Former Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has shot down rumours of a mutant movie in his future. “Being the person who follows Hugh Jackman is not on my bucket list.”
At some point, they are gonna recast Wolverine. There’s not much to be done about it – even Hugh Jackman is only mortal, after all. Personally I think Deadpool And Wolverine was already one trip to the well too many, but the box office disagrees with me.
That means there’s been a fair amount of spirited online debate vis-à-vis who exactly should slip into Jackman’s old yellow and blue spandex if and when Marvel and Disney finally decide to reboot the character. It’s worth noting he was pretty much the one major character they didn’t recast in the Fox X-Men franchise, and that still withered on the vine. It’s also worth noting that we’ll get a new Wolverine in Avengers: Secret Wars at the earliest, and even that’s a risky bet.
Still, a lot of names have been bandied about, with Taron Egerton apparently being the front runner (I cannot see it). Personally, I like Shoresy‘s Jared Keeso for the ol’ Canucklehead – at least he’s Canadian and looks like he could take a punch. Other possibilities out there are just pure fantasy – I can’t see Brad Pitt or Keanu Reeves even considering it, much less nailing it.
But one of the wilder fancastings doing the rounds for the past few years has been Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe. And while I’m an admirer of Radcliffe’s range and choice of roles in his post-Hogwarts career, that is not a creative leap I can make. And neither, it seems, can Radcliffe.
In a recent interview with comicbook.com. to promote his new series, The Fall And Rise Of Reggie Dinkins, Radcliffe spoke about the rumours and quickly poured water on them.
“It was never real,” he said. “It was a very flattering internet rumor. I was very happy about it, but it was never suggested in any kind of way by anybody with any power to make that happen. And, honestly, you would be stupid not to consider something like that, but if they do other Wolverines, being the person who follows Hugh Jackman is not on my bucket list for anything. For any role of his, particularly the role he has made the most iconic of his career, I am happy not to be doing that and let him keep doing it.”
Radcliffe went on to say that even if he wanted to, he’d have to bone up on his lore to even think about taking a role in a cape flick.
“I am so out of the loop. I feel like I don’t know what cycle we are on of the Marvel movies, and I have some catching up to do if I ever end up on one of them. But, yes, I am certainly not averse to it. I would never rule anything like that out. But, also, I am not necessarily clamoring to be in it or seeking that. I am lucky that I can judge any job by the quality of the script. So, if a script came in that was exciting, different, weird, and cool, then I’d be up for it no matter what it was.”
Which is more or less the boilerplate response for this sort of question, but we appreciate the clarification.
