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Ah, yes. This is how you make a comic-based film: you hire an Oscar-winning director (preferably not Mel Gibson or Clint Eastwood) and a group of actors chosen not specifically for their names, but for their ablility to play their characters. The case in point is X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Hugh Jackman plays the lead, and Ryan Reynolds (who is an above-the-line draw) plays Deadpool, the role he may have been born to play. But then they asked themselves, "Who else should be in this movie?" They decided upon Gambit, but instead of the very obvious choice of Josh Holloway (who would never have taken the role), they chose an unknown, who one hopes resembles his comic-book counterpart. If you're making a movie about Wolverine, you should probably include Sabretooth, but this has its pitfalls. Consider the first X-Men movie, cast and written, one suspects by person not inclined to read the comics before adapting them. In that film, Sabretooth was played by wrestler Tyler Mane, whose only job was to growl and act like a tough guy.
In the comics, he's not a thug. He's a thrillkiller who enjoys taunting his victims. He plays elaborate pranks to really mess with the people he leaves behind. He's more Freddy Krueger than Jason Voorhees. In the new film, Liev Schreiber fills the role. Schreiber is a dialogue actor, rather than a stuntman with lines. He's an actual dramatic foil to Wolverine.
I am looking forward to this film, and I hope that Reynolds and Schreiber have a lot of screen time.
In the comics, he's not a thug. He's a thrillkiller who enjoys taunting his victims. He plays elaborate pranks to really mess with the people he leaves behind. He's more Freddy Krueger than Jason Voorhees. In the new film, Liev Schreiber fills the role. Schreiber is a dialogue actor, rather than a stuntman with lines. He's an actual dramatic foil to Wolverine.
I am looking forward to this film, and I hope that Reynolds and Schreiber have a lot of screen time.