Gavin Hood and Len Wein Talk X-Men Origins: Wolverine in Video Interiew

I always thought Jackman's portrayal of Wolverine was pretty good, and I agree with Hood that there is no definitive interpretation of Wolverine; he's a very dynamic character. Overall, I thought the movies did a pretty good job at incorporating different aspects of his personality from the different comics onto the big screen.

Thumbs DOWN to LEN!!

They did not make a great translation they [frick]ed Wolverine up A$$ Bandit style!!

I like how they have to defend this crap all the time lol!

Theres a reason theres so many articles defending BORIGINS, answer: they all know it was DONKEY POOP! Just forget about it, an make a decent sequel ffs!

What you lot dont get is they HAVE to say good things about it lol!

It was sh!TE and we all know it, all these articles defended it proves it was!!!!

Becoz if it was any good, there would be no need for these in the first place! ; D

The best Wolverine story....in my opinion....was when he was up in Canada with Nightcrawler rescuing the woman and her child from the Wendigo. Bloody and gritty. Maybe not enough to make an entire movie out of, but definitely enough to open one up with.

For the record, in all the years of collecting and reading Marvel comics, all the chararcters, etc., I have never understood the incredible attraction / following of GAMBIT.

Just don't get it.

SkukApe1: I totally agree with everything you just said.

That story you mentioned with The Wendigo is one the ones tha helped put Wolverine on the map.

I heard Wein's original origin for Wolverine was that he was a wolverine mutated into a humanoid and not a human with mutant powers. That would have sucked.

@LEEE: WTF was that?!?

I wondered just how much of handle Hood actually had on the character, and now I know. Not much. That 'psychological manifestation of rage' theory sounded like someone trying to mine a deeper meaning out of something that doesn't need to be mined. Logan's a mutant, plain and simple. We didn't hear that theory during explanations of any of the other mutants powers, did we? Plus, it doesn't exactly explain Logan's healing factor or enhanced senses...

Nice interviewing job by the British Snagglepuss, though.

I dont have a problem with how they depicted Logan. Hugh always comes through as Logan and no one can really argue with that. Like Ror I was disappointed too but I still enjoyed it. I do have a problem with how they handled Gambit.

@ironknight: I agree. Wolverine was handled well, but that was due to Jackman, not Gavin Hood. I wasn't as down on the movie as a lot others were, but as a long-time fan I could spot where it seemed as if the guy at the helm didn't fully understand the mythos. Or at the very least he didn't have a fully realized interpretation of his own, like Singer did in the first two films.

There is no truth to the nonsense that Len Wein wanted Wolverine to be a mutated Wolverine. That was someone else's later idea wrongly attributed to him. He addresses that on the film's BluRay version in a conversation with Stan Lee and on his blog earlier this year at http://lenwein.blogspot.com.

He was not paid to say anything about this movie and you can't pay the man to say something he doesn't believe. He also receives no creator money (or film credit, you might notice) from Marvel or anyone else, though it would be a good idea. DC manages to do it, but no one at Marvel has the good offices of Paul Levitz or even the enlightened self-interest to take care of creators before they are dying or dead.

Len & I both love Hugh Jackman's portrayal of Wolverine, which comes closer to Len's concept of a mutant trying to control the berserker aspect of the personality rather than become an impersonal killing machine.

Your opinions may vary, but Len is utterly honest in his statements. While the film would have been different if Len had written it, we were entertained by it and we think that Hugh Jackman has inhabited that character from the moment you see his bare back in the cage in X-1.

@LEEE you're funny. I like your logic.

People defend Origins, because they like it; that means Origins HAS FANS. It's funny because I don't see any articles defending GIJOE. WHY? ...because nobody liked it; except for you of course.

Wolverine by no means was a great movie, but so wasn't GIJOE. You complain about Origins because it doesn't stay true to the source material, and yet you approve of GIJOE??? WTF???

Whether one chooses to like the film or not, whether they disliked it for entertainment purpoes or strictly because it deviated from what they know from Logan's actual origin, we should pretty much agree to disagree or simply accept differences.

I personally didn't enjoy Wolverine, not because of comic book purposes but it didn't entertain me as I wanted it to. It could've been better but I'm okay with someone saying they loved it, without wanting to alter their opinion. It seems generally speaking from what I've noticed, if you don't agree with someone and their opinion on a film, you get the third degree or an internet argument ensues

Why is this?

@macksimus and Teabag

I see it on pretty much every article. Of course is cool to go back and forth on a topic but not when it comes off as if You want to overbear your individual opinion over someone. What does that prove?

I said this before, we are all different in so many ways. Age; we probably range from early teens to three/four times that age. Educationallyj I just completed college. Two months ago so I'll assume others have, perhaps some are entering grad school or just entering college. Religion, Sex, ethnicity...we are all different. The one thing that binds us is pretty much this site.

Comic books and movies align us generally. Why create further division with the overbearing opinionated personas?

Who cares what Len Wein thinks? The guy can't even remember his own work that he created. The truth is Chris Claremont had more of a hand in Wolverine than Wein ever did. Claremont is the one most responsible for developing the character after Wein said, "Hey, let's make this crazy guy with claws that come out of his gloves!" Please...