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Brian Cox to be CG Young-ified in WOLVERINE movie?

I'm only down if it's set in Madripoor and by superninja	Feb 2nd, 2007 06:42:30 PM
Jackman wears a patch.
THIS YEAR'S LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE SPINOFF!!! by Err	Feb 2nd, 2007 06:42:56 PM
God I f'ing hate Wolverine. I like Hugh Jackman but I hate the character of Wolverine.
Don't care how they do it... by covenant	Feb 2nd, 2007 06:45:27 PM
...as long as Brian Cox is in it. First?
X MEN 4: THE BEGINNING by Pound Sand	Feb 2nd, 2007 06:49:07 PM
This promises everything that X Men movies are known for.., overreliance on CGI, a "we're out of ideas," prequel premise, complete lack of continuity, comic book theme, too many characters, incomprehensible plot, half-baked villains, and dialogue about toads struck by lightning. Oh yeah, and no tit.
Don't care if they do it.... by CaptDanielRoe	Feb 2nd, 2007 06:50:19 PM
...This isn't a good movie to make at this time with this cast. It just isn't. Sorry but the character could be handled better. No really; sorry. But no.
The Best Possible Use of The Technology.... by thecomedian	Feb 2nd, 2007 06:52:31 PM
...Would be on Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, and Sylvester McCoy so they can join McGann, Eccleston and Tennant in "The Seven Doctors" for the 45th Anniversary next year. Yeah, the beeb would have to spring for lipo and wigs for the portly Baker boys but it would be incredibly awesome. Actually just bring back Tom Baker and Peter Davison to play of Eccleston and Tennant.
Focusing on X2's story instead of X3's is a smart start by TheSecondQuest	Feb 2nd, 2007 06:54:25 PM
Since X3 ruined what X2 setup for the whole Phoenix plotline, it's a smart move to go back to the Weapon X plotline of X2, and hopefully salvage the franchise.
This Guy Should Play Wolverine by CaptDanielRoe	Feb 2nd, 2007 06:55:46 PM
The tall one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =sUNgoJcB7L4 The other guy should play Puck from Alpha Flight.
THIS YEAR'S LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE - by montessaurus	Feb 2nd, 2007 07:06:19 PM
that shit was stale when it was fresh. weaker than a CGI whip. do get some new material. or much rather, don't.
I really wasn't impressed with that CG work... by El Scorcho	Feb 2nd, 2007 07:08:17 PM
Didn't think it was that good.
I should play Wolverine by Err	Feb 2nd, 2007 07:13:57 PM
so i can then ruin the character.
Hannibal Lecter speaks! by CarmillaVonDoom	Feb 2nd, 2007 07:18:46 PM
Has Brian Cox ever given a weak performance?? This guy is so under-rated it is unbelievable.
monstessaurus by Err	Feb 2nd, 2007 07:20:25 PM
Thank you for being the supreme authority on all things funny and letting me know when I should get new material. I will do as I have to all detractors and take your advice and proceed to crap on it.
As an apology for X-men 3... by T 1000 xp professional	Feb 2nd, 2007 07:27:50 PM
We just might get the amazing no holds barred action/comic-book movie we've all wanted.....Give me Hugh in the snow killing badhiney soldiers, and i'll be so happy.
Carmilla by Err	Feb 2nd, 2007 07:32:12 PM
I agree. Brian Cox had to be one of the, if not THE best things about X-2. He is a phenomenal actor.
Brian Cox Rox by T 1000 xp professional	Feb 2nd, 2007 07:37:16 PM
....sorry....or am I
COX GOTTA EAT!! by Unkle	Feb 2nd, 2007 07:51:17 PM
Wait, that doesn't sound right.
good actors in bad films by heavenlykid	Feb 2nd, 2007 07:52:42 PM
Brian Cox does, indeed, rock, as did Ian and Patrick and, well, pretty much everyone in the X-Men movies, but after the first two stellar films X-men three was sort of like a urinal cake with a big budget. I'm not looking forward to Wolverine, no matter what the cast. On a totally different Note, Say Harry, how long before we hear your most anticipated moves for 07?
Young Cocks? by Bionic Bigfoot	Feb 2nd, 2007 07:56:18 PM
Well, at least that's how Sir Ian heard it.
Get the fat kid from TWO AND A HALF MEN!!! by Bob Cryptonight	Feb 2nd, 2007 07:59:52 PM
He could play the Cox role!
GOTTA EAT COX! by LittleDudes	Feb 2nd, 2007 08:01:42 PM
I MEAN, COX GOTTA EAT!
