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*'''[[Hugh Jackman]]''' as '''[[Wolverine (comics)|Logan / Wolverine]]''': The mutant and future [[X-Men]] member. 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.<ref>{{cite news | author= | url=http://www.healthbrands.com.au/topics/muscle/news/bulking+up/hugh+jackman+bulks+up+for+wolverine.htm | title=Hugh Jackman bulks up for ''Wolverine'' | work=Aussie Bodies | date=2008-01-18 |
*'''[[Hugh Jackman]]''' as '''[[Wolverine (comics)|Logan / Wolverine]]''': The mutant and future [[X-Men]] member. 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.<ref name="hunt">{{cite news | author = Steven Galloway | title = Studios are hunting the next big property |work= [[The Hollywood Reporter]] | date = 2007-07-10 | url = http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3if727c623f03c782b8ad564866c828796 | accessdate=2007-07-10}}</ref> 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. 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]].<ref name=pyro/>
xercising.<ref>{{cite news | author = Kristian South | title = Kiwi stunner Kate's got the X-Men factor | work = [[Sunday News]] | date = 2008-04-06 | url = http://www.stuff.co.nz/4466738a1860.html | accessdate=2008-04-08}}</ref> 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]].<ref name=pyro/>
**'''[[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.<ref>{{cite news | author = Shannon Harvey | title = Perth boy to play young Hugh Jackman in Wolverine movie | work = [[The Sunday Times (Western Australia)|The Sunday Times]] | date = 2008-02-29 | url = http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,23297937-5012990,00.html | accessdate=2008-03-01}}</ref> [[Kodi Smit-McPhee]] was originally cast in the role, when filming was originally beginning in December 2007,<ref>{{cite news | title = Smit-McPhee is Young Logan in ''Wolverine'' | work = [[Superhero Hype!]] | date = 2007-10-25 | url = http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=6445 | accessdate=2007-10-27}}</ref> but he opted out to film ''[[The Road (film)|The Road]]''.<ref>{{cite news | author = Leslie Simmons | title = Smit-McPhee takes 'Road' less traveled | work = [[The Hollywood Reporter]] | date = 2008-02-06 | url = http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i67f661e87c3de3d37045f375a72cb938 | accessdate=2008-03-01}}</ref>
**'''[[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.<ref>{{cite news | author = Shannon Harvey | title = Perth boy to play young Hugh Jackman in Wolverine movie | work = [[The Sunday Times (Western Australia)|The Sunday Times]] | date = 2008-02-29 | url = http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,23297937-5012990,00.html | accessdate=2008-03-01}}</ref> [[Kodi Smit-McPhee]] was originally cast in the role, when filming was originally beginning in December 2007,<ref>{{cite news | title = Smit-McPhee is Young Logan in ''Wolverine'' | work = [[Superhero Hype!]] | date = 2007-10-25 | url = http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=6445 | accessdate=2007-10-27}}</ref> but he opted out to film ''[[The Road (film)|The Road]]''.<ref>{{cite news | author = Leslie Simmons | title = Smit-McPhee takes 'Road' less traveled | work = [[The Hollywood Reporter]] | date = 2008-02-06 | url = http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i67f661e87c3de3d37045f375a72cb938 | accessdate=2008-03-01}}</ref>


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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
File:Wolverineteaserposter a.jpg
International poster
Directed byGavin Hood
Written byDavid Benioff
Skip Woods
Produced byHugh Jackman
Lauren Shuler Donner
Ralph Winter
John Palermo
StarringHugh Jackman
Liev Schreiber
Danny Huston
Dominic Monaghan
and Ryan Reynolds
CinematographyDonald McAlpine
Edited byNicolas De Toth
Megan Gill
Music byHarry Gregson-Williams
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release dates
United Kingdom &
NewZealand:
April 29, 2009

United States,
Australia&
Canada:
May 1, 2009
Running time
107 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a superhero film based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Wolverine that will be released in most countries by May 1, 2009. 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.

Premise

The film is primarily set roughly twenty years before the film X-Men and focuses on the violent past of Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and his early encounters with Colonel William Stryker (Danny Huston).[1] The Weapon X program and his interactions with other mutants is explored,[2] including his relationship with his half-brother Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber).[3]

Plot synopsis

The film opens with James Howlett (Troye Sivan) and Victor Creed (Michael-James Olsen) in 1845 at the Howlett residence. There, Creed's father (Aaron Jeffery) confronts Howlett's, shooting him in the conflict. When James finds his father (Peter O'Brien) dead, his mutant powers emerge and his claws protrude from his hands, which he uses to kill Creed's father in vengeance. With his dying breath, Creed tells James that he is also his son. James and Victor then run away, with Victor convincing James they have to stick together from then on. In the years that follow, adult brothers James (Hugh Jackman) and Victor (Liev Schreiber) are seen fighting together throughout the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, and eventually the Vietnam War. In Vietnam, Victor beheads a superior officer and is therefore sentenced to death, along with his brother, although they survive the firing squad due to their regenerative abilities.

