Sabretooth, one of Wolverine's main foes, has already graced screens in X-Men and will appear again in X-Men Origins: Wolverine with Liev Schreiber in the role. However, Schreiber says he was initially supposed to play William Stryker, the role Brian Cox played in X-Men 2. "Initially I'd been asked to play Stryker and I said, 'Is there any chance that I might be able to play this Victor Creed guy?'" Schreiber told told the National Post.
How did Schreiber know about Creed/Sabretooth and what did he have to offer? "I read the comics before I got offered the part. I mean, I knew the character really well. But what I hadn't seen in some of the earlier stuff that I was curious to pursue is figuring out what drives the guy and what are the qualities that developed because of that. It's like rather than just say that Sabretooth's a violent brute, I wanted to find out what makes the brute tick. Hopefully people will like it."