Here's a list of the characters and actors playing them, I got this from an interview with Brian Singer:
Famke Jansen as Jean Grey James Marsden as Cyclops Halle Berry as Storm Hugh Jackson as Wolverine Anna Paquin as Rogue and Patrick Stewart as Professor Xavier
The bad guys:
Ray Parks as Toad Rebecca Romijn-Stamos as Mystique Tyler Mane as Sabretooth and Ian McKellen as Magneto
Apparantly the movie will start off as Wolverine discovers Xavier's X-Men project. Besides trying to stop Magneto and his brotherhood of evil mutants there will also be some complications regarding Senator Robert Kelly, who sees mutants as a threat to society and wants them terminated.
This movie is an interesting test of Marvel Entertainment. For those of you who don't know, Marvel used to be a real mess. They finally went bankrupt because they just could not manage their assets. For example, the whole reason that when Cameron wanted to do a Spiderman movie, he couldn't (he ended up doing True Lies and then Titanic while waiting) was that Marvel had sold seemingly conflicting rights to multiple parties. Think about this: Jim "Top of the World" Cameron wanted to make a Spiderman movie, but Marvel had made it nearly impossible, no matter how much money Cameron was willing to spend.
They had done a lot of this, and they basically didn't retain much control over these products nor over the royalties. This lead to crap like Fantastic Four and The Punnisher, which you can find on video at conventions, but trust me, they're not really worth the money.
So why is X-Men different? After going through bankruptcy, Marvel has a very different attitude. They are excercising a good deal of control over the X-Men movie from what I've heard, and they are also coordinating marketing efforts with the release of the film. Expect to see numerous X-Men products coming from Marvel and their partners when the movie comes out.
What's even more interesting is that Marvel stock (MVL) is currently suffering from the effects of their bankruptcy. No one wants to take the chance, so it's cheap. If this movie does well, and the upcoming Spiderman movie also hits the mark, Marvel could be back on track and the stock has a lot of room to rise... of course, this *is* Marvel, and they *do* have a track record....
Okay, before everyone starts complaining about there not being an MPEG version, I just converted it: http://home.jbic.com/~ben/x-men_320.mpg . I used the free Movie2MPEG program from: http://www.win.ne.jp/~juan/misc/mpg/index_e.html to convert it on my Mac, but the sound seems to have gotten out of sync near the end. If anyone has a nice fast G3/G4, you're welcome to give it another shot. It too damn long to convert on my lowly 603e/180 that I'm not gonna try it again. Oh, and some mirrors might not be that bad and idea.:)
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aicn have a few piccies from the trailer. All I can say is... Mmmmm, Mystique...
and at this site there is a cool campaign site parody that is very relevant to the x-men.
Enjoy!
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Famke Jansen as Jean Grey
James Marsden as Cyclops
Halle Berry as Storm
Hugh Jackson as Wolverine
Anna Paquin as Rogue
and Patrick Stewart as Professor Xavier
The bad guys:
Ray Parks as Toad
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos as Mystique
Tyler Mane as Sabretooth
and Ian McKellen as Magneto
Apparantly the movie will start off as Wolverine discovers Xavier's X-Men project. Besides trying to stop Magneto and his brotherhood of evil mutants there will also be some complications regarding Senator Robert Kelly, who sees mutants as a threat to society and wants them terminated.
I can't wait :)
This movie is an interesting test of Marvel Entertainment. For those of you who don't know, Marvel used to be a real mess. They finally went bankrupt because they just could not manage their assets. For example, the whole reason that when Cameron wanted to do a Spiderman movie, he couldn't (he ended up doing True Lies and then Titanic while waiting) was that Marvel had sold seemingly conflicting rights to multiple parties. Think about this: Jim "Top of the World" Cameron wanted to make a Spiderman movie, but Marvel had made it nearly impossible, no matter how much money Cameron was willing to spend.
They had done a lot of this, and they basically didn't retain much control over these products nor over the royalties. This lead to crap like Fantastic Four and The Punnisher, which you can find on video at conventions, but trust me, they're not really worth the money.
So why is X-Men different? After going through bankruptcy, Marvel has a very different attitude. They are excercising a good deal of control over the X-Men movie from what I've heard, and they are also coordinating marketing efforts with the release of the film. Expect to see numerous X-Men products coming from Marvel and their partners when the movie comes out.
What's even more interesting is that Marvel stock (MVL) is currently suffering from the effects of their bankruptcy. No one wants to take the chance, so it's cheap. If this movie does well, and the upcoming Spiderman movie also hits the mark, Marvel could be back on track and the stock has a lot of room to rise... of course, this *is* Marvel, and they *do* have a track record....
Okay, before everyone starts complaining about there not being an MPEG version, I just converted it: http://home.jbic.com/~ben/x-men_320.mpg . :)
I used the free Movie2MPEG program from: http://www.win.ne.jp/~juan/misc/mpg/index_e.html to convert it on my Mac, but the sound seems to have gotten out of sync near the end. If anyone has a nice fast G3/G4, you're welcome to give it another shot. It too damn long to convert on my lowly 603e/180 that I'm not gonna try it again.
Oh, and some mirrors might not be that bad and idea.