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In case you didn't know there's a new X-movie coming out next year and it's called X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Although I've known about this new movie for quite sometime now, it always failed to generate the kind of excitement I would normally get from the other X-movies or even the new Batman.

There's something about Wolverine that I just find very boring and a bit annoying... It's not his character per se, but how he always gets the spotlight, how he's always everyone's favourite. You could have called the previous X-movies "Wolverine and friends" that nobody would have complained. Well. some news emerged this week that made me really excited about this film: Gambit has arrived!

For those of you who don't know who he is, he's one of the coolest X-Men ever. Gambit (whose real name is Remy LeBeau) possesses the ability to manipulate kinetic energy. He is also skilled in card throwing (when they're charged with kinetic energy), hand-to-hand combat, and the use of a Bo (which is basically a big stick, think Donatello in TMNT). Personality-wise, Gambit reminds me a lot of Sawyer from LOST ( or maybe I should say Sawyer reminds me of Gambit...). They both share misterious past full of evil deeds, the witty remarks, the seductive way with women... And speaking of women, they both also seem to only show a more vulnerable side of themselves with their ladies (Rogue and Kate respectively). There were rumours about Gambit being in X3 and played by Josh Holloway, but unfortunately that didn't work... He would have been the perfect Gambit (sigh...):




But now Gambit is confirmed to the in Wolverine, and the chosen actor is Friday Night Lights actor Taylor Kitsch. I've never watched that show, so I have no idea who this guy is. I just hope he does Gambit justice.



I'm also curious on how Gambit's costume will look like. His costume was always one of my favourite in the comics, but I don't know if it will work in "real life". They'll probably go the same way as the X-movies and ditch the original costume for something a bit more realistic. I just hope they keep the red and black eyes, that has to be there.

Other notable announcements in terms of characters and casting? Well, the one I'm more excited about is Deadpool. Major-hottie Ryan Reynolds will be playing Deadpool, which in the comics always wears a mask. As cool as the mask is, I hope that they don't cover Ryan's face the whole time, eheh:




Also announced was that Liev "Cotton" Schreiber landed the part of Victor Creed, a.k.a. Sabretooth. Fingers crossed that the new Sabretooth will be an improvement over their last attempt in X-Men 1, it was a bit lame there...




To finish things off, there's also Dominic Monaghan playing Barnell, (also known as Beak), a mutant with bird-like physiology (in some versions of the comic) and with the power to manipulate energy and electricity, and Danny Huston, playing William Stryker. Stryker was the bad guy in X2, played by Brian Cox. To be honest these two leave quite indifferent, probably I don't really know a lot/care much about their characters...




The last announced character is John Wraith, a.k.a. Kestrel. To be honest I'd never heard of this one before, and according to wikipedia, "he was part of Team X along with Wolverine, Sabretooth, Maverick, Mastodon, and Silver Fox. Wraith was a powerful teleporter, capable of getting the team out of sticky situations after their job was finished." What's suprising about this one is the "actor" they chose to play it, none other than Will.i.am! Yes, he's the guy from the Black Eyed Peas, I never even knew he could act, let alone be a powerful mutant! Well, I guess if things get rough I suppose he can always try singing "My humps"...

And that's all we know for now. Silver Fox is also going to be a character in the movie, but still no word (besides rumours) on who's going to play her. What do you all think, excited about X-Men Origins? Will that guy be able to be Gambit? I'm fairly excited now with all these announcements. Will it be any good? Only time will tell...