Byrne left Uncanny X-Men before the storyline could come about, and Claremont went in a different direction with new artist/co-plotter, Dave Cockrum. However, after killing Wolverine's girlfriend, Mariko, this drives Wolverine basically nuts, and he is able to successfully defeat (and kill) his father.
The idea of the story is that Wolverine has been tortured by Sabretooth his whole life, and Sabretooth always got the upper hand. In fact, as noted in this old Comic Book Legends Revealed, Byrne gave Sabretooth the face that he initially had come up with for Wolverine when Wolverine had not yet been shown without his mask (in between Byrne sending to Claremont his idea for what Wolverine looked like, Dave Cockrum ended up revealing Wolverine's actual face in an issue of X-Men).Ī few years later, when both men were plotting X-Men together (as related in this old Comic Book Legends Revealed), they actually came up with a plotline where Sabretooth is revealed as Wolverine's dad. It was just a nightmare.Chris Claremont and John Byrne introduced Sabretooth in the pages of Iron Fist, but even back then, Claremont and Byrne were thinking that this new character was tied to the character Claremont was then writing in the pages of X-Men (and who Byrne would soon be drawing on a regular basis), Wolverine. Kathryn goes off and writes a screen treatment for X-Men that was eaten alive by all the idiots who have a piece of Spider-Man because Marvel during its evolution has sold off the rights time and time and time again. About 20 minutes later all the Lightstorm guys and I are looking at each other, and we all know the X-Men deal has just evaporated. And at one point Stan looks at Cameron and says, ‘I hear you like Spider-Man.’ Cameron's eyes lit up. That's what we were playing,” Claremont said.īut it quickly fell apart when Lee brought up another possible project. “Just think about this for a minute: James Cameron's X-Men. When Cameron launched his own studio, Lightstorm Entertainment, in 1990, Claremont and Marvel Comics mastermind Stan Lee went to his office to pitch him an “X-Men” movie.Īlso read: Chris Claremont's Dream X-Men Movie: James Cameron, Kathryn Bigelow, and Bob Hoskins as Wolverine
Claremont recalled a scene in the 1984 film “Lassiter” in which Hoskins pushes open a door and shoves the much taller Tom Selleck, while berating him.Īlso read: Bob Hoskins, ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ Star, Dead At 71Ĭlaremont said that in that moment, Hoskins captured the essence of Wolverine. In the comics, Claremont noted, Wolverine is short and feral, hence his animalistic name.
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