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WOLVERINE is calling May Day in 2009
Hey folks, Harry here - According to Variety - WOLVERINE is screaming May Day as his own in 2009... that's right May 1st, 2009 will be the date for the WOLVERINE stand alone film.
I read an early draft of this - before a set of serious notes were being implemented. The biggest of which seems to be 'time-frame'. You see, apparently they're talking to Liev Schreiber to play William Stryker - who up until now has been played by Brian Cox. Personally - I prefer Schreiber as a director - more than as an actor... - BUT what that means is that the WOLVERINE story should be taking place at least 25-30 years prior to the events in the X-MEN movie time frame... which would place the film in the late Seventies / Early EIghties? Right? That's if they acknowledge it at all... right?
In the script it was never really seeming to be like that. It was definitely pre-X-MEN, but it didn't seem to be SIGNIFICANTLY before. But then that draft was frankly a bore. Essentially being a Wolverine vs Sabretooth, then Wolverine vs 10,000 Sabretooths - LAME. Word has it that a fairly significant rewrite is being done before it starts shooting. Of course - the Strike means we won't get the rewrite to take Wolverine to Japan and the real story they should be telling. Sigh.
Apparently they're planning to shoot in Australia, New Zealand and New Orleans... Variety hypothesizes that this means GAMBIT - but that's not the case. The New Orleans scene is basically a Mutant Only club scene with a bunch of insignificant Muties.
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This should be a Miller-esque samurai adventure in the Land of the Rising Sun. But maybe they think Batman beat them to it? Who knows.
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I think he's a VERY good actor. I've actually been writing something with him in mind to star and direct. Now if I could only get a meeting with his agent at CAA. Sigh...
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thx... ;)
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stop the madness!
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Now thats a great wolverine story
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One of my favorite characters... let's hope they do him right.
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didn't he?
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I loved it when they suggested Patch was an agent for the US during WWII and fought against the Daemonites.
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I need to fire her ass for not running spellcheck. Wildcats
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The director of Tsotsi will be helming this. That alone raises the credibility of this project.
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of Wolverine's History.
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Yippee!
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They should set this post-X3 and make references to other characters, even if they can't/don't show them. This will keep the universe alive instead of closing the door and locking it with "The (Not So) Last Stand".
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Is Hugh Jackman actually reprising the roll of Wolverine in the film? it's not very often you see someone play the same character for 4 separate movies...I'm assuming they could do it, even with a 25-30 year time difference because of the fact that Wolverine doesn't really age or something due to his healing abilities...
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No matter though. I guess this is his Bond. He needs to kick it up a notch though. I mean, he's already doing TV. Yeesh.
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PFFT!!
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And here's an interesting idea.. maybe they can try to make Victor Creed an interesting villain instead of having him just glare and growl a lot.
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Is this site too friendly with Robert Rodriguez to report NEWS that Universal has dropped Barbarella, reportedly due to Rodriguez' insistence that his girlfriend Rose McGowen had to star in the movie?
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He kicked ass in that always wanted them to make a rainbow six movie with him
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It did in Last Samurai, so filming down here could mean they are gonna do some scenes set in Japan.
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There not putting this out summer 2008.They've always fast tracked their X-Men films,I think X2 had alittle more time but the first and third had little to none...and they both show.
Now lets be honest the film has a cool director but I doubt this is gonna be better then X2.I cant recall any spin off series being better then the original..EVER!! -
Wolverine? Pah!!!!!
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Oct 18, 2007 3:27:07 AM CDT
Every new day brings new of a new shit comic book film
by industrykiller!
When will people stop going to see this garbage. As a lark I watched Fantastic Four 2 the other day and my God, anyone who likes that movie invariably hates the Fantastic Four, because it more or less does everything it can to bastardize those characters. Hugh Jackmans Wolverine got weaker as the films when on until finally in the third the character was just a pale shell of himself. While I think Jackman is a very good actor (see The Fountain), I'm not sure he has a grasp on the character.
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Anyone who has seen him on Broadway can testify to that, it's literally impossible to take your eyes off him when he's onstage. I will agree that most of the mainstream parts he has played on film have undercut his talent.
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did you see him in Glengarry Glenross? was he good in it if you did see him?
