Despite a distinctly lukewarm reception from the critics, X-Men Origins: Wolverine still did rather tidy work at the box office, raking in a healthy $85 million on its opening weekend. So it should have surprised precisely noone when just days later, Fox announced they would be making a sequel.

And whilst irate fanboys had barely had a chance to begin griping about the first film, a host of its stars were already champing at the bit to stake their claim for a part in the follow-up.

Canadian star Taylor Kitsch didn’t even wait for the Origins to hit the screen before pushing for his character Gambit to bag a meatier role in a potential follow-up. “I would love to go darker,” the star told MTV. “(Gambit) in Vegas was fun, but I want to go into the Thieves Guild part of his story. How cool would it be to see him stealing things to survive because the stakes are so high? Of course, as an actor, I’m always going to the darker side, but for him that would just be way more intriguing.
Come on, Fox… Let’s do it!”

Liev Schreiber was another to express an interest, claiming that his character Sabretooth also warranted a second outing. “There’s been some smatterings of conversation about it, but nothing concrete yet,” he told Screen Rant. “I had a ball doing it, so I’d do it again. I’d love to find out what happened to Victor… I’d like to find out how my Victor became Tyler Mane’s Victor.”

Ideas aplenty for what (or rather who) should provide the meat of the story then, but encouragingly the film’s producers were also keen to acknowledge that the first film hadn’t exactly been everyone’s cup of tea…