David Benioff Promises Fun Wolverine

joshua hutchison

well that's just about that...why didn't they just bring ratner back...

hopefully they'll be some sort of emo dancing wolverine, couple love interests, why don't they just bring "viva laughin" or whatever that crap was to the big screen

ugh

Dec 28 - 09:43 AM

J'rome Holmes II

Looking forward to Wolverine racking up a high body count.

Dec 28 - 10:04 AM

Joel Feliciano

Well I think this is great news. The screenwriter was writing for fun and The director wants to make art. Blend it together and we have something cool.

Dec 28 - 10:21 AM

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This is a mistake, you're not supposed to create something for fans of the source material. That's the wrong way to look at it. You stay true to the source while using whatever wiggle room you have to make it interesting for those who are unfamiliar with the source material then the fans fall naturally into place for such a well made film.

Make it for the fans and you'll unintentionally isolate everyone else unless you have a gimmick for one worthwhile viewing.

Dec 28 - 10:54 AM

Brian Lorenzen

I really haven't been encouraged by a single thing pertaining to this movie. I still get mad about the title, and feel as though this is going to come down to being an action movie with a needlessly twisting, mostly illogical plot that will also posture as a philosophical inquiry into isolation and human animality.... but without doing it intelligently.

I hope I'm wrong. But I really don't feel good about this movie.

Dec 28 - 10:58 AM

Alec G

This is good news. Wolverine is not a character suited to socially relevant story lines.

Dec 28 - 11:05 AM

Steven Johnson

By all accounts, the comic of Wolverine SHOULD be great. But it's sadly not. It touches upon many questions like humanity and human vs animal struggle, etc. but never quite gets it right. The director that I think could pull it off with great success would be David Cronenberg, judging on his very poignant stances and takes on the human condition in some of his past films (not counting History of Violence or Eastern Promises).

Dec 28 - 11:21 AM

Tyler C

I DON'T WANT A FUN WOLVERINE!!!! I WANT A BRUTAL *** BLOODY WOLVERINE!!!!

Dec 28 - 12:02 PM

johann hart

Hey Hey Hey... come on ppl, Wolverine is not no happy happy fun fun character.. plese, we are not dealing with spy kids 3d here. where dealing with one of the dark, aggressive, X-men character... so no fun fun thing, Wolverine is coming from a dark background and i really would suggest that is stays that way

Dec 28 - 12:11 PM

johann hart

Hey Hey Hey... come on ppl, Wolverine is not no happy happy fun fun character.. plese, we are not dealing with spy kids 3d here. where dealing with one of the dark, aggressive, X-men character... so no fun fun thing, Wolverine is coming from a dark background and i really would suggest that is stays that way

Dec 28 - 12:12 PM

Daniel Klein

I definitely agree with Exode and I agree with Vortex, albeit only if he or she (Vortex) is being sarcastic in their conclusion that this will be 'cool.'

Having a writer and a director who have ever met or worked together, before, would be a benefit to the project, though I could probably be persuaded that it's not vital.

having a writer and director who have two entirely different ideas as to the point and significance of a project--Director wants 'relevance' and 'philosophy' and writer wants [sounds like mindless] 'escapism'--sounds like a recipe for a mis-matched and ultimately dumbed-down, 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'-type piece of corporate yak sh#t. The title, assuming it's still 'X-men: Origins' already speaks to shooting for the lowest, least creative common denominator.

..This is why I love articles about The Dark Knight; I can actually get enthusiastic and upbeat about something, as opposed to these articles for which I can only express my frustration.

Dec 28 - 12:14 PM

Daniel Klooster

There's no chance that this movie is going to please anybody who knows the source material.

Dec 28 - 12:52 PM

Arend Anton

The only way this movie will work is if it's like a First Blood sort of thing.

Dec 28 - 02:00 PM

william mccloskey

this movie better be good... or me and magneto will destroy the earth...

Dec 28 - 03:08 PM

robin thompson

Fun does not necessarily mean fluffy kiddie stuff people. Nowhere did he say anything about fluffy kiddie stuff. You think that '300' was anything but mindless entertainment? You think 'Planet Terror' had any kind of redeeming social relevance? You think people play 'God of War' or 'Manhunter' to ponder a mature and thematically rich narrative?

Of course not.

This really doesn't have anything to do with Wolverine, I guess - which will probably suck. But it annoys me when people disregard the word "fun" like that, because it's pretentious, and because it betrays the all-too-common teen boy mentality that just because something contains violence and morally undecided antiheroes it is therefore more grown-up. Real grown-ups know better. The "BRUTAL *** BLOODY WOLVERINE!!!" that tycox wants to see is simply the natural R-rated extension of Looney Tunes. And that's good stuff, and I hope he gets it. Because it's FUN. But meanwhile, some of the most mature movies ever made are rated G.

Dec 28 - 03:44 PM

Jaco Gerber

Some of you people are just weird. The story is all about how the writer is planning to screw up (my opinion) Wolverine, but you bash the director for it.

Dec 29 - 01:28 AM

Dustin Hughes

watch it be PG-13....................

Dec 29 - 05:12 AM

Tyler D

Ghost Rider was deemed "fun"

Dec 29 - 10:11 AM

Paul Chien

X-men was saturated in socially relevant story lines, especially in regards to discrimination and prejudice.

What the hell are people talking out of?

Dec 29 - 03:05 PM

Jason Gold

Where does fun fit in????? When I read the comics many moons ago I don't remember thinking oh that's just fun!!!! HE'S A GUY WITH RAZOR SHARP INVINCIBLE CLAWS. I WANT BLOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dec 29 - 03:46 PM