Yet another cast member has been added to the X-Men 2 roster.
Victoria Time Colonist reports that Brian Cox (Bourne Identity, Rushmore, Long Kiss Goodnight) is among the newcomers of the film. He will be playing "Stryker, a villainous ex-Army commander who holds the key to Wolverine's past." This confirms reports that X2 is, in part, adapting from Claremont's "God Loves, Man Kills" trade paperback, in which Stryker is an evangelist with a military background and "a plan of genocide for mutants." However, it seems the movie will be taking some liberties, perhaps involving Stryker in Weapon X, the military project responsible for Wolverine's adamantium grafting.
The article also reports that Kelly Hu's character in the film is known not as Ann Reynolds but as Yuriko Oyama, the comic-book namesake of Lady Deathstrike, further confirming that she'll be playing the role. One should note that in the comics, Lady Deathstrike's claws are adamantium-laced, like Wolverine's but as cybernetic extentions of the fingers, and that her father is the man who developed the adamantium-bonding process. It will be interesting to see how Singer and the writing crew have adapted the character.
X-Men 2 is currently filming external shots at Hatley Castle in Victoria, Canada, and will shortly be filming a scene in which the X-Mansion is being raided by military helicopters and ground forces.
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