Norm3
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I see the Rat did whatever he wanted! Why couldn't he just use a different name for Trask!
SHH!: How did you pick the mutants though, particularly the new characters with new powers?
Ratner: I just went through the comics and the materials and thought, "This is cool." They're what I thought was cool, and I just wanted to go in and put some color into it. It's a multi-racial comic, and Halle Berry was the only person of color in the last few movies, so I wanted to bring some flavor, as they say. They were inspired by the comics. For instance, Spike started as Kid Omega, but there was another character. I found one character that I liked and then I took the powers. For instance, Callisto has the power of another character who moves fast and has the telepathy thing. The girl from the wall looks like Psylocke but she has the power of one of the other characters. So I mixed and matched powers to service the story. Instead of having ten more actors in the movie, I just said, "You're going to have these three powers."
SHH!: One of the major changes from the comics was changing Bill Duke's Trask to be a government agent rather than the creator of the Sentinels. Why did you decide to change that?
Ratner: Yeah, because it has to service our story, I mean, this is not a comic book. This is a comic book movie, but the comic book is not the script. If you see what Bryan Singer did, if they followed the comic book, Wolverine would look more like me, a short stocky bulldog, you know? So you have to interpret the comic and work for the cinematic world. As far as Bill Duke's character, I didn't want the government to be villainous. I didn't want them to be a cliché, which was in the other movies but is what worked, but I didn't want to do it again. I didn't want it to be about the government, I wanted it to be about this cure. The President wasn't quite Bush, but he wasn't quite Clinton. I was kind of like trying to find a middle ground. I didn't want the villainous Trask in the comics to be a villain.
