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Beak Will Have Role In Wolverine
Well, it looks like things are starting to get out of hand with the Wolverene cameos. We get word today that Beak will be in the film thanks to our friends at comingsoon:
Just Jared reports that former “Lost” star Dominic Monaghan will play Barnell Bohusk (AKA Beak) in 20th Century Fox’s X-Men: Wolverine. Here’s a description of the character:
Beak was a mutant whose bones were light and hollow. His arms had begun to grow feathers, which when fully formed, may have allowed him to fly. He could at the mean time glide and fly for short distances with great effort. Beak also had enhanced eyesight along with talons on his hands and feet. Even though Beak had bird-like qualities, it was extremely difficult for him to fly.
He’ll be joining Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), Liev Schreiber (Sabretooth), Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool), Taylor Kitsch (Gambit), Will.i.am (Kestrel), Danny Huston (William Stryker) and Lynn Collins (Silver Fox) in the Gavin Hood-directed pic, opening May 1, 2009.
Who gives a fuck about beak? He looks like a superhero that came to being when lightning hit a man eating a bucket of KFC. I did not know Beak and Wolverine had such a close relationship. I am certainly interested in seeing what the hell Beak plans to do in this film. He looks like a vulture dude that can sort of fly? This guy is like Angel with aids, but who knows, maybe legions of Beak fans are thrilled at this news.
This film has way too many characters for a Wolverine stand alone picture. I am actually not sure what the hell they are thinking at this point and my predictions for the quality of this film are plummeting. i like Wolverine but am not a huge fan; if I was – I would be right fucking pissed. The guy finally gets his own standalone film and you glut it up with shit characters and gobs of cameos? This should be a celebration of the character and a chance to further investigate his origins. Right now I can’t even guess what the hell the film will be about.
Comic book fans seem to universally understand that “more is worse” when it comes to comic book films. I don’t know why the people involved haven’t caught on to this. It’s a universal truth and is as bankable as the sun rising tomorrow. International friends – what are your thoughts on Beak?
If your going to do a story on Weapon X you have to include a lot of characters. Makes sense to me.
so, is Will.i.am playing Kestrel or Wraith?
im not that disappointed about this news, but it has changed my expectations of this film. it seems this movie will be about Wolverine in the sense X-men was about Charles Xavier. you cant have any kind of X-men film with only 1 or 2 mutants! i agree, the film should center around Wolverine, but theres no problem with putting in other mutants.
my biggest complain really, is there r much better mutants out there than Beak!
they do need to stop adding to the mix tho, as far as main characters go. they have enough now! just stop!
I like these mutants we are getting. Yes Wolverine and Sabretooth fighting it out for two hours is kinda cool but the X-Men is all about mutants. Having a couple of different characters with different powers cant hurt the film in any way, even if they are there simply to get killed off.
Plus, Wolverine and Sabretooth powers aren’t that interesting to look at. They need them cool trailer shots of mutants flying or looking weird to get people more interested.
I will partially agree with Jason on this, but I tend to like Wolverine being the lone wolf he is. Being a huge fan, I’ve really enjoyed the past five or so years and what some really great writers have done with the character, but this is just breaking the boner I had for the film. Some of my favorite runs featured Wolverine and 3, 4 other mutants, tops. And two of them were bad guys. But, alas, that is the divide of film and paper I suppose.
And yeah, Beak, horrible choice.
Fuck it.
I love this movie. I loved X3. It was the best in the trilogy so i am looking forward to this.
There is still potential here. If they’re focusing the entire movie on Weapon X (possibly concluding with Wolverine’s escape?), then they could conceivably include these characters on missions, etc (making it almost a team movie, as I think Jason may be implying above).
Even if they focus completely on Wolverine, though, and very little on the rest of Weapon X, they could easily fit all of these characters into one or two scenes, almost as cameos (in barracks or cells, where ever Weapon X is keeping its mutants in the movie), without hurting the story. The name casting they’re doing could be just covering their bases in case one of the cameos catches the audience’s interest enough to develop a solo project (Deadpool seems the obvious one, but there are a few others that could hit big).
Of course, if they go Spider-man 3 with it, all bets are off , because it will most likely end up sucking.
Jason – Kestrel and Wraith are the same guy, confusingly.
I don’t really give a toss about Beak and he’ll almost certainly die at some point, being about as much use as a chocolate fireguard against the likes of Deadpool and Sabretooth, but I have a different concern. So far we have four characters – Wolverine, Sabretooth, Deadpool and Silver Fox – who have the power to automatically heal any wound. Come on! How exactly are the fight scenes between any of these guys going to work? And since they’re on a cameo kick, why don’t they just add X-23, Scalphunter, Shatterstar, and anyone else with a healing factor and make the movie a gigantic three-hour plotless free-for-all, ending only when they all get bored?
I’m gonna defend this bit.
First of all I have never heard of Beak and I read a diverse quantity of comics. He seams like a slightly dull character, but he could turn out good.
