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Luke Bennett’s unaltered Wolverine variant on Instagram is a notable improvement over the final film version.
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CGI alterations for characters’ appearances in the MCU are not uncommon, as seen with Steve Rogers.
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Bennett’s performance as a comically-accurate Wolverine variant in Deadpool & Wolverine was well received.
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Deadpool & Wolverine
Looks notably better in a behind-the-scenes photo than he is in the final version of the MCU’s record-breaking movie. In the first act of the film, Deadpool travels the multiverse, looking for Wolverine variants to replace the deceased in his timeline, sparing it from the TVA. One such Wolverine variant matches the height of his comic counterpart, reminding viewers that in most of his appearances, Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine is much taller than the original incarnation of the character.
Luke Bennett plays this comically-accurate iteration of Wolverine in Deadpool & WolverineAlthough his face was digitally replaced with Hugh Jackman’s in the film. On July 31, Bennett posted photos of himself in costume as the comically-accurate Wolverine variant on his Instagram page, expressing gratitude for the role and his co-stars. The images look noticeably better than the altered version of Bennett’s Wolverine variant on screen.
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The Instagram post received praise, with many commenters noting that Bennett’s unaltered appearance is much better than what finally made it to the final film And others express interest in seeing Bennett reprise the role, perhaps as the MCU’s next Wolverine.
It’s strange that such a simple CGI alteration looked so strange in a 2024 movie, but this is hardly the first time the MCU has altered a character’s face through CGI. In addition to digitally de-aging characters, the MCU notably used a comparable process to give Steve Rogers his pre-Super Soldier Serum body in the Captain America films.
Marvel Studios had a rather complicated process for giving Chris Evans his original Steve Rogers form in the Captain America Series. Scenes with pre-Serum Steve Rogers were filmed three times, once with Evans, once with his body double, Leander Deeny, and once without actors. Using CGI, Evans and Deeny were combined to create the original form of Steve Rogers. A similar process could be used for Bennett’s Wolverine variant in Deadpool & Wolverine.
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Who is Luke Bennett, the actor who briefly played Wolverine?
As noted on his Instagram page, Luke Bennett is an actor and stunt performer with Deadpool & Wolverine His second film role. According to IMDB, Bennett’s only other acting role was in the 2023 film Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among ThievesWith Bennett playing the role of Bobby the Barbarian, a live-action version of a main character in the 1983 Dungeons & Dragons Animated series. Despite only having a brief role in Deadpool & WolverineLuke Bennett’s performance as a comically accurate Wolverine variant was one of the film’s more memorable moments.
A follow-up to the highly successful Deadpool and Deadpool 2 films starring Ryan Reynolds as the Mer with a Mouth. The third film will be the first in the franchise to be developed under the Marvel Studios banner following Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox.