Is Brian Cox Returning as Stryker in 'Wolverine'?
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Yesterday afternoon I was thumbing through some Sundance e-mails when I came across an interview pitch for Brian Cox, known to one and all for his many acting roles including Stryker, nemesis of Wolverine in X2: X-Men United. For a while it's been known that the role Cox originated was going to be taken over by the younger Liev Schreiber in the upcoming fourth film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, so how come Brian Cox has X-Men Origins: Wolverine as his top credit on the actor bio sheet I'm looking at right now? An attempt by me to follow-up with the publicist who sent me the bio has been met with silence, so who knows if this was something that wasn't meant to be leaked or just someone's dumb mistake? I can easily see a publicist accidentally writing down X4 when they meant to write down X2. But the wall of silence hasn't yet dissipated. I'll be keeping an eye on this.
The official synopsis for X-Men Origins: Wolverine -- what a clunky title -- states that the film "explores the claw-wielding character Wolverine's violent and romantic past, and his complex relationship with Victor Creed and the ominous Weapon X programs, as well as his encounter with other mutants." Filming is expected to start in a couple of weeks, so if there are any last minute casting decisions to be made, now is the time, I guess. I'd definitely like to see dueling Strykers, but is time-travel a big part of the X-Men universe, cause otherwise I can't exactly see how they'd pull that one off. More likely that if this is true, there will be a prologue or epilogue with Cox getting to shine for five minutes.
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12-22-2007 @ 3:00PM
Curt said...
If I recall correctly, there has been time travel in the X-Men universe. I believe Bishop (who hasn't been intoduced in the movies) was from the future.
I'm sure there's someone reading this who is more informed than I.
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12-22-2007 @ 5:46PM
GB said...
Im more fascinated with Gambit than Wolverine. And Im even more curious with Watchmen than this project.
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12-25-2007 @ 4:53AM
Umgawa said...
Wolverine's an old guy, actually. Once Marvel finally got down and released an official origin story for Wolverine about five years ago, it's established that the guy's over a hundred years old. Now, presumably, the healing factor that he's got probably keeps his rate of aging down to a minimum, so there's really a great deal of freedom for being able to have the movie take place at various times in the past while using both Cox and Schreiber as the same character, while using Hugh Jackman as Wolverine the entire time.
As such, I really wouldn't expect a time-travel sort of thing too much, particularly if they're appending the asinine 'X-Men Origins' prefix on to the film (presumably so they can make a number of these movies without the big cast payrolls of the three previous features).
Finally, as a little side-note, Victor Creed is better known to comic book readers and viewers of the first movie as Sabretooth, and the Weapon X project is so utterly convoluted (and ultimately largely retconned) that it's pointless to go into. But, if you must, flip through some circa-1991 issues of Marvel Comics Presents for the first of many Wolverine origins that turned out to be total bunk. I'd recommend the more recent stuff regarding Weapon X, if only on the basis that Marvel learned in the post-Image era that writers are generally more important than pencilers.
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