Now if you pick up a Wolverine comic you will find that it’s occupants are mostly mutants. I do not think that Wolverine is getting crowded with mutants because a bunch of these guys could very well have a small part in the film. If John Wraith is involved and IF they are following his story arc that was in Wolveirne’s comcic (a big IF) then I don’t see Beak playing a major part. But then why are Gambit and Deadpool appearing as well because they were not part of the story, confusion surrounds this plot. I can see Beak just being inroduced or something . I have faith in this project and it will take a little more than this to make me decide otherwise.
I wasn’t a fan of X-men til the first movie came out. Now I’m hooked. I love the idea of having new charcters in this film. Well, new to me anyway. I really want to see all the cool mutants that X-men have to offer. Sooo bring on Beak. I’d really love to see Nightcrawler again though!!
Beak is an awesome character, and was one of the best parts of Grant Morrison’s excellent New X-MEN run but i don’t see what they could have him do in this Wolverine movie considering that he dosen’t have anything to do with Wolverine’s past.
i don’t mind all these cameos because during the origins of wolverine there is an entire “weapon x” project with a few other mutants. but beak looks like something that deadpool and gambit and wolverine would eat after they’ve run away from sabertooth. they’d be like “fuck u beak, get in my b-elly” so ya get rid of beak and get a good bad guy.
well i WAS goin got fucking say something but..doug kinda sayd it himslef…he sayd exactly what i was goin- in fact i made a checklist
1) stupid character CHECK
2) more is worse CHECK
3) too much for just a wolverene film CHECK
i mean i think that itll certainly have plenty of action though- i mean gambit and wolverene are the only good guys i see so far against pretty much all the bad guys and theyr moms so- im sure there WILL be action.
@ doug
i dotn know EXACTLY what you mean by more is worse but heres what i think about it. 1 superheroe cnnot have more then 2 bad guys in one movie. thats what i think- if you want more, make it longer and do a sequel..makes the story better cuz you cant just have fucking fighting for 2 hours
okay earlyer i sayd “put whoever you want in it- just leave mystique toad and grizzly out of it cuz theyre wack”
okay when i sayd that i wasnt aware that they had in mind to put freakin beak in this film- i thought that i didnt need to say it, i thought this character was automatically out of the question
like those jackass questions you get in high school in which theres 4 choices and you have to rule one out
23) whats the square root of 100?
A. 46 B. 10 C.12 D. canned food for the needy
so you say “okay its not canned food for the needy..”
ok beak was the canned food for the needy i dint know we were going to actually think about this one- ive seen this character before and- hes up there in my “NOOOOOO!!!” list rightt next to toad, mysterio, kraven the hunter, captain bomerang, the young avengers, and smarf from thundercats
Is anyone else getting nervous with the constant names and characters being thrown into this movie? Leave the cast of thousands for the X-Men movies. This is a WOLVERINE movie and I was really hoping it would be 100% focuse on Wolverine and his dark history. Not how he met his college roommates.
I think beak is ugly as shit and doesn’t seem to be one of those “heroes” that has many fans. BUT I still am standing by this film because I think they are definitely going to delve into the origin of wolverine character. And the weapon x program is a huge part of who he is. If it wasn’t for them, he wouldn’t have those bad ass metallic claws of his that practically define the man.
Although these characters are going to be in the film, I’m sure they aren’t gonna have very big parts. They’re just gonna be screen fillers with some cool lines here and there. I wanna know who wolverine knew in the past. And if he knew all of these crazy cookey fucked up mutants, I’m down with that. I wanna SEE that kind of shit.
out of curiosity, all the people saying Beak is a stupid character, have you actually read any X-Men comics with Beak in it. Beak is an awesome character and has a huge metaphorical importance to the X-Men mythos. The X-Men are mutants shouldn’t look like supermodels they should look like Beak. Seriously people read Grant Morrison’s New X-MEN.
I will agree with you guys that i don’t really think he should be in this Wolverine and should probably be saved for a New Mutants/Young X-Men type of movie.
yea I actually just read a bio on Beak and he is pretty tight and very important in the X-Men universe. Pretty interesting cat.
@ Joey
i did.
in reall life theyd turn up like beak- but if they do that in the comic books to all the characters- no one would read it cuz theyd look wack
in the comic books- hell yeah i enjoy reading stuf about beak and other characters that wouldnt ever fit in a movie- but not in the movie itself
I’m going to take a wild guess here.
Because Angel wasn’t seen til X Men Last Stand and there is no indication that Worthington took his son to Stryker, the X-Rays of the wings in X2 could now belong to Beak and not Angel.
HOWEVER
If they *really* wanted some good buzz out of it, I’m sorry, Fox and Marvel. What do you need Beak for? Here’s an idea. Remember in Last Stand where you made Juggernaut a mutant? Is there some law out there that says you can’t do the same for…
…Sauron??????
