First Look: Wolverine

Well, while not exactly a first look (weve seen Hugh Jackman as Wolverine before) but this is the first official look at Logan in his solo film. Directed by Gavin Hood (Tsotsi) and co-starring Maggie Q, Liev Schreiber as Sabertooth, and Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Six Feet Under) as a young William Stryker. X-Men Origins: Wolverine tells the story of our favorite mutant with a temper before he joined up with the X-Men, and with the looks of this picture they are including his time in Asia (you can see a shaolin temple behind him).

Schreiber is Sabretooth

Here’s some new casting news on the Wolverine front… it was previously announced that Liev Schreiber would be playing a role in the upcoming X-men Origins: Wolverine film, though he was widely rumored for a while to be playing a young William Stryker. Well that has been debunked as its now been learned that Schreiber will be playing Anti-Wolvie feral badass Victor Creed! Schreiber is a great classical actor and I respect his acting ability a lot, so seeing how he portrays the character will be quite interesting. A while back he was rumored to be in the running for the role of Harvey Dent in the Dark Knight, which has since been filled by Aaron Eckhart. Despite the blah-fest that was X-men 3, I’m actually quite excited for this movie! I can’t wait to see what they do with Weapon X/Team X.. that will hopefully make for some kickass scenes…

Wolverine Has A Director

To say the hype on X-Men has died down since Mr. Rush Hour himself Brett Ratner took the helm in X-Men 3 would be a huge understatment. While not completely terrible, it was mediocre at best. So untill now all talk of a Wolverine or Magneto movie has been pretty unexciting. That is until now.

Word is that Gavin Hood of the Oscar award winning film TSOTSI will be directing the Wolverine spin off for Marvel. The story is being handled by David Benioff who wrote one of my favorite Spike Lee movies 25th Hour. Filming is set to start in November when Jackman wraps on Baz Luhrmann’s AUSTRALIA.

The scrip delvs in to Wolvie’s past in the Weapon X project and will include such badies as Sabertooth, Silver Fox and The Blob!!

Let’s hope they restore the X-Men franchise back to it’s former glory…

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