Hugh Jackman's Wolverine almost appeared in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man!

In comics, characters cross into each others stories all the time and most fans are really excited when it happens. However, crossing characters in movies can be a difficult task. When you have different studios owning the rights to different characters it can be time consuming to work out a deal to have a crossover.

It turns out that fans almost had a crossover of epic proportions back in 2002. When Sam Raimi was directing the first Spider-Man film in 2002 talks were happening that could have had Wolverine appear in the film. As we all know Wolverine did not make it into the film and word never got out that it was even a possibility until now.

Actor Hugh Jackman was quite interested in the crossover and ready to do it but it turns out that a missing costume and money played in the decision to not go through with it.

Hugh Jackman spoke to The Huffington Post concerning the matter.

"I read where you were saying how much you'd like to act opposite Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, but of course the studio rights prevent that. Is there anything stopping you from just walking by in a scene where the character's name isn't mentioned?

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."

So what do you think about this news? Would you have liked to have seen Wolverine meet Spider-Man on the big screen? Think it was the costume from the X-Men film in 2000 that they were looking for? Let me know your thoughts in the comments.

Source: Huffington Post