10 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About Wolverine

3. Hugh Jackman's Wolverine Nearly Had A Cameo In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man

The idea of an interconnected universe of films isn't exactly shocking today, but back during the rise of comic book blockbusters, they seemed like a pipe dream. Marvel weren't in the moviemaking business - or at least they wouldn't be, until 2008's Iron Man came along - while the rights to characters like Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and X-Men were held by Sony and 20th Century Fox respectively. The chances of any of them meeting were impossible.

Or at least, that's what most believed. It turns out that we came very close to actually getting a crossover between two of the biggest comic book franchises of the time - X-Men, and Spider-Man.

As Hugh Jackman revealed to the Huffington Post in 2013, the actor very nearly wound up on the set of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man for a brief walk-on part, where he would've worn his costume from the first X-Men film.

"In the first "Spider-Man" -- Kevin Feige reminded me of this -- we really tried to get me to come on and do something, whether it was a gag or just to walk through the shot or something. The problem was, we couldn't find the suit. The suit was stuck in some thing. And so when they were in New York when I was there, we couldn't get it together."

It's amazing that it was just the costume not arriving that meant the whole thing collapsed and not the assumed finnicky wrangling over movie rights. Oh what could've been.