You know who this Wolverine leak has hit hardest? Will.i.am. Everyone knows that he’s bad in it before it’s even out.

Second-hardest? Probably Hugh Jackman, the man who produced the movie, stars as Wolverine in the movie and is prepared to fling himself out of a helicopter to promote the movie. Will.i.am hasn’t commented on the Wolverine leak – the law states that he has to wait for Fergie to sing about her knockers for two verses before he’s allowed to speak at any given moment – but Hugh Jackman has.

And apparently Hugh Jackman isn’t too happy. Who’d have guessed?

This Wolverine leak has done no good for anybody at all. Roger Friedman’s lost his job because of it, 20th Century Fox stand to lose millions of dollars because of it, there’s less likely to be a spin-off sequel about the origin story of Bad Gandalf because of it and Will.i.am will probably never get another acting job because of it. Alright, so maybe not all the consequences of the leak are so terrible in retrospect.

A million people are said to have downloaded Wolverine so far, which puts the movie at exactly the point it didn’t want to be – yes, a million downloads equates to a potentially huge financial loss but, in terms of views, this only makes Wolverine roughly as popular as a YouTube video of kitten with a wellington boot stuck on its head. Whichever way you look at it, things aren’t looking good.

And Hugh Jackman knows this only too well. He had so much riding on Wolverine – not only was it going to prove that he could carry a big summer blockbuster, but it was also going to banish any lingering suspicions that – following all his flapping and squealing at the Oscars this year – he was gay. Or at the very least it’d make everyone think that he was an angry gay instead of a musical theatre gay. Whatever that means.

And now Hugh Jackman has spoken out about the Wolverine leak. As you may have guessed, he’s not thrilled about it – especially since it’s put the kibosh on his plans to promote Wolverine in such a moronically spectacular way that he was only a phantom pregnancy or two away from straying into Tom Cruise territory. People reports:

“It’s a serious crime and there’s no doubt it’s very disappointing – I was heartbroken by it,” Hugh Jackman said Wednesday about last week’s Internet leak of a work print of his X-Men Origins: Wolverine. “Obviously people are seeing an unfinished film. It’s like a Ferrari without a paint job.”

You can’t blame Hugh Jackman here – all he wants is for people to enjoy Wolverine the way it was meant to be enjoyed – in an overpriced, uncomfortable seat screwed to a surface that’s been covered with discarded gum, surrounded by 150 teenagers who all seem to be texting each other at the same time and then reading those texts back at the top of their voices. He’s an idealist, what can we say?

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