Young Logan Cast?

[Savage]

Woah...Perfect. I like that comparison pic with young Jackman.

Yup. That's James Howlett right there.

 

[xwolverine2]

he looks like cillian murphy (scarecrow) lol

 

[gkokujin]

yup young James Howlett

sweet.

 

[odiin]

Kid looks creepy.

 

[TKing]

Haha. Yeah, he does.

I guess that's a good thing?

 

[chamber-music]

kid looks like Bree Timmins

 

[odiin]

He and Gus Lewis should star in a Prestige prequel together.

It would go a little something like this:

little Angier: I'm better at my dollar store box of magic tricks
little Borden: No, I'm better!
little Angier: Nuh uh! *pushes little Borden*
little Borden: I'm telling my mom!
little Angier: No, please don't, I'm sorry!

The End.

BEST. MOVIE. EVER.

 

[Tissues]

he looks like cillian murphy (scarecrow) lol

I too thought that.

 

[Nightwing 52]

Woah...Perfect. I like that comparison pic with young Jackman.

Yup. That's James Howlett right there.

Agreed.

 

[Retroman]

Here's a picture of a young Hugh and the kid:

 

[Retroman]

Smit-McPhee won the Best Young Actor award at the Australian Film Institute awards show last night.

Is he growing his hair for the movie?

Source:http://news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaustralia/romulus_my_father_scoops_five_afi_awards_137047
http://www.smh.com.au/ftimages/2007/12/06/1196812919530.html

 

[narrows101]

Smit-McPhee won the Best Young Actor award at the Australian Film Institute awards show last night.

Is he growing his hair for the movie?

Source:http://news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaustralia/romulus_my_father_scoops_five_afi_awards_137047
http://www.smh.com.au/ftimages/2007/12/06/1196812919530.html

That's where I should have put it LOL! I put this news under the casting thread, but thanks Retro for posting the pics! He also apparently gave an acceptance speech that stole the show.

BTW - that's Eric Bana with him - he won Best Actor for Romulus My Father. Kodi was a co-star in that movie.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=333269

Romulus boy star wins AFI award
Thursday Dec 6 23:31 AEDT

At just 11 years of age, Romulus, My Father star Kodi Smit-McPhee picked up his first Australian Film Institute (AFI) award, $20,000 in prizemoney and a legion of new admirers.

Smit-McPhee was nominated for a best actor award for his work in Richard Roxburgh's film adaptation of Raimond Gaita's critically acclaimed memoir, Romulus, My Father.

That honour went to his famous co-star Eric Bana, who Smit-McPhee calls "an amazing friend", while the movie was crowned the best film of 2007.

But Smit-McPhee walked away with the award for best young actor.

The youngster could barely see over the winner's podium, but that didn't stop him delivering one of the speeches of the night.

"As a child actor, I suppose, I have to get used to it all being downhill from here," he joked.

Smit-McPhee said he had a few people he wanted to thank before he faded into obscurity and a future of "nightclub appearances and reality television", including his family, Bana and Roxburgh.

After the youngster left the stage, AFI awards host Geoffrey Rush quipped: "Kodi Smit-McPhee is going to end up hosting next year".

Bana, who also received the News Limited readers' choice award, shared his admiration for his co-star.

"This kid is a revelation," he said.

"He had a harder job than me because he had homework to do in the day and I didn't."

Smit-McPhee said he had plenty of ideas on how to spend his $20,000 prizemoney - "motorbikes, bikes, skateboards" - until he was told the money was to go towards furthering his career.

The youngster, who will play a young Wolverine alongside Hugh Jackman in X-Men 4, also revealed some of the secrets of his success.

Asked whether he had written his own victory speech, Smit-McPhee confessed: "It was actually Nick Drake (Romulus, My Father screenwriter). He's an amazing writer".

While many of the starlets strolling the red carpet were dripping with loaned diamonds, Smit-McPhee preferred to go for a fake.

And if the acting caper doesn't work out, Smit-McPhee has a back-up career all worked out.

"My mum and dad work at a leisure centre so I would work there as a fitness instructor," he said.

 

[Magneto]

He'll do good

 

[BMM]

Haha. Yeah, this kid looks like he'll be able to pull off a crazed mini-Wolverine.

 

[Retroman]

That's where I should have put it LOL! I put this news under the casting thread, but thanks Retro for posting the pics! He also apparently gave an acceptance speech that stole the show.

You're welcome.

BTW - that's Eric Bana with him - he won Best Actor for Romulus My Father. Kodi was a co-star in that movie.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=333269

What a nice sight...young Wolverine and the Hulk together.t:

 

[Halcohol]

As long as this kid can pull off a convincing Canadian/American accent, I'm not worried.

 

[narrows101]

Just a little blurb from the Herald Sun (I posted Hugh's part also since he was included in the story):

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23005200-5012974,00.html

This year promises to be another big one for those in the entertainment industry. They are sure to make headlines, be involved in huge successes and inevitable flops.
Atfer reflecting on the year just been, Confidential looks at which Australians will be the ones to watch in the year ahead.

***

Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman
THEY star in Baz Luhrmann's eagerly awaited movie, Australia.
It's a big-budget film that had been shrouded in mystery. Shooting has taken place in Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, but the production team is sworn to secrecy about its making.

Kodi Smit-McPhee
THE 11-year-old who starred with Eric Bana in Romulus My Father has even bigger things in sight.

