both ultimately declined. Keannu Reeves, Kiefer Sutherland, Aaron Eckhart and Viggo Mortensen were also approached.

>Singer ultimately selected Dougray Scott, who was projected to be Hollywood's next breakout star after playing the main villain in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2. However, filming delays with the movie forced Scott to drop out at the last minute. Jackman was then given an opportunity to audition and impressed Singer and the producers enough to be cast in the role. He began shooting two weeks into filming.

>There were plans to pair Wolverine with Storm once the love triangle between him, Jean Grey and Cyclops was resolved, but the storyline was cut from both X-MEN: THE LAST STAND and X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

>Zack Snyder and Len Wiseman were approached to direct the movie before Gavin Hood was hired.

>Early drafts featured a more character-driven, R-rated story, which was revised to scale down the violence to PG-13 and open up spin-off possibilites for Deadpool, Gambit and Cyclops, who were all absent from the original treatment.

>In early drafts, Weapon XI is an army of clones of Sabretooth artifically infused with Wolverine's healing factor so they can survive the Adamantium bonding procedure. Wolverine decapitates Sabretooth and slaughter his clones, but one of them escapes and goes on to become the Sabretooth that is later recruited by Magneto and featured in X-MEN.

>In later drafts, Weapon XI was Garrison Kane, a human operative from Team X, but Rothman decided to merge the character with Deadpool due to Deadpool's popularity. Scott Adkins was originally cast as Kane, and when the characters were merged, Ryan Reynolds provided close-up shots of Weapon XI in last-minute reshoots, while Adkins' fight scenes and faraway shots were kept, and he was credited as Reynolds' stuntman.

>Gerard Butler was approached to play Sabretooth, but declined. Liev Schreiber was originally approached to play William Stryker, but Jackman insisted that he should be cast as Sabretooth instead. Michael C. Hall was then approached for Stryker before Danny Huston was cast.

>Michelle Monaghan was originally cast as Silverfox, but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts and replaced by Lynn Collins.

>Hood had a notoriously contentious relationship with Rothman due to Rothman's executive meddling, and nearly dropped out of production after Rothman secretly rebuilt and recolored the Weapon X sets behind his back for make them brighter and cleaner.

>Bob Hoskins

Fucking Eddie Valiant?

The Wolverine (2013)

>Darren Aronofsky was originally slated to write and direct the movie, but dropped out due to creative differences and was replaced by James Mangold.

>Aronofsky's script was R-rated and set in 1987, featuring Logan being recruited by a secret order of ninjas, The Hand, to become an enforcer for the Yashida Crime Family in Japan. Logan falls in love with Mariko Yashida, daughter of mobster Shingen Yashida, and must fight for her love. Other characters included Yukio, Logan's bodyguard and lover; Zen, Logan's master in the Hand; Elvis, an American mobster and Shingen's rival; Harada, Shingen's illegitimate son who craves for his father's approval; Viper, an assassin and Harada's lover; and corrupt Chief of Justice Noburo More, Mariko's fiance.

>Early drafts featured Rogue as Logan's companion, and Ichiro Yashida would be revealed to possess the same powers as her, with Logan being the only one capable of survive being touched by Yashida, but this storyline was eventually dropped.

>Jessica Biel was approached for Viper before Svetlana Khodchenkova was cast.

>There were plans for a sequel about Logan and Yukio going on an adventure in the island of Madripoor, but they were scrapped when X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST was greenlit.

Logan (2017)

>There originally were plans to include Liev Schreiber's Sabretooth. He would be running an underground casino and Logan would seek him for help protecting Laura, but the idea was scrapped for unspecified reasons.

>There were originally plans to include Mister Sinister. He would be the mastermind behind Laura's creation, but the idea was scrapped to keep the movie self-contained and grounded in reality.

>In early drafts, Logan and Xavier's goal is to help Laura reach an "underground railroad" for mutants which would include former members of the X-Men, with Kitty Pryde slated to make an appearance, but the idea was scrapped to keep the movie self-contained and focused on Logan and Xavier.

>idea was scrapped to keep the movie self-contained and grounded in reality.
>the idea was scrapped to keep the movie self-contained and focused

>with Kitty Pryde slated to make an appearance, but the idea was scrapped to keep the movie self-contained and focused on Logan and Xavier
bendis btfo

I want to see WolverDanzig.

>Zack Snyder Wolverine movie?

Sounds KINO.

>Kitty Pryde
My dick crys one tear for this loss.

