Wolverine: An Update
Okay, I haven’t written anything about the Wolverine prequel, or as it’s now known, “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” just in case you thought this was a movie about Michigan college sports. The branding of “Origins” means there will be multiple movies (Magneto is already confirmed), and I’m just not ready for “X-Men Origins: Storm.” We all know what Halle Berry did to “Catwoman.”
Anyway, Wolvie is gathering a pretty decent cast: A Hobbit, Tim Riggins, Van Wilder, and Cotton Weary. Here’s the actors and their characters:
Ryan Reynolds … Deadpool
Taylor Kitsch … Remy Lebeau / Gambit
Liev Schreiber … Victor Creed / Sabretooth
Dominic Monaghan … Barnell Bohusk / Beak
The most interesting casting for me is Taylor Kitsch playing Gambit, the Kinetic Cajun. (I just created that nickname for him. Feel free to spread it around the internet.) Gambit is one of those X-Men characters who was huge in the 90’s because he had an accent (on paper) and got it on with Rogue, thereby attributing his popularity to jealousy. His over-the-top personality and his ability to throw kinetically-charged playing cards might be too cartoony even for a comic book movie, but I’m interested in seeing Kitsch’s range as an actor and this is certainly a long way from Dillon, Texas.
Other Things to Note: Liev Schreiber’s Sabretooth will probably not be as gigantic as Sabretooth in the original film…For some reason, Will.I.Am (God, I hated typing that) from the Black Eyed Peas is in this movie…I have never heard of “Beak” but according to Wikipedia, he’s a mutated man-bird with the power of, er, limited flight. What kind of a half-assed mutant is that?…Wait, why is Gambit involved in a Wolverine Origin story?
Of course, at the heart of it all is Hugh Jackman, who has a chance to redeem Wolverine from the crying, love-stricken feline we saw at the end of X-Men: The Last Stand (too…many…subtitles). Wolvie’s origins are bloody and dark, and the only tears we see on screen should be when he tears holes in people!
