Comments on: ‘WOLVERINE’ or ‘How Hollywood Has Managed to Both Excite and Disappoint Me’

By: revamp « Tylor McCrain’s Blah-Blog

revamp « Tylor McCrain’s Blah-Blog — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:26:09 +0000

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By: tylormccrain

tylormccrain — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:31:04 +0000

Thanks, Aaron. All great points. And great info about Wraith. I wasn’t aware of the old one. You’ve renewed my faith…some. But also, from what I hear, Schreiber has beefed up a lot. Also, look at Vinnie Jones as Juggernaut. He beefed up a lot, and they used CG on his arms, but it looked pretty good. Not TOO fake. So maybe they’ll follow a SIMILAR path on this one. One can hope.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:14:22 +0000

Wrong Wraith. The Wraith you have pictured is a fairly new – we’re talking not quite a year old here – character who has some relation to the Kree. I haven’t been able to read the whole thing yet, so I don’t know.

The Wraith they’re talking about for the Wolverine movie actually IS a black guy. His “mutant name” is Kestrel. He’s a teleporter and has the whole “I get old slow” like Wolverine does.

You’re right that Danny Huston does look more like Stryker… BUT… X2 changed things by making Stryker a military man instead of the fanatical televangelist that he originally was in the GN “God Loves, Man Kills” from back in the 80s. So by having Stryker involved AT ALL in the process of Wolverine’s past they’re already straying way far off base. But… It’s the movies. I don’t much mind.

Liev Schreiber IS a scrawny guy, which is kind of problematic. It’s also problematic that they’re showing Sabretooth ever being anything but Sabretooth. He’s a mutant. He was born all “red in tooth and claw” already. So… Again… the movie’s just going to do what they have to do.

And honestly, slavish devotion to the comics would be terrible. It works in the case of something like Sin City and (at least half of) 300 because those are contained stories. When you’re adapting ongoing superhero comics you’ve got (in Wolverine and Sabretooth’s cases) 30 years of history to cover. But guys like Spider-Man have 45 years worth, and then Superman and Batman have 70 years worth… It gets convoluted. So trimming some of the fat to tell a more succinct story is OK.

But Wraith really is black.

By: Megan

Megan — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:40:49 +0000

The nerdy kid hasn’t been hiding that deep.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:14:55 +0000

i’m a little skeptical about liev schreiber being sabretooth. i can picture his face being good for the role, but he’s a scrawny dude. i know he won’t officially be sabretooth yet, but he’s still a little guy. i guess we’ll just have to see. he’ll probably buff up real hXc-like.

also, did you follow the link to the article about fergie peeing her pants on stage during a show? pretty gross… and sad. but a funny kind of sad.

By: karyn

karyn — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:39:58 +0000

gambit is going to be so hot.

yes, that is my response to all of this.