Tag: Hugh Jackman
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Spider-Man riding a T rex – it’s the injection of multiverse mayhem that Marvel needs
Drew Goddard’s much-hyped movie Sinister Six was abandoned a decade ago. Now we have the perfect opportunity to bring back the funUp until recently, the most illusively enticing thing about newly discovered, long-lost, unmade movie scripts was that we would never get to see them on the big screen. Instead, fans were encouraged to dream…
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Sophie Turner’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix Prep Put A Real Strain On Her Mental Health
Once upon a time, in the pre-mcu age, there was an X-Men franchise at 20th Century Fox, and … it wasn’t half-bad! At first!Bryan Singer’s “X-Men” was the first Marvel-derived blockbuster in the history of motion pictures (“Blade” had been a standalone hit before), and the beneficiary of crackerjack casting with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. Greenlit…
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Shawn Levy Promises ‘Deadpool 3’ Will Honor ‘Fox Legacy’ of New MCU Characters
Shawn Levy’s upcoming “
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The Deadpool 3 Story Ideas Logan’s Director Discussed With Ryan Reynolds
After years and years of wishing it would be so, a great many Marvel fans are finally going to get the proper team-up between Deadpool and Wolverine they’ve wanted for in “Deadpool 3.” Indeed, both Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman will be reprising their roles as Wade Wilson and Wolverine, respectively, uniting for the first…
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Shawn Levy Didn’t Want To Give Deadpool 3 The Marvel Green Screen Treatment
“Deadpool 3” marks a number of noteworthy “firsts” for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The, uh, first and perhaps most significant is that it’s designed to be R-rated, an unprecedented move for a franchise that once conquered the box office through the power of the four-quadrant movie. It’s also the first film to fully integrate characters…
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Why James Mangold Couldn’t Give Indiana Jones The Same Morbid Outcome As Logan
When James Mangold took the adventuring archaeologist reins from Steven Spielberg on “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” fans were wary for a couple of reasons. One was the simple fact that, aside from ABC’s “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles,” Spielberg was the series’ sole director. As the “Jaws” sequels and the “Jurassic World”…
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Why Taylor Kitsch’s Gambit Only Appeared In X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Director Gavin Hood’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” even teed up potential spinoffs by introducing Ryan Reynolds as a pre-Deadpool Wade Wilson and Taylor Kitsch as the Ragin’ Cajun himself, the smooth-talking, card-chucking thief Remy LeBeau, better known as Gambit.Pulling what we’d now call a “Black Adam,” Hood’s prequel did indeed change the hierarchy of Fox’s X-Men…
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How Fox Stopped The Wolverine From Being The First R-Rated X-Men Film
How did we get from the hot mess that is director Gavin Hood’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” to the soulful elegy that is director James Mangold’s “Logan?” The answer is Mangold’s second entry in the “Wolverine” trilogy, “The Wolverine.” Loosely based on Chris Claremont and Frank Miller’s limited 1982 comic book arc about Wolvie’s adventures in…
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Kate Winslet & Hugh Jackman Starred in This Underrated DreamWorks Movie
Hugh Jackman and Kate Winslet. In the 2000s, Hollywood was convinced the duo would be part of the next generation of great movie stars. In a way, movie studios were both dead-on and also a bit off. Both turned out to have more fickle fanbases than vintage stars of old, who could headline any movie…
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The X-Men might cross over to the MCU – but does Marvel really need to bring them back?
As Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine returns for the MCU’s forthcoming Deadpool 3, other X-Men alumni are ripe for a comeback no one is asking forNobody knows quite how Deadpool ended up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Or rather Everyone knows how the merc with a mouth made it to Marvel on a corporate level – Disney…