There are some franchises that can get away with recasting lead roles every now and then. Fans are used to seeing a new James Bond or a new Batman every movie cycle. Rarer, though, are the roles so perfectly tied to an actor that it seems like they can never really be recast. We're talking about true legacy roles, like Robert Englund's Freddy Krueger or Hugh Jackman's Wolverine. 

Jackman has said he only has one more Wolverine movie left in him, and since Fox plans on many more X-Men movies, at some point someone else is going to have to take on the role.

And Hugh Jackman thinks that person should be none other than Tom Hardy.

Jackman throws out Hardy's name in a joking way ("He's definitely younger than me"), but there's got to be some truth to how he prefaces it: "I'm sure they're already talking about it. That there's already some actor out there where they've been like, 'Shh, keep it quiet but we want you next.'"

Hardy's certainly no stranger to taking over iconic roles. He was the first to replace Mel Gibson as Mad Max, but in that case Mad Max only had three movies under his belt. We've seen Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in seven movies so far with even more coming.

Since the time-travel aspect of Days of Future Past lets the franchise press the reset button on some things, they can hypothetically introduce a whole separate Wolverine and sidestep the need to cast someone who is supposed to be the exact Wolverine we've seen so far. In the meantime, can you imagine Tom Hardy playing Wolverine? And if not him, who?