While held as prisoners, William Stryker (Danny Huston) approaches the two mutants and offers them a spot in his Team X, which they join. The team consists of mutants Fred Dukes (Kevin Durand), John Wraith (will.i.am), Chris Bradley (Dominic Monaghan), as well as expert marksman David "Agent Zero" North (Daniel Henney) and martial artist Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds). After an incident in Nigeria where Stryker orders the team to kill innocent civilians, however, James refuses and abandons the group. There, Stryker was searching for the source of adamantium.

Years later, James is working as a logger in Canada and lives with love interest Kayla Silverfox (Lynn Collins). Meanwhile, Victor hunts down Bradley, now known as a circus freak, and murders him. Using this, Stryker locates James and attests that Victor is out to kill the former team, now disbanded, and asks for him to join him, which James refuses. Shortly after, Silverfox is murdered by Victor, prompting James to lust for revenge. He hunts down his half-brother and fights, although is easily defeated and left for dead. Striker locates James, and the mutant this time accepts Stryker's offer. Explaining that he had found the adamantium source, Stryker embues James's skeletal system with it. He is issued new dog tags, and takes the name Wolverine in memory of a story Kayla told him before she was killed. After Wolverine survives cardiac arrest as a result of the procedure, Stryker orders his mind to be wiped. Wolverine overhears this, and in retaliation, breaks free of the lab. Stryker abandons the lab, security having been compromised and leaves for a secure location while ordering Agent Zero to hunt down the escaped mutant.

An elderly couple returning to their farm spy a naked Wolverine taking shelter in their barn. The couple give Wolverine hospitality until the next morning, only to be shot dead by Agent Zero. Wolverine flees on a motorcycle and eventually destroys the helicopter pursuing him, along with Agent Zero, before heading for Las Vegas. Wolverine locates two former associates, John Wraith and Fred Dukes, seeking to learn the location of Creed and Stryker's new laboratory. Wraith suggests he fight a boxing match against the massively obese Dukes to earn the answers he wants. Wolverine learns he was set up and Creed had been working with Stryker all along. Although Dukes does not know the location of the base he reveals that a mutant had who escaped from the island after two years imprisonment, and that he Remy "Gambit" LeBeau (Taylor Kitsch) would know the location. At this point, Wolverine learns that the old team had been tasked with capturing numerous mutants, which was the reason why Wraith had left the group as well.

Upon locating Gambit in a New Orleans bar, Wolverine confronts him and is blown out of the bar through a wall, where he reencounters Victor, who had just killed Wraith, and fights him. Superior to his brother, now, James outmatches him, but before he can kill him, he is again attacked by Gambit. Victor flees in the distraction, and Wolverine is eventually able to convince Gambit to take him to Stryker's island. Gambit flies and drops off Wolverine at the location, Three Mile Island. There, Wolverine confronts Stryker, where he learns Silverfox is still alive; she had faked her death to lure Wolverine into becoming Weapon X, only because her deal with Stryker was that he would release her captive mutant sister, Emma Frost (Tahyna Tozzi). Wolverine departs, and an angry Victor appears in the lab, angry that Wolverine was allowed to flee. He then demands Stryker give him the same adamantium treatment, which Stryker reveals that Victor would not survive it. Victor then threatens to kill Silverfox, to which, upon hearing her scream, Wolverine returns and attacks his brother.

Easily defeating Victor, Wolverine realizes he is not like him and again departs, where Silverfox explains everything to him. Wolverine then agrees to help Silverfox find the captive mutant children and free them, which include Cyclops (Tim Pocock) and Toad. Angered, Stryker prematurely orders Weapon XI to be activated, to find and kill Wolverine. The weapon, revealed to be Wade Wilson, has become a Deadpool of mutant powers, which Stryker had gathered from his captives, including Wolverine. Wolverine orders the children to flee while he fights Deadpool, during which Silverfox is lethally injured. Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) is able to telepathically guide Cyclops out of the lab, where he meets the children and takes them off the island.

