Remember when we were anticipating Wolverine?

http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/zap-kitschreynoldswolverinecasting,0,2230058.story

See?

Echoing a slew of online reports, Variety says that Kitsch (Tim Riggins on NBC's "Friday Night Lights") will play Gambit, a bo-wielding Cajun with the ability to manipulate kinetic energy and an on-and-off romance with Rogue.

Of course I first read that as 'bro-wielding Cajun'

will.i.am??

show me how u wield this bro

will.i.am??

Can't wait for the inevitable 'yes we can' line in the script.

The wolverine origin story that was set in the 19th century (was that the only one?) was fucking awful! I hope they don't use any of that material.

I'm guessing they'll keep the timeline consistent with the X-Men trilogy, or at least not jump back 100 years.

will.i.am as Wraith is kind of awesome, assuming they make his character like Abyss.

Liev Schreiber as the character played by a gigantic wrestler in the first movie? waht

this is going to be so terrible that i will watch it.

wait why is this being made

I wonder if it will manage to be better than Elektra?

Jordan OTM

I wonder if Deadpool will constantly make asides to the audience like he does in the comics.

John and Fluffy Bear are already planning what to drink at the home double-bill showing of this and Catwoman.

no... no... no.....

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k192/sirweeze/69387-facepalm.jpg

Am correct in thinking there's going to be a Magneto film as well?

Aw what happened 2 Josh Holloway as Gambit?

Unconfirmed rumors have been posted on the net that Josh Holloway had turned down an offer to play the popular X-Man Gambit. The alleged reason was that Gambit was too similar to “Sawyer” who Holloway plays on LOST.

ok if this is as bad as catwoman or daredevil I will be kind of surprised.
elektra was a better than either of those, I thought.

yeah I don't totally understand why everyone's howling like this is some terrible out of left field spinoff idea from a studio desperate to milk a franchise. there's been talk of a Wolverine movie probably since the first X-Men, and I see no reason to expect this won't at least be better than that last one that got all Ratnered up.

elektra was worse than EVERYTHING.

Elektra was not worse than an intestinal parasite.

http://kisrael.com/journal.aux/2006.05.28.tapeworm.jpg

Reynolds ("Definitely Maybe") will play Deadpool, an assassin and self-healer. It's expected to only be a cameo, but if the character proves popular, he could be the centerpiece for a future film.

I love Deadpool, but I think Ryan Reynolds should be hit in the face with a shovel.

Every time I think "This might not be too bad..." I remember the Deadpoolish character he played in Blade 3.

Ryan Reynolds will always have a warm place in my heart for his delivery of the "marijuana... but WHY?" line in Harold and Kumar

zomg catwoman was so much better the elektra. seriously. i never could figure out why it was panned at all except that it didn't stick to the fanboy script.

catwoman was utterly horrendous. you are a fool.

I think Ryan Reynolds should be hit in the face with a shovel.

"Take me out like Kanye. It's a man's way to die."

Catwoman featured many many shots of Halle Berry in skin-tight leather pants, ergo it cannot have been horrendous.

half of those shots were of the adrianne version of halle berry, ergo it was horrendous. CG animated cats in non-cartoon movie = fuck you creepy weird bastards

Ah, but half of them WERE NOT!

catwoman and elektra were both terrible, arguing over which was better is so depressing

WOLFERINE

looking at Halle Berry > looking at Jennifer Garner, ergo Catwoman > Elektra

Collins ("The Merchant of Venice") will play Silver Fox, Wolverine's lover.

Silver Fox? Really? Was she a character prior to the film? (ILC guys to thread.)

She was a very minor character iirc.

yeah, i've never read any comics involving her, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Fox

According to most accounts, Silver Fox lived with him in Canada at the dawn of the 20th century. She, a Native Canadian Blackfoot, and he, a frontiersman, enjoyed many happy times together.

A movie about this era would be awesome.

imagine?? just a chilled-out character study / drama set in a log cabin

With fast healing and CLAWS

and a character named silver fox ffs.

