It looks like Wolverine will have one more person to stab in Scott Adkins. We get word that he has been tapped for the project from our good friends at moviehole:
Spoke to my buddy Isaac Florentine today, a fellow martial-arts aficionado and the director of such films as “Undisputed 2” and “The Shepherd : Border Patrol”, who tells me Scott Adkins, an actor who appears in near all of Florentine’s films, has jettisoned down under to join the cast of “Wolverine”.
Adkins, who played the Russian jailbird who pummels Michael Jai White in the “Undisputed” sequel, will take on a similar role in this (um, someone who fights). He’ll play Weapon 11, one of the many mutants of the X-world, whose main objective is to rip the claws from Wolverine. He no doubt doesn’t succeed in his mission – Wolvie’s the hero, after all! – but I’m sure we can expect a good scuffle anyway. The bulk of his scenes will appear in the last reel of the film.
The list of heroes and villains in Wolverene seems to be growing and growing without any end in sight. I thought this stand alone film was going to give us a chance to further dig into the history of the character, and investigate the parts that make him tick. With so many other characters I am concerned that this will be impossible, and struggle to see why a Wolverene standalone film was chosen when X-Men 4 may have been a better vehicle to showcase this growing crew.
The release date for this project is May, 1 2009 and we will be sure to keep you updated on all the news that bubbles forth through the inter-web.