After winning an AFI award for that performance, he will star as the young Wolverine alongside Hugh Jackman in the next X-Men movie.

 

[RonStoppablefan]

That's great to know, the kid looks just like Jackman as a kid, its amazing. Hope he does a great job in the part.

 

[CaptainGenerica]

Looks kinda like Cillian Murphy, as well. GASP! WOLVERINE AND SCARECROW ARE THE SAME PERSON!

 

[Nightmare]

Looks kinda like Cillian Murphy, as well. GASP! WOLVERINE AND SCARECROW ARE THE SAME PERSON!

OMG a DC/MARVEL Conspiracy!!!!

 

[narrows101]

There's a trailer for ROMULUS, MY FATHER over at Apple - rumored Young Logan Kodi Smit-McPhee is featured prominently in it.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/romulusmyfather/trailer/

 

[Savage]

Ha. Romulus. Irony.

 

[Advanced Dark]

http://io9.com/350851/viggo-takes-young-wolverine-on-the-road

 

[narrows101]

It sounds like if Kodi is indeed cast, he won't be filming until later.

http://www.starnewsgroup.com.au/story/54101

Putting on an act runs in the family
By Michelle Carnovale
29th January 2008 11:05:40 AM

KODI Smit-McPhee is fast becoming a household name after his stellar performance in the 2007 Aussie movie Romulus, My Father.

But when the cameras are turned off and the paparazzi have gone, the 11-year-old, who calls Hume home, is just your average kid.

He likes riding his bike, hanging out with friends, learning magic tricks and will be starting Grade 6 this year, despite his hectic acting schedule.

Although he was busy preparing for his latest movie role, Kodi and his father, actor Andy McPhee, took the time out last week to have a chat about fame, fortune and Australian life.

Kodi’s big break into the international movie world came last year when he starred opposite Eric Bana as Raimond Gaita, Eric’s son, in Romulus, My Father.

The role earnt him two Australian Film Industry award nominations, for best lead actor and best young actor.

“It was pretty funny when I was up against Eric (for lead actor) and then when I heard my name called out for the child award, that was really exciting,” Kodi said.

“I couldn’t wait to get up there and read my speech.”

Acting runs in the Smit-McPhee family with both Kodi and his sister Sianoa, who played Bree Timmins on Neighbours and is currently starring in the Disney Channel series As the Bell Rings, involved in numerous acting projects.

Their father and mentor Andy McPhee has also had his fair share of movie and television roles, including a part in the 2007 film The Condemned and numerous appearances on the SBS series Fat Pizza.

He helped Kodi work his way up through short feature films before the talented youngster landed Romulus.

Kodi’s list of achievements includes roles in the television adaptation of Stephen King’s Nightmares and Dreamscapes and the YouTube series Tinytown.

Kodi said he was currently learning the script for his next movie role and would travel to America next week to begin filming with fellow Aussie actor Guy Pearce. He said the most exciting part of being in a movie was taking on different character roles.

“When you get to go to work and you’ve got to get dressed in your character and then when you’re actually filming the scene, that’s the most fun part,” he said.

“I’d like to be someone that can do lots of different things. Kind of like Will Smith in I am Legend — then he can do comedies and then he can do really serious drama/action movies.”

With his two oldest children in the spotlight and being recognised wherever they go, Mr McPhee said he and his wife, Sonia, tried to give their children as normal an upbringing as possible.

The couple both work at Hume City Council and the kids attend local schools.

“You can see why people like Guy Pearce and Eric and Russell come home because, I’m not speaking for them, but my view is that if you stay there you get caught up in that lifestyle and then you get caught up in the paparazzi and everything,” Mr McPhee said.

The Smit-McPhees also have a two-year-old son, Caden, who Mr McPhee says is well on his way to joining the other two kids in front of the camera.

“They’ll (Sianoa and Kodi) do their audition stuff and Caden will repeat their lines.”

As for Kodi, the youngster has high hopes for his acting career, with a possible role in the upcoming Wolverine movie as a young Logan and an ambition to one day add an Oscar to his awards collection.

 

[Retroman]

Is it possible that Smit-McPhee had to back out of the Logan role?

There's no mention of Wolverine in this Hollywood Reporter article.

Smit-McPhee takes 'Road' less traveled
By Leslie Simmons

Feb 6, 2008

Australian actor Kodi Smit-McPhee is hitting the post-apocalyptic road with Viggo Mortensen in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winner "The Road."

Smit-McPhee, 11, will play Mortensen's son in the tale of a monthslong journey across a barren U.S. landscape after a cataclysmic event destroyed most of life on Earth. Charlize Theron co-stars in the Dimension Films drama.

2929 Prods., Nick Wechsler Prods. and Chockstone Pictures are producing.

The Melbourne native recently starred opposite Eric Bana, Marton Csokas and Franka Potente in "Romulus, My Father." The Australian Film Institute nominated Smit-McPhee for best lead actor in "Romulus" and honored him with the Young Actor Award.

Smit-McPhee is repped by WMA, Active Artists Management in Australia and Goodmanagement.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i67f661e87c3de3d37045f375a72cb938

and then there's this....

Jan 8 2008 6:02 PM

theres an x-men 4.
a friend of mines boyfriend.
auditioned for the part of teenage wolverine.

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are you as like excited as i am?
and whats going down in the world of heroes?

JEzz.! xxx.

P.S. - Happy new year.
Hah. Just a tad late.

Source:http://www.myspace.com/ranalover