Hugh Jackman first played Wolverine in 2000’s X-Men, and reprised the role in X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: First Class, The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, and Logan.<\/p>\n
The latter was meant to serve as his farewell, but Marvel Studios convinced him to don the claws again in Deadpool & Wolverine. Next, the actor is expected to return in Avengers: Doomsday, Avengers: Secret Wars, and possibly even the Mutant Saga.<\/p>\n
A clip from a 2013 interview with Jackman has gone viral on social media today, featuring the actor essentially predicting the next Avengers movie nearly a decade and a half before it became a reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I believe…maybe I’m optimistic. I understand at Marvel, they’ve got Avengers,” Jackman says below. “They’ve got a lot of big things going on. I find it almost impossible that there’s not a way [to take] Iron Man, all the Avengers characters, Wolverine, the X-Men characters, Spider-Man,\u00a0and somehow get them in all together.”<\/p>\n
At the time, it was impossible to imagine that happening. Sony Pictures was gearing up to release The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and 20th Century Fox still had a tight grip on the X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises.<\/p>\n
Since then, we’ve had the Disney\/Fox merger and a deal between Marvel Studios and Sony that has seen Spidey swing into the MCU (on loan).\u00a0<\/p>\n
It’s been rumoured that Avengers: Doomsday will feature Wolverine and Deadpool teaming up with Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has wanted to pair up Maguire and Jackman on screen for decades, so this meeting\u00a0is long-overdue.<\/p>\n
You can hear more from Jackman in the player below.<\/p>\n
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Hugh Jackman Predicted ‘AVENGERS DOOMSDAY’ 13 years ago \ud83d\udea8 pic.twitter.com\/HIuVhYVhoz<\/a><\/p>\n