Okay, we’re gonna keep it 100 from the jump: this isn’t an official trailer. X-Men Origins: Magneto has been in development hell for the past couple years and was pretty much confirmed as a dead project last month when producer Lauren Donner said it was “at the back of the queue” of the multiple X-Men film projects in the works. That’s too bad, because this fan-made trailer has us kind of hyped at the prospect of a Magneto flick. Ian McKellen always killed the role and Magneto is a dark, generally interesting character. Hopefully the project materializes at some point, even if it’s years down the line. Until then, we leave you with this well-done montage of footage from previous X-Men movies. Enjoy.
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Sure, it’s old news by now, but Disney’s announced purchase of Marvel and all its characters has revved up the Internet’s creativity machine, with comic-book fans and Disney-loving pedophiles alike firing up the imaging software to imagine their favorite mashups. The thing is, no one’s as good at it as we are (suck it, Conan!) Besides, no one cares about Disney characters, and the House That Walt Built knows that it’s gonna need a lot more than Mickneto to get its movie mojo back. That’s why we went ahead and planned out Disney’s next few tentpole releases (ayo!), starring the only sure-fire moneymakers in Hollywood…
Internet leaks might cripple your average movie star, but Wolverine has regenerative properties and an indestructible metal adamantium skeleton. With that in mind, Complex fully expects Hugh Jackman and X-Men Origins: Wolverine to run the box office this weekend (unless, of course, you and your boys are gonna leave your nuts in the jars on your girls’ dressers and go see Ghosts of Girlfriends Past). That’s just how our mutant hero does—he beasts.
Now, despite his name and all that talk of unleashing the animal inside, dude is technically not an actual fusion of man and wolverine. In fact, “Wolverine” is just a code name that the Canadian government gave to their operative because, well, they have wolverines up north and he’s kinda vicious like they are. Sadly, that means he has all that facial hair just because he’s a dirty Canadian hipster. Anyway, Wolverine got us thinking about the best man-beasts in movies (yes, we went bestial). Peep our picks and let it roar if we left your favorite off. Sorry, but man-women don’t count…
While Ayo! Scott was off gallivanting at Comic-Con and pointedly not telling us about any of the cool shit he saw, we sat here in New York and got progressively more resentful. And now, when faced with the first footage of next May’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine that Hugh Jackman debuted at the Con, we’ve pretty much decided that we’re gonna go upside his film-critic dome with a roll of quarters in a sock when he prances back in the office.
Then again, the teaser is so crazy that the admittedly crappy cameraphone quality is still enjoyable. The footage, which focuses most on Wolvy and Liev Schreiber’s Sabretoothbefore they became the mutants we know and love, also gives a glimpse of some other X-Men standbys like Gambit and Blob. Even will.i.am makes an appearance, though we’re already on record as not seeing the logic of that casting. Our only other concern is that Deadpool (played by Ryan Reynolds) is nowhere to be found. Watch the footage below.
Back in the mid-'90s, the Fox’s original X-Men cartoon dominated Saturday mornings. Now, after three blockbuster live action movies and an animated series about the mutants as teenagers (X-Men: Evolution), it looks like the entire franchise is shifting its focus towards Wolverine. The X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie comes out next May, the first issue of the Old Man Logan comic just dropped, and now Nickelodeon is preparing their new series Wolverine And The X-Men.
While the show won’t debut until next Spring, Marvel announced that they will be debuting the pilot at this year’s San Diego Comic Con. Watch two new trailers for the series below.
What happens to our favorite superheroes when they get old and grey? Some comics, like The Dark Knight Returns and Spider-Man: Reign have addressed this question directly, but most probably don’t want to give away the fate of their hero so easily. Fresh off the Civil War series, writer Mark Millar and artist Steve McNiven are going deeper into X-Men icon Wolverine’s story with the new release Old Man Logan.
The 8 issue story arc is set 50 years in the future, when the villains have taken over the world, and Wolverine is just a dusty old farmer in Sacramento named Logan. The first issue drops next Wednesday (June 11), and Newsarama just leaked a seven page preview. Get a taste of Old Man Logan after the jump.