Meanwhile, Wolverine is almost killed by Deadpool, but his brother intervenes and assists in the fight. Working together, as they had in the wars, the two are able to defeat Deadpool, with Wolverine eventually beheading him; Victor flees the island afterward, and Gambit reunites with Wolverine, saving him from a collapsing nuclear reactor. Wolverine orders Gambit to ensure the children are safe, while he returns to find Silverfox, who had stayed behind. Wolverine is attacked by Stryker with a gun loaded with adamantium bullets, which knock him unconscious and cause amnesia. Meanwhile, Silverfox dies from her injuries, although not before using her powers of persuasion to have Stryker walk away. Gambit then returns to give the news to Wolverine that the children are safe, but, due to the amnesia, does not remember anything. Gambit and Wolverine then part ways, though not before Wolverine finds the body of Silverfox, whom he no longer remembers.

A mid-credits shows Stryker is under questioning for General Munson's death, whom he had killed when the general attempted to halt his Weapon XI project. After the credits, Wolverine is seen drinking at a Japanese Bar. The barmaid asks "Are you drinking to forget?" and Wolverine replies "No, drinking to remember".

Cast

  • Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine: The mutant and future X-Men member. 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.[4] 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. 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.[5]
  • Liev Schreiber as Victor Creed / Sabretooth: Logan's 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 brother, inspired by Dog Logan, Wolverine's sibling in Origin, but is too proud to admit he needs him back.[3] Tyler Mane, who played him in X-Men, had hoped to reprise the role.[9] 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,[3] 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.[10]
  • Peter O'Brien as John Howlett: Victor's father and James' adoptive father.
  • Danny Huston as William Stryker: Schreiber was originally in negotiations for the part,[2] 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.[11] 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.[3]
Lynn Collins as Silver Fox
  • will.i.am as John Wraith: A teleporting mutant. 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.[13] When filming a fight, he scarred his knuckles after accidentally punching and breaking the camera.[14]
  • 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.[15] Originally, Reynolds was only going to cameo as Wilson but the role grew after he was cast.[16].
  • Scott Adkins as Weapon XI: Weapon XI has powers "pooled" from many other mutants killed or kidnapped in the film, including Wolverine's healing factor, Cyclops' optic blasts, Deadpool's martial arts ability and Wraith's teleportation ability. He also has retractable blades from his arm capable of killing Wolverine. He's the final antagonist of the film, having been genetically altered to be the ultimate mutant killer.


The film includes numerous cameo appearances of younger versions of characters from the previous films, including Cyclops (Tim Pocock), a Weapon X captive,[20] and Jason Stryker, William's lobotomized telepathic son whom he keeps on ice. New characters include Banshee, who is a Weapon X captive.[21] Also Toad and Quicksilver can be briefly seen on as captive on the island. There was a cameo for a young Storm, which can be seen in the trailer, but it was cut out.[22]. Patrick Stewart also cameos as a younger Charles Xavier.

Asher Keddie is in the film, but did not state who she played.[23][24] Poker player Daniel Negreanu has a cameo. Phil Hellmuth wanted to join him but was unable because he committed to an event in Toronto.[25] X-Men co-creator Stan Lee said he would cameo,[26] but he was not in Australia during filming, so this will have to be a pick-up conducted during January 2009.[27]

Production

Development

David Benioff, a comic book fan, pursued the project for almost three years before he was hired to write the script in October 2004.[28][29] In preparing to write the script, he reread Barry Windsor-Smith's "Weapon X" story (1991), as well as Chris Claremont and Frank Miller's 1982 limited series on the character (his favorite storyline).[30][28] Jackman collaborated on the script, which he wanted to be more of a character piece compared with the previous X-Men films.[31] Benioff aimed for a "darker and a bit more brutal" story, writing it with an R rating in mind, although he acknowledged the film's final tone would rest with the producers and director.[28] Jackman did not see the need to make the film R.[32]

Deadpool had been developed for his own film by Reynolds and David S. Goyer at New Line Cinema in 2003, but the project fell apart as they focused on Blade: Trinity and an aborted spin-off.[15] Benioff wrote the character into the script in a manner Jackman described as fun, but would also deviate from some of his traits. Similarly, Gambit was a character who the filmmakers had tried to put in the previous X-Men films. Jackman liked Gambit because he is a "loose cannon" like Wolverine, stating their relationship echoes that of Wolverine and Pyro in the original trilogy.[5] David Ayer contributed to the script.[33] Benioff finished his draft in October 2006, and Jackman stated there would be a year before shooting,[34] as he was scheduled to start filming Australia (2008) during 2007.[35] Before the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike began, James Vanderbilt and Scott Silver were hired for a last-minute rewrite.[36]

