Hugh Jackman has played Wolverine many times since X-Men was released back in 2000, but some actors have only appeared in one film from the long-running franchise.
One such actor is Liev Schreiber, who played Sabretooth in X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009. In the comics, Sabretooth is a longtime enemy of Wolverine, and that continued in this film, but this time he was also the character's half-brother.
Originally, the character was meant to appear in the film Logan, but he was ultimately removed from the script. During a recent interview with GQ, Schreiber revealed he was never even asked to be in the film.
"They didn't ask me," Schreiber confirmed. "No, I mean, I don't think he was part of that story, you know? He wasn't part of that story. I would have loved to bring Victor back, anytime anywhere, but he wasn't part of that narrative. I wonder if I'm getting a little long in the tooth, so to speak, but probably not for Sabretooth." Back in 2017, Jackman confirmed that he and director James Mangold discussed having Sabretooth in Logan.
"Jim [Mangold] and I did talk about it," Jackman told Collider. "For my money, [Liev Shreiber] was the best thing in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I thought Ryan [Reynolds] made a lot out of his bit for it.
I was always like 'That would be so cool' and the original script for X-Men Origins was a much smaller movie. We were sort of toying with the idea, in a way, of what we ended up doing with Logan—it was going to be a movie about these two brothers.
Then different circumstances came in and the movie all of a sudden became twice the size, we had a big release date, and it was all of that. So that never happened, and I had harbored that all along, and of course Jim and I worked with Liev on Kate & Leopold, so we did talk about it it was just 'How the hell do we do it?'"
Is Deadpool 3 Currently in Production?
While there are no current plans for Schreiber to return to the world of X-Men, Jackman will be playing Wolverine again in the upcoming Deadpool 3. In fact, the movie just went into production this month, which was a surprise to some considering the Writers Guild of America is currently on strike. Previously, director Shawn Levy confirmed that he was hoping the movie would start filming in May.
"We are writing, rewriting, developing, prepping 'Deadpool' every day now. It is such a blast to laugh every day. It is so delicious to hear and write and come up with these scenes where people are just talking foul," he told Collider.
"And the violence is in your face and hardcore, and it's very much a 'Deadpool' movie. And it has Logan in it. And it has Wolverine in it. It's too fun I'm having so much fun, and I haven't even hit the shooting floor yet. [...] I have to say,
developing a 'Deadpool' movie is one of the most fun creative experiences of my life because it's not just that it's rated R. It's that it's so filled with self-awareness, and that makes in-writing very, very fun in a way that is unique to that franchise." Disclosure: ComicBook is owned by CBS Interactive, a division of Paramount. Sign up for Paramount+ by clicking here.
The AEW Double or Nothing pay-per-view event featured some of the wildest matches in quite a while, and Kenny Omega helped take things to a whole new level when he went full Captain America with his own "shield" wielding moment in the chaos of the Anarchy in the Arena match!
Kenny Omega is one of the major performers that All Elite Wrestling fans love watching each time as he tends to have a more elaborate presentation at the pay-per-view events. This often comes through in the unique gear shouting other pop culture juggernauts in some way. This time was no different.
Omega showed up to the Anarchy in the Arena match together with the rest of the members of The Elite with special new tights seemingly inspired by Captain America, and fans soon got to see why when he started fighting off the members of the Blackpool Combat Club with a trash can lid used as a shield instead.
Too bad it's blocked by Claudio before Kenny gets to run wild with it. It was just another one of the shutdowns the Elite faced throughout the match as a whole: Check out the cool moment in question below as spotted by @EliteSebas09 on Twitter:
The Anarchy in the Arena match was only the main event for a very packed card full of big matches before it. As for what went down during the rest of the event, the full card and results for the AEW Double or Nothing 2023 pay-per-view breaks down as such:
Given Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) sold Avengers Tower during the events of Spider-Man: Homecoming, the new owner of the iconic landmark has been a mystery within the Marvel Cinematic Universe for nearly five years.
Outside of the Fantastic Four converting it into the Baxter Building, the team's iconic comic book headquarters, another prevailing theory is that it's now owned by one Wilson Fisk, the criminal mastermind better known as Kingpin.
ComicBook.com's Brandon Davis hosted a panel featuring Daredevil: Born Again stars Vincent D'Onofrio and Charlie Cox on Saturday and put the former in the spotlight by asking a simple-enough question: Does Kingpin now own Avengers Tower? Not wanting to spoil any potential plot points, D'Onofrio masterfully skirted around the question.
"I didn't know I was sitting with a real journalist," D'Onofrio joked at ICCCon Nashville, causing himself and Cox to chuckle.
Who owns Avengers Tower?
It's not the first time D'Onofrio has touched on the theory, revealing in 2021 he'd personally love to own such real estate. As for whether or not Kingpin owns it, the Full Metal Jacket alumnus wouldn't budge on making a potential reveal.
"I know that Vincent D'Onofrio would be interested in that if he could afford it, but unfortunately cannot," D'Onofrio jokes. "No, I don't know. I heard that too. That's the first time I've heard of anything like that. I have no idea. Are you asking me if I think it would be really cool? Yeah, it'd be really cool. Totally. I would love to do that."
When is the Daredevil reboot coming out?
Daredevil: Born Again is expected to drop Spring 2024. The first three seasons of Daredevil and The Defenders limited series can now be seen on Disney+. If you haven't signed up for Disney+ yet, you can do that right here.
What other characters do you hope to see join Marvel's new Daredevil series? Let us know your thoughts either in the comments section or by hitting our writer @AdamBarnhardt up on Twitter to chat all things MCU!
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