If you follow Internet gossip, then you may have noticed the “first picture from the set” of X-Men Origins: Wolverine that was going around earlier in the week.

What did you expect? Yellow tights?

It turned out that, no, this is just how Hugh Jackman looks while playing Wolverine. (I think the leather jacket also threw everyone off.)

Today, though, we get the first actual picture.

Hey, man. Nice claws.

That’s better! I thought that other one was a little underwhelming.

Jackman says of the X-Men:

I think one of the reasons the X-Men took off is that it connected in a way nobody saw. They’re mutants with powers. But they’re also outcasts for being, and everyone connects with that on some level. And who wouldn’t want the power to get back at the people who ostracized you?

That’s probably why almost all gay comic fans I know were X-Men fans at some point, even if they’re not into the recent movies.

She’s got Moxie! Zazz! And ZIP!Wolverine seems to be the darling of this generation of fans, but there are some others I’d like to see an “origins” film about. Storm (not the Halle Berry one) is high on the list, both because she’s ridiculously powerful and has a great back story, even being revered as a goddess at one point.

It’s late in the game for my all-time favorite fantasy casting, but how I would have loved to have seen Grace Jones in this role!

Which X-Men would you like to see more of? Do you think Wolverine is getting just a little too much of the attention?

X-Men Origins: Wolverine will be in theaters May 2009.

Via USA Today