"I’d had a really good go in X-Men 1,2,3, I mean Wolverine got quite a lot of screen time, you got to know a fair bit about it but I still felt there was a hell of a lot of mystery to him.

By that point I’d read so many of the comics and there were so many of these amazing sagas – Japanese Saga, the different sagas – and I thought each one of those could make an amazing movie.

There’s so much inherent in that character that makes him the perfect antihero for a film, the reluctant hero. That’s the Dirty Harry, Mad Max, Indiana Jones to a certain degree. It’s those classic screen archetypes."

For more on X-men Origins: Wolverine, take a look at our Wolverine film page and our trailer breakdown from the recently removed YouTube bootleg.