Anything to wash the taste of X3 out of my mouth. by rbatty024	Feb 2nd, 2007 08:04:57 PM
God, that movie fucking sucked. Lets hope the X-men franchise still has some creative life left in it. I love Cox as an actor, but I'm thinking that if it's seventeen years ago, they might as well just go with someone who looks like a younger Stryker.
never forget "B.J." from L.I.E. by JRKerr	Feb 2nd, 2007 08:12:14 PM
Brian Cox rules. Its almost kinda sad they want to youngify him with cg because he, unlike halle berry, can actually act.
CGI COX MAKES MY BALLS TINGLE by Roid Rage	Feb 2nd, 2007 08:17:36 PM
They should've CGI'd him to 18 years old and put him in Hannibal Rising (the casting news could've been "Cox is Rising").
Thats Nice and all, I mean Who doesn't Like Cox by Donnie_Drunko	Feb 2nd, 2007 08:38:06 PM
But where the hell is the GYMKATA DVD review!!!!!!?????
Brian Cox for The Hobbit by performingmonkey	Feb 2nd, 2007 08:57:32 PM
If/when The Hobbit is made the ONLY actor they should even consider for the role of Thorin Oakenshield is Brian Cox - fact. Of course, he might not want to do it, but he'd be a fool (unless Uwe Boll or Ratner are at the helm).
This could be good... by randalmcmurphy	Feb 2nd, 2007 09:01:40 PM
If they get someone to make the movie that has some respect for the source material. I'd love to see the Wolverine mini by Claremont/ Miller given a silver screen treatment by Rodriguez. NOICE! But, alas, we'll probably get some half-assed weapon-X story by someone like Joel Shumacher. groan
Thought it was 'Brian Cox to play Cy Young'... by TomBodet	Feb 2nd, 2007 09:17:39 PM
...thought that was a REAL stretch, ya know? Denton True there being 6-2 210, Ohio, 1900 era for Da Sawks etc.-though a CGI Cy Young might be cool. Oh lookie it's CGI Honus Wagner. Even better--he truly DOES move like a crab...
FUCKING RECAST SABRETOOTH!!! by Shermdawg	Feb 2nd, 2007 09:25:22 PM
Clancy Brown, Sean Bean, Sid Vicious... I don't care who, just don't let Mane back! His look was as bad as Creed's characterization in the first X-fick.
Cox was one of my favorite parts of X2 by George Newman	Feb 2nd, 2007 09:32:58 PM
just to remind everyone of those good tingling feelings we felt the first time: Nightcrawler, Wolvie stabbing the guy in the kitchen, Colossus's quick bit, magneto's escape, Mystique infiltrating the base/middle finger, magneto pulling the grenade pins....that's a good highlight reel
Is TV GUIDE downgrading movie ratings? by Shermdawg	Feb 2nd, 2007 09:38:18 PM
I swear X2 and Home Alone used to be three star flicks, now they're listed as two.
FUCKING RE-MAKEUP SABERTOOTH by heavenlykid	Feb 2nd, 2007 09:42:02 PM
Don't hate the actor, hate the latex.
Cox..... by Turd Furgeson	Feb 2nd, 2007 09:46:15 PM
It just sounds funny......
More bad news: CG Penis in Boogie Nights II by Orionsangels	Feb 2nd, 2007 10:05:06 PM
Mark Walberg says he won't do it unless it's a plastic dildo.
Won't make as much as the X flicks. by The Founder	Feb 2nd, 2007 10:29:40 PM
FOX is hoping that a stand alone Wolverine flick is going to rake in over 200 million. Well they are worng. I'd give it 120 million domestically tops, maybe it'll even make it to 140 if it's really good. I love Wolverine, but he;s one of the less visually stunning characters in the X-verse.
Sabretooth is more than makeup. by Shermdawg	Feb 2nd, 2007 10:50:01 PM
nuff said.
That CGI work on Stewart and McKellan was ASS. by Nosferatu Jones	Feb 2nd, 2007 10:51:38 PM
Sorry, but they looked like they walked straight out of a zombie flick, minus the blood. They both looked WRONG. And every critic thought they looked great??? Bullshit.
Best Lecktor ever. by RKDN Del Sol	Feb 2nd, 2007 11:24:58 PM
yes, I spelled it right, you tools.
Thorin Should Be Played By.... by CaptDanielRoe	Feb 2nd, 2007 11:29:52 PM
Jack Nicholson. Other dwarves: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Ian McShane, Dennis Hopper, Nick Nolte, Rutger Hauer, Kris Kristofferson, Robert Duvall, Bruce Dern, Dean Stockwell, James Caan, Corben Bernsen, Sam Shephard ... Need I continue?
