Before the big announcement between Sony and Marvel Studios concerning Spider-Man and his upcoming debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it seemed a pipe dream that we’d ever see the wall-crawler teaming up with the Avengers on the big screen.
Well, as we now know, Spider-Man is set to join the MCU in next year’s Captain America: Civil War, and it seems that has offered encouragement to Hugh Jackman that a potential deal could be reached with 20th Century Fox to allow the fan favourite mutant Wolverine to follow suit.
“You know, I think as an optimist I would love it,” Jackman tells Yahoo. “That’s the best thing about comic books; you can just pitch these characters into each other. I’m surprised by what’s happened with Spider-Man joining. You’re in a very complex world where big, big sums of money are being spent for different franchises and so getting them together is difficult. Two years ago I’d have said you’d be a real optimist to think it’d ever happen, but weirdly now I just think it maybe could. I think there is the possibility that it will happen.”
Of course, it would seem that the chances of Fox and Marvel reaching a deal to combine the worlds of the X-Men and The Avengers are slim, but we were saying the same thing about Spider-Man this time last year, so who knows?
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Originally published March 4, 2015. Updated April 13, 2018.
