Wolverine Movie Debuts in 2009
Variety reports that 20th Century Fox will premiere X-Men Origins: Wolverine on May 1st, 2009. Hugh Jackman will reprise his role as Wolverine in the first film to spin off from the X-Men movie series. Director Gavin Hood will begin shooting the X-Men Origins: Wolverine film later this year in Australia.
Variety also reports that actor Liev Schreiber is in final talks to play a younger version of William Stryker, an X-Men nemesis, who was played by Brian Cox in X2. Stryker first appeared in a Chris Claremont’s 1982 saga, God Loves: Man Kills as a Christian fundamentalist televangelist on a mission from god to destroy all mutants, but reappeared in the 2003 X2 film as a crazed army colonel without the religious trappings, but with the same “terminate with extreme prejudice” attitude towards all mutants.
