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Wolverine movie undergoing huge reshoots

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Norrin Radd

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First of all, I'm not sure about what kind of movie FOX is trying to make.

But knowing their reputation for making lame-ass, cut-to-pieces adaptations that they dumb-down for the willfully unsophisticated masses...it wouldn't surprise me if they were trying to do just the same with Wolverine, especially given the rumours of rifts between the studio and director Gavin Hood.

Or not. Because now they're apparently reshooting a lot of it. Since the shoots are being done by Gavin Hood, maybe they are trying to do right by this movie.

I personally just don't get it. I mean, last year's HUGE hit, The Dark Knight, was intelligent..dark...and utterly intense (if not overly violent). It's a movie about a popular comic book character that was a hit with critics and raked in almost a billion dollars.

Obviously not all movies have to be, or should be, like TDK, but "dark and intense" basically sums up the character of Wolverine perfectly (except I'd also include overly violent in his case). So, why would Fox not get a clue from that and make a DECENT Wolverine flick? I mean, what exactly is there to debate here?

http://movies.ign.com/articles/945/945726p1.html
 
Hopefully they're reshooting that awful, Fall Guy-ish kicker at the end of the trailer with Wolverine hanging in front of that rear projection looking green screen...I'm sorry, I mean off a helicopter.
 
Well maybe it also had something to do with the Watchmen case - maybe they felt that after all the hooha over that movie, combined with their recent spate of underperforming Marvel films, made them want to up their game. So yeah I do hope this works out into a better movie. Essentially it sounds like the theatrical cut WILL be the director's cut essentially. And really all movies should be made to the best of everyone's ability especially if its an adaptation of an already published story.

X3 could have easily been done with using an already published story as its base, but no they had to bastardize over 40 years of stories to make a movie where 3 of the main X-Men die.

Unless Marvel Films gave them the edict that 'this movie better be good, or we're dropping your contract and we're going to go in house completely... just like we did with Iron Man."
 
"Wolverine" undergoes extensive reshoots

Hugh Jackman wrote a letter to AintItCool News describing that director Gavin Hood and select members of the cast have returned to Vancouver to do extensive reshoots of this coming May's X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

I guess it is comforting to know that the film's director, Gavin Hood, is spearheading these reshoots and not a replacement. Back during principal photography, which allegedly was not fun for Hood, he got into hefty disagreements with 20th Century Fox chairman Tom Rothman, and purportedly director Richard Donner (husband of the film's producer, Lauren Shuler-Donner), was called in to mediate.

Hopefully these reshoots can only mean good things for this production. It helped Bryan Singer's Valkyrie, which turned out pretty good in my opinion. Here's hoping.
 
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what the heck is wrong with Fox studios lately, the seem to be acting even crazier than usual
 
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TheMasterOfOrion said:
what the heck is wrong with Fox studios lately, the seem to be acting even crazier than usual
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Well, since the company's box office record hasn't exactly been stellar as of late, maybe it's about desperate execs trying to keep their jobs?
 
They'll change that trailer bit

Sabretooth: "Do even know how to kill me?"

Wolverine: "Though I'd try cutting off your dick!"

Maybe they are adding HULK to the movie. ;)
 
Re: "Wolverine" undergoes extensive reshoots

Norrin Radd said:
TheMasterOfOrion said:
what the heck is wrong with Fox studios lately, the seem to be acting even crazier than usual
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Well, since the company's box office record hasn't exactly been stellar as of late, maybe it's about desperate execs trying to keep their jobs?
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Maybe they don't deserve to keep their jobs, if the company's recently poor box office record is their fault.
 
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Re: "Wolverine" undergoes extensive reshoots

Deadpool w/o Versace Ninja gear makes kittens cry. If I wanted to see Ryan Reynolds in a T-Shirt, I'd watch his other movies.
 
yes, it's Silverfox on the right in that image.

And it looks like there's a logical answer to the reshoots:

Actor/producer Hugh Jackman sent an email to Ain't It Cool News about what was up with those reshoots along with a new promotional photo from the film showing Sabretooth, Silver Fox, Gambit and Deadpool. Jackman wrote, "I wanted to reach out and let you know that due to scheduling conflicts with certain cast members and location/weather considerations, we had to wait until now to shoot a couple of scenes."
 
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Thrall said:
Deadpool w/o Versace Ninja gear makes kittens cry. If I wanted to see Ryan Reynolds in a T-Shirt, I'd watch his other movies.
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Remember the bitching before X-Men came out?
 
Re: "Wolverine" undergoes extensive reshoots

Well this IS an 'Origin' movie, he didn't always have his ninja suit. And remember his face is scarred. So this is a pre-scarring Merc With a Mouth. I'm GLAD he isn't wearing it!

Just please for the luvva God, don't have Silver Fox be a Hydra chick at the end or something. I know she was on in the Marvel Universe but personally that was always kinda lame.

By the way, notice the 'X' on Wolvie's shirt? Although WTF's with the belt buckle...
 
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