Wednesday, September 11, 2013

The Marvel Movie Team-Up That Almost Was...

There's been chatter about a Mega-Marvel movie for a long time now....

The film could bring together "The Avengers," with Sony Pictures "The Amazing Spider-Man and Fox's "X-Men"
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As it turns out, one such team up almost happened a little over a decade ago...


In an interview with The Huffington Post, on the stump for September 20th's Prisoners actor Hugh Jackman said he almost showed up as Wolverine for a cameo in Sam Raimi's first "Spider-Man" in 2002 starring Tobey Maguire.

The issue that derailed those plans was  not a legal one :

"In the first "Spider-Man" -- Kevin Feige reminded me of this -- we really tried to get me to come on and do something, whether it was a gag or just to walk through the shot or something. The problem was, we couldn't find the suit. The suit was stuck in some thing. And so when they were in New York when I was there, we couldn't get it together. So, you know, I actually asked some high level people about it. Because the optimist in me goes, 'Why not? Why can't we do it? You know, a split cast or whatever?' And someone reminded that the amount of money Fox paid compared to the amount of money Disney paid is very different [laughs]. So how you split that pie up? God knows. But in the comic books, what's great about it is they're just mashing together all the time -- and it's awesome. And people are like, 'Yeah, well, let's get this one with that!' And, you know, I still think, one day, there may be an ability to do it."

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