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Xmen2 Scoops

Saw this on e-online..thought it might interest u all.


There's Not Only a Love Triangle but a Full-On Love Polygon: Expect relationships to deepen and more of the character's emotional lives to come to the surface. "There's a little bit of action," Jackman tells us. "The love triangle heats up." He actually means love pentagon, by our count, centered around his Wolverine and including Rogue, Jean Grey, Cyclops and Iceman.

Wolverine also digs into his mysterious past, which leads him and his fellow X-Men (we meet maybe a dozen new characters) directly to a real bad dude named General William Stryker (Brian Cox).

The Rest of the Plot's Secret...but Not That Secret: Mum's the official word, and no one's talking here about the story. Even the latest very cool trailer doesn't reveal much. We've heard, however, that newbie screenwriters Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty developed their screenplay from ideas and themes in two well-known adventures: Weapon X and Singer's favorite God Loves, Man Kills.

This last arc, written by Chris Claremont and illustrated by Brent Eric Anderson, tells of a vicious anti-mutant crusade carried out by an evangelist (a Reverend Stryker). The X-Men join forces with nemesis Magneto to fight the public's onslaught of bigotry. It's one of the comic's classic storylines, but how much of it actually makes its way into the flick? Nobody's saying.

The X-Men Are Not Spider-Man: McKellen wants to make it perfectly clear that these mutant myths have key advantages over your typical superhero tale. "I'm attracted to X-Men because of the moral basis of it," he says, "which, I think, is, frankly, a great deal more interesting than Spider-Man, which is exactly the same story of Superman--nerd becomes a hero by putting on a fancy frock in front of a mirror. There's no way to go with that story. Our movie is about politics. Our story is about what it's like to live in the real world."

You'd think Wolverine would learn to trim his own sideburns.

Did We Mention This Stryker Is a Bad, Bad Guy? The ubiquitous Cox (25th Hour, Adaptation, The Ring, etc.) plays über-villain Stryker, embodying the worst of humankind. Exec producer Tom DeSanto says that "at moments in the film, he seems to be channeling Marlon Brando from Apocalypse Now. He's that intense and that scary. He's humanity's reaction to mutants."

Stryker doesn't see things the way Prof. X and Magneto do, that the mutants are an evolution of humanity. "He responds with fear and paranoia," DeSanto says. "Mutants are a virus, and he's going to provide the cure."

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When are they going to wear the classic Xmen suits like in the cartoons of the 90s? I heard the Sentinals would be in this movie. Is this true? Would be cool as hell to see Wolverine slicing and dicing at the Sentinals. A lot can be done with the Xmen series. One of the coolest comic books of all times. I do wish Gambit was in this movie too. Pretty cool character

It goes along with the story lines, when Wolvie was with that Canadian outfit, Alpha Flight. The group that originally put the adamantium into his body.

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Cool, I remember that.

I hope they keep it close to the comics, same back ground anyways. they ovously did a great job with comics, I hate to see them fux it up now

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