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The Blob Has Been Cast for WOLVERINE?

By: Jarrod Sarafin
Date: Monday, February 25, 2008
Source: Film School Rejects

Film School Rejects passed along news of test footage for The Blob character last week and now they're passing to us that an actor may already be on board. The site reports that Kevin Durand (3:10 to Yuma, Wild Hogs) has been cast to play the very heavy character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.. If true, he would be joining Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, Will.i.am, Danny Huston, Dominic Monaghan, Daniel Henney and Lynn Collins. Director Gavin Hood is leading the project, based on a screenplay by David Benioff. The production has finished its shoots in New Zealand and have since moved to Sydney.

Our source inside the production tells us that Durand was "live-scanned" for The Blob a while ago, but has just officially signed on to the project in recent days. Word is that he will be heading up to his native Canada to shoot scenes for the film sometime next week. This is also important because the rest of the production is happening half way across the world in New Zealand and Australia.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine will hit theaters May 1, 2009.



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Comments/Responses
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AzuLTaLoN • Feb 25, 2008, 12:50am •
the blob is one cameo or role that should have been in a movie already, i mean after magneto and the vanisher(teleporter) he's the third villain the x-men ever faced. prof. x was bogus and mind wiped vanisher, the prof. was pretty cold and sorta brutal back then.

SONYMANswallows • Feb 25, 2008, 02:09am •
Better choices would be:
Karl Rove
BarbaraBush (I'd say Laura Bush but she will replace Ledger in the 3rd Batman film--her face is pasty and makeup is put on with a butter knife)
Dickless Cheney
Peter Jackson
The corpse of Jerry Falwell
Roger Clinton
John Travolta
Oprah Winfrey--just re install the chairs
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley
Randy Jackson
Hal E Berry's dick the bulge is tiny but still a revolting blob)
Any fat woman who leads a choir or I mean any women who leads a choir.


And the guy pretending to be Gene Simmons in the sex tape.

Dazzler • Feb 25, 2008, 04:22am •
This movie might as well be another X-men movie with all the villains at this point. It's sounds like it's becoming a cluster-fuk.

Whiskeymovie • Feb 25, 2008, 04:24am •
Anway....I wonder if it will be a big part, or just a cameo? It seems like the movie is gertting a little crowded. I am sure they know whats up. I just hope the movie is longer than 95 minutes to fit all this in.

mlaforcer • Feb 25, 2008, 05:16am •
I completely agree that there are to many characters in this movie...I know it's based on a comic and the action is a big part of that comic but I want in depth character development with Wolverine and his main nemesis's if you will...It just seems like the whole thing is going to get watered down with all these guys involved but then again I don't assume to know what the director is going for here and to be honest I don't know allot about this comic and it's characters, so I guess I will have to take a wait and see approach...
I had asked this question earlier but no one answered me, so I will ask again...Are there any mutant animals that are pets and are controlled by human mutants? I think that is such a cool idea having like a wolf that has some kind of ability and kicks ass...

boxofficebeast • Feb 25, 2008, 06:48am •
Mia, I don't know the answer to your question...however Im tempted to say I dont think so... Sonyman...Im just starting to ignore all your posts...

I don't know why people are saying their are too many mutants. There were this many if not MORE in all the other films individually. It is true that this is about ONE mutant however and not a team, but if you think about it there really are not that many. The movie will start off with Weapon X origins, thus you need to at least SEE the entire weapon x team, once that is over, he will escape and meet an ally (Gambit) and along the way one or 2 other mutants (Blob), probably with the weapon x team re-emerging to kick some ass...

20105 • Feb 25, 2008, 08:22am •
mlaforcer, I can think of two/three off the top of my head. All are Marvel characters.

1) Maggott - Member of the X-Men. Has two giant slugs.

2) Devil Dinosaur & Moon-Boy - Red dinosaur that is friends with a young caveman. I believe both are mutants.

3) Lockjaw of the INHUMANS - In a weird way he is BOTH.

IMHO, you may have hit on something. Create it before somebody else does.

nax37 • Feb 25, 2008, 09:24am •
Mutant pets... that's an interesting idea.

20105: Maggott's slugs wouldn't really be considered mutated pets. They weren't mutant slugs, they were his mutated digestive system. So technically, they're a part of him, not pets. Lockjaw - was he a dog exposed to the terrigan mists, or was he an inhuman who mutated to that form when he was exposed?

experiMENTAL • Feb 25, 2008, 09:35am •
I thought AICN's own Harry Knowles was playing The Blob...
Is Sprocket from Fraggle Rock gonna be in this too?
Maybe Rob Schneider from The Animal will make an appearance for comedic break.
Bring us your sick, your retarded, your stupid, your irrelevent, your mom. We'll put em all in your little movie! Has Paul Reubens been cast yet?
I'll be there opening day either way.

captm0rgan77 • Feb 25, 2008, 10:35am •
SonyMan you need to stop drinking the BONG WATER.
As for the serious posts. I don't think so, at least not in the way that you are referring to. I could see a mutant that might have the ability to control animals, kinda like Aquaman, but then again it sounds kinda weak... then AGAIN the X-Men had Dazzler and her little light shows were pretty usless... so... Who knows. I agree with Boxoffice. The Weapon X project didn't just use Wolverine. And I'm sure that, after Logan escapes, they'll probably be sending a couple of "fluff" muties to capture him so that we can see him kicking some ass. I mean it's cool to see him make fools of cops and normal folk, but we've seen that already. I want to see him do some serious damage to some threatening mutants. Sabertooth is obviously his arch-nemisis here and will probably result in a elongated fight sequence for the final battle. So I'm not to worried about the amound of mutants. Then again maybe they're thinking of a franchise here and they're looking to set up other key players for the sequels.
On a side note. I don't like the way Hollywood usually has the good guy killing, or permanantly disabling, the protaganists. For those of us that read comic books we know that these bad guys, for the most part, are always coming back and if they were that easy to get ride of then the evil doers wouldn't be that evil, would they. IMHO when Hollywood knows that they're looking at a three-picture deal, like Spider-Man, then they should have had Eddie Brock aka Venom's character being setup in the background and pop in here and again, like he does in the comics. You can have the other "fluff" enemies so that the hum-drum audience can get a sense of closure and not feel obligated to see the sequel or feel that they got jipped because they paid for a movie and all they got was a "part 1" (like the whining babies did with Pirates of the Carribean 2. I mean come on, you know there's going to be a third and since it's the second movie you all should know what it's about, genre wise. I just don't understand). Back to... Then when us fanboys go and see the third movie we don't feel rushed into an enemy that is suposed to be one of Spider-Man's biggest villains. Since dealing with him before he would know what to expect and therefore giving us a longer and more indepth fight scene with a more meaningful ending leaving everybody with a feeling of acomplishment. In the end you would have three seperate movies but together one main story. That's what comics are about. And I know that's why I liked X-Files so much.
My two cents.

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