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Here are some very interesting spy pics from the set of The Wolverine, plus talk of a scene pitting Logan against ninjas!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with some spy pics from the set of the new Wolverine movie currently shooting in Australia. A recent location was Sydney’s Chinese Friendship Gardens and a regular docbacker by the name of caractacuspotts caught some pictures of Hugh Jackman, some pics of the gardens themselves and a little description of some filming that went on.
Let’s start with the pics, some of them taken before shooting, so you can see what the location looks like… I, for one, am pretty psyched to see this part of Wolverine’s story being focused on. Logan vs. ninjas? Hell yes! Tragic love story? Let’s hope! Directed by James Mangold and written by Chris McQuarrie? Yes, please.
Nice. Now here’s some hints at to what they were filming in the Gardens:
Coworkers have seen live action and wire work (note the large crane in distance shot) including Jackman blocking out scenes with bulk ninjas. I myself saw a take where about two hundred Asian men in black suits and sunglasses ran screaming from the fellow with the claws.
Not super-detailed, but at least a glimpse at the world being built for this new movie. God willing it’ll make us forget about the world they built in the last one… Man, just thinking back to that movie made me shudder…
-Eric Vespe
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I would hope there would be many of those scenes FIRST
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And this is going to be good. It was going to be good since the one Avenger scene in the Bar.. Mark my words..
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Still, this will kill it.
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and not just box office takings, if so we may get the film we dont just deserve but are owed!
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Plus, with Mark Miller now overseeing the comic moivie franchises for Fox I think they're heading in the right direction.
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Does anyone know what time (when in the X-Timeline) does this movie take place? is it post-X3? Are they making this part of the First-Class universe? Anyone? Anyone?
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Every movie seems to distance itself more and more from Wolverines distinctive hair style. Stop it! Wolverines hair is as iconic as the curl on Supermans forehead.
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Also, is it me or can I see his abs through his shirt?!? Yikes!
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Cloud Atlas already fucked it up with their shameless yellowface display. The last thing we need is more wet white male fantasy.
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Oct. 8, 2012, 3:41 p.m. CST
I hope that immortal guy can handle those dangerous ninjas
by INWOsuxRED
He might get a two second cut from a sword or throwing star!
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Oct. 8, 2012, 3:56 p.m. CST
1 ninja=unstoppable stealth assasin, 200 ninjas=redshirt army
by kidicarus
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Oct. 8, 2012, 4:08 p.m. CST
The plural form of 'Ninja' is not 'Ninjas' - it's 'Ninja'
by Darth Macchio
Not a big deal, semantically, but it is true. I'd still love to see what a Marvel owned X-men property would look like. But I think most of the die-hards are getting pretty Logan'd out at this point. In another world, we're waiting for the next Magneto story - a far more complex, compelling, and brilliant character archetype than Logan's Wolverine - to me anyway.
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Gotta believe he'd stab you up in an instant, gotta be more unbalanced like a kietel-type (obv. not him tho coz he's ancient by now!)
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Oct. 8, 2012, 4:23 p.m. CST
Oh yeah, and too tall...he should always have been sawn-off shortarse, thats at least 50% his character!
by steve lee
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Oct. 8, 2012, 4:37 p.m. CST
Man, few people in Hollywood must hate one another as much as Doughray Scott surely hates Tom Cruise...
by TheSeeker7
It seemed like such an epic opportunity at the time, Scott was just coming onto the scene, and Cruise gets him the part of the big baddie of the first Mission Impossible sequel, to be directed by John Woo, no less. But ahh, they start to go so far over budget and over schedule in the shooting, Scott has to give up the next role he was lined up for, Wolverine in a little Fox superhero film called X-MEN. And Hugh Jackman gets a massive career. and, well I don't know, Scott may be on welfare at this point or something.
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If he couldn't do anything with that exposure than he deserved to not have a career. I remember X1 being not bad, but not spectacular. I think only fans of the cartoon and fans of the comic showed support. Would love to see Wolvie go beserker in this one.
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with a new lead actor. Jackman has always sucked as Wolverine.
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Do the wolverine movies make that much money that they need to make more. I saw them both and thought they were, at best, mediocre!
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Oct. 8, 2012, 5:57 p.m. CST
i used to like Wolverine, until Origins was released upon the world.
by nametaken
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Oct. 8, 2012, 6:03 p.m. CST
If they are basing any part of this on the Frank Miller Wolverine limited series...
by J
...that can only be a good thing. If memory serves, those books had a shit-ton of Ninja. Samurai, too. We need more movies where Wolvie fights guys with Katanas.
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You racist twat
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These are the Chinese Gardens in Darling Harbour near the Sydney CBD in Australia. Nice setting but I've never seen Ninjas there. Having said that, the point of a Ninja is to be NOT seen... hmmmm
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Oct. 8, 2012, 6:20 p.m. CST
You being a fan of something doesn't mean that that something owes you a goddamn thing.
by AidanJames
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...they don't wear sunglasses
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and DIDNT fight ninjas, I'd be surprised.
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He's in like every comic, cartoons, movies, my mug, my blanket, my pj's, my tattoos, my heroin syringe, my tombstone, my mom. Getting pretty tired of Wolverine everywhere.
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Oct. 8, 2012, 7:45 p.m. CST
Yep, Wolverine's a pretty shallow character to spread this thinly...
by steve lee
...would be nice to see him done justice just once tho.
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Oct. 8, 2012, 8:01 p.m. CST
Not to say i'd make do with anything, but ANYTHING would be better than the1st Wolverine film and X3. And i'm a huge fan. Please get it right!
by Sean
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I don't even...
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Oct. 9, 2012, 1:54 a.m. CST
The only way this will be cool and top the other Xmen films and redeem Wolverine is if they try to set the movie in the 70's and really capture the image of Japan at that time.
by Balkin Flabgurter
only way it can work and retain some sort of originality IMO.
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Oct. 9, 2012, 5:08 a.m. CST
After he dices up hundreds of ninja, hopefully he bangs
by Bedknobs and Boomsticks
hundreds of Japanese women, in order to irritate trixas.
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What I like, and what gives me faith is that jackman loves the character and knows he essentially owes the larger extent of his career to him. The guy cares, and knows origins let us down. What i'm dying to see is the silver samurai, if they give him his armor, and not a silver three piece suit with mirrored sunglasses or some cop out shit.
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I think his recent effort, "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" declared a struggle to carry what was essentially an ensemble piece, into something lazy and tired as a stand alone character piece. It seems the new "First Class" kids have taken his mantle (a film i might add was mediocre at best); which is a shame, because i like Hugh's interpretation very much. I can't see Mangold's version being any better - even with Chris Mcquarries involvement.
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Fox seem to be smartening up - they're doing the Wolverine film the producers wanted to do in the first place, and they're hiring Mark Millar to tell the suits that their coked-up, contemptuous ideas are ruinous. Let there be hope.
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First Class was a good restart that kind of linked to the first two... Sooo just go on and act like X3 and Origins never happened.
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