Wolverine again...

[fajrdrako]

So I went to look at the IMDb entry on the Wolverine: Origins movie. A few interesting tidbits:

1. The identity of the woman who seems to turn to ice or diamond: people are theorizing it's Emma Frost, but it doesn't look like the sterotypical Emma, who should have an aura of glamorous sex appeal and big breasts. Besides, Emma Frost isn't listed in the credits. My guess is: it's Silver Fox returned from the dead. Silver Fox is listed in the credits and it makes sense to keep her as the significant female role with a heartwrenching surprise return from the dead as a villainess.
   
   
2. Silver Fox is played by Lynn Collins, whom I fell in love with as Portia in The Merchant of Venice. Cool.
   
   
3. Dominic Monaghan? What's he doing there? He plays Beak - yeah, Beak. What's Beak doing in Wolverine: Origins? Well, why not - ? Seems that they've changed his powers. Huh.
   
   
4. By checking out what Ryan Reynolds looks like (i.e., damn good) and looking at the trailer again, I can figure out who Deadpool is. Waaaitaminnut, Deadpool isn't supposed to be drop-dead gorgeous. But then, Wolverine isn't supposed to be tall. Ahh, the concessions we make to the movie business. A cute Deadpool. Who'd ever have imagined - ? I hope they get his wacky dialogue right.
   
   
5. And Gambit. Taylor Kitsch. Deadpool is cuter than Gambit (a mind-boggling idea) but Gambit is... not objectionable. Oh those playing cards. I assume the guy swinging through the air down a city street is Gambit. Or Deadpool? Damn - it could be either of them. I'll have to wait and see. Seems from this trailer that a cowboy hat means Deadpool, a black hat means Gambit.
   
   
6. There's too much male prettiness in this movie. No, wait... there's no such thing as too much male prettiness. I smile in happy expectation of a huge supply of male prettiness from Jackman, Taylor, and Kitsch, laden with huge quantities of testosterone-fueled banter and a fair amount of sex-substitute physicality.
   
   
7. This movie isn't just full of gorgeous men, but of gorgeous Canadian men. So while a Canadian plays the Cajun from New Orleans, an Australian plays the Canadian Wolverine. Moviemaking is rife with irony.
   
   
8. That's Agent Zero! I thought so! Woo. Another beautiful man: Daniel Henney.
   
   
9. Okay, the Blob and Stryker aren't beautiful. Nor is Sabretooth. Nor should they be: my visual neurons might explode from overuse. I look forward to them anyway.
   
   
10. Why is Christian Clark's name listed without the name of the character he plays? A mystery man.
    
    
11. I still haven't guessed who the guy with the teeth at the end is. Weapon XI, maybe? Is he a character created for the movie? I can't recall him from the comics, but I haven't read Wolverine very consistently, and not at all in the past couple of years.

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A weird little "Acadiens in comics" sidebar

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Some few of you may remember that DC had taken two shots at the pot of money once seen to be building in the role-playing games market, licensing out the rights to different companies in each instance. I did some work for the latter of the two, but the first one to try, Mayfair Games, had something that caught my eye.

In their original map of Metropolis - before John Byrne started reworking the Superman mythologies in concert with Marv Wolfman and Andy Helfer in the latter half of the 1980's, including the creation of the Six Boroughs of Metropolis that we all now know - they cribbed somewhat off of the map of Montréal for the general lie of the land, minus the southern shoreline of the mainland. Some other mods as well, and if no one screams "death to fair use/fair dealing in copyright law!" over it, I'll post a scan later.

Most importantly for our discussion, though: they established a neighbourhood called "Lafayette" that was settled mainly by Acadien expulsion victims. So, outside of Maine and Louisiana, Metropolis is apparently the biggest hotspot of Acadien-descended Americans in DC's "New Earth" version of the United States.

I don't think any of the comics writers have used that little detail for anything. If anyone were to do anything once they learned of it, though, my money would be on James Robinson.

Re: A weird little "Acadiens in comics" sidebar

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I'd love to see that map of Metropolis. I always thought of it as being like New York. Montréal is much more fun!

Especially with an Acadian area.

It would be nice to see that idea revisited.

Suddenly picturing Gambit in Metropolis - !