X-Men Origins: Wolverine Casting News

X-Men Origins: Wolverine is the back story of Logan before he joined the X-Men. Starring alongside him is Gambit and Deadpool as well as his arch-nemesis Sabretooth. I wasn’t actually this excited for this movie before I heard that Gambit was going to be in the movie, who is my favourite character btw. And guess who is playing Gambit? The ideal person for an old Gambit would actually be Sawyer from Lost, who actually got a call up for X3, but they decided to scrap the character. The person playing young Gambit is none other than Taylor Kitsch of Friday Night Lights. The guy looks exactly like Gambit, but my worry about him is, can he change his act from a brooding high-school kid to, a wise-ass card throwing bad-ass who speaks in a Cajun-esque accent? The guy can act and has got the looks to make gals go wild like Remy LeBeau, but is he that good?

The other casting that is entirely spot-on is Deadpool, nicknamed the “Merc with a Mouth” mainly because of his wisecracks, black humor and satirical pop culture references, who is going to be played by Ryan Reynolds. I’m a big fan of Ryan Reynolds and there is no question about how a great actor he is after he strutted his stuff in The Nines and I think this is the best comic based character casting since Wolverine who of course is being reprised by Hugh Jackman in this movie. From what I hear they are going to go with the Weapon X storyline where Wolverine gets his adamantium claws and Deadpool’s cancer is cured by injecting some of Logan’s DNA into his bloodstream which leaves Deadpool mentally unstable. Don’t know how Gambit features into the whole story line since in the Comic Book canon Logan and Remy never met before they joined the X-Men. Due out for a release in May 1^st 2009 this will definitely be on my radar.

Update: Dominic Monaghan  aka CHARLIE from LOST!!! has been cast into the movie as Blackwing; a bird like mutant that can fly. This has now become my most anticipated movie of 2009 due that reason and that reason only!!! Can’t wait

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