Pablo Schrieber confirmed he has met with Marvel Studios to discuss several Marvel Cinematic Universe roles, including Wolverine.
Schreiber discussed his meetings with Marvel about playing the X-Men's pint-sized berserker in a recent episode of the Bingeworthy podcast. "[W]ell we flirted with that [casting] for a while," he said. "That’d be fantastic, that would certainly be a dream casting. [Wolverine's] actually my favorite hero, from a child he was always my favorite comic book. So I’ve had a long flirtation with that guy, so you know obviously that’d be a dream."
Schreiber also explained why he has yet to make his MCU debut, revealing that the right opportunity has yet to reveal itself. "You know I’ve seen things pop up a lot. I’ve had a bunch of discussions with Marvel at different points in my career," Schreiber recalled. "We’ve never been able to find the right thing at the right time, but I’d certainly be open to that. But yeah it’s just staying open to the right path and I don’t know exactly what that is, but I’ll know it when I see it."
Marvel Studios remains tight-lipped on who will take over the Wolverine role made famous by Hugh Jackman in Fox's X-Men films. Despite this, Marvel Studios President/Chief Creative Officer Kevin Feige recently shared some insight into how Jackman has influenced his approach to casting the MCU's heroes and villains. "Who cares that [Jackman's] so tall?" said Feige, referencing the height difference between Jackman and the comic book version of Wolverine. "He embodies the spirit of Wolverine, and that was a big lesson that I always took from that. It doesn't have to match the comic frame exactly. It has to match the spirit of it."
The mystery surrounding who will fill Wolverine's spandex ties into the wider speculation regarding how Marvel Studios plans to introduce the X-Men into the MCU. While Feige previously hinted that Fox's X-Men movies were technically already part of the MCU's wider multiverse, the production company has yet to clarify how mutants will be introduced into the ever-growing cinematic universe.
More recently, the trailer for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness muddied the waters further by teasing the return of Patrick Stewart as Professor X. Fans took this to mean that Marvel Studios may not recast all of its newly acquired mutant characters, although executive producer Richie Palmer later teased the possibility that Stewart is playing a different version of Charles Xavier to the one fans are familiar with.
It’s currently unknown when fans will next see Wolverine on the big screen.
Source: Bingeworthy, via Murphy's Multiverse