The New York Times has a nice interview today with 47-year-old Gilberto Sanchez of the Bronx, the guy Fox and the FBI are blaming for leaking an unfinished copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine to the Internet last March, a full month before its theatrical release. Sanchez says he wasn’t the source of the original leak — he claims he bought the movie on DVD from a bootlegger in a Chinese restaurant before uploading it to a file-sharing site — but he’s been charged with breaking copyright law and faces prison time. As such, he’s been getting lots of attention; he was recently asked by CBS to appear on Letterman alongside Wolverine star Hugh Jackman (who, when told his movie had leaked, said he was “heartbrokenâ€), but he turned them down (“I’m not going to sit next to Wolverine. That’s a setup,†says Sanchez). Even so, in the piece, he imagines how their meeting might’ve played out.
Here is what Mr. Sanchez imagines Jackman would’ve said, had they met on Letterman: “‘Hey, you did what you did. You didn’t hurt us.’†That is certainly one way such a summit might’ve gone down! Also plausible: Jackman disemboweling Sanchez with his bone claws.