
The director then points to his Kingsman star, Taron Egerton, who plays the lead character Eggsy in that series. Vaughn states that actor Tom Hardy, who is now playing Venom in the Sony/MCU multiverse, would've been "awesome, " but that he's gotten too old for the role at this point. Speaking at a private roundtable event for The King's Man where Screen Rant was in attendance, Vaughn shared his own casting choices, which feature at least two obvious choices. Related: Spider-Man’s Multiverse Proves Jackman’s Wolverine Can Enter The MCU While Marvel has yet to (re)introduce the X-Men into the MCU fold, speculation continues to run wild for who will eventually portray the famously clawed mutant with a healing factor. Jackman has since said he's retired from the role, which is now in the hands of Marvel Studios, since Disney acquired Fox in 2019. Hugh Jackman played the character of Logan/Wolverine in Fox's series of films, portraying the character in six of the X-Men franchise films and for three solo films, including X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Wolverine, and finally, in 2017's Logan, which saw the character meet his end. X-Men: First Class introduced Michael Fassbender as Magneto and James McAvoy as Professor X, who would later blend with the original cast in X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse, before closing out the Fox-run X-Men franchise with X-Men: Dark Phoenix in 2019.



Vaughn took over the X-Men reins in 2011, which acted as a prequel to the first three X-Men films directed by Bryan Singer. X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn shares his top choices for the MCU's Wolverine.