I want them to swim naked in frozen lakes, catching live salmon with their bare hands.

just a chilled-out character study / drama set in a log cabin

http://www.best-horror-movies.com/images/The-shining-jack-in-maze.jpg

http://www.complementarycolor.com/Illustration/Illustration_Painting/northern_exposure.jpg

There's a crossover.

TS:

Wrestling Earnest Hemingway vs.

Kissing Jessica Stein vs.

Killing Zoe vs.

Finding Forrester vs.

Losing Isaiah vs.

Chasing Amy vs.

Educating Rita vs.

Raising Arizona vs.

Waking Ned Devine vs.

Eating Raoul vs.

Deconstructing Harry vs.

Regarding Henry vs.

Saving Silverman vs.

Boxing Helena vs.

Being John Malkovich vs.

Anticipating Wolverine

all right i am totally nubcakes with all things comix, but dawn of the 20th century?? what

Wolverine is super old because of his healing powers; basically dude ages super slow and is practically invulnerable/immortal.

someone plz to photoshop "Anticipating Wolverine" poster plz

script typeface would be ideal

waht

immortal wolverine idea is some dumb fuckin shit

http://www.ice.org/unzipped/2002/11/pm-wolverine.jpg

^^^movie poster for ian's wolferine movie

I think the only way to kill him at this point is decapitation.

^^^movie poster for ian's wolferine movie

zomg I'm the best there is at waht I do but I cain't quitchoo!

ok so the movie version is sort of early-canonical, and he has amnesia? but somewhere along the line he gets his memory back and omg he's like 300 years old?? or does he never know and writers have just played with the idea of him in the old west and stuff

He got his memories back at some point but he's had memories of running around with Captain America in WW2 as far back as the early 90s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_(Marvel_Comics)

Wasn't he in Japan during the pre WW2 era?

Shakey, Marvel's trying to make a film of every major character, with a view to making TEAM movies, like the Avengers, with the original actors from the various films.

It's part of their plan for increased revenue, since the comics aren't thaaaat profitable.

Sadly, CLOAK & DAGGER is now in turnaround.

http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2008/05/wolverine_frogs_pop_retractable_claws_from_their_toes.php

Dilute the canon...

leaked

50% to go and i'll be watching it, wires and everything!

is none of the cgi done on this bitch cause thatd be hilarious

The only way I could see this being good is if they made it into a musical and put Wolverine in gold lamé pants.

Just a few bits missing, pretty much 90% finished film.
Gonna treat it as a full lenght making of

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/and-it-makes-you-age-20-years-overnight/

they shouldve case brian dawkins as wolverine http://i43.tinypic.com/dggkra.jpg

cast

nah i loved the x-men movies and i'm pumped for this

If nothing else, this gives them an out when the actually released film sucks donkey nards and bombs. They can do the 'Batman & Robin' thing and blame the internet for their shitty movie.

did anyone really blame the internet for batman and robin???

will.i.am is in this? bleh.

i wanna watch this with wires tho.

just watched it, few wires here and there and bits of cgi not finished.

did anyone really blame the internet for batman and robin???

yup, the director did. Called out Harry Knowles by name.

Is this worth watching now? Any good? Or mostly lol?

