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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
According to The Hollywood Reporter
, the other shortlisted candidates for Adam Warlock were Regé-Jean Page and George MacKay, which makes for a rather varied trio of blokes, and implies that the Britishness was at least somewhat intentional.
Regé-Jean Page not being Adam Warlock is a bit of a missed opportunity. The ultimate lifeform being black would be interesting.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."I have the inkling in the back of my head they'll start with a X-23-centric movie in which she's searching for Wolverine and he shows up in the sequel (or a post-credits scene). It's very in the Marvel vibe to keep a iconic character like that close to the chest to tickle the audience's expectations. Marketing of the entire X-23 film would be people trying to figure out if Logan is in the movie and thinking every single male actor cast is ACTUALLY Wolverine. Marvel even flies Hugh Jackman to visit the set solely to spice up the rumour mill and it's at a fever pitch with every trailer. The whole movie is about searching for him, but she doesn't find him, but by this point the film is already a knockout success on the hype of Logan's inexistent debut, and the promise he'll show up (or show up proper if he gets a post-credit scene cameo) in the sequel clinches the deal.
I can almost see the breakdowns of every frame of the trailer looking for Logan right in front of me.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."![]()
I have a source here that says
Wolverine will appear in Multiverse of Madness!
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Oct 12th 2021 at 5:29:47 AM
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I really don't think you could do a movie where a major theme is searching for Logan, complete with intentionally trolling the media on the subject, then have him not show up at all without seriously harming the movie's chances of being successful.
Audiences don't like being strung along on a promise a movie has no intention of delivering. I don't like being strung along on a promise a movie has no intention of delivering.
That being said I could probably imagine going straight to X-23 first, even if I don't see it as likely, but in that case it should be a story about or including X-23 with Logan only being relevant as an element of her backstory (ie no active search, nothing in the marketing indicating he'll show up).
Like, the girl who played X-23 in Logan is probably old enough to be an adult now.
So starting with X-23 wouldn't be such a bad idea.
One Strip! One Strip!I say why does this have to be a choice? Introduce them in the same movie, possibly in the same scene.
Then when you need your Wolverine to be a grizzled veteran who has lived centuries, use Logan. When you need your Wolverine to be a young up and comer but who can fight with every bit as much ferocity, use X-23. And when one Wolverine (somehow) isn't awesome enough, use both.
Yeah, Logan wasn't that long ago...
Although given the success of Millie Bobby Brown and the other Stranger Things kids, I'd be down to see Dafne Keen grow into the role ala Tom Holland with Spider-Man.
Edited by MatthewWayne on Oct 12th 2021 at 7:54:06 AM
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."Keen is literally old enough to play a Truer to the Text version of X-23, and if Marvel was smart they'd pounce on the opportunity.
And I could totally see Marvel Studios going the All-New Wolverine route. It's in line with their other inclusivity pushes, it's a clearly different route than what's been done with Logan in the past, and Logan's both mainstream popular enough and honestly already well-done enough that they can afford to dangle his presence out - Wolverine's one of the few characters that Fox basically did fully right already, and the tease approach clearly worked wonders for Arrowverse Batwoman.
Edited by Watchtower on Oct 12th 2021 at 1:09:11 PM
I do agree that with Hugh Jackman owning the role so well, there isn't really too much you can add to rebooting Logan in the MCU without retreading or making a worse character. Hence why I'm more open for X-23 to be Wolverine, since there's more room to explore and develop the character.
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."Yeah, as much as I bitch about Hugh jackman Wolverine overexposure, the problem isn't Jackman. He owns that role and it would be a comically uphill battle for the MCU to try and wrest that title from him without doing the legwork.
Lord knows the MCU is more than capable of making its B, C, or F-tier characters into the A-Listers.
Hell, even Foxmen managed to make Mystique the A-List X-Man which is... something.
Edited by Larkmarn on Oct 13th 2021 at 9:45:58 AM
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Didn't know Warlock was supposed to be the ultimate life form (I know very little about the guy). There might still be hope for a black ultimate life form if/when Blue Marvel gets adapted.
Insert joke about no one liking Sansa here.
I'm not totally convinced Mystique's Adaptational Heroism is due solely to Lawrence's role on Hunger Games. She did her first X-Men move before Hunger Games was released and she was depicted in a more sympathetic light than usual since First Class. I think it's just a consequence of them wanting to do something different from Mystique than Romijn's version.
Edited by windleopard on Oct 13th 2021 at 7:18:52 AM
I agree there isn't much Marvel can do to improve on Wolverine. All they can do is make him short and give him the costume.
So I expect it'll be a little while before we see Wolverine.
I'm curious who people want to be the mutant protagonists in the envitable MCU X-Men film? Because I could believe arguments either way that Jean and Scott are under/over exposed.

Edited by lbssb on Oct 12th 2021 at 2:11:40 AM
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