Just got off the phone with Brian Cox by Tikkanen	Feb 2nd, 2007 11:51:50 PM
He says 'Who needs CGI? Whatever happened to good ole' BoTox injections?'
Yea! fat Agamemnon by thebearovingian	Feb 3rd, 2007 12:03:38 AM
I personally don't care much for Brian Cox. Maybe in Rushmore. I can't explain it but everytime I see him in a movie I start to think, "WTF, he's in this too?"
So? by wackybantha	Feb 3rd, 2007 12:43:29 AM
Wake me when the movie's in theaters. zzzzzzzz..............
- by montessaurus	Feb 3rd, 2007 01:33:23 AM
THIS YEAR'S LITTLE MISS FLOGGING A DEAD HORSE!
I'll believe this by DirkD13"	Feb 3rd, 2007 01:56:46 AM
when me shit turns purple and tastes like rainbow sherbert.
WOW HARRY, ANOTHER BULLSHIT STORY by moto	Feb 3rd, 2007 02:09:56 AM
First Indy and now this? Cox was merely sayin he didn't know how they could justify cox being cast since the fiml took place 17 years prior. But AICN spins it into a speculative headline implying that the CG effect used in X3 was being considered. Bad week for AICN
Teh Suck!!! by Motoko Kusanagi	Feb 3rd, 2007 02:14:32 AM
yo
Brian Cox was kinda weak in... by Rakafraker	Feb 3rd, 2007 05:15:25 AM
...Supertroopers. But, then again, I'm not a big Broken Lizard fan. We'll see what happens when their next movie comes out. Other than that, of all the movies I've seen him in, he is a pretty solid actor. He was one of the best parts of Troy (Pitt sucked).
yeah, ridiculous misrepresentation of what Cox said by Captain Katanga	Feb 3rd, 2007 07:13:52 AM
Whoever wrote in has just completely misquoted him. He basically said said had no idea what was happening, and then pretty much joked about the whole cgi de-ageing thing: there was no suggestion that that was a serious possibility at all. But now, its a "story" on aicn, which will probably get picked up by other sites. And as Moto above said, first that ludicrous Indy story, now this. What the hell are you guys playing at?
- by Err	Feb 3rd, 2007 08:25:10 AM
THIS YEAR'S LITTLE MISS PLEASE GROW UP AND GET OVER IT!!!
BSB....really? by Err	Feb 3rd, 2007 09:37:55 AM
Cause when I talked to them, they seemed kinda standoffish.
LMFAO! by Dolmes	Feb 3rd, 2007 09:51:34 AM
"I might be in a film, that's stalled, where I'm 17 years younger and I think I should be cgi'd" come on folks.
just as long as the movie's R-rated by werideatdusk	Feb 3rd, 2007 11:56:04 AM
and Wolverine goes out and kills the first fifty motherfuckers he finds.
- by montessaurus	Feb 3rd, 2007 12:08:36 PM
eh. mine was better.
brian is a boring cox,Eckhart is a great Dent! by pipergates	Feb 3rd, 2007 01:19:05 PM
Seems like he's confirmed,hope it's true,he's great.Actually he would probably make a more interesting Joker than Ledger...Hope they let Jackman loose,berserker style,and show us what those claws can actually do.
maybe this means we'll see sabretooth ...fuckin A! by wolvenom	Feb 3rd, 2007 01:33:29 PM
of course I didn't like the sabretooth in the first x-men movie but they can recast him and make him look more like he did in the comics.
CREED a psycothic smarthmouth,no grunting oaf by pipergates	Feb 3rd, 2007 01:57:05 PM
one of that young non-hetero director`s few errors.
Quality over quantity by Biddlerama	Feb 3rd, 2007 01:59:24 PM
Harry, you'd probably be viewed as less of a fool amongst the internet community if you worried less about filling your page up with "news" links and concentrated more on something with some weight behind it. Seriously, the misquoted off the cuff remark by an actor who isn't even privy to the status of a possible film is not news. Though I know I'm just wasting my breath, you've long proven that you're happy to muck about in the National Inquirer sludge of internet news reporting then actually putting some effort into making this a site worth reading more then once a month. Luckily you have Hercules and Quint, I try to stay away from any links if it's apparent you wrote them.
new "Hollywood Regulations" by JAGUART	Feb 3rd, 2007 02:00:46 PM
Forbid a "Wolverine" movie. Something about running with scissors.
I just got off the phone with Anthony Hopkins... by oh_riginal	Feb 3rd, 2007 03:32:58 PM
... and he lost all ability to act like Hannibal, and vowed to steal the role of Stryker in the Wolverine prequel.
