Fox Doing Ultra Last Minute Reshoots for X-Men Origins: Wolverine to Extend Running Time?

Posted by on April 24th, 2009   Filed under: Action, Books/Comics, Rumours

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Today I received a very strange and intriguing report from an anonymous source concerning the upcoming release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. While I wouldn’t normally post a completely random rumour, in this case the tipster is someone who has e-mailed me before and has proven to be pretty reliable. Plus, considering all the wacky stuff that has happened thus far with Wolverine, I am now willing to believe just about anything.

Word on the street is that a brand new scene was shot for Wolverine on the Fox studio lot yesterday, involving both Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds. I know it sounds crazy that they would shoot additional footage just one week before the movie’s release. It is crazy. But from what I’ve heard, a lot of the effects work for the movie is going right down to the wire anyway. Now, allow me speculate further: could it be that they are scrambling to alter the movie or extend the running time at the very last minute?

You may remember that when the workprint version of Wolverine leaked a couple of weeks ago, Fox head honcho Tom Rothman insisted that it was “missing key scenes” and that it was actually 10 minutes shorter than the finished version that would appear in theatres. However, now that the running time has been released online and some press screenings are starting to be held, a lot of people are reporting that the final version of Wolverine is exactly the same as the workprint. Obviously Fox is still pretty worried about the leak and wants to ensure that people have a reason to go see it in theatres. Do you think they have a reason to panic? Will people really avoid going to the theatre if they find out the workprint isn’t missing scenes after all?



  • RJ

    How can this be if they’re already screening it for critics? Perhaps it some sort of after the credits scene.

  • dan

    I saw the workprint a couple of weeks ago, mainly out of curiosity and because it was there, and it was god-awful. And not because of its incomplete special effects, but because of the pointless, ludicrous story, horrible dialogue (“to make you indestructable, first we must destroy you”), and terrible acting. The movie is fundamentally flawed, because the script sucks. No amount of re-shoots can save, it in my opinion.

    So Fox should be worried, but you never can tell these days with box-office success. It’s usually the shittiest movies that make the most amount of money, and it makes me sick. I was kinda looking forward to this movie, too, and if the workprint was at least half-way decent, I probably would have still gone out to see it in the theater.

  • Anon

    Well it must have been pretty quick because Hugh and his family were in Disneyland on Thursday – photos with Mickey on the web to prove it!

  • Goon

    I remember this same thing happened with Planet of the Apes and AvP, and the results were not so good.

  • Is that Deadpool or an Nsync poster?