Joe Russo thinks Chris Evans could join the X-Men!

Joe Russo, co-director of Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, has revealed he thinks the MCU’s Captain America, Chris Evans, would make a great Wolverine in another corner of the Multiverse.

Chris Evans has jumped between Marvel characters before. The actor’s first Marvel movie appearance, before the dawn of the MCU, came in 20th Century Fox’s Fantastic Four back in 2005, in which he played Johnny Storm, the Human Torch. He would then go on to appear in the title role in 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger and would continue to appear as Captain America in the MCU up until 2019’s Avengers: Endgame.

The Fantastic Four To Avengers To X-Men?

Joe Russo’s suggestion that Chris Evans take on Marvel’s most iconic mutant, the X-Men’s own Wolverine, feels completely out of left field. The suggestion came in response to a question from ComicBook.com about what other Marvel characters Russo would like to see Evans take on in a potential Multiverse movie, allowing him to appear as an entirely different hero.

Reflecting on the differences between Chris Evans and Captain America and the way in which Evans works as an actor, Joe Russo produced Wolverine’s name when considering where else the actor might fit into Marvel’s sprawling Multiverse:

“Evans has incredible range and great physicality, and he’s real good at body control. He’s an incredible actor. I don’t mean this in a bad way, but he’s nothing like Captain America. Steve Rogers is very controlled and quiet, understated. Chris is energetic and funny and charismatic, and he brings a lot of energy to set. I’d love to see him do something like Wolverine.”

While the suggestion may feel odd to fans who are used to seeing Chris Evans cast as fresh-faced and straight-laced heroes, Joe Russo’s insight into the actor’s personality and acting method lends some serious weight to this suggestion. Evans is set to appear in next month’s The Gray Man, produced and directed by the Russo brothers, in which he shrugs off his superheroics for an antagonistic role opposite Ryan Gosling.

Here is the synopsis for Netflix’s new film:

“THE GRAY MAN is CIA operative Court Gentry (Ryan Gosling), aka, Sierra Six. Plucked from a federal penitentiary and recruited by his handler, Donald Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton), Gentry was once a highly-skilled, Agency-sanctioned merchant of death. But now the tables have turned and Six is the target, hunted across the globe by Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans), a former cohort at the CIA, who will stop at nothing to take him out. Agent Dani Miranda (Ana de Armas) has his back. He’ll need it.”

Directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, the film stars Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Regé-Jean Page, Billy Bob Thornton, Jessica Henwick, Dhanush, Wagner Moura and Alfre Woodard.

The film is set to stream on Netflix on July 22, 2022. Be sure to continue following Heroic Hollywood for all the latest news on the Russo brothers’ upcoming film, and be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more original video content.