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and I will say it again: SENT HIM TO JAPAN, HAVE HIM FIGHT THE HAND, GIVE HIM THE HONOR SWORD, HAVE HIM KILL 100 NINJAS IN ONE SCENE, HAVE HIM MEET MIRIKO(sp), FIGHT THE SILVER SAMURAI, MAYBE EVEN THROW IN ALPHA FLIGHT AND A FEW FUTURE X-MEN-GAMBY WOULD BE NICE.
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May 1, 2009... hmmm... no, sorry, I'm sorting my sock drawer.
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Now, that was a fantastic film. Something like Wolverine, though, is completely different. I hope all works out, but I'm not 100% sold quite yet.
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dammit.
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sounds good
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Who cares about other flicks in 2009 anyway?
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I expected some rushed production for a 2008 release.
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Great actor... check. Good looking dude... Check. Masculine enough to be a half-man half-animal mutant? Nowehre near. Jackman's appeal lies in his metrosexuality - despite his deep voice and extremely hairy man-chest, Jackman is very much in touch with his feminine side, and to his credit this shows in his acting. I don't think Wolverine even HAS a feminine side, which is why the earlier names on the list for the role - Russell Crowe, Dougray Scott - would have all been better.
Who would I go with for the role now? Nick Chinlund. Watched CON AIR the other day, and he's awesome as Billy Bedlam - and then, when you think about it, he's more Wolverine in CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK than Jackman in all three movies.
Bottom line: recast that role! Jackman just ain't angry enough.
PPS: They should make Garth Ennis' CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES into a flick. Wolverine is basically a big dumb-ass thick bitch in that comic, who gets his ass handed to him on every other page by the Punisher (who should ALWAYS be Thomas Jane, despite Lionsgate's latest attempt to fuck that franchise into the ground).
To the guy who wanted PLANETARY: they already made a pilot of Warren Ellis' greatest property - GLOBAL FREQUENCY - and naturally, since it was fucking awesome, they buried it without trace, killing what could've been the best new sci-fi series since the X-FILES.
If WB get their hands on PLANETARY... well, just don't watch the mofo.
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I'm with you.
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btw wtf is a fallacy?
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...what a steaming pile of shite.
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You have a point. AVATAR will pretty much waste everything foolish enough to try to compete with it. The story treament from back in the day was fucking awesome.
All hail the Second Coming of James Cameron - 2009!!! -
For the most part - but at least X3 did deliver a large scale mutant smackdown, which was very sorely lacking in the first two movies. But I think they're all shit really, so it's all comparative in the land of the Spud.
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Seriously - recast the part. Jackman is too good an actor for this drivel, and he's not manly enough.
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That's the new title?
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Whenever I think of him, I always picture him singing from HMS Pinafore in "Kate & Leopold".
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I read a review of a stage production of King Lear where he played the title character. Apparently he does a lot of stage work, specifically a lot of Shakespeare. The review said he was the finest young Shakespearian actor of our time. Pretty high praise. Which reminds me, we haven't had a good Shakespeare film adaptation in a long time. There were a bunch of them in the nineties. What happened?
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Not Jack Black chunky! But that dude that played Sandman (not him though) or Ron Pearlman if he wasn't already Hellboy!Someone who actually looks comfortable chewing a cigarJackman is a bloody fine actor which was maybee the problem, he just didn't seem thick and gnarley enough, too tall and Thespy! and didn't pull off the rediculous sideburns and hair-do!
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Yeah Jackman is too much of a pretty boy for Wolverine.
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It says Raimi said on MTV that the fourth will have new writers and a new director.
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And most of part two (until the end). The scene from part 1 where he walks up to the bar and orders a beer was perfection. Hugh can do it. He just needs a meatier script to work with. And no damn crying! Wolverine has a heart buried under his rough exterior, but there's no way in hell he'd cry about anything.
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Schreiber can act his face off. He's a big dude. And he manages to get in pretty good shape when he wants to. There's a LOT of potential there for a great villain. Gives me hope for this flick. (although not much)
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The X-Men movies spent entirely too much time giving us the entire fucking Weapon X backstory. Making a movie about Stryker and Weapon X is not only redundant, it's retarded. They need to expand the X-mythology, not stay stuck on the most tiresome aspect of Wolvie's existence. And if that lame Tyler Mane wrestler guy ends up in this thing again as Sabertooth, it'll be even worse. The last thing we need to see are more wire-work-wheelies everytime Sabertooth picks Wolvie up and throws him 50 yards.
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He'll always be Cotton Weary to me, though.
