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Praise be, glory and hallelujah! The long-mooted and long-awaited (at least by us) Wolverine movie finally has a start date for shooting - this November - and a director - Tsotsi's Gavin Hood. With star Hugh Jackman and writer David Benioff already onboard, it looks like ol' Adamantium Claws' spin-off movie is a reality after all.

The story is set to be an origins tale, about How Logan Got Unbreakable Metal Called Adamantium Welded To His Skeleton, drawing on recent Weapon X graphic novels and some of the Frank Miller touches from Wolvie's own spin-off comic as well - although according to rumour, there's a 'Nam flashback but none of the Japanese stuff.

Reading between the lines, characters we might reasonably expect to see returning are Brian Cox' General Stryker (possibly played by a younger actor to allow for the difference in age) and Tyler Mane's Sabertooth. Comic fans may also feel comfortable in guessing that names like Silverfox and John Wraith are also likely to come into play - but we couldn't possibly comment.

The film is set to start in November for a 2008 release, which could mean we see Wolverine as early as this time next year (if they go at an X-Men: The Last Stand shooting and post-production pace, at least). Which is good news for comic fans, good news for vest manufacturers and very good news for makes of superhold hairspray. Roll on next year! (Source)

Awesome news and this film better rock...I also heard a while back that we could see Omega Red and other different mutants we didn't see from the X-Men Films :D

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I've been waiting for this movie since I was a wee little lad of 8. It's been 20 years in the making and I couldn't be happier! Shame they won't have Silver Samuri or Mako but it's all good. I sort of figured they do the adamantium / Weapon X origins after it was hinted at in X-men 2. Maybe we'll get an Alpha Flight movie / cameo even! Go canuckian superheroes! :p

Awesome! I love Wolverine. I keep thinking about the comment in transformers! :p

Tyrese Gibson: Is that Freddy Krueger done been up in here or something?

Anthony Anderson: Aww no man! Freddy Krueger have 4 blades man, That's only three! That's Wolverine!

I got a kick out of that one!

They have to give us Gambit at some point.. right?

Josh Holloway just screams Gambit to me. Agreed?

Yeah I mean through the 3 Xmen movies I expected to see a cameo of Gambit but now they overlooked him and used other xmen who noone cares about like Hellion and Anole...who the hell cares about them?...oh well heres hoping for a 4th xmen movie focusing purely on the students tho on wikipedia this is mentioned under xmen movies...

Each X-Men film was more expensive than the last, with larger salaries and more spectacular visual effects, so an X-Men 4 is unlikely to be produced soon.[34] Twentieth Century Fox chose the "divide and conquer" route for the franchise with multiple spin-offs, including prequels focusing on Wolverine and Magneto, a film about the students at the X-Mansion to be written by Zak Penn,[35] and director David O. Russell expressed interest in a film about Emma Frost.[36]
I'm still mad about how they killed of Cyclops in the third movie.

Lol, I don't think the spoiler tags were needed there. If they haven't seen the movie between when it came out and now, they'll probably never see it.

This is nice how they're doing a Wolverine story but I want a Magneto story!

Lol, I don't think the spoiler tags were needed there. If they haven't seen the movie between when it came out and now, they'll probably never see it.

This is nice how they're doing a Wolverine story but I want a Magneto story!

A Magneto story will probably happen because thats one of the characters they want to look at the back story of :)

Meh, Cyclops wasn't all that great in the other two movies anyways. I'm ****ed about how they took away Rogue's powers and killed Jean. But at least the Professor came back at the end.

Yeah but if you remember at the end of the movie Magneto could move the chess piece with his mind again which means the cure really wasn't that good so theoretically Rogue might still have her powers.

Yeah but if you remember at the end of the movie Magneto could move the chess piece with his mind again which means the cure really wasn't that good so theoretically Rogue might still have her powers.

I hope so, especially since Magneto got nailed with a whole bunch of those vials.

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Hugh Jackman, who will reprise his role as the feral mutant Logan in Fox's forthcoming X-Men spinoff Wolverine, recently dropped a few hints about what fans can expect to see in the Gavin Hood-directed movie.

The project is a prequel that reportedly details Logan's back-story in the Weapon X program and his first encounter with Sabretooth. Logan is also expected to have a new love interest. In an interview with WizardUniverse.com, Jackman downplayed the notion that Logan's past adventures in Japan might also be a part of the film

"[The Japan connection] is still something we really want to do," Jackman said. "What we need to do is establish who he is and find out how he became Wolverine. And by the end of the movie, I want it to be that you definitely knew who this guy was, like Mad Max and Dirty Harry. He's a good guy, but he's not a nice guy. He's just the guy you want on your side."

WizardUniverse's sources indicated the film would see Logan in Vietnam and might include cameos by comic book characters such as John Wraith, better known as the mutant teleporter Kestrel, and Fred J. Dukes, a.k.a. The Blob.

Kestrel was a member of the CIA's covert ops Team X along with Wolverine, Sabretooth, Maverick, Mastodon, and Silver Fox.

Wolverine is set to start shooting in November with a 2008 release planned. Lauren Shuler-Donner is producing along with Jackman and John Palmermo through their production company, Seed Prods.

The Blob :ermm:

he did reasonably well I think, but he could have been a bit meaner in the role, he seemed a bit to tame for the proper wolverine...

I thought he looked the part though, I can't think of anyone else that could have pulled it off!

Yeah looks wise he was the part but he did lack a bit more aggression like the comic book character.

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