Now Sauron does not need to be connected to Weapon X. He could be one of the bad guys, because damn…all these characters…and yet not ONE mention of who is the main bad guy. You could say Creed (Sabertooth) I suppose, but …what’s going on here…? Logan becomes Wolverine, escapes, everyone hunts him down?
Beak is an important character depending on which series you read, but I just don’t think that’s the problem. The movie studios are not going to have these larger names (not in acting, but in turn of recognition) for cameos or second-shots in the Weapon X compounds. I guess my favorite has always been Origins and I can’t really separate myself from that universe. Nonetheless, I just can’t see having all these names attached to the film, mutants that people enjoy, getting only simple lookie-loo shots.
I’m just being bitchy. :\
i agree michael. beak was a character that was used in an arc of the morrison run of the new x-men comic. and origins was a great story and is probably one that can be made into a movie. but of course it doesnt have the smash and bang of this new story, which from what ive seen has logan fighting in high school (bah).
but the studios assume that by having a ton of names and faces from the comic series will spark more interest for the film. even if they butcher deadpool or gambit fans of the characters will be in the seats in full force, bitch online all they want they will still be buying tickets.
i for one am not really interested in the flick, just because a movie is based on a comic i love doesnt mean it will be good. and i dont really enjoy spending my money on bad movies…
Does anyone else seem to think that with the ever growing cast of characters being added, is this going to be the first try at what might be a justice league style movie.
@ Christopher Edwards
no- maybe x-men 1,2,3 but this is only wolverene agains like 10 guys
@everybody
beak is wack- x-men has so many characters- they could get anyone in it- i can think of about 50 or 60 villans they havent used that i would use in front of beak- he mighta been important in the comic book but- sinse when do they make movies like the comic book or the show?
hey someone sayd omega i dotn remember who it was but- fucking get omega in there- ill take back what i sayd about grizzly, radioation man (i dont remember his name i think thats it),remake pyro idk it doesnt have to be all weapon x and if it does- there a lot more dudes then beak out there
remember what steven colbert was to the presidental elections?? ok thats beak to me in an x men MOVIE- id pick anyone in front of him
I don’t feel that Beak is neccesarily a bad thing. Having read the comics he’s in, I think he’s one of the more (Only?) interesting new characters in the X-men universe. A sad and deep persona. But I agree that there’s to many characters and I’m not that excitited. Then again I wasn’t to impressed with the X-men-movies.
A lot of the characters could just be smaller parts at the beginning or the end of the movie (I’m thinking that Wolvie is at some point at Xaviers school) and mostly be there for possible future appearences.
But I definetly feel that it should not be an X-men-film but a Wolverine film, much like the Weapon X-comic – possibly with the Origin-comics mixed in. There’s enough of mythologi to fill an entire movie. Or to.
Truthfully, despite the comics, I think doing a Wolverine movie with an ensemble cast of mutants is a bad idea, although I think the inclusion of Deadpool could be badass.
I think that no matter what the theme of the movie, with that many characters the story and plot are almost guaranteed to be more complex than necessary.
I think that a movie where Wolverine is faced with one major crisis that he clears up halfway through with a minimun of mutant characters, and the majority of the last hour of screen time is devoted to Wolvie dishing out his own brand of vigilante justice aka John Woo/Quentin Tarantino style.
Also he should get shot and swear alot.
Fuck I’m a cinematic genius.
I keep remembering a comment about the making of Batman two; “if we have more villains we can sell more toys!”
It is the curse of Empire Strikes back. Where Lucas found out that you could make more money selling toys then tickets.
Ok, the biggest problem I have with this movie has to do with the story. There was already a VERY good story done by Frank Miller. It was a 4 issue mini series that was later turned into a graphic novel. Wolverine leaves the X-MEN to meet up with an old flame who turns out to have been forced into marriage to her father’s yakuza partner. The whole story goes into DEEP detail of Logan’s attitude and a peek at his past as an agent of Canada. The whole thing climaxes with Wolvie storming the castle filled with The Hand (a ninja tong) to rescue her BY HIMSELF. The only allies he has in the story is a female Ninja named Yukio and a fellow spook in Japanese Intelligence. If you guys haven’t read it PICK UP A COPY, you won’t be disapointed.
i am a huge x-men fan and ive been for a long time..mostly its been throuh the films and all the cartoon series though.
i loved the 3 films hey did. except two things…the choice of actor to angel – he does NOT look like that!!
(to be honest..alan cumming not doing nigtcrawer for me either. witch is sad, i love curt)
and the changes they did on rouge – what happened to the cooky complex girl from the series? in the films shes such a dork.
anyway. the origin story with wolverine DO have other mutants in it. he were never uniquie for that itself – just for everyting else he had ;)
i think this will turn out awesome.and i love the idea with gambit in it aswell!
And dominic monaghan seems so cool private! i think beak is a suprising but still cool choise! well just have to wait and see!