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Jackman's Landing reports that Comic-Con Internation 2008 in San Diego is celebrating the impending launch of Hugh's first collaborative comic-book effort, Nowhere Man, with a contest.

I wonder if Hugh will be there? What do you think?

MM, I hope you will be there to keep an eye out for Our Guy.

Hugh Hugs, Nancy B
 
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I'll definitely stop by the booth and enter the contest. It's going to be a mad house this year, as always. But if it's Hugh related I'm there! I'm still so surprised Marvel is doing nothing about the Wolverine movie. Last year they pulled out all the stops for Iron Man and Incredible Hulk. Ah, well, they must have something truly exciting in the works, but I think they are stupid not to have some sort of teaser for the film. Just my opinion.
 
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MM, I am so glad you will be there. Good Luck in the contest.

They would have to be stupid not to do something for "Wolverine". Tell them to throw a big poster up on the wall. Just my opinion.

Anyone else going?

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The absence of "Wolverine" must have caught the channel G4 ("tv for gamers") by surprise. They were running ads for their ComicCon coverage with one of the authorized shots of YKW from "...Origins" and included it in a list of four movies they would have info on. Now they've switched over to a different (Wolverine-less) ad for their coverage.
 
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Hugh Jackman upstages Reeves and Wahlberg at Comic-Con
By Daniel Fienberg July 24, 01:31 PM


The first Hall H panel of Comic-Con on Thursday (July 24) included previously announced guests Keanu Reeves (for The Day the Earth Stood Still) and Mark Wahlberg (for Max Payne), but the man who brought the house down at the 20th Century Fox event was a bearded Hugh Jackman, fresh off an airplane after completing work on X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

"I know what you're thinking," Jackman started, doing nothing to silence the hooting. "This guy is way to too tall to play Wolverine."

"I've waited years to bring Wolverine here to Comic-Con," said Jackman. "Years."

He added, "Without you guys, I wouldn't have a career. Without you guys there wouldn't be X-Men 2 and 3. There wouldn't be Wolverine."

As if the crowd wasn't loud, Jackman raised additional pulses by heading into the cheap seats to greet Len Wein, creator of the Wolverine character.

"I have to shake your hand, because from that hand came the character who gave me a career," he said.

Jackman whet more than a few appetites by promising, "All I'll say is the movie is big, it is action packed and two words I know you want to hear, if I could describe Wolverine movie, is 'bad ass.'"

He added, "You're going to see a lot of berserker rage. Let me tell you."

With the Gavin Hood directed feature hitting theaters next May, this was Jackman's only chance to tease the movie for Comic-Con audiences and he didn't disappoint.

"I grabbed a whole lot of footage threw it in a big and literally glued it together," he announced.

Jackman was obviously being disingenuous, because the footage screened was fairly tight and, not to indulge my inner fanboy, fairly awesome. As the title indicates, it's an origin story and the clips showcased the young Logan (Jackman) and Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber), best known to fans as Wolverine and Sabretooth. We also got lots of Danny Huston as William Stryker and, to the great joy of the crowd, several shots of Taylor Kitsch, whose arrival as Gambit already seems to be yielding salivation.

It's too early to know if the X-Men Origins: Wolverine footage will join the Comic-Con blockbuster-making pantheon of clips from 300 or Iron Man, but for a movie that hadn't been generating the best of buzz, this was an obvious shot in the arm.

source: zap2it.com
 
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Here's a wee bit more:

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The clip's money shot, according to fan reaction: Wolverine facing off against archrival Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber), and declaring, "I'm going to cut your goddamned head off. See if that works."



EEEE!!!!
 
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Did you notice that it says Hugh is mutton chop free?

At last.

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And a report from COMINGSOON.NET --

SPOILERS ALERT***SPOILERS ALERT***SPOILERS ALERT


http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=47148


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SDCC: First Wolverine Footage Screened!!
Source: Edward Douglas July 24, 2008


At the end of the 20th Century Fox presentation where they showed new footage from The Day the Earth Stood Still and Max Payne (more on that exciting footage coming soon), the studio who has produced the most Marvel comic book movies so far pulled a surprise on the packed audience by bringing out Hugh Jackman, who had just gotten off a plane from Australia where they had just finished filming X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Written by David Benioff and directed by Oscar-winning director Gavin Hood (Tsotsi), the movie had been cloaked in secrecy except for a few scattered pictures that have leaked out, and Jackman was really excited about debuting some of the first footage at Comic-Con, since they weren't able to bring any of the "X-Men" movies there. He thanked everyone in the audience for helping make comic book movies so big in the past few years as well as going to see the three "X-Men" movies because it's the fans who helped make Jackman's career.

