Claremont’s vision for that X-Men big screen adaptations never came to pass, but fortunately, a decade later, he was impressed by Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine performance, as well as all the other X-Men movie castings.
Claremont added that it was the movie Lassiter, which also starred Tom Selleck, which convinced him that Hoskins was the right man for Wolverine.
Surely there’s an alternate reality out there where an X-Men movie was released in the late ’80s/early ’90s period, and Chris Claremont’s dream of having both Bob Hoskins and Angela Bassett on board came true.
No doubt many fans agree with him, because not only could Hoskins have properly channeled the rage and ferocity necessary to play the clawed mutant, but his height was also closer to how Wolverine was depicted in the comics.