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Ever since PLATOON, I wanted to see him play Wolvie, especially after Wolvie went to Madripoor and became Patch. (I also wanted to see Berenger as The Punisher.) Just imagine Dafoe with the sideburns (his cheekbones are perfect for them), chomping on a cheroot and saying "bub" before shredding some poor asshole who doesn't know better. And he's got that Bobby Peru sleaze factor. And he's short.
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you see him in Glengarry Glennross? So amazing. One of the best productions I've ever seen, hands down...
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The X-men movies focused 90% of the time on Wolverine anyway.
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remember, the x-men movies have all taken place in "the not too distant future" (watch the opening scene with Rogue again if you don't believe me). So with that vague time frame, they could easily make the Wolverine movie present day.
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I hope they introduce Omega Red, to set him up as the villian in Wolverine 2
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Anyone wonder WHY (when it comes to comic books) studios prefer to ignore the source material of the characters that fans LOVE? IF the studios would recognize that movies such as LORD OF THE RINGS and HARRY POTTER stay true to the source material, they would realize that they don't have to write a whole new story! The can just use the source material that FANS WANT TO SEE! Hell, if anything it would save them a great deal of time is scripting a whole new movie. Just like Harry and RedFist said above, the movie should be about the Hand. It's so obvious.
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to have actual villains in the comic book adaptation instead of these half assed emo clothes or trench coat bad guys?
I want to see weapon X, I want to see Omega Red, I want to see the Silver Samurai, I want to see a better rendition of Sabretooth. And I want to see these characters on the screen like they appeared on page. -
You know you want to.
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...X-Men was set in the 'near future', so, the first X-Men could've been set 2020 or 2030, so Wolverine could be a 'Noughties' movies, or am I just babbling on?
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It does seem a bit close to the Avatar release date. Is Fox shooting itself in the foot? Or maybe they think 3 weeks is enough time between the two films?
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if it's done right. But somebody seriously needs to tell Tyler Mane there's no way in hell he's gonna be Sabretooth again. They need a real actor. I say get Adam Baldwin and start with the hair dye. And make sure the writers are not allowed to even look at Daniel Way's extremely shitty current series (or let Daniel Way near a Wolverine title again for that matter. Or Ghost Rider). Can't remember now if it was Way but there was exactly one good Wolverine comic in the last year and that's when he's being shot every day by the grunt worker.
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...that came up with this one?
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"Cat Scratch Fever!!!" Baby! -Stark
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And my God was he good. Arguably, and really it's impossible to tell but I'll make a personal call, better than Pacino in the role. I remember in the scene where he is yelling at the cop to give him a minute with his client at the end of just berating this guy he did this weird little point as if telling the cop "Away with you!" that just really summed up the levels of egomaniac, albeit egomaniac who could back it up, that this guy hit. It was just one of those little things, little colors, that a truly gifted actor uses to color the character and just make it much more rich than it even had to be. He completely deserved the Tony. Alan Alda was absolutely no slack himself and Gordon Clapp really surprised me. Overall and awesome production.
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Issue #10, they actually give Wolverine a son. And Steve Dillon's art is inappropriate to the material to say the least. His Wolverine looks ridiculous...pretty much all his male characters look like Jesse Custer.
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Sorry, but we all know it will be worse than X3, which means pretty awful.
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For missing Talk Radio, I saw a clip of it on a Charlie Rose interview, and typically plays on film look like shit, but this looked incredible. They could probably even remake the film with Schrieber, I wouldn't complain.
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I can't remember off the top of my8 head but for all 3 of us that have seen Elektra (and the one that liked it because there is always one-crap is that me?) The Hand was intorduced in thatmovie with Terrence Stamp as Stick. so maybe they can't do the Hand story because it was in the Elektra movie and you know Marvel can't have an expanded universe. Crap at least in Superman Returns they mentioned Gotham
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Seriously. This guy can regenerate and the comics have turned him into an unfuckingstoppable juggernaut. He's not able to be killed. The comics at one point probably had his entire body regenerate from a single atom. He's not cool. So what if he's a loner? Big f'ing deal. The only way to save this film is if involves James Marsden playing a part as Cyclops, blasting Wolverine with his full force optic blasts, then packing Wolverine up and shooting him into the vacuum of space where he finally dies due to not being able to breathe.