kind of lol but mostly wack

This is essentially what you're missing by not seeing it now.

~~~~no spoilers but the lack of 'proper' cgi at the end was so ridiculous and A+ LOLZ

foxnews dude roger friedman fired for reviewing the pirated version of this.
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/fox-news-columnist-roger-friedman-reportedly-fired-for-wolverine-review

nah i loved the x-men movies and i'm pumped for this

― mark cl, Wednesday, April 1, 2009 4:11 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

almost downloaded the leaked version, but i dunno

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/e0c57bbd21/wolverine-entire-movie-leaked-online

awesome.

Better than the actual movie!

ok i watched and it couldve been pretty rad if theyd ridden the darker aspects of the plot instead of trying to lol and aw things up - as mentioned upthread the climatic scene was pretty hilarious sans cgi

I laughed, a lot.

Tempted to do a screen shot of climatic battle, but don't want Fox torturing me.

create a tumblr with fake info and post there!

a what?

No idea.

Just gis no idea and got this...
http://content.pyzam.com/funnypics/animals/no_idea.jpg
among some nsfw stuff

welcome to the internet folks. if you look to your left you'll see some lolcats.

Jackman 'heartbroken' over leak

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45640000/jpg/_45640963__45623947_-1-1.jpg

He was on the evening news tonight saying it was a CRIME!

That film is a crime, he's right.

well it is a crime

this was cool

saw this today - old couple behind me were all 'GAHHHHHHHH!!!!' at the scene w/the old couple in the barn

haha

thought it was pretty weak. very prequel-y and hence unsatisfying.

Things I liked about "Wolverine":

- The fights. Awesome.
- Will.I.Am! Seriously!
- The commitment to using the comic book continuity as a stepping stone to build a world that makes more sense on film; the vast majority of changes to backstory that they made in order to have a coherent film were wise decisions.
- Liev Schrieber. Dude was (wait for it) EPIC. Except for one thing.
- Massive lolz at the boxing scene, that was pretty much note-perfect in terms of scripting/pacing/acting.

Things I didn't like about "Wolverine":

- Silver Fox. srsly stfu
- The gaping continuity flaw of having Liev Schrieber's Sabertooth and the giant wrestler Sabertooth from the original movie have the same name and the same powers.
- Liev's all-fours run was not menacing, it was actually really prissy and comical.
- Is it just me or were most of Gambit's actions in the alley fight kind of arbitrary and nonsensical?
- I felt a sullen sense of shame for not having been in the gym for the past three years after seeing this movie.
- I understand that the silent killer Deadpool with the melange of powers makes for a more compelling movie boss fight than the comic book version of the character, but I really missed the Jokeresque sense of macabre mayhem generated by the comic book character. Also wtf at the ending.

Liev's all-fours run was not menacing, it was actually really prissy and comical.

This was lolarious.

dan pretty much otm. this is not nearly as terrible as the reviews have made it seem. we really didn't need the "walking away as something explodes behind you" and "anguished skyward yell at death of loved one" cliches.

I didn't mind the anguished yell as that is a cliche that Wolverine revels in. I also thought the amnesia was really well done.

who was silver fox and why was kid liev carving a shank in the beginning? was he really supposed to be the sabertooth from later? glad I didn't know that going in

- Is it just me or were most of Gambit's actions in the alley fight kind of arbitrary and nonsensical?

ya

and i guess it's in the book for them to free the other mutants but those cutaways made the ending drag on so much longer than it needed to

who was silver fox and why was kid liev carving a shank in the beginning? was he really supposed to be the sabertooth from later? glad I didn't know that going in

Silver Fox was Wolverine's annoying girlfriend.

I think Kid Liev was carving a shank because he was "a bad kid" who had a drunk, abusive father; it was supposed to set him up as being someone who reveled in violence from an early age. I don't know that he was supposed to be the same Sabertooth as the one from the first X-Men movie, but that Sabertooth was certainly supposed to be the Victor Creed character from the comic books (and they both have the same powers).

Professor X looked like silly putty or something.

yeah what was up with that - it was like a botched latex face mask or something

Professor X aged better than most.

so this is apparently a huge hit?

Yeah, $87 million in the US.

I didn't like the Deadpool thing, it was just like Sylar! The X-Men films as a whole suffer from rubbish baddies, Magneto is okay, just way too old - they should have made him more like Ultimate Magneto.

Overall, it was quite good knock-a-bout fun...they should've cast Stan Lee as the old farmer.

