gmanca

That article says that executives wanted it to be kid-friendly and meddled with the production but Donner's set-visits and the ending are reasons for the re-shoots.

I will be there to see it but I'm going with low expectations.

Zen Peckinpah

If indeed these reshoots are for purposes that will hurt the movie, the box office might result in Fox really pissing away their Watchmen money fast.

My Other Self

Did they win money from that?

pinata242

Or have Liev OD.

islandclaws

You're forgetting which studio is making this. Fox, more than any other studio, knows how the fuck a film up horribly.

Solid Snake

can somebody make a list for their "Fuck up a Film" body of works...I'd like to know which films the studio fucked up the production....

chris_sc77

^DAredevil
X-Men 3
Fantastic Four 1/2
Max Payne
Die Hard 4

to name only a few

Solid Snake

Well....Daredevil was fucked as whole. No cut of the film is really good. DC cut is better but still crappy. X3...was a cluster fuck. And I didn't know the FF films were fucked over by FOX..I thought they were genuinely crappy films. Max Payne and Die Hard 4, I too assumed were just regular productions that made a crap film.

Sonic

They already fucked up with Gambit. Gambit looks too human. His eyes are not like the comic book, and he's wearing a pimp suit.

fumanstan

I liked the Fantastic Four movies and to a lesser extent Daredevil, so those were fine by me. People bitch about Live Free or Die Hard because it wasn't R, but honestly the script has enough issues on it's own and seeing McClane take down a fighter jet would have been ridiculously stupid no matter what rating it was. The rush to get X3 out sucked though.

Eh. Aren't his eyes just red in most of the comics? It's not like he looks non-human in the comics. But it's no surprise liberties have been taken considering the other mutants already changed in the X-Men movies. Colossus for instance.

gmanca

Supposedly Babylon AD was; Kingdom of Heaven was assuredly messed with.

Not sure if it's reality or just perceived, but the fact that they have given big grossing, or potentially big franchise, projects to lesser known directors makes me think the executives want pushovers. And in relation to that, City of Ember could have generated a franchise but poor box office will probably kill a sequel.

JPRaup

News Story

With the negatively received reshooting news that happened this past week, Hugh Jackman responds with an official e-mail sent to AICN:


That is pretty awesome of Hugh send such a personal e-mail and not have some huge press report. Makes me want to check out Wolverine a bit more now and look at Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool! Awesome.

Torchur317

I hope they release the darker version on DVD if it's gets that messed up by Fox....

bee_01

Hugh has been crazy awesome from the start. He actually acknowledges that Wolverine kick started his career and hasn't turned his back on the character.

Solid Snake

Yeah...he said before that he loves the Wolverine character for what it is and what it did to him. Stating as well that he won't quit the character until the fans quit the character. I mean, he knows when it's good to bow down. His enthusiasm for the character is very passionate, I love it when actors are that cool with it.

also...does Hugh Jackman keep looking more badass with age? Look at those arms! I hope the film is as good as we want it to be...

Deftones

Looks like the reshoots were done to.....add more scenes w/ Deadpool to make him a featured character.


http://www.darkhorizons.com/news09/090123h.php

RocShemp

Awesome! The more Deadpool the better!

I'm still hoping there's a shot of him in the film (preferably in the background) where he notices the audience watching the film. But before he says anything someone calls him away. Non-fans would wonder what he was looking at but fans would know he's the only character aware he's in a movie. Much like how in the comics he's the only one aware it's a comic book.

MartinBlank

The Merc with a Mouth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX424mqlK-E

OldBoy

i know the events are prior to X-Men franchise, but how come some roles couldn't be the same, especially Cox's Stryker? they have tricks to make younger and even not who cares would have been nice to see him reprise considering they seemed to match the same X-Men 2 birth of Wolverine scens.

majorjoe23

Making someone look younger usually works well for a short scene, not an entire movie, as it either involves painful methods (like they used on Bilbo in the opening of Fellowship) or expensive ones (Professor X and Magento in X-Men 3).

For an entire movie it would likely be cost prohibitive, or Cox may not have been willing/available.

fumanstan

Yeah, this came up earlier in the thread. I don't think it matters too much.

toddly6666

What's so great about Deadpool?

RocShemp

See MartinBlank's post, toddly6666. That should give you an idea of the awesomness that is Deadpool.

Solid Snake

He's a highly skilled assassin, in fact probably one of the best in the Marvel world. To counter balance that he's psychotic, out of touch with reality (he for the most part knows that he's in a comic), and never ever shuts up. He argues with himself sometimes, verbally, in public. His mind and his mouth are like two different entities at times. He'll think one thing but he'll say something else and trigger an argument with himself. Hell, you could have the most EVIL villain next to him..and he'll unnerve them by the things he says. So essentially you have this awesome killing machine that has reality issues..and he has a healing factor. He can say chimichangas in 8 languages too. And currently...he was so out of cash that he made a whole chair out of plastique to have some furniture in his hom...and he finds it cool that he has a chair that can go BOOM. He in fact argued with himself as to how cool it was or wasn't

OH and unlike say Wolverine, not to say that he can't but he won't, Deadpool will sacrifice his body to get the job done. I mean..he's lost fingers in a fight and he'll stay make jokes and what not..I mean..he really really loves his job. I can't go on anymore...but just watch that video..THAT is Deadpool.

God, I love Deadpool. His film would have to be R...he's just too extreme.

TheNightFlier

That was great.

"Babies creep me out."