Brian Cox is an awesome actor. He was one by superninja	Feb 3rd, 2007 05:21:18 PM
of the best parts about Troy. Actually, Troy is a good film except for those parts with Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, and Diana Kruger.
I mean, you make a movie about one of the by superninja	Feb 3rd, 2007 05:22:40 PM
most beautiful women and you choose Diana Kruger? She is cute, don't get me wrong, but there are about a dozen women who are more believable as someone a whole people would go to war over. Maybe they didn't want her to outshine Orlando's beauty?
The Fountain of CGI Youth...Star Wars Anyone? by ripsovich	Feb 3rd, 2007 05:26:48 PM
Imagine if Lucas actually used CGI to make Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford younger. Could we possibly have an Episode VII?
Star Wars VII by Biddlerama	Feb 3rd, 2007 05:59:25 PM
If Lucas ever made another trilogy (though he's made it very clear he never will) he'd probably make the entire cast fully CGI. He's proved that he's incapable of directing or writing actual human beings. Though why you'd want to see any more films from this glorified hack who took a possible story of love and betrayal and turned it into the chronicles of a petulant stalker is beyond me. Tell you what though, should he hire Peter Jackson to write and direct a 3rd trilogy I'll pay to see that.
I'd keep Stryker out of it completely/Adapt Miller's GN by Monkey_King	Feb 3rd, 2007 06:53:30 PM
or better yet, do the Weapon X film with Dr Cornelius and Logan beheading the Grizzly during the training exercises.
Bryan Singer "gets" Wolverine... by MagicPhone	Feb 3rd, 2007 09:29:28 PM
... probably even more than Hugh does, judging from X-Men 3. Singer is the only person that could get me back on board with that franchise.
ANOTHER HARRY ARTICLE BELOW! by moto	Feb 4th, 2007 01:45:59 AM
Seven years ago Harrison Ford was asked if he would be willing to do another INdiana Jones movie. He winked and said "in a New York minute". So there you have it@ Breaking news at AICN! Indy IV will be shot in full in just ONE MINUTE... set in New York of all places. HARRY, YOU'VE BROUGHT AICN TO THE LOWEST IT HAS EVER BEEN BY POSTING THIS MISREPRESENTED QUOTE REGARDING WOLVERINE! Shame on you
'Playboy... CG... airbrushed...' by Lone Fox	Feb 4th, 2007 02:13:35 AM
Just can't let Ratner alone, can you? X3 was a good movie. There. I said it.
Can we please see an authentic WOLVERINE costume by iwontwin	Feb 4th, 2007 06:16:04 AM
Is there anyway I can see this realized, without it being some fanboy or 8 year old. Please?
"Young-ified"...? by Peter Crispin	Feb 4th, 2007 11:52:07 AM
Come on, people... expand your vocabulary a little bit. Why not say "rejuvenated"?
weapon x and sabretooth by oisin5199	Feb 4th, 2007 01:11:06 PM
If they're going back to Weapon X and before, I hope we get to see some action where Wolverine and Sabretooth are on the same side for a while (throw in North, Kane, maybe even Deadpool), or some of that mind-fuck stuff around Silver Fox, or berserker Wolvie killing everything in his path, whether they deserve it or not. I wouldn't even mind a nice 19th century flashback. Just as long as they don't do any of the stupid shit going on the current Origin comic.
similar to Hopkings CGI Deageing?? by LeviDTinker	Feb 5th, 2007 12:42:48 AM
i have a question, is the CG Deageing tool they used on X3,the same one used for Anthony Hopkins a few years back when he starred as a 20 plus years younger Hanibal Lector? i personally think its great whenever possible to use the actor who originated the role, if it looks like he really is the age he suppose to be portraying.
Cox Liquors by Dr Gregory House	Feb 5th, 2007 03:02:26 AM
right next to Cox Smokers Outlet
subject should have read similar to HOPKINS deageing? by LeviDTinker	Feb 5th, 2007 08:28:34 AM
somehow a G got in the name. sorry about that.
Well, a prequel of sorts... by Childe Roland	Feb 5th, 2007 11:13:01 AM
...opens the door to hit on some of the best facets of Wolverine's character. By X3, he was completely domesticated. No claws, so to speak. Here he could be more wild. More of a natural born killer. And Sabretooth would still be around to spar with. I approve.
rejuvenated by mrbong	Feb 5th, 2007 01:17:20 PM
would mean that they ply a shithouse of botox and surgery on Brian Cox, more or less. to rejuvenate would be to renew, not to doctor. i agree, though, "young-ified" is hardly part of the beautiful language.

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