The X3 Cast Thread

[narrows101]

Possible new movie for Hugh, starting in January - Wolverine and Batman! Jude Law was rumored to be doing this a few years ago.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/film/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001220087

>>>Bale, Jackman in talks for Nolan's 'Prestige'
By Borys Kit

Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman are in negotiations to topline Touchstone Pictures' "The Prestige," which will serve as Christopher Nolan's next directorial outing.

Bale and Jackman will play rival magicians in turn-of-the-century London who battle each other for trade secrets. The rivalry is so intense that it turns them into murderers. The title refers to the residue left after a magician's successful trick.

The script is based on Christopher Priest's 1996 novel of the same name and was adapted by Nolan's brother, Jonathan. He wrote the short story on which Christopher's Nolan's breakout movie, "Memento," was based on.

The movie will shoot in January with a budget around the $40 million range.<<<

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Wow. Narrows never trick me like that again. You said Wolverine and Batman and I was like 'WTF?! HOLY COW. DC AND MARVEL TEAMING UP TO MAKE A WOLVIE VS BAT FLICK. AWESOME "

 

[narrows101]

Wow. Narrows never trick me like that again. You said Wolverine and Batman and I was like 'WTF?! HOLY COW. DC AND MARVEL TEAMING UP TO MAKE A WOLVIE VS BAT FLICK. AWESOME

"

Oops!! Sorry! Wasn't thinking that way! Thinking of the actors' characters and not the characters themselves. I'll be more careful the next time!

 

[Jennifer Walters]

It's cool. Still cool sounding news, and that was just me being silly.

 

[Retroman]

Trivia

Shohreh Aghdashloo's birth name = Pari Vaziri-Tabar

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0013037/bio

 

[narrows101]

Here's another one - you know most of the sites are going to use the "Wolverine v. Batman" tag line.

http://movies.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1051771.php/Wolverine_battles_Batman

Movies News
Wolverine battles Batman
By Joshua Tyler
Oct 1, 2005, 19:00 GMT

Batman versus Wolverine? Yep, and it's going to be magic

Christopher Nolan's next project isn't a followup to "Batman Begins", it's a turn of the century magician battle. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Nolan is set to direct "The Prestige" for Touchstone Pictures, and he's negotiating with Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman to take on starring roles as rival magicians.

The script is based on a same named novel by Christopher Priest, in which two competing London magicians' struggle to steal one another's trade secrets turns to murder. The book has been adapted into a feature film by Jonathan Nolan, Chris Nolan's brother and the man who wrote the original short story on which Christopher's first big movie "Memento" was based.

Should they sign, Jackman and Bale will start shooting the $40 million film some time in January. Hugh Jackman is set next to appear in Darren Aronofsky's mysterious pic "The Fountain" and he's currently busy shooting the much maligned third "X-Men" movie. Bale can next be seen this fall in Terrence Malick's Pocahontas flick "The New World".

 

[Retroman]

Famke and Hugh spotted at one of Destiny's Childs concerts:

From Scottage Cheese (posted 2005-09-13 20:47:00):

So we're walking around GM Place after the show and go past an exit manned by security. Fans collected around it obviously waiting for Destiny's Child. They didn't come out, but someone else that I swear only I would recognize did.

Out of the door comes Famke Janssen!!!

Either you're as celebrity-obsessed as I am, or you're going "...who?"
Bad-ass back-breaking Bond girl Xenia Onatopp from GoldenEye!

No?
Jean Grey of X-Men and X2!

...Ava Moore of Nip/Tuck?
...the mom from Don't Say a Word?

If you still don't know, you're probably just normal.
ANYWAYS.

This actually happened.


Famke comes out and is walking my way.
Me (while making eye contact with her): Is that... FAMKE JANSSEN?
...and she SCOFFED at me.

Okay. Sure I was a huge loser, but ***** should have been kissing my feet for even acknowledging her D-list ass. I am SORRY.

This security guy that was pissed off with all the Beyonce fiends was like "do you guys even know who that was?" and proceeded to inform us that Jean Grey and Wolverine from X-Men just walked by. I never saw Hugh Jackman... but okay. No one cared.

