The Wolverine Was Originally Going to Feature Rogue

Mark Bomback, one of the screenwriters for The Wolverine, has revealed that his early draft for the film featured Rogue (Anna Paquin). In an article about the challenges of bringing Wolverine to life once again, Bomback said:

I love Rogue and I just think that there’s something about this idea that Rogue is tremendously empathetic but incapable of safe human contact. That always moved me and I thought that’s what really got to the heart of what makes the X-Men franchise so unique. So I was trying to do something with Rogue in the script. I even had a set of ideas that the old man possessed a version of Rogue’s power and that was going to be indicated by a white stripe in his hair. Eventually it became very goofy, and I threw it out because I started realizing throughout the script that it became more problematic than cool. It’s no accident to me that in the first X-Men film the first two mutants that you really see who have a connection are Wolverine and Rogue. There’s something special between them, so I was trying to bring Rogue into it, but it just didn’t get there. I regretted there wasn’t a way to figure it out, but when I look at the film now, it would have stuck out if we tried to shoehorn her in there just because it was another character from the universe.

Interesting. I think with Rogue there, it would have been a very different movie. But would it have been a better one?

The Wolverine is currently in theaters. What do you think? Would you have liked to have seen Rogue in the film or are you glad she was cut? Tell us in the comments!

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