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September 14th, 2007

Hey, bub, I’m not finished with you yet!

X-Men 3 bestowed a powerful sensation that combined a lot of bad words and feelings over a year ago. Were I writing this blog at the time, “shit storm” would have been a prominent describing word. The largest fault with the film was exhibited by the selected director. Switching from Bryan Singer to Brett Ratner was the most obvious change that led to the inherent crapulance of the movie. Let’s face it, The Last Stand was so bad that Frasier couldn’t save it. No children, not even Frasier!!!

Word has just got out that a spin off of the X-Men trilogy is to begin filming in Australia very soon. The focus of the movie will be on Wolverine (the most loveable of badasses). Few details are available at the moment, but hopefully it will be a history of Wolverine’s dark and mysterious past. Getting a chance to see where this animal came from would be exciting subject matter indeed! The only problem that I see is that if the movie is historical, we might not get a chance to see Patrick Stewart’s bald head!

Hugh Jackman has been confirmed to reprise his role as the heavy metal mutant. This is excellent, because I believe that he was always one of the strongest actors in the X-Men movies. It would be hard to picture another actor playing Wolverine at this point in time anyway. The other cast members are veiled in secrecy currently, but if my assumptions are correct, we will be seeing very little of the other former cast. In the case of Famke Janssen, I think that will be a good thing. You might be able to chalk it up to bad writing on the last movie, but Jean Gray was an absolutely useless presence on screen.

The movie is currently slated for 2008 or 2009, so it’s obviously very early in production. No reason to start getting excited about this one quite yet. I guess I’m a bit of a nerd and can’t help myself when I hear a geeky bit of information like this. You may now resume your mainstream lifestyle.

(But seriously… Wolverine in Vietnam! Insert excited nerdy sounds here!)

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