There was a period when Hollywood evaded comic materials like the plague. With average renditions of masterpiece characters such as the Punisher, Captain America, and even the Fantastic Four – the last two being so bad that they wind up as straight-to-video releases – Hollywood has grasped the impression that comic book properties do not order an audience that is big enough to guarantee a hit.
In 2000, a comic book-adapted flick changed such a view.
Bryan Singer got comic book’s main franchise, the X-Men, and created a great flick out of the same. The outcome is a trilogy that gathered billions of dollars in earning.
The X-Men movies are largely recognized as the flicks that opened the gates of Hollywood for highly successful superhero flicks that came after – Spider-Man, Blade, Daredevil, the two Fantastic Four movies, and even the reboot of Batman and the come back of Superman to the big screen.
The X-Men trilogy, nevertheless, has completed its sprint.
However, fans should not be anxious as Marvel Comics and 20th Century Fox are scheduling a series of flicks focusing on the genesis of the mutants we have grown to love.
Number one of these films is X-Men Origins: Wolverine, scheduled for a May 1, 2009 showing. Hugh Jackman will reprise his character as the titular persona, though, the movie will be set some 17 years prior to the events of the first X-men film.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine tells the story of Logan’s discovery of his mutant powers, his addition to the Weapon X series, his dealings with William Stryker, and his falling out with the said institution.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine will present a slew of additional mutants straight from the comic series, like the motor mouth killer, Dead Pool – played by the highly-recognized Ryan Reynolds – and the furious Cajun, Gambit – played by Taylor Kitsch. Sabretooth, surely, will play a vital part in the movie, being a central figure in the Wolverine mythos.
One of the things to see in the film is the surprise that the Weapon X code doesn’t mean the letter X, but, it refers to the number “ten,” with Wolverine being the tenth government project created for mass annihilation. The finale of X-Men Origins will pit Wolverine against the new version of the program, Weapon XI. This will probably be one of the best dvd movies.
It’s going to be slobber knocker!
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