>There originally were plans to include Liev Schreiber's Sabretooth. He would be running an underground casino and Logan would seek him for help protecting Laura, but the idea was scrapped for unspecified reasons.
The one really good thing about Origins just thrown away.

Seriously fuck tim rothman

The near-castings for the franchise are crazy.

>Cyclops.
Thomas Jane.
Edward Burns.
Luke Wilson.
Johnny Lee Miller.
Vince Vaughn.
D.B. Sweeney.
Jim Caviezel.

>Storm.
Jada Pinkett-Smith.
Angela Basset.

>Jean Grey.
Lucy Lawless.
Maria Bello.
Jeri Ryan.
Julianne Moore.

>Rogue.
Natalie Portman.
Rachel Leigh Cook.
Sarah Michelle Geller.

>Sabretooth.
Kevin Nash.

>Mystique.
Jeri Ryan.

>Magneto.
Terrence Stamp.
Christopher Lee.

>Nightcrawler.
Neil Patrick Harris.
Ethan Embry.
Steve Buscemi.

>William Stryker.
Anthony Hopkins.

>Kitty Pryde.
Summer Glau.
Eliza Dushku.
Maggie Grace.

>Angel.
Nick Stahl.
Jed Bernard.
Mike Vogel.

>Gambit.
Channing Tatum.

Juggernaut
>Josh Helman.

>Moira McTaggert.
Rosamund Pike.

>Mystique.
Amber Heard.

>Beast.
Benjamin Walker.
Taylor Lautner.

>Emma Frost.
Sigourney Weaver.
Alice Eve.

>Sebastian Shaw.
Colin Firth.
Bryan Cranston.

>Keannu

whoa

>Steve Buscemi
Not gonna lie, I'd pay good money to see that.

Is the Aronofsky script available anywhere?

>Glenn Danzig

Imagine if he did the ost too.

>>Michelle Monaghan was originally cast as Silverfox, but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts and replaced by Lynn Collins.

KEK That reads like a shitty Sup Forums joke, those two look exactly the same.

Yeah, he was also Chris Claremont's choice.

They should've had Rogue instead of Kitty to make the film come full circle with the first one (since it was Wolverine encountering Rogue that led him to Xavier in the first place)

Hollywood Reporter: You’ve said that your first choice to play Logan/Wolverine was Bob Hoskins.

Claremont: Well, that’s a perception of the medium in 1988. At the same time, when I was looking at the pairing of Ororo [X-Men’s Storm] and Logan, to me it seemed perfectly rational to have Angela Bassett and Bob Hoskins, because the image I had of Hoskins was from the films he made in England where they emphasized, in terms of his character, the harshness, the Cockney, the brutality of him. There was a film he did called Lassiter with Tom Selleck, and if you look at the two of them together, Tom Selleck is this 6-foot-plus powerful, handsome, glorious leading man and Hoskins is this little cop. In one scene, Selleck comes to the door of [Hoskin’s] house and Hoskins takes one look at him and hauls off and shoves Selleck back down the drive, yelling "You come to my house?" and just repeating it over and over as he shoves Selleck back down the path and through the fence out onto the street. And the expression on Selleck’s face is "Holy Shit!" and I thought, bingo. That is Logan. That instant rage. But like I said, this is the world of 1988. Cut ahead 12 years to when we’re sitting down, when [producer] Lauren Shuler Donner was putting together Wolverine and we were talking about it, and the actor who was originally chosen for the role got injured on the set of Mission: Impossible II, Dougray Scott, and she had Hugh Jackman on her list. He had just won the Olivier award for Oklahoma!, which is the totally opposite end of the spectrum, and, again, you look at him and you think, too tall, too handsome, too this, too that. And he walked out into the audition and just nailed it and they put him on a plane to Vancouver within 24 hours to start shooting X-Men. The rightness of that decision has been proved ever since.

>Keannu Reeves
Wolvereeves would have been goofy as fuck.

There was already something kind of like that in Days of Future Past.

>those magneto near castings
All of these are fine.

"You wanted me bub...
Im bub."

>capekino
Just fuck off with that facebook baby talk already Jesus Christ. Double line jump already make you look like a mongoloid, but this is the cherry on the cake.

>Weapon XI was Garrison Kane
>Wolverine decapitates Sabretooth and slaughters his clones, but one of them escapes and goes on to become the Sabretooth that is later recruited by Magneto and featured in X-MEN

fuck, that makes a lot more sense

Ellen Page is my waifu but I'm glad as fuck they all got scrapped.

>Rothman