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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
The film is directed by Gavin Hood and stars Hugh Jackman as the title
character. It is a prequel to the X-Men film trilogy, focusing on the
mutant Wolverine and his time with Team X, before Wolverine's skeleton was
bonded with the indestructible metal adamantium. The film was mostly shot
in Australia and New Zealand.
Watch the Wolverine Trailer
Cast
* Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine: The mutant and future X-Man. Jackman,
who played Wolverine in the previous films, has also become producer of
the film via his company Seed Productions, and earned $20 million for the
film. Jackman underwent a high intensity weight training regimen to bulk
up for his role. He changed the program to shock the body into change and
also performed cardiovascular workouts.He woke up each morning at 4 am to
eat one of the small number of protein-based meals he was allowed each
day. He wanted to portray Wolverine exactly as he did in the character's
cage match entrance in X-Men, stating his inspiration was Robert De Niro
in Cape Fear. He noted Wolverine had mellowed during the previous film and
looked forward to revisiting a darker time in the character's life.
Jackman worked out in a Queenstown gym where he would arrive daily at 6
am. He stayed in character and made noises while exercising.Jackman noted
no digital touches were applied to his physique in a shot of him rising
from the tank within which Wolverine has his bones coated in
adamantium.
o Troye Sivan as James Howlett: Casting directors cast Sivan as the young
Wolverine after seeing him sing at the Channel Seven Perth Telethon, and
he was accepted after sending in an audition tape. Kodi Smit-McPhee was
originally cast in the role, when filming was originally beginning in
December 2007,but he opted out to film The Road.
* Liev Schreiber as Victor Creed / Sabretooth: Logan's half-brother and
fellow soldier. Jackman and Hood compared Wolverine and Sabretooth's
relationship to the Borg-McEnroe rivalry in the world of tennis:
Sabretooth hates him because he loved and needed his half-brother, but is
too proud to admit he needs him back. Tyler Mane, who played him in X-Men,
had hoped to reprise the role.Jackman worked with Schreiber before, and
described him as having a competitive streak necessary to portray
Sabretooth. They "egged" each other on set to perform more and more
stunts. Schreiber put on 40 lb (18 kg) of muscle for the part, and
described Sabretooth as the most monstrous role he ever played. As a
child, he loved the Wolverine comics because of their unique "urban
sensibility". Schreiber had studied to be a fight choreographer and wanted
to be a dancer like Jackman, so he enjoyed working out their fight scenes.
* Danny Huston as William Stryker: Schreiber was originally in
negotiations for the part, while Brian Cox, who played the character in
X2, wanted to reprise the role. He believed computer-generated imagery,
similar to the program applied to Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in the
opening flashback of X-Men: The Last Stand, would allow him to appear as
the younger Stryker. Huston liked the complex Stryker, who "both loves and
hates mutants because his son was a mutant and drove his wife to suicide.
So he understands what they're going through, but despises their
destructive force." He compared the character to a racehorse breeder, who
rears his mutant experiments like children but abandons them when
something goes wrong.
* Lynn Collins as Kayla Silver Fox: Wolverine's love interest, who becomes
a captive of Stryker. Michelle Monaghan turned down the role because of
scheduling conflicts, despite her enthusiasm to work with Jackman.
* Taylor Kitsch as Remy LeBeau /
Gambit: A Cajun
thief who has the ability to charge any object he touches with kinetic
energy, forcing it to explode. The size of the object determines the
magnitude of the resulting explosion.
* Daniel Henney as David North / Agent Zero: A member of the Weapon X
program and an expert tracker with lethal marksman skills.
* Will.i.am as John Wraith: A teleporting mutant who becomes a Weapon X
test subject. It is Will.i.am's major film debut. Although he initially
did not get on with the casting director, he got the role because he
wanted to play a mutant with the same power as Nightcrawler. He enrolled
in boot camp to get into shape for the part. When filming a fight, he
scarred his knuckles after accidentally punching and breaking the camera.
* Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson /
Deadpool: A
wisecracking mercenary who can heal like Wolverine. Reynolds had been
interested in playing the character in his own film since 2003. Reynolds
was not a big comic book fan but had heard that in an issue of the comic,
Deadpool likens himself to the actor,and became very interested in the
character. Originally, Reynolds was only going to cameo as Wilson but the
role grew after he was cast. Computer-generated imagery is being used to
create his scarred visage.
* Kevin Durand as Frederick J. Dukes / The Blob: An obese mutant with an
indestructible layer of fat.
* Dominic Monaghan as Barnell Bohusk: A mutant who can manipulate energy
and electricity."[4]
* Scott Adkins as Weapon XI: Weapon XI has powers pulled from many of the
mutants featured in the film including Wolverine's healing factor and
Cyclops' optic blasts., and is in the end sequence fight scene against
Wolverine.
* Tahyna Tozzi as Emma Frost: A mutant with the powers of telepathy and
turning her skin into diamond.
The film includes numerous cameo appearances of younger versions of
characters from the previous films, including Cyclops (Tim Pocock), a
Weapon X captive;[24] and Jason Stryker, William's lobotomized telepathic
son whom he keeps on ice. New characters include Banshee, who is a Weapon
X captive. There was a cameo for a young Storm, which can be seen in the
trailer, but it was cut out.
Asher Keddie is in the film, but did not state who she played. Poker
player Daniel Negreanu has a cameo. Phil Hellmuth wanted to join him but
was unable because he committed to an event in Toronto. X-Men co-creator
Stan Lee said he
would cameo, but he was not in Australia during filming, so this will have
to be a pick-up conducted during January 2009.
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