Look I am a fan of Hugh Jackman. In fact he's practically how I and many other's see Wolverine as. Yeah sure he's a bit tall... But there are worst choices out there. And to show you how bad it could have been I've brought to you a group of choices that some Coked up Exec might stumbled to if Hugh Jackman wasn't cast...
Johnny Depp (Height: 5' 10", Age: 31 {As of 2000}, Big Movie: Edward Scissorhands): Small guy, lots of talent, and a loyal and large fanbase. He'd bring in Big cash.
Tom Cruise (Height: 5' 7", Age: 38 {As of 2000}, Big Movies: Top Gun, Mission: Impossible): he's a leading man and can carry a supporting cast and "act" decently. and he's short.
Mickey Rourke (Height: 5' 11", Age: 48 {As of 2000}, Big Movies: F.T.W., Bullet): He's gettin his crap together, so we can trust him again, he's a bit small and he could probably play a Wolverine fans like.
Christian Bale (Height: 6, Age: 26 {as of 2000}, Big Movie: American Psycho): does anybody play angry people better? Plus the guy has a lot of fans, and would be a great cashcow.
Colin Farrell (Height: 5' 10", Age: 24 {As of 2000}, Big Movie: Tigerland): He's a new guy and there's plenty of time for him to grow on people. he's an OK actor and is kinda short.
Look this is basically 5 Actors We could have expected Fox to want as Wolverine in the 2000 X-Men Movie. These are not people I want or would have wanted to see as wolverine. just me thinking like a studio exec and hopefully get a bit of slack off of Hugh's back so we can let him play Wolverine without whining about him being too tall or not Canadian. We really could have gotten worse as you can see.
Let's Hope "THE WOLVERINE" shows us the best performance out of Hugh that we have ever seen.