A new for was released today, giving us official confirmation of another returning face from the X-Men’s cinematic past via Tyler Mane as Sabretooth, playing the character for the first time since the original X-Men movie in 2000. This will be the third live-action movie appearance by Sabretooth, though his previous two films gave us very different interpretations of the character. Let’s take a little stroll down X-Men memory lane, shall we? In the comics, the clawed, vicious Sabretooth is one of Wolverine’s most notable and frequent foes, so it makes sense he was used as one of Magneto’s Brotherhood in the first X-Men film, in the process giving Hugh Jackman’s cinematic Logan someone he could go toe-to-toe with.
was the first prominent film role for former wrestler Mane, but the hulking actor would go on to appear in many other projects, including playing Ajax in Troy and Michael Myers in both of Rob Zombie’s Halloween films. An amnesiac when we meet him, Wolverine/Logan doesn’t seem to know Sabretooth at all in the first X-Men movie. But the same can’t be said for Sabretooth.
It’s subtle, but there are signs of some previous history between these two, marked by Sabretooth deciding to take Logan’s dog tags during their first battle. Even more notably, after he shows the dog tags to Magneto, and Magneto discards them on his desk, Sabretooth makes a point of going back to get them for himself, seemingly finding some significance that goes beyond giving his .
