The World Beyond BetterMost > Anything Goes
Hugh Hugh Hugh!
MaineWriter:
Black Eyed Peas singer joins "Wolverine" cast
Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:49am EST
By Borys Kit
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Black Eyed Peas singer Will.i.am will make his feature acting debut in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," the "X-Men" spinoff starring Hugh Jackman.
Danny Huston, Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins also have joined the Fox project, and Ryan Reynolds is making a cameo. Gavin Hood ("Tsotsi") is directing.
"Wolverine," set 17 years before the "X-Men" movies, traces the origins of the popular mutant superhero.
Will.i.am, whose real name is William Adams, will play Wraith, a mutant with the power to turn himself translucent.
Huston, who most recently appeared in "30 Days of Night," is playing Stryker, the military general who subjected Wolverine to the experiment that laced his bones with an unbreakable metal called adamantium. Brian Cox played the character in "X2: X-Men United."
Kitsch, one of the stars of NBC's "Friday Night Lights," is playing Gambit, a Cajun thief whose powers include the manipulation of kinetic energy, which allows him to use card-throwing to deadly effect.
Collins ("The Number 23") will play as Kayla Silverfox, Wolverine's lover and a member of Team X, a superpowered covert ops team.
Reynolds, onscreen in "Definitely, Maybe," will appear as Deadpool, a wisecracking mercenary.
Liev Schreiber already has been cast as Victor Creed, a mutant with bestial superpowers who also is known as Sabretooth.
Production began this month in New Zealand before moving to Australia. A New Orleans shoot also is on the docket. Fox is releasing the film everywhere May 1, 2009.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
http://www.reuters.com/article/peopleNews/idUSN2030032120080220?sp=true
MaineWriter:
and from Variety:
http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=print_story&articleid=VR1117981136&categoryid=13
Posted: Tue., Feb. 19, 2008, 3:00pm PT
Reynolds, will.i.am join 'Wolverine'
Taylor Kitsch to play Gambit in Hood's 'Origins'
By MARC GRASER, MARC GRASER, MARC GRASER, TATIANA SIEGEL
Twentieth Century Fox has added three more superheroes to "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," with Ryan Reynolds set to play Deadpool, "Friday Night Lights" regular Taylor Kitsch to star as Gambit and hip-hop artist will.i.am joining the cast as John Wraith.
Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston and Lynn Collins round out the cast as Victor Creed/Sabretooth, Col. William Stryker and Kayla Silver Fox, respectively.
Hugh Jackman reprises the role of Wolverine in the "X-Men" spinoff that Gavin Hood is lensing in New Zealand, Australia and New Orleans. Pic bows May 1, 2009.
David Benioff penned the script, which would reveal the origins of the Wolverine character and introduce other mutants not yet seen in the "X-Men" franchise.
Marvel has been eyeing the possibility of casting Reynolds as Deadpool, an assassin with self-healing powers, for some time with the idea of spinning off the character into his own film series should the character prove popular among moviegoers.
Fox and Marvel have also long wanted to add the card-throwing character of Gambit to the "X-Men" franchise but could never find a way to give him enough screen time among the many other mutants that have appeared in each film.
Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am will play Wraith, a mutant who has the power to teleport, and is another test subject of the Weapon X program that created Wolverine and other mercenaries. It would be his first film role.
Lauren Shuler Donner and Ralph Winter are producing with Jackman and his Seed Prods. producing partner John Palermo. Marvel's Kevin Feige exec produces.
louisev:
New pics of Hugh Jackman with his pumped up Wolverine figure: holy smoke!
more here from Just Jared:
http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/02/24/hugh-jackman-washboard-abs/
louisev:
MaineWriter:
Holy smoke, Hugh! Phew! Those are some good pictures....
L
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version