David Goyer May Bump ‘Magneto’ To Make Way For ‘Invisible Man’

From: MTV.com
Published by Larry Carroll

David Goyer is a busy man these days. Making the most popular film of the year, and one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, will do that to a guy.

Now, the “Dark Knight” screenwriter is hoping to capitalize on his success with such recent superhero scripts as “The Flash” and “X-Men Origins: Magneto,” which he’ll also direct.

“That may be next,” he told us recently. But first, Goyer revealed, he hopes to vanish for awhile.

“I’m writing a new version of ‘The Invisible Man’ for Universal,” said the red-hot writer/director, who was at Comic-Con recently to promote “The Unborn,” a horror flick due in theaters next year. “I’m in the process of doing ['Invisible Man'] right now, and I’m working with some conceptual artists in tandem with writing the script. I’m actually working with one of the artists from ‘Batman Begins’ and ‘The Dark Knight.’ So it could be ‘Magneto,’ or it could be ‘The Invisible Man’ next.”

Old–school horror fans will undoubtedly be rooting for the latter. And it should make them giddy to know that Goyer has been tracing the non-material man all the way back to his roots, in order to yank him into the modern age.

“Well, ‘The Invisible Man,’ the Universal film, is a great movie, a Claude Rains film,” Goyer said with admiration. “My take is kind of an extrapolation. It actually deals with a nephew of the first character. It’s got some of the characters from the H.G. Wells book, but it’s kind of a continuation.”

Goyer said that if you’ve seen the Rains film, you might actually get more out of the new version; but at the same time, there’ll be no prior knowledge required.

“It involves Scotland Yard getting their hands on the current Invisible Man and basically saying, ‘Wow, you’d be a really good secret agent to send into Imperial Russia right now,’” an enthusiastic Goyer said of the plot. “It starts off from there.”

As for the intended look of the film he’ll direct as well as write, Goyer made reference to a popular style of fantasy that has emerged over the last few decades: “It kind of crosses a lot of genres. It’s very steam punk.”

And if you’re thinking that the nephew of Jack Griffin will similarly be rendered as a floating hat and scarf in our age of CGI, think again.

“I don’t want to give too much away, but I took what being invisible could mean to the next logical extreme,” he explained. “We do a lot of crazy things in it that are sort of far beyond what anyone’s done with it yet.”

Mutant Cameos Are Crashing Wolverine

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By Rafe Telsch

One of the fun things about the X-Men movies is the number of supporting players the filmmakers managed to cram in. Without making all of them primary players, the movie manages to feature quite a few popular characters, making a fun Easter Egg hunt for fans of the comic book.

It looks like that tradition may be carried on with the X-Men Origins movies, or at least the one currently in production, Wolverine. In the past week, two separate mutants have been mentioned as having possible Wolverine appearances, making fans squeal with delight at the possibilities. The appearances were mentioned recently by leading man Hugh Jackman himself, who told USA Today his spin-off would go the route of the previous franchise films with cameos of familiar mutants.

The first reported cameo comes from Film School Rejects who report that one of the heaviest mutants will be putting in an appearance: The Blob. Apparently some test footage is being shot with a practical effect in place to make an 800-pound actor appear more like a 1200-pound character (the numbers seem a little high, to the point even the site is questioning the reliability of that information). The Blob is a massive character, which helps form the basis of his mutant power of being immovable and seriously resistant to attacks. There’s no telling how large a part the character would play in the movie (no pun intended), but the fact that they aren’t relying on CG makes me wonder if it’s not minimal, where they don’t have to worry about having the character in combat of any sort.

The more exciting news builds on a rumor we’d heard before, albeit as a potential stand-alone picture. The good news is that if this cameo happens, it could easily lead into the stand-alone film. AICN reports that the fast-talking mutant assassin Deadpool will be showing up to taunt Wolverine at some point, and the previously rumored casting for the part is still being talked about: Ryan Reynolds. The only reason I doubt this is that recently Reynolds has been talking to the press about his more serious turn as an actor (like in Definitely, Maybe) and that he’s not interested in doing something like The Flash in JLA anymore. Is it that he isn’t interested in that kind of part, or he just wasn’t interested in that specific vehicle?

Since both of these are rumored as cameos, I wouldn’t expect either character to appear for too long in the Wolverine movie, but I love that they’re carrying on the tradition that started with X-Men, that the world of the mutants is bigger than just what we see in the movies, and there are more stories to be told.

Ryan Reynolds to Play Deadpool?

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Let's recap... Ryan Reynolds told us the following a couple of weeks ago:

CS: You were under consideration for "The Flash," correct?
Reynolds: Uh huh.

CS: Are there any other superheroes you'd be interested in playing?
Reynolds: Basically for me there are two superheroes that I could play. One would be Deadpool, the other would be The Flash. There are no imminent plans to do either just now.

CS: Why Deadpool?
Reynolds: He's just the "merc with a mouth". For me I guess it's a no-brainer.

Now, Ain't It Cool News reports today:
Anyone up for a little DEADPOOL?
How about if Ryan Reynolds is playing him?
This one's supposed to be a secret, but cat's out of the bag now, Marvel.
An awful lot must have happened the last few weeks (or maybe he's just a liar... a good one though!) It's not for a Deadpool movie though, but instead for a cameo in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Thoughts?