Jackman introduced Len Wein, the creator of Wolverine, who was in the audience, but that wasn't enough for Jackman, as he jumped off the stage and ran over shake Wein's hand and thank him for creating such a great character. Once he was back on stage, Jackman gave a really heart-felt speech to Wein saying, "I waited a long time to thank you personally and I wanted to shake your hand, mate. It's one of the best comic book characters ever created and as an actor, it's a challenge to play and I've just done it for the fourth time, and I still feel there's more to find out and that's down to you, from your great mind and heart creating a great character."

Jackman promised that the movie is "big, action-packed and bad-ass" and that we'll see a lot of "berzerker rage" in it, before showing the footage that was cut together especially for Comic-Con, even though he promised that it would look even better when the movie comes out next May.

SPOILERS...The footage went by so fast that it was impossible to catch everything the first time--and they only showed it once unfortunately--but it begins with Jackman's Logan and Liev Schreiber's Victor Creed dressed in military gear in a detention cell where they're being interrogated by the younger Major William Stryker, played by Danny Huston. He says, "You were sentenced to death for decapitating a senior officer. Your sentence was to be carried out by a firing squad at 1000 hours. How'd that go?" Then Wolverine said, "It tickled." We see the two of them put in front of a firing squad who shoots at them, but they escape and we see Logan walking away as the building explodes behind them.

Stryker continues asking them if they're tired of running and denying their true nature and tells them he's putting together a "special team with special privileges" referring to the early stages of Weapon X or Alpha Flight. As he says this, we see brief glimpses of all the other characters in the movie, including Taylor Kitsch's Gambit, who looked amazing in action, Lynn Collins as Silverfox, Kevin Durand as The Blob, and even a short glimpse of Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool.

Most of the non-action scenes in the footage were dialogue sequences between Jackman and Schreiber with them talking over whether to take up Stryker's offer, and this is obviously what's going to lead to the long-time friends having a difference of opinions that leads to their age-old conflict. Logan says to Creed something about wanting to make a difference and asks how he'd like to get started, at which Creed tells Logan, "We didn't sign up for this. Who do you think you are? This is what we do! Become the animal."

From there, we get a few scenes of the experiments done to Logan to turn him into Wolverine, which looks like it was designed after the classic origin tale told in Barry Windsor-Smith's "Weapon X" story with him bursting out of the vat with the adamantium spikes coming out of skin. There was also a brief glimpse of Logan as a boy in a kimono with his claws extended which harks back to images from "Origins" and Frank Miller's take on the character's roots in Japan.

We see a few quick bits of Wolverine fighting some of the characters, including the Blob and Gambit, but the best moments are when he's taking on Sabretooth (of course)--sorry, Tyler Mane, but I think Liev Schreiber is going to make a lot better Victor Creed--and the clip reel ended with Wolverine hanging from the top of the helicopter while it's flying through the air.End of SPOILERS

Even though the usual claims were that this was unfinished footage, it looked good enough to make a pretty kick-ass trailer and fans of the character should be happy if the movie delivers on what we were shown.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine opens on May 1, 2009, and Jackman mentioned that they'll be presenting more footage and have a full panel for the movie at Wonder-Con in February.


Big GrinBig GrinBig Grin


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... and there's some video, too!!!

He looks great for 100+!!!
 
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MM where are you-you must have had aheart attack!!!!
 
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Thanks!

His grey t-shirt reminds me of TBFO days Big Grin...and the full beard - I wonder if he is still on standby for any AUSTRALIA reshoots ( rather than WOLVERINE)...or is he just enjoying his vacation?

More videos - captured by RopeofSilicon of Hugh introducing WOLVERINE...and saying goodbye --

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/wolverine_footage_debuted_at_comic_con


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Yesssss - I was also thinking of MM -- maybe she's too overcome to be able to share her excitement - LOL!

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And even the New York Times is not exempt from sharing the excitement of Hugh's appearance and the optimism that it entails ( that Fox's run in the box office will soon be back to big bucks again) Big Grin

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/25/movies/25comicon.html...ref=arts&oref=slogin

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Comic-Con Brings Out the Stars, and Plugs for Movies

The actor Hugh Jackman, left, talks to the legendary comic book creator Stan Lee at the 2008 Comic-Con convention.

By MICHAEL CIEPLY
Published: July 25, 2008

SAN DIEGO — Hugh Jackman, jet-lagged and on the run, still managed to find exactly the right words for this crowd.

“Without you, I wouldn’t have a career!” Mr. Jackman, just off a plane from Australia, screamed at 6,500 fans in the big hall at the 39th annual Comic-Con convention, which began here on Thursday.

