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[RUMOR] From Logan to Laura? "Wolverine 3" to possibly feature X-23 (SuperHeroHype)
- Thread starter Bobby Roberts
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As long as she aint even whiter than Emma Stone
CaviarMeths
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Laura has almost always been drawn with ambiguously Asian features. Maybe a biracial actress would be nice.
theres no point to new mutants in the 80s if the apoc team is there. the team in the present timeline makes much more sense.
My suggestion from the get-go has been that they introduce X-23 in Jackman's final film as Wolverine as a way to pass the torch. I think it's a smart way for Fox to keep a character like Wolverine in their X-universe without having the burden of trying to straight-up replace Jackman. It also allows them to add another good female character to their lineup.
hodayathink
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As meh as that sounds, that's what Margot Robbie was before Wolf of Wall Street, so I'm willing to give it a chance.
No...she was some unnamed character with claws. Might as well be her.
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JeremyEtcetera
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This seems like the perfect setup from the rise in women protagonists throughout hollywood lately. However, can the actress playing X-23 dethrone Jennifer Lawrence as the main X-men protagonist?
Unspeakable Evil
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Here's the casting call apparently. From Bobby Roberts favorite site : comicbook.com!
I guess that would make them the blue team?
CaviarMeths
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I think her origin could be kept PG-13 enough for a movie. If they tried to do a faithful X-Force though, I don't think they could manage that. X-Force Vol. 3 was R as fuck.
Word is that Wolverine 3 will be R anyway though. The idea was already toyed with for The Wolverine, and approved as far as James Mangold was allowed to shoot footage with both ratings in mind and the R version was released for DVD/BD.
Which is weird since she is basically Wolverine with a duplicated x chromosome.
Daken is the Wolverine kid with a Japanese mom.
But the X-Men films are set in the past now, so X-23 wouldn't be available to be in them, absent time travel.
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JeremyEtcetera
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I could see her in the role. Too bad they wasted this actress for the TV show.
Spike Spiegel
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Years ago I expressed my desire that the final Wolverine film featuring Hugh Jackman should combine a buddy-cop adventure featuring Logan and Kurt/Nightcrawler, with a globe-trotting race against time mission to find and ultimately redeem X-23 before her creators realized their nefarious scheme. I even had the opening scene, general plot, and ending roughed out.
Nemesis121
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Better than a Twinkie
Oh fuck Silver Surfer looks beaten and broken...
joking i know it's Wolverine
Not really, X-23 is someone who's in her teens/young and she only has two claws in each hand. The one in X-2 (Lady Deathstrike) was like her comic version, claws in each finger.
Unspeakable Evil
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In X-23's original debut (X-Men Evolution ) she had her have brown skin for some reason.
I could see her in the role. Too bad they wasted this actress for the TV show.
Perfect. Agh, so lame how she probably isn't eligible
I could see her in the role. Too bad they wasted this actress for the TV show.
Wolverine isn't part of the MCU so she could still play the part.
CaviarMeths
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Yeah.
She looks far more like the biological daughter of Sarah Kinney, which is never really explained as far as I know, and Google tells me is a Gaelic name.
I guess she looks sort of Asian because... target audience digs Asian teenage girl ass-kickers? I dunno.
Bobby Roberts
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That may be but from what I understand they're setting New Mutants in the 80s.
this dude
that doesnt even make sense. but noone at fox seems to care, so neither do i
Comic book genetics I guess.
This is Fox though, so they aren't really going to worry about comic book details. Maybe they make her Mariko's daughter or something.
Hellion catching that L will never not be funny.
Bobby Roberts
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Which means it's probably not the actual casting call.
Why would you do that?
Does he still exist? I haven't read x-comics since AvX outside of the Uncanny Avengers stuff.
She may be a clone but they may have made some genetic changes to her looks only. She always looked more like her birth mother than Wolverine.
Who knows and who cares? out of that little group the only one worth a damn was Rockslide
Not a huge Anole fan?
We honestly don't know what Fox's plans are for the X-Men universe after Apocalypse. Some of theorized that because of the resounding success of Deadpool, they're going to hold off on any new X-films for a while and focus on expanding Deadpool's universe - eventually building to an X-Force movie (which X-23 is a part of in the comics).
It depends on when and where Jackman's final Wolverine film takes place in the timeline. It's said to be inspired by Old Man Logan - which took place "50 years in the future". However it doesn't have to take place that far ahead. If they make it take place, say, after the events of Deadpool, they could easily introduce X-23 and have her instead be a player in the Deadpool films going forward, and eventually X-Force.
CreeperBlocks
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I was going to say, why not Gemma Chan from the BBC show Humans? But I think she's too old for the role. But yeah Daisy from Agent of SHEILD as X-23 would've been great.
Unspeakable Evil
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To fuel your hate!
Also, because Superherohype may not have actually heard a rumor about X-23 and is just going off this.
His powers were cool, but his one arm always freaked me out, one it was never consistently drawn and 2 it looked like he just got swoll jacking off.
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JeremyEtcetera
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I've yet to see an actor make the jump from FOX(X-men) to MCU or vice versa unless I missed someone, so I highly doubt it.
roflwaffles
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Is Laura/X-23 considered Asian? I never really thought so when I saw her and I'm Asian.
Anyway, I think Audrey Plaza would be fun.
Anyway, I think Audrey Plaza would be fun.
Which is really illogical, and not what they've been saying; they're pretty clearly planning to continue forward with these new characters, assuming Apocalypse is received well. There's no reason to stop making X-Men films just because you've finally got another profitable property within the same universe.
No, though she undeniably looks a bit Asian under some artists (particularly Michael Choi, who did a lot of her early appearances).
Ain't that the truth.
Bobby Roberts
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Because Superherohype may not have actually heard a rumor about X-23 and is just going off this.
That's not usually how they work, though. If they'd heard about this via that bullshit comicbook post, they'd have sourced back to that, or at least pointed to it as shaky support.
They didn't. Probably because they heard this shit solo and comicbook just snatched up whatever bullshit was available to piggyback. Because they're ass.
MHWilliams
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