Wolverine meet Bond, James Bond.

Hugh Jackman, who recently starred in the title role of action film “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” and Daniel Craig, the most recent British double-agent in “Casino Royale” and “Quantum of Solace,” are planning to take their acts to the Broadway stage later this year in a new play, the New York Post reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources. 

They will star together in a drama called, “A Steady Rain,” about two Chicago cops whose long-term friendship is put to the test. It is being produced by Barbara Broccoli, who also produced Craig’s 007 roles in “Quantum of Solace” and “Casino Royale.”

The Post said Jackman will return to Broadway after his hit 2004 Tony Award-winning role in “The Boy From Oz” and Craig, who was trained in British theater, will make his Broadway debut.

Jackman already is beloved by New York’s theater community and has hosted the Tony awards several times. A spokesman for Jackman could not immediately confirm the report as the Australian actor is away promoting his latest film and a spokeswoman for Craig was unavailable for comment. 

Broadway watchers note the Great White Way has never seen so many big-name stars on stage as this season. Others have included Oscar-winners Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon and Emmy Award winner James Gandolfini. Why? Becast stars draw audiences. In 2006, Julia Roberts’s show “Three Days of Rain” raked in more than $10 million in just 12 weeks.

One prefers his martinis in a glass and the other drinks his whisky straight from the bottle. They could not be more opposite, but this Wednesday movie superhero Hancock (Will Smith) and superspy James Bond (Daniel Craig) will be paired together when the first versions of a promotional “trailer” for upcoming Bond flick “Quantum of Solace“roll out alongside the premiere of “Hancock.”

“Hancock” tells the story of a self-loathing, hard-drinking superhero who is given a chance to redeem himself. It is widely expected to become a box office hit, and leading up to its debut, the movie has been heavily promoted. (That’s Will signing autographs at the U.K. premiere of “Hancock.”)

Film footage of the upcoming Bond flick, however, has been kept top secret. Not anymore. The promotional trailer, which is essentially a long commercial, began playing on Monday in the U.S. and Canada on Web site AOL.com and internationally on MSN.com.

The trailer begins with a flashback to the drowning of Bond’s love, Vesper Lynd, in 2006’s “Casino Royale,” and it continues with scenes of plane and car chases, a speedboat crashing into a larger boat and plenty of acrobatic fighting.

Bond appears to be bent on revenge over Lynd’s death, and his boss M (Judi Dench) seems angry at her top agent for allowing his emotions to get the better of him. “I think you’re so blinded by uncontrollable rage that you don’t care who you hurt,” M says.

Perhaps borrowing from the “Bourne” action movies starring Matt Damon, the “Quantum of Solace” trailer also hints at Bond becoming an outsider at his own spy agency. “Restrict Bond’s movements, put a stop on his passports — find Bond,” Dench’s character says in another voice-over.

“Quantum of Solace” opens in the United Kingdom on Oct. 31, in the United States on Nov. 7, and in various countries around the world throughout November.

Visiting the Ian Fleming exhibition at the Imperial War Museum London this week, it was interesting to see how important he and his relatives thought his time as a reporter with Reuters was. His niece, Kate Grimond, suggested his stint with the news agency helped him settle down after leaving school and taught the writing skills that would serve him well when he came to write the hugely successful James Bond series. Fleming himself once said: “Reuters was great fun in those days … above all, I have to thank Reuters for getting my facts right.”

It was a slight shame that the company name in the quote, printed in large letters on one of the exhibition walls, was misspelled as “Reuter’s”. One of the press officers promised to have that put right, so I shall go back and check some time.

Reuters correspondents today would struggle to recognise some aspects of the world of reporting in the 1930s, but a few things appear to have changed little over the 70-odd years between then and now. While many would continue to maintain that life with the company was “great fun”, they may also understand why Fleming switched to the world of finance before taking up writing novels. In the words of Grimond, he “changed career because he wanted to earn more money”.