I love them as human beings, and I love them as the characters,” longtime X-Men writer, producer, and director Simon Kinberg said to IGN in January. After Jackman’s 17 years as the big-screen version of character, it’ll undoubtedly be difficult for some viewers to warm to a new Wolverine regardless of looks. Egerton, who is 5 feet 9 inches tall, gets Marvel a bit closer to that height.īut height alone won’t decide whether any actor is right for the role.
A common complaint during Jackman’s turn in the role from comic book nerds was that Jackman was too tall to play Wolverine, who is canonically a short king standing at only 5 feet 3 inches.
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Besides his movie star status, Egerton also has one other thing going for him that a particularly vocal group of Marvel fans really care about: he’s a bit shorter than the 6-foot-2-inch Jackman. Already, some fans are celebrating this turn of events. The Times confirmed that Egerton has already met with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige about the role, but it’s unclear how far those talks have actually gone. But hopefully, if it does come around, they’ll give me a shot.” “I’d be excited, but I’d be apprehensive as well because Hugh is so associated with the role that I’d wonder if it’d be very difficult for someone else to do it. “I don’t think it would be wrong to say that,” Egerton told The New York Times when asked whether the actor would be interested in playing Wolverine in the MCU’s X-Men reboot. While we have to question the YouTuber’s choice of movie, Urban does look very convincing as Marvel’s star mutant.Īnd it doesn’t sound like Marvel Studios is actually considering the 50-year-old actor for the role either, judging from Kingsman star Taron Egerton’s own comments earlier this month. In the video below, YouTube user Stryder HD has digitally embedded Urban’s face onto Jackman’s head in scenes from X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Now, a new deepfake that replaces Jackman with Urban makes the strongest case yet for why the actor might the best choice to play the MCU’s new Wolverine. Ignoring that impressive CV for a second, there are some fans who just feel that Urban looks the part of Wolverine, especially when playing the bearded, rage-filled Billy Butcher on The Boys.
He also played Skurge in Thor: Ragnarok (which shouldn’t immediately disqualify him from another MCU role). Leonard McCoy in the most recent trilogy of Star Trek films, and Judge Dredd in the underrated 2012 reboot, proving his chameleon-like ability to play any nerdy role you throw at him. Even before the Amazon Prime comic book adaptation, Urban had already left an indelible mark on geekdom as Éomer in The Lord of the Rings movies, Dr. Many names have been thrown around over the years, including Daniel Radcliffe, Pablo Schreiber, Keanu Reeves, Gael Garcia Bernal (who’s actually been cast as a different Marvel character), and The Boys scene-stealer Antony Starr.īut it’s another The Boys star who’s long been at the top of the fan cast list: New Zealand actor Karl Urban. Ever since X-Men veteran Hugh Jackman put away his claws after 2017’s Logan, Marvel fans have been very busy debating who should replace the Australian actor as Wolverine in an MCU reboot.
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