I was going to get her attention for a picture, but I want you to try yelling Famke. Everyone who actually tried just now understands. I regret not being a huge dick and being like "XENIA!!! XENIA ONATOPP!!!", but hindsight is 20/20.

Source (BEWARE of clicking this link. Contains a plethora of concert pics by the scottage): http://www.livejournal.com/users/scottage_cheese/179581.html#cutid1

 

[xwolverine2]

thank you for this worthless info

 

[JP]

Pssh, what a jerk. (the guy from the report)

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Yes. He's a major jerk.

 

[JP]

You don't talk about Famke like that.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

You don't talk about anyone like that.

 

[Quing]

He probably said her name wrong. Like "Frmkry" or something. I'd glare, too.

 

[LittleMissVixen]

Famke seems to be down to earth. Didnt someone on this board meet her at a club in NYC and get a photo taken with her?

 

[LMason]

Well, if this is the "bloggers spot X-men thread", here's a more positive Jean Grey approach: http://www.livejournal.com/users/_kaiser_/256301.html

"guess who i spied gnawing on a huge burger at vera's on cornwall a block away from my house? Famke Janssen! i almost had an extreme fanboy reaction but then decided instead to just wave and smile as i walked by. at first she looked a little confused but then smiled back. and if you were wondering, she is that gorgeous..."

 

[Retroman]

Well, if this is the "bloggers spot X-men thread", here's a more positive Jean Grey approach: http://www.livejournal.com/users/_kaiser_/256301.html

"guess who i spied gnawing on a huge burger at vera's on cornwall a block away from my house? Famke Janssen! i almost had an extreme fanboy reaction but then decided instead to just wave and smile as i walked by. at first she looked a little confused but then smiled back. and if you were wondering, she is that gorgeous..."

 

[Retroman]

From the NY POST:

"CHEERS" FOR THE HAMPTONS

By BRADEN KEIL

COURTING A-LISTERS: One Beacon Court is hot.
Photo: Rex Dittman

October 1, 2005 -- Frasier's just purchased a home where everybody knows his name.
Kelsey Grammer and his wife, Camille, have gone to contract to buy a large shingled home in Bridgehampton.

"It'll be the first home that we actually bought in the Hamptons," Grammer told us by phone from Canada, where he's shooting "X-Men 3."

"It's new construction, which we're happy about. We didn't want to get involved with a project."

Grammer, who says he's not closing until January, would not reveal the price he's paying, but the house had been listed for $8.45 million.

The two-story residence is 7,000 square feet and has six bedrooms, eight baths, a great room, media room, sun room, formal dining room, and a professional-grade kitchen with butler's pantry. Other amenities include five fireplaces, an elevator, two staircases and a 3,000-square-foot basement.

The professionally landscaped 1.7-acre lot features a tree-lined private drive, a heated pool and spa, a pool house and tennis court.

"We hope to spend at least a couple of months there each summer," Grammer says, adding that he might rent out the place if he's on location somewhere.

Grammer, who's been a fixture in the Hamptons for the past several years, almost took his business elsewhere.

"We've been renting there for years, but we certainly got off to a rocky start," he says.

In 1998, he rented an oceanfront place in Sagaponack next to a home that was about to undergo extensive renovations. Grammer took the house next door to the late advertising guru Jay Chiat, where the sounds of hammering and power saws drowned out the soothing waves.

He eventually sued the broker for the then-whopping $100,000 he paid for the month-long rental.

Source: http://www.nypost.com/realestate/gs1.htm

 

[Retroman]

Sputnik Sweetheart (umbrella_road), @ 2005-10-02 12:38:00

My X-Men Celebrity Strangeness

In the Blenz, I had to pee like a racehorse, and of course there was someone in the bathroom. I waited (patiently), looking at the walls, wondering how much the barristas hated their jobs. A guy walks up behind me, and asks, "is this the line for the bathroom?" I nod, while at the same time noting that

I was standing in line with Bobby - Iceman - from the X-Men movies.