Gavin Hood was announced as director of the project in July 2007 for a 2008 release.[37] Previously, X-Men and X2 director Bryan Singer and X-Men: The Last Stand director Brett Ratner were interested in returning to the franchise,[38][39] while Alexandre Aja and Len Wiseman also wanted the job.[40][41] Zack Snyder, who was approached for The Last Stand, turned down this film because he was directing Watchmen.[42] Jackman saw parallels between Logan and the main character in Tsotsi.[3] Hood explained that while he was not a comic book fan, he "realized that the character of Wolverine, I think his great appeal lies in the fact that he's someone who in some ways, is filled with a great deal of self-loathing by his own nature and he's constantly at war with his own nature".[43] The director described the film's themes as focusing on Wolverine's inner struggle between his animalistic savagery and noble human qualities. Hood enjoyed the previous films, but set out to give the spin-off a different feel.[44] In October, Fox announced a May 1, 2009 release date and the X-Men Origins prefix.[2]

Filming

Preliminary shooting took place at Fox Studios Australia (in Sydney) during late 2007.[45] Principal photography began on January 18, 2008[46] in New Zealand. Locations included Dunedin.[47] Controversy arose as the Queenstown Lakes District Council disputed the Department of Labour's decision to allow Fox to store explosives in the local ice skating rink. Fox moved some of the explosives to another area.[48] The explosives were used for a shot of the exploding Hudson Farm, a scene which required four cameras.[49] Jackman and Palermo's Woz Productions reached an agreement with the council to allow recycling specialists on set to advise the production on being environmentally friendly.[50]

Filming continued at Fox (where most of the shooting was done) and New Orleans, Louisiana.[2] Cockatoo Island was used for Stryker's facility; the enormous buildings there saved money on digitally expanding a set.[3] Production of the film was predicted to generate $60 million in Sydney's economy.[51] Principal photography ended by May 23. The second unit continued filming in New Zealand until March 23, and were scheduled to continue filming for two weeks following the first unit's wrap.[52] This included a flashback to Logan during the Normandy Landings, which was shot at Blacksmiths, New South Wales.[53]

Hood and Fox disputed on the film's direction. The studio had two replacements lined up before Richard Donner, husband of producer Lauren Shuler Donner, flew to Australia to ease on-set tensions.[54] Hood remarked, "Out of healthy and sometimes very rigorous debate, things get better. [...] I hope the film's better because of the debates. If nobody were talking about us, we'd be in trouble!"[3] Hood added he and Thomas Rothman were both "forceful" personalities in creative meetings but they had never had a "stand-up" argument.[55]Two weeks of pick-ups began on January 12, 2009, in Vancouver.[56] These included finishing scenes with Ryan Reynolds, who had been working on two other films during principal photography.[57] Shots were filmed at the University of British Columbia.[58]

Release

Leaked workprint

On March 31, 2009, a full length DVD-quality workprint of the film without a timecode or watermark, with some unfinished effects shots, was leaked online. The print contained a reference to Rising Sun Pictures, an Australian visual effects company working on the film.[59] Within a day, the film had been downloaded 75,000 times, a sum comparable to when The Dark Knight's DVD was leaked.[60] Since the workprint had forensic marks, the studio may be able to determine the source of the leak but it has not disclosed any findings. The FBI and the MPAA are investigating the illegal posting.[61] Executive producer Thomas Rothman noted the leaked version lacked the ten minutes added during pick-ups in January 2009, while Rising Sun Pictures denied that they ever had a full copy of the film.[62]

Theatrical run

X-Men Origins: Wolverine is due for release on April 29, 2009 in the UK and Australia, and May 1, 2009 in the United States and Canada. The release in Mexico has been delayed for an unspecified period of time due to swine flu[63]. Cinemagoers to Vue cinemas in the UK were able to see the film the day before release, by attending an 'X-Men Quadrilogy' screening event, with the film shown at approx 22:00 on the 28th April.

Gavin Hood has announced that multiple "secret endings" exist for the film and that these endings will differ from print to print of the film.[64]

Video game

Main article: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (video game)

Raven Software is developing a video game based on the film with the same name, which Activision Blizzard will publish.[65] Marc Guggenheim wrote the script.[66]

Sequel

Hood speculated that there could be a sequel, which may be set in Japan.[43] Such a location was the subject of Claremont and Miller's series, which was not in the first film as Jackman felt “what we need to do is establish who [Logan] is and find out how he became Wolverine".[34] Jackman stated the Claremont-Miller series is his favorite Wolverine story.[67] After the credits, one of the secret endings shows wolverine drinking at a bar in Japan, hinting to the Japanese story in the sequel. He added another Wolverine film would be a follow-up rather than continuing on from X-Men: The Last Stand.[68] The inclusion of Deadpool and Gambit also leads to the possibilities of their own spin-offs.[69] Before Wolverine's release, Lauren Shuler Donner approached Simon Beaufoy to write the script, but he did not feel confident enough to commit.[70]

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