X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of X-Men Origins: Wolverine or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to X-Men Origins: Wolverine

[fred]

This is the first movie to insert the X-Men characters into real-world historical events: the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, and the 1979 Three Mile Island accident.

[frances]

Gavin Hood described this movie's central theme as Wolverine's inner struggle between his animalistic and human qualities: "I realized that Wolverine's great appeal lies in the fact that he's someone who, in some ways, is filled with a great deal of self-loathing by his own nature and he's constantly at war with himself."

[caroline]

The Blob suit went through six months of modifications, and had a tubing system inside to cool Kevin Durand down with ice water.

[violet]

Gavin Hood gave pictures of favelas (Brazilian shantytowns) to visual effects company Hatch Productions, to assist the company in developing accurate matte-paintings for the Africa scenes.

[chris]

Gambit, Cyclops, and Emma were the only credited prisoners of Striker's Island. However, fans have speculated who the other prisoners might be: Quicksilver (white-haired boy who violently thrashes in his cage while bound by elastic straps), Banshee (teen with tape over