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*sigh*
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Like Angela in Spawn (shudder). Until they have him losing his mind, living in trees and slashing the shit out of people in a bloody movie... they don't have the character down. And I'm willing to forgive the fact that Hugh Jackman is a 10 foot tall theater-fag (not disparaging I was one in highschool too) because he is a good Wolverine, but they never let him really embrace the character.
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The best approach (though I like the Japan idea, of course) would be Wolverine as a Cold War operative who is betrayed by Sabretooth. Bloody, cold, raw and animalistic would best suit this character--with an intriguing series of twists and double-crosses as well as a bit of the mystical (cool, measured mutant or psychic abilities). It also needs a hard R. I've mulled over writing a script myself (great scene in a helicopter and Omega Red), but I fully realize it would be "for charity". Instead, I'll focus on the even more effed up scripts of my own devising (and donate them to United Way--hey, I'm not related to anyone).
I'm sure others here have the exact same thoughts because Wolverine is a great character who hasn't been given proper cinematic treatment. I do have hopes for this project, but doubt outweighs my optimism. I think we REALLY need to see what he can do. That requires blood in buckets. -
I only saw that movie once but I was looking and hoping for angela to show up, but never saw her, where was it at
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The Scene where Spawn bursts through the ceiling, there is an establishing shot at the begining and you can see a striking redhead in green moving through the crowd... Angela. And yeah its supposed to be her. I even think she is wearing the Spawnhead earrings, but I'm not sure.
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Oct 18, 2007 1:20:02 PM CDT
I wish George Miller was directing this instead of Justice Leagu
by neo zeed
He would've made this totally badass.
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Untrue. The "real" Wolverine has not been shown on screen by any stretch. There is a depth to the character that is missing and cannot be explored without going for an R rating and showing the true survivor and animal nature of the character. I disagree. X-men was merely a movie with mutants.
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X-Men 1: Wolverine is introduced. Everyone thinks Magneto's after him. Wolverine gets all the comedy lines. Wolverine saves Rogue.
X-Men 2: Entirely Wolverine centric. About Wolverine's past, a girl who is modeled after Wolverine.
X-Men 3: Wolverine's love of Jean. Not Scott's even though Jean chose him over Wolverine. Wolverine leads. Wolverine saves the day.
X-Men movies should've been renamed:
Wolverine
Wolverine 2: Everyone United with Wolverine
Wolverine 3: Wolverine's Last Stand -
punching people in the face with his claws
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sarcasm overload!!!!
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Just imagine: Alien vs Predator vs Wolverine! 3 times as good! IT CAN'T GO WRONG!
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Make it a trilogy, first tell the Weapon X story, then the Japan story, then maybe do a Team X story where he fights Omega Red.
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Also I would love to see him lose his adamantium and go BONE CLAWS
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...are totally fucking lame. Why the would a mutant whose only power is a healing factor be born with fucking set of bone claws? That was a lame conceit created by Marvel so they could do a Wolvie Baby story and not have a hero who can't do what the hero is famous for. "Origin" was an entertaining story, but it shows just how far that Cap-killing Quesada will go to sell a comic book that completely demystifies a character who was better off as a mystery.
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Oct 18, 2007 6:37:39 PM CDT
Wolverine in Japan, Albert and Elsie-Dee, or a good Weapon X mov
by librerarian
...that adapts the Barry-Windsor Smith comic word for word and scene for scene. These are the only Wolverine movies I want to see, and they better be rated R. Otherwise, meh.
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I heard they were thinking about rushing this pre-strike for a 7-4-2008 release.
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The Hulk would be ideal, but that won't happen any time soon. Wolverine in Japan = boring. Almost all solo Wolverine stories were boring. Wolverine vs the Hulk is always fun though. The second best option would be Wolverine vs the Hellfire Club.
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Wolverine's not so interesting anymore.
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then Logan has better be a hateful and ill tempered cigar chomping lout...he didn't get all touchy feely until he met Jean Grey and the other X-Men rode him for being a mean cold blooded killer...and what about the X flicks never touching on his Samurai/Ninja abilities?...and not once did he ever say..."I'm the best there is at what I do" the most overused line in comics...but, his ever present tag line throughout his X-history
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....Ron Perlman as Sabretooth for this.
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Ill never watch another FOX superhero film again.
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Typo in your subject line... what you should have said was 'XMEN3 should be commission and done properly'. Someone needs to do to Singer's X-Films what Singer did to Donner's Supes films, and just forget the third one ever happened.
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so am i talking to harry or Hugh
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