Oh, and Professor X must have been entirely CGI, coz Patrick Stewart isn't listed in the cast on IMDB.

The word seems to be that what Gavin Hood turned into a year ago was both a very decent film and rated R. He's as obvious a choice for this as Bryan Singer was, and it is a shame he couldn't see his vision realized.

Anybody who likes Deadpool or Emma Frost will be a bit o_O over this movie.

haha well, in fairness Emma Frost in the comic book basically has little to no relation to the Emma in the movie so it's easy to disconnect the two

Deadpool, as I said above, is harder to forgive

I mean, even without the character assasination -- Ryan Reynolds? Really?

I should start a thread about my irrational hatred of Ryan Reynolds.

"Two Guys, a Girl, and I HATE HIS FACE"?

i think his eye move closer together with every movie

eyes!

I guess they will become one eye eventually OX

he shouldve killd his brother at three mile island - then wed be talking abt a motherfucker w/a dark past

I should start a thread about my irrational hatred of Ryan Reynolds.

You'll have even more reason to now.

Did we mention that Fox is also working on a "Wolverine" sequel with the samurai storyline?

Not enough X-Men for ya?

Fox is also developing "Magneto," a film about the X-Men villain and "X-Men: First Class."

he was probably the best thing in this movie! "Yeah, people are dead."

xp

so i pretty much know i'm gonna love this even if sucks. can't wait to see it

Yeah, but really that's the Deadpool character, almost anybody could have delivered that line and pulled it off. And he always looks like he's wearing an inch of foundation. I bet Adam from American Idol wears less makeup than him.

You know if Marvel likes casting people from Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place, Nathan Fillion would have been a much better choice.

This is as bad as that sparklepire playing the next Doctor.

I think this movie has officially turned me into this guy:

http://stuff.blogono.com/files/2008/04/comic_book_guy.jpg

lol @ the movies so transparently aping the 90s X-Men explosion

haha this movie

so yea this wasn't great. but i still enjoyed it i guess. most of the characters pretty much sucked except for logan & schrieber. brian cox was 100x better as stryker than the new guy, tho it's possible that the character was just better written in X2. i mean as an x-men fanboy i'm gonna get all excited at seeing any of my childhood favorites on the screen but a lot of this just seemed so half-assed and poorly written.

like, um, that fucking terrible scene at the end when xavier comes out of nowhere to land on the island and save the freed mutants. "hi scott i can hear your thoughts, i am here to help you" lol. tho i did enjoy seeing teenage cyclops.

deadpool character was so bad. reminded me of bane from 'batman and robin' - just this big stupid girth of a badguy who's just dumb and tough, totally uninteresting as a villian. also there weren't very many interesting mutants in this, was there? no crazy powers, nothing terribly new.

what was the asian dude's powers anyways? just really fast? yawn.

tho i thought x3 was shit when i first saw it and actually enjoyed it second time around. maybe this will be better seeing it again, now that i know it was pretty mediocre

Silverfox was such a waste of space!

yea

I tried watching X-Men 3 again the other week but it was just awful. Still have no desire to see Wolverine at all.

i might even say x#3 > wolverine

okay let's not be crazy

Definitely. Wolverine should have been direct to DVD, if that. Awful.

I didn't mind this movie at all. Totally superfluous so I just appreciated all the goofy details, ott action sequences and the fact that Liev Schrieber was actually kind of cool as a kitty cat man.

Not psyched about Magneto, though. Maybe cuz it sounds like Hannibal Rising, which truly sucked.

I will probably not see Thor.

The workprint version is pretty great and fun to watch. Were there any major differences between it and the final release?
The guy who plays Blob emotes pretty well through a fat suit, a lot better than say Eddie Murphy or Gwyneth Paltrow.
I could see how paying money for this would really sour the experience, though.

jackman wolverine has an awesome 'young clint eastwood' look in this imho.

Darren Aronofsky is officially directing the sequel

http://chud.com/articles/articles/25991/1/DARREN-ARONOFSKY-SIGNS-WITH-A-SNIKT-/Page1.html

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/darren-aronofsky-withdraws-from-the-wolverine

ok then.

let's change the thread title

why do we need another movie about wolverine.

I expected him to leave at some point, but figured it'd be over battles with Tom Rothman and not a family thing.

http://io9.com/5968144/62-terrible-unused-deadpool-designs-from-the-first-wolverine-movie-and-about-20-decent-ones

I am starting to form the opinion that Rob Bricken is one of the worst people on the Internet

Well, yes.

Rob Bricken, putting the 'critic' into critic.