Fox Wants Hugh Jackman to Play Wolverine Forever - Reportedly Offers $100 Million

During a THR cover story last February, Hugh Jackman showed a side we'd never seen before, let alone never thought we’d live to see. Resistance to playing Wolverine 'till the end of time.

X-Men has been good to Jackman and he has had the smarts and class to know that (That might sound silly but 99.999999% of the time these actors buy into their own hype, get too big for their britches and start to think they're better than the series that made them who they are). But he is getting older and the fact is how much longer can he convincingly play the never-aging Wolverine? That seemed to be on his mind during the afore-mentioned THR piece.

He wasn't saying "I'm done!" He just said he was taking a break from it all. Evidentially 20th Century Fox read that article and took it as contract-negotiation double-talk. In an attempt to keep the face of their coveted property fat and happy, the studio has reportedly sent a deal Jackman's way only the likes of Robert Downey Jr. (and Christian Bale, were he to ever accept) are getting. A $100 million deal to play Wolverine four more times, and here’s the kicker. It sounds like he's gonna tell them "Thanks but no thanks."

Like Downey leading up to Iron Man 3's release, Fox can talk all they want about other films without their go-to guy. But the fact is he is the de-facto representation of the Merry Mutants. The Wolverine under-performed but that's more on terrible trailers/marketing and the bad-taste left in audiences' mouths from X-Men: Origins - Wolverine. If he isn't around with his half-side-burns/half-beard and Adamantium claws, much of the interest from the general public is gone, no matter what that X-Men movie is about (See: X-Men: First Class and why Wolverine is the time-traveler in X-Men: Days of Future Past and not Kitty Pryde).

Source: The National Enquirer

Comments

[shelly]

Damn. Can someone please pay me $100 million to play Wolverine if he doesn't want to do it?