When I got out of the bathroom, I went back to our table and asked Martha to confirm for me. High as she was, ("we're all so small right now!") she did indeed agree that it was Iceman. I have now danced with Magneto and waited in line for the bathroom with Iceman, all in the space of a month. If things keep going as they are, in two weeks, I should run into Hugh Jackman while buying beer. One of the cool things about living in Vancouver, is that if you're pretty sure you just saw a celebrity, it's more than likely that you did. A vast majority of celebs seem to own houses in Vancouver (a lot of the world's filming is done here, because the BC government gives so many tax breaks). However, I seem X-Men inclined when it comes to running into celebrities.

After seeing Iceman, Julia decided to show us how to steal a plant from a Blenz (hold it proudly out in front of you as you march out the door). I drove the girls home, as they were in no condition, and Rory and I are still laughing about the image of Julia, afraid she'd lost us, clutching her plant and twirling agitatedly on the sidewalk. Never have stoners been so much fun.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/users/umbrella_road/97869.html

 

[Retroman]

Saturday, August 06, 2005

Middle of Nowhere


We went to this really cool restaurant inYaletown where I guess all the celebs hang out and our waiter told us that Kieran Culkin and Anna Paquin were eating at the table behind us because there filming xmen 3 there. I looked over and he seriously looked like a sick homeless junkie and she looked very plain. You would think that celebritys would be these gorgeous people but our waiter that all the ones that come in look like people you wouldnt look twice at. I'll post my pictures from my adventures in Van when I get home ciaooo

posted by Ruby Tuesday at 2:44 PM

Source: http://ballroomsofmars.blogspot.com/2005/08/middle-of-nowhere.html

 

[Retroman]

Holy s***!

August 7th, 2005 @ 08:12 pm Sunday

My dad just called and told me some interesting news.

He went out to dinner with an old childhood friend of his tonight and he's a contractor. He said said that he had just finished $2 million worth of renovations on this house that is in the old neighbourhood I used to live in (and I know what house my dad is talking about). The couple that own the house are out of town for 5 months and there's a couple that is currently renting it while they're in town for the guys work. Yeah, the guy?

Hugh Jackman.

He and his wife are renting the house while he's here filming X3. Holy ****. The house is about 3 minutes away from where my dad is currently living and in my old neighbourhood. So I could like, go down and stalk him. Seriously.

This is what my plan is. I take Jackson down there and just keep walking back and forth in front of the house until I either, a) meet Hugh and fangirl over him b) keep walking until I die c) or get arrested.

Who wants to come with?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/users/leggyslove/680751.html

 

[Retroman]

From Metro newspaper:

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2005
HOLLYWOOD NORTH darrin maharaj

BACHELOR VISITS BRO
On Friday afternoon I spotted the latest and possibly the last version of The
Bachelor as the reality show’s most recent star Charlie O’Connell made his way down Alberni Street near Thurlow.

I later learned from the folks at the BC Liquor Store that he was in the neighbourhood visiting them and returned the next day with the woman they swear is Sarah Brice, the contestant/girlfriend he failed to propose to on the
show! How’s that for a surprise ending! So what’s he doing in town? My best guess is he’s hangin’ with his brother, actor Jerry O’-Connell, who’s probably here to visit his new fiance,actress Rebecca Romijn. She is in town until December working on X-Men 3 along with Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman.

Source: http://www.metronews.ca/uploadedFiles/Metro_Vancouver_0928_2005.pdf

 

[hoganbcmj]

My X-3 exposure just keeps coming. Just got back from a late night snack at a bar called "Fountainhead" on Davie Street here in Vancouver, and wouldn't you know it, Omahyra was there having a pint of beer with a girlfriend. I think I may have been the only one who recognized her.

 

[Lazmarquez]

Chiming in late here, but that guy who posted the little article on the Famke/Scoffing Story, was evil.. thats it, just plain evil.. She's too amazing to be spoken about in that manner. It's not the list you're on in hollywood, its the type of work you produce, and I just so happen to appreciate anything she creates.

 

[JP]

Indeed.

 

[Ions]

What an ass. Thanks for hunting these down and posting them Retroman, You da man!