I refused to see the Wolverine origin movie because I hate the idea of Wolverine having his origin pinned down! He's best with that little bit of unknown always clinging to him, IMHO.

could be told without doing an actually origin, you start it with him as just a full grown man drifting aimlessly across Canada and joining the army looking for adventure. I had this vision of a pre-X-Men trilogy that would have been so good in my opinion. It would need image rights all under one umbrella, but the first part gets told as WW1/WW2 era story with Cap, Bucky and young Black Widow cameos, followed by a post war sequel taking place in the Far East after the bomb has been dropped looking for peace and serenity done in a Hong Kong Kung Fu/Japanese Ninja flavour with Mariko, Ogun and the Hand, followed by the finale where he realizes he can't live a life of peace and goes back West, done as a John Le Carre-esque gritty spy story of Team X/Cold War era with Sabretooth, Maverick and Kestrel that ends with him volunteering Jason Bourne style for the Weapon X project. All done with no claws or costumes. Three different movies, three different eras, three different styles visually.

I would so pay for that! I like Wolverine's Far East story/connections and would like to see them worked in, and that version would so very much fit the bill.

Well the new James Mangold film, The Wolverine due this year is filmed entirely based on stories from the Chris Claremont Japan era stories. Mariko, Yukio, Silver Samurai, Viper. So hopefully it is at least better than the first effort at a Wolverine movie that basically spat in comic book fans faces.