Oct 1 2009 Hugh Jackman To Play Boxer, Robot Boxer Trainer
Hugh Jackman, our premiere song-and-dance-man/clawed-superhero, is in talks to join the ridiculous robot boxer movie Real Steal.
The Shawn Levy-directed film would reportedly star Jackman as a Rocky Balboa-esque down-and-out fighter making a comeback. Except, you know how Rocky had to train hard to fight a younger, tougher opponent? Instead of that, Jackman would be training a boxing robot, in order for that boxing robot to fight another boxing robot. It's that kind of comeback. A real man-finds-redemption-through-fighting-robots story.
Dreamworks is hoping to get the film shooting by May, and John Gatins and Levy currently are working on the third draft for the script in preparation. Keep at it, guys. With seven months until production, I know you'll figure out a way to make it believable when, inexplicably, the robot refuses to fight and Jackman has to put on a robot disguise and win the match, earning the respect of his son and himself (and robotkind).
Aug 4 2009 Wolverine Playing P.T. Barnum
Good news to anyone who's been desperately hoping to once again see the cocktail of Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, song and dance that made the Oscars so song and dancey. Wolverine has signed on to star as P.T. Barnum in some kind of musical biopic, while the subject of his infatuation is being written with hopes for Devil Wears Prada to take the part. From Variety:
Twentieth Century Fox has attached Hugh Jackman to play American showman P.T. Barnum in "The Greatest Showman on Earth," an original contemporary musical to be scripted by Jenny Bicks ("Sex and the City").Jackman will play the showman with a penchant for hoaxing a gullible public as he creates the three-ring circus that made him famous. The musical also focuses on his infatuation with singer Jenny Lind -- the so-called Swedish Nightingale.
The Lind role is being scripted for Anne Hathaway, who teamed with Jackman in his opening Oscars number.
Perfect casting:
It probably came down to Jackman and George Wendt. You could really only flip a coin to decide who's better suited for the part.
May 5 2009 Wolverine: He's Goin' to Japan, Dudes! Wooo!
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is sitting on a 35% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, which, by the standards of 100% being really good, is not very good. But it also made like $85 million last weekend, so it's sequel time. Logan's going to Japan!:
Fox and Seed are in development on a sequel to "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," which topped the domestic box office over the weekend.The Seed partners have begun planning the sequel, which they are squarely focusing on the samurai storyline originated in the comic series, and whose Japanese locale was teased after the film's final credits. A writer has yet to be hired.
Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that "squarely focusing on the samurai storyline" means "squarely focused on the samurai storyline--but also with subplots involving Cyclops, Psylocke, Apocalypse, Evil Wolverine, the Devil, and a deadly serial rapist"?
Hugh Jackman, Seeds planting pics [Variety]
Apr 22 2009 Final 'Wolverine' Trailer: Your Last Chance to Debate Bone Claws
The plan to advertise Wolverine by attaching the superhero to a massive, cheese-smothered pizza isn't doing so well in promoting the film (though I assume it's doing great in promoting artery clogging), so Fox has released one last trailer to give the film a final push before its May 1 release. Seems a bit excessive after that two-hour trailer a couple weeks back, but here you go:
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Mar 5 2009 Everything Happens in New 'Wolverine' Trailer
I lost track of the times in this trailer I thought, "That's going to happen too?" Wolverine fights in every war, meets half the mutants in the Marvel universe, jumps onto a moving helicopter--he's basically a feral Forrest Gump. Either this movie is going to be four hours long or half the story will be told in a montage set to CCR's "Fortunate Son".
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Feb 26 2009 How Do They Advertise 'Wolverine' in France?
As if Wolverine has released a new single about maintaining your faith despite adversity. Because even superhuman healing can't always mend your relationship with Him.
New Wolverine Poster and Photo [Coming Soon]
Feb 18 2009 'Wolverine' Television Spot Number Three
Yahoo! Movies has posted the third and final X-Men Origins: Wolverine TV spot. This is the one that reminds you that Wolverine's origin somehow involves a maskless Deadpool, young Cyclops, Emma Frost turning into diamond, and the presence of Will.i.am. Enjoy.
(Oh, and thanks to Carter.)
Feb 17 2009 'Wolverine' on the Television, Part 2
Last night, Fox ran the second in its three-part series of Wolverine clips, and now a few hundred-thousand households are even more confused about 'That X-Man with the Claws.' "So he was born with bone claws, is brothers with the guy from Scream, and was in every U.S. battle since the Civil War? Which one was Professor X then?"
Feb 16 2009 'Wolverine' TV Spot Addresses Key Bone Claw Issues
The last Wolverine trailer sparked a huge controversy among people questioning if Wolverine originally had bone claws, those who answered he definitely did have bone claws, others who facetiously questioned if he had bone claws, and the angry people who didn't understand the sarcasm in the prior group's comments and felt they had to reassert that Wolverine did have bone claws. This new TV spot is either going to clear all that up or make the comments page go like this.
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Jan 30 2009 'Wolverine' Poster: We Get It, You Have Claws
I think I did this same chin-resting-on-fist pose for my senior pictures. Except instead of claws, I had a trumpet.
The X-Men Origins: Wolverine One-Sheet! [Coming Soon]
Jan 19 2009 A Somber Moment with the Cast of 'Wolverine'
I'll accept that someone has seen fit to simplify every superhero/villain costume in this universe down to either a sleeveless shirt or trenchcoat, but what is with this forced mournfulness? The best way to show a movie has the dark, brooding quality of The Dark Knight isn't necessarily to take a photo of the actors doing some kind of stilted group-brood.