The crowd roared. Mr. Jackman, who was on hand to promote “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” next year’s entry from the X-Men series from Marvel Studios and 20th Century Fox, kept pouring it on.

“He really means it, he really means it,” squealed one fan, who had to be shooed back to his seat by a security guard.

And by the time Mr. Jackman was done, it looked pretty certain that Fox’s recent box-office drought would not be a long one.

Just before Mr. Jackman took the stage to introduce what he called “berserker rage”-filled scenes from his just-wrapped film...



Loved the reaction of that Wolvie fan! Big Grin


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I thought of our Musical Mutant as soon as I read this. I hope she will soon be revived enough to share her take first-hand! How exciting!

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If anyone has G4 Channel on their cable network, get there now! Hugh is coming up soon.
 
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Just turned off G-4 cable channel, which interviewed Hugh earlier in the day but just showed the interview now. He still has a rather thickish beard, but he looks GREAT--wearing in a tight blue-gray T that shows off his muscular arms.

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Sorry...Not trying to hog the thread, but I have to share this report from JoBlo Big Grin


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It didn't take long for the first surprise of the Con! Just after the MAX PAYNE and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL panels wrapped, the stage went empty until a special guest walked in off the side of the stage. "Ladies and gentlemen, HUGH JACKMAN."

I've seen a lot of craziness in Hall H in my time but I don't think I've ever seen anything like this before. Bedlam. Absolute bedlam. The crowd just went completely insane. Grown women weeping. Men rushing the stage. It took a good five minutes for everyone to calm down before Hugh could even speak. Finally Hugh said he just got off a flight from Australia but that there was no way he was missing Comic-Con this year. He said he has "waited years to bring Wolverine" to Comic-Con after missing the boat on X-MEN 2 and 3. Hugh said he wanted to pay homage to the creator of Wolverine, Len Wein, who was in the audience. It was at this point Hugh decided he wanted to come down into the Hall H crowd.

Security wasn't prepared and Hugh was mobbed prompting him to later admit that "maybe that wasn't such a great idea." But Hugh was able to come down and shake Len's hand and high-five a few people in the audience. Once back on stage Hugh apologized for not having a full panel but said they literally just wrapped filming and that he wanted to show off a brief something. He said that you can expect X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE to be three things: "big, action-packed and BAD-ASS." Oh and you can expect lots of berserker rage.

With that Hugh introduced the clip, a sort of Con trailer...


...It's still early to call it the best of the Con, but I can't imagine anything approaching the fever pitch in Hall H when Jackman came out and screened the footage. Unfortunately I don't see an official version coming online soon but man was it good!


You can read an account of the footages ( Spoilers) here --

http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=22173


Jo<sooo excited for Hugh and the movie> Big Grin

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Here are some photos taken by one of the attendees --

http://daemonsmovies.com/2008/07/24/wolverine-origins-picture-comic-con-2008/









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I just watched the ropeofsilicon video and I have to admit I was drooling profusely. That tight blue T-shirt and those form-fitting jeans...whew!! I'm fanning myself as we speak.
 
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I've just gotten back and am still reeling from such a fabulous day!!!! There's nothing left for me to say since you got all the scoop from the bloggers, but I know I thought i was going to die. I grabbed my daughter's knee...this is an occurence that often takes place when Hugh is involved in some capacity... and gasped in amazement. All week since the schedule for the Con was posted I haven't been able to grasp the idea that Marvel and Fox would ignore next summer's big comic book movie. And I went to the panel only because deep down inside I hoped there might be a mention..but was pretty sure that it wasn't going to happen. So you can imagine my surprise when the introduced him. Anyhow, he looked brilliant, it was short and sweet and the trailer was amazing. I am so into Wolverine (since my move, my bedroom is pretty much entirely a shrine to the character) so for me the trailer was really the main thrill. I can still remember the Con when Brian Singer had been filming X2 for only 3 weeks and brought footage and it made me day, so this was just that much sweeter! The crowd was ecstatic and that even adds to the joy and excitement. My friend Dan got some fabulous shots so when he gets them to me I will try and post them here. I was in such a state of shock with his presence. A few hours later at my favorite comic book writer and artist panel I broke down in tears. I was tired, hungry but also just still pinching myself that I got to see him again and see the trailer . Why this guy does this to me, why I'm so enthralled and in love with Logan..I can't really answer those questions but hey they made my day!

And I thought it was going to be Gerard Butler and Guy Richie to put me on top of the world today...yeah they were cool and fun but nothing compares to Hugh/Wolverine/Logan.

Now to bed, I still have 3 more days left. I doubt anything will be able to top today though!
 
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