12 Actors Who Should Play Wolverine Next

3. Norman Reedus

As he's so expertly proven in The Walking Dead (and probably Boon Dock Saints too), Reedus has a particular flair for outsider types with the kind of cool that fans lap up. Even when the material hasn't been up to much, Reedus has fashioned a cult mythology about himself that would suit a new take on Wolverine too.

Imagine him playing Logan as a brusque, cold drifter - the image we were fed of him initially in Bryan Singer's X-Men - rather than the more heroic leader he would later become in the movie franchise. Wolverine needs to channel his nastier genes again, and that would only work in the hands of an actor who could blur the lines of villainy and still remain likeable.

In the absence of Jon Bernthal thanks to The Punisher, Reedus is the actor most qualified for that particular angle.