Dec 22 2008 'Thundercats' Trailer Made From Old Clips and Computers
I saw this all over the place today, so it's about time I post it behind everyone else. Here's an insanely elaborate fan-made trailer for a Thundercats movie that casts Brad Pitt, Vin Diesel, Hugh Jackman, girl from Farscape, Spy Kids, and CGI Garfield in the lead roles:
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Dec 15 2008 'Wolverine' Trailer: See Wolvering & Friends Do Everything Imaginable
Here's the trailer for the movie about that Wolverine character. Watching it has done nothing to lessen my reservations about this being something I'd watch more than once, but there's something I like about its unabashed fan pandering I find almost endearing.
Every comic fan of the '90s has wanted to see classically cool characters Gambit and Deadpool in live-action form, so it makes sense to shoehorn those guys into the plot, but the makers of Wolverine have gone so above and beyond that in terms of fulfilling every strange fan wish they could think of. Wolverine in a boxing match against The Blob, the padded gloves covering his primary weapons? Of course that happens. That was always the nucleus of the script. Wolverine launching off a motorcycle onto the back of a moving helicopter? That has been a fan request for so long, they just had to include it. And so much more:
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Dec 2 2008 'Wolverine' Shall Have a Vast Toy Line
20th Century Fox (best Fox century) has released four new production photos from Wolverine. There aren't any new looks at Gambit, Blob, or Deadpool, who are all in the movie for some reason, but there are some new shots of Wolverine and Sabretooth that reveal that the film is going to produce so many action figures. What kid isn't going to want their mom to buy them a Normandy Wolvie with Post-Traumatic Flashback Projector (above)! Or...
Nov 26 2008 'Wolverine' Trailer! ...News. Trailer News.
Fox has confirmed that the first trailer for Wolverine, the movie about the claw X-Man, will be attached to The Day the Earth Stood Still, to be released December 12. According to Coming Soon, "The trailer will be exclusively available in theaters and will not debut online or on TV until some time later," so it sounds like if you want to see the trailer on the 12th, you're just going to have to go to theaters and ask whoever is recording it with their phone what title they plan to use to hide it on YouTube.
Nov 12 2008 'Australia' Finds a Happy Ending
Australia spoilers! Looks like Watchmen isn't the only film that's had its ending changed. According to The Guardian, when Baz Luhrmann's romantic epic Australia opens in two weeks, it may not have the original, heart-rending finale the director planned:
It seems the film's tragic ending proved a little too harrowing for Hollywood studio chiefs. After "intense" discussions with officials at 20th Century Fox, Luhrmann agreed to rewrite the final scenes to keep alive Kidman's love interest, played by Hugh Jackman.The decision was made after negative responses to the movie's initial cut at test screenings.
One reviewer said: "There is no reason to kill off Wolvie [Jackman played Wolverine in the X-Men trilogy]."
Yeah, trust that reviewer. He knows what he's talking about. There's no reason Wolvie should be killed. Wolvie has a mutant healing factor and an adamantium skeleton, and he's awesome. You have to, like, decapitate him to stop his superhuman regeneration. Everyone knows that. Pull your head out, Luhrmann. And while you're at it, you should also listen to "Wolvie" guy's other suggestion that, "The Others should show her tits and it turns out she's Mystique and Wolvie has been doing her. What then, ya know?"
Oct 24 2008 Steven Soderbergh is Making a 3D Cleopatra Rock Musical
I hope no one confuses this with the other three-dimensional live-action story of Cleopatra with music by a '90s indie rock band that's directed by an acclaimed Oscar-winner and stars Wolverine and T-Mobile:
For his next directing effort, Steven Soderbergh is plotting a 3-D live-action rock ’n’ roll musical about Cleopatra.He is courting Catherine Zeta-Jones to play the Egyptian queen and Hugh Jackman to play her lover, Marc Antony.
The music has been written by the indie rock band Guided by Voices, and the script is by James Greer, a former bass player for the band and an author.
I can't make anything out of that. Shake up your movie-element Boggle and try again, because this one is nonsense. Computer-animated kittens telling the story of American independence through hip hop, with voices by Jenna Elfman and Charlie Sheen (performing original songs by Warren G), in a film directed by Peter Jackson, is both more commercially viable and logical, and I just made up that scenario by combining the first things that came to mind. That's a testament to how little sense this makes.
Oct 13 2008 'Australia' Poster: It's 'Gone with the Wind' Meets 'The Other Sister'
Can the kiss of Hugh Jackman turn Wax Nicole Kidman back into Semi-human, Usual Nicole Kidman? Only one films holds the answer. This November... get Australia'ed.
Australia Poster [Trailer Addict]
Oct 1 2008 New 'Australia' Trailer: A Romantic Adventure with Wolverine and The Others
If Crocodile Dundee II were a big-budget Lifetime Original Movie based loosely on Pearl Harbor, this is what it would look like. Except this is directed by Moulin Rouge's Baz Luhrmann, stars Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman, and will surely be nominated for several Oscars, whereas the Lifetime version would be called Danielle Steel's Down Under, and would be watched by only sad housewives. It looks pretty good if you're into that whole sweeping, epic romance sort of thing (no one is judging you):
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Jul 28 2008 'Wolverine' Trailer from Comic Convention
While it lasts, here's a cell phone's interpretation of the Wolverine trailer. I haven't heard this many people screaming and cheering at mutton chops since Chester A. Arthur took the oath of office with his shirt off. Which I also have cell phone footage of.
(Thanks, Joshua.)
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