WOLVERINE Footage Shown At Comic-Con

Now don’t go getting excited, as far as I know the footage hasn’t ended up online yet (I’m sure it will eventually though) but at the end of the Fox panel at the SD Comic-Con they unveiled a surprise in the form of Hugh Jackman and a sizzle reel of footage from X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Here’s the description from EmpireOnline:

The footage begins with Jackman’s Logan and Liev Schreiber’s Victor Creed (aka Sabertooth) huddled in a prison cell in army fatigues (Creed’s fingernails are noticeably claw-like). Danny Huston’s William Stryker stands before them.
Stryker: “You were sentenced to death for decapitating a senior officer. Your sentence was carried out by a firing squad at 10:00 hours. How did that go?”
Cut to the two tied to stakes and a squad of soldiers opening fire.
Cut back to the cell.
Logan: “It tickled.”
Logan and Creed are seen escaping, followed by a shot of Logan silhouetted by a huge explosion as he walks towards the camera.
Stryker: “My name is Major William Stryker. Tired of denying your true nature?”
Creed: “What do you care?”
Stryker: “Oh I care. I care because I know how valuable you are. I’m putting together a special team. With special privileges. So tell me, how would you like to really serve your country?”

As this is said a variety of images flash across the screen, including Logan with bone claws, an acrobatic Taylor Kitsch as Gambit with his staff glowing at both ends, Silverfox, The Blob and a very brief shot of Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool – although he looked more like a normal Ryan Reynolds in a red t-shirt than the masked/scarred Deadpool of the comics.

Cut to: Images of the adamantium injection tank from X2.
Creed: “We didn’t sign up for this.”
Creed: “Who do you think you are?”
Creed: “This is what we do.”
Stryker: “Become the animal.”
Stryker: “Embrace the other side.”

Cut to: a series of images of Logan undergoing the Weapon X experimentation, being submerged in the tank and having adamantium bonded to his skeleton. We see an x-ray image of the metal going into his skull. His claws pop out – now metal-coated – and he springs from the tank in a classic Weapon X look with the adamantium injection spikes still protruding from his body. He attacks everyone around him.

Unidentified Voice: “We’re making him indestructible.”
Cut to: Logan as a boy, bone claws extended.
From there the action heats up with Wolverine clashing several times with Sabertooth in some impressive action sequences (Creed flies through the air, claws first, in one). There are also more images of The Blob and Gambit. Logan in a jeep, which explodes, flinging him into the air where he latches onto the front of a helicopter with his claws.

Cut to: a close up of Logan facing off against Sabertooth
Logan: “I’m gonna cut your god damn head off. See if that works”
He pops his claws.

Hopefully, not only will we get to see this sizzle reel soon (as it sounds pretty damn mental) but it should also make up at least part of the trailer for the movie. After the footage was shown Jackman, who had just stepped off a flight from Australia, said that while nothing has really been finished yet as they have only just finished shooting that fans can expect a large amount of “beserker rage” from Wolive during the movie.

Now, I have to say, I have big hopes for this movie. Wolverine has always seemed a little watered down in the X-Men movies to me, but we were able to see glimpses of what he could be like if they really allowed him to rip loose and maybe, just maybe, we’ll get to see that here. I doubt they’re going to go R rated with this thing, and risk loosing the young fans from the X-Men movies but hopefully they’ll go a little hard core with it!

And despite my feelings about the inclusion of some characters (like Gambit and Blob) I do like the mention of Wolvie having bone claws. Yep, I’m a fanboy. So what?

X-Men Origins: Wolverine will be slashing it’s way onto cinema screens on the 1st of May 2009.

Oh…..and clicking here might give you an idea of what we can expect in the sizzle reel. And keeping an eye on this page might generate some results later in the day. Not that I mentioned that of course.

[Source - EmpireOnline]

Posted on Friday, July 25th, 2008 at 3:54 pm under Movie News by Gareth.
Tags:Movie News, Wolverine

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15 Responses to “WOLVERINE Footage Shown At Comic-Con”

Grundy Said on July 25th, 2008 at 10:39 pm 1

There are some crappy pics of the footage floating online of Blob, Gambit, Deadpool (pre ****ed up face) Logan and Creed in ‘Nam.

Gazz Said on July 25th, 2008 at 11:44 pm 2

Where they at mate?

Gazz Said on July 25th, 2008 at 11:57 pm 3

Well, there are these:

http://survivorsucks.com/topic/36150

Grundy Said on July 26th, 2008 at 12:17 am 4

Yup, those are the ones.

Word is that trailer is gonna come online tonight.

Kristina Said on July 26th, 2008 at 12:54 am 5

Hugh Jackman needs to call me right now. What a hottie.

Gareth Said on July 26th, 2008 at 1:20 am 6

Jeez, didn’t realise I’d need to spell it out! There’s a link to the screen-caps in the original post right at the end! *sigh*

Grundy Said on July 26th, 2008 at 1:59 am 7

You shouldn’t have been so ****ing wordy.

Gazz Said on July 26th, 2008 at 9:35 pm 8

Yeah Wyv, you just got Grun-Azzled!

It’s the latest thing! It’s a bit like Punk’d except a) we take no notice of the work you’ve put into your articles and b) there’s lot more ‘burglary of the anus’ - which is something that we don’t consider enjoyable but can’t think of any worse a punishment.

I expect to hear from Grundy’s lawyers forthwith re this matter which will lead to me posting a hasty retraction and re-naming the process just “Azzled”.

Grundy Said on July 26th, 2008 at 10:07 pm 9

Oh, no I’ll rape you all.

Gazz Said on July 26th, 2008 at 11:29 pm 10

Grundy man!!! We agreed - “rape” made us sound gay. We said we would go with “Grun-Azzled”

Remember?

We said that if we deemed it “Grun-Azzling” then Wyv wouldn’t report us to the police because he’d be too embarassed to go into a police station and state he’d been “Grun-Azzled”

STICK TO THE PLAN MAN!

3 words for you fella - DOG. DAY. AFTERNOON.

Look what happened when they didn’t

Kristina Said on July 27th, 2008 at 2:51 am 11

ATTICA!
ATTICA!

Gazz Said on July 27th, 2008 at 9:49 pm 12

Kris, you ever seen that made for TV movie about the Attica riots? I think John Frankenheimer directed it. Kyle McClahan (or whatever his surname is - you know, TWIN PEAKS dude?) and Samuel L Jackson and… erm… oh yeah Harry Dean Stanton and Anne Heche?

I really recommend it if you haven’t seen it.

Now…

… Isn’t this the BEST talkbalk EVER? It’s like a hark back to the good old days of Filmrot - we’ve went from conversations about the Wolverine footage to threats of anal rape (sorry - “Grun-Azzling”) to referencing Dog Day Afternoon, to recommending good made for TV movies.

And, yeah, it’s pretty much me chairing it lol!

Gazz Said on July 27th, 2008 at 10:02 pm 13

Kristina, Hugh Jackman called whilst you were out. Wyv took the message. You’ll need to speak to him to get the EXACT details but from what he told me it went something a little like this:

“STOP IT KRISTINA OKAY? JUST STOP IT!”

Kristina Said on July 28th, 2008 at 2:16 am 14

I’ll NEVER stop!!! He is just too gorgeous for words