X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Official Movie Trailer Site ^ | 12-18-2008 | 20th Century Fox

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Official "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" trailer is out!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

This is going to be one helluva movie! Wolverine is my favorite Marvel character and has a very deep, very compelling backstory. I'm glad that Hugh Jackman embraced this role, made it his own, and produced this movie, making it HIS way, rather than the screwed-up Hollywood way.

'nuff said, bub!

[neb52]

Swwwwwweeeeettttt! and Liev Schreiber as Sabertooth, YES! He is one of my favorite actors.

[thatjoeguy]

Looks pretty good. I love the exchange between Saber and Wolverine at the end of the trailer.

JB

[GBA]

I hope you’re right. I’ve enjoyed Jackman’s work so far. Most of the comic books turned movies have been disappointing. Usually they choose a lame known actor instead of someone more true to the character and then aren’t true to the story. Fortunately, the X Men have been fairly good movies and Jackman is a convincing Wolverine. I’m still pissed at them for screwing up Daredevil, Elektra and that incredibly gay Green Goblin costume.

[Williams]

Seemed awfully hokey to me. Sorry.

[SJSAMPLE]

Sabertooth’s stature has always made Wolverine seem diminutive.

They did OK in the first X-Men film with the wrestler, but Schreiber isn’t large enough to pull it off.

[spotbust1]

I agree with you. Hugh Jackman is the right man for this role. Of course he could just be painting a fence and I would sit with a bucket of popcorn and watch. :-)

[Centurion2000]

Looks pretty dang good. Sabertooth should have been a lot larger though ... oh well.

[rintense]

Love me some Hugh!!!!! Can’t wait to see this movie!

[rintense]

That’s the edited version. In the version they showed at ComicCon, Wolverine says, ‘cut your f’n head off’

[Dead Corpse]

The big blonde dude they had playing Sabertooth before coulda stepped right out of the comic books. This new dweeb looks more like a fraggin' vampire.

Still, my birthday is the end of May... Two tickets to see this coming up.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

“I agree with you. Hugh Jackman is the right man for this role. Of course he could just be painting a fence and I would sit with a bucket of popcorn and watch. :-)”
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You and me, both!!!!!! I just look at him, and get ...........ohhhh, nevemind. ;) Gary Senise and Christian Bale are a couple of others. Actors usually don’t do me ‘that way’. However, there ARE exceptions. :D

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

It'll depend on how the Sabertooth character is developed in the film. If done correctly, size won't matter, since Logan's relationship with Creed is extremely complex and enduring, just like Batman and the Joker. In the comics, Wolverine always was always "dimunitive" at 5'3" tall, with a "little man complex," while Creed was far more sophisticated and psychotic than Tyler Mane portrayed him in the first X-Men movie. It appears that there is some kind of familial or genetic relation between Logan and Creed, and that's perhaps what the filmmakers are driving out with the physical similarities (hair color, size, etc.) between the two. In the comics, this has always been hinted at, with Creed telling Logan at one point that he was Logan's father. Turned out to be a lie, but they could be brothers.

Anyway, I think this new film has the potential to be a great trilogy, if not a franchise, covering some really good storylines from the old Wolvering comics of the 1980s and early 1990s, when he took on the Japanese Yakuza and battled the Black Hand on Madripoor, as "Patch."

[CAPTAINSUPERMARVELMAN]

looking forward to this one. My only complaint is Jackman’s too tall to play Wolverine and Schreiver is too short to play Sabertooth. I guess that’s the balance.

[Scythian]

Is that Blue Chick in it? /sarc

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

No, but Silver Fox is hot though!

[mw19]

Thanks for posting.

[Hyzenthlay]

Me too! If neither of you have seen Australia yet, it’s well worth your time =P

As far as this movie goes, I LOVE the new X-men franchise in general (except the third movie), and I think Gambit is freaking AWESOME, so I cannot wait to see this!

[SJSAMPLE]

Somewhere in the attic, I have all those issues.

Sabertooth has usually dominated Wolverine, and the size difference was used to accentuate the point.

From the trailer, Schreiber looked OK, and the transition to mainstream film might be helped with more “real life” characterizations.

No spandex was a good start.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Yeah, you're right, Sabertooth has always dominated Wolverine, much as a father dominates a son, which makes for some really intense fights between the two.