X3

At least they're talking about it. Romjin is in.

Romijn-Stamos Back For X-Men 3
[font=Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans Serif]Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, who plays the indigo shapeshifter Mystique in the X-Men films, told SCI FI Wire that she's definitely returning in the proposed third installment. "I'm dreading the makeup part, but nothing else," she said in an interview. "I'm so happy to be a part of that franchise, and I love those people. It's a really exciting thing to be a part of."[/font]

[font=Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans Serif]Romijn-Stamos said she hasn't received a script for the third film, but looks at the role as another chance to prove that as an actor, she is more than a just pretty face. "I think you need a lot more than beauty to be a great actress in this world," she said. "There's lots of beautiful women out there. I think sometimes you have to remove that whole element of physical beauty in order to get people to see that you're actually a really talented person, because sometimes people just can't get over it. But that's the joy of acting. You get to embody these different characters and turn yourself into somebody else, my own example being Mystique."[/font]

 

[font=Helvetica, Arial, Sans Serif]Third X-Men In Works [/font] [font=Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans Serif]Hugh Jackman, who will likely reprise the role of Wolverine in a proposed third X-Men movie, confirmed to SCI FI Wire that the sequel is in the works, but that the story has yet to be locked down. "I know they're in discussions about it," Jackman said in an interview while promoting his next movie, Van Helsing. "They're trying to work out schedules and things like that."[/font]

[font=Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans Serif]The last film in the Marvel Comics-based franchise, X2, ended with the death of Jean Grey and the hint of the comics' Dark Phoenix storyline, in which Grey transforms into a powerful and evil mutant. Will the third X-Men movie pick up that thread? "There's no script yet, so I'm not sure," Jackman said in reply.[/font]

 

[font=Helvetica, Arial, Sans Serif] X-Men 3 To Shoot In 2005 [/font] [font=Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans Serif]X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner told SCI FI Wire that a third movie in the Marvel Comics franchise is slated to begin filming in Vancouver, B.C., in June 2005, with a release date of May 2, 2006. "I just had a conversation with [director] Bryan [Singer] today," Shuler Donner said in an interview at the Saturn Awards in Los Angeles on May 5. "We just started to talk about what the possibilities are. We're pretty sure Wolverine's going to come back."[/font]

[font=Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans Serif]Shuler Donner added that she's going to push to add the new mutants Gambit and Beast this time around. "I'm dying to put Beast in," Shuler Donner said. "I tried to get Beast in the first one and the second one, but it was always too expensive. So, yeah, I'm really dying to get Beast in, and I'd love to get Gambit in, because he's such a cool guy. And there's some really good casting ideas for Gambit." She declined to say who was up for the role.[/font]

[font=Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans Serif]As for Halle Berry—the Oscar-winning actress who has said she's reluctant to return unless her character, Storm, has a lot more to do—Shuler Donner said, "I certainly hope so, because I love working with her. ... We would only write a big huge role for her, so she's right in that respect, and we would make sure that that would happen."[/font]

[font=Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans Serif]And Shuler Donner confirmed that the third movie will deal, at least in part, with the Dark Phoenix storyline that was planted in the second X-Men movie, X2. "We will follow it through in some respect, absolutely, yes," she said. "And we love Famke [Janssen] anyway, so, yeah. Well, she's Dark Phoenix. She's Jean Grey." The producer added that Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris, who wrote the second film, will pen the third installment.[/font]

 

X-Men 3 Casting Rumored

IGN FilmForce reported rumors that Olivia Williams, Bill Duke and Michael Murphy have joined the cast of the third X-Men movie.

Williams (The Sixth Sense) will reportedly play Dr. Moira MacTaggert, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist and former lover of Professor Xavier, who ran a mutant research center on Muir Island in her native Scotland. In the Marvel Comics mythology, MacTaggert was the mother of the mutant Proteus and died after discovering a cure for a new strain of the Legacy virus, the site reported.

Duke (Predator) will portray a politician in the President's cabinet, the site reported.

Murphy will play Warren Worthington Sr., father of Angel (Ben Foster).

 

I hear Wolverine won't have a big part in this one, because they're gearing up for a Wolverine spinoff movie too.

 

Fox announced that the teaser trailer for its upcoming third X-Men movie, nicknamed X3, will go live on the Internet at Apple.com on Dec. 5, a week before originally planned, and that the trailer will hit theaters on Dec. 14, attached to prints of King Kong. SCI FI Wire, meanwhile, was among journalists on the film's Vancouver, Canada, set on Dec. 1 who got a glimpse of the trailer in the company of star Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), and the trailer reveals several key spoilers about the upcoming movie.

After shooting a scene with Ian McKellen (Magneto), Jackman, dressed in his full Wolverine regalia, invited reporters back to the "dailies" trailer to watch a rough cut of the preview clip with him.

One of the highlights of the trailer is the appearance for the first time of two new characters: Angel (Ben Foster), unfolding his large, feathered wings in a laboratory setting, and the furred, blue-skinned Beast (Kelsey Grammer) at what appears to be a memorial service.

The trailer also confirms speculation that the third film would deal with the Dark Phoenix storyline from the Marvel Comics series: A laboratory sequence appears to show the resurrection of Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), who died at the end of X2, as Phoenix.

The trailer hints that X3 will feature even more action and effects than the first two X-Men films. Storm (Halle Berry) is seen taking flight. There is a Danger Room combat sequence (planned for, but cut out of, the second X-Men movie) and a concluding shot that shows the Golden Gate bridge being torn apart, presumably by Magneto.

The trailer begins with a voice-over narration by Dr. Xavier (Patrick Stewart) warning that mankind is at a pivotal moment in history, that there will be a struggle and that great sacrifices will be made. The visuals open with shots of familiar characters, including Wolverine, Storm and Dr. Xavier.

The action quickly ramps up, with Magneto throwing cars around. Magneto also hints at one of the movie's major themes in one of the trailer's only lines of dialogue: "They want to cure us!" he shouts to a group of mutants assembled in a forest. "I say we are the cure!"

In keeping with Xavier's warning of great sacrifice, there is a gathering of heroes at what appears to be a memorial service, though the trailer doesn't make clear whose.

Several characters from previous films make appearances, including Cyclops (James Marsden), Mystique (Rebecca Romijn) and Colossus (Daniel Cudmore).

X3 continues to shoot in Vancouver under the direction of Brett Ratner; the movie opens May 26, 2006.

 

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Brett Ratner is going to fuck this up bad.

 

IESB.com has reported that the upcoming third X-Men movie will have the subtitle The Last Stand, according to Fox studio head Tom Rothman.

 

Frasier as Beast was a bit odd to me, but the more I think about it, the more it fits.