Tag: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
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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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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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Deadpool 3: Cast, Release Date, and Everything We Know So Far
Deadpool, Aka Wade Wilson, Aka the Merc with a Mouth, first made his debut in the much-maligned X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009). Pretty much the only thing people liked from that was Ryan Reynolds was a perfect fit for the character, but they just wanted to see him don that glorious red suit and enact some…
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The Adam Project Spoiler Review: Scramblin’ Towards Amblin
Spoilers for “The Adam Project” follow. For a non-spoiler review of “The Adam Project,” head over here.Ryan Reynolds occupies a strange place in stardom. Reynolds is handsome, talented, incredibly funny, and possessed of that ineffable “it” star quality so important to being a movie star, and yet — with notable exceptions — his individual films…
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The Scrapped Gambit Movie Would Have Been ‘Mutant Goodfellas In New Orleans’
In the list of movies I’d like to have seen, the Channing Tatum-led “Gambit” is up there. One, because Tatum has enough charm to pull off my favorite character from “X-Men: The Animated Series,” and two, because of what “Gambit” co-writer Reid Carolin told The Playlist (via Heroic Hollywood) about the story we would have seen in…
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Channing Tatum Won’t Watch Marvel Movies After ‘Gambit’ Cancellation: ‘I Was So Traumatized’
As the Marvel universe continues to expand at a rapid pace, it seems like a new Hollywood star is cast as a superhero every day. In fact, it’s almost rarer to find an A-list star who is not developing a comic book movie. Channing Tatum occupies that rarified air, and the “Magic Mike” star does…
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Richard Donner, Director of ‘Superman,’ ‘The Goonies’ and ‘Lethal Weapon,’ Dies at 91
Director-producer Richard Donner, best known for helming the “Lethal Weapon” film series, “The Goonies” and the original “Superman” film, died on Monday. He was 91.Donner’s production company confirmed news of his death to Variety, though the cause was not disclosed.Though not his first bigscreen effort, his big feature break came with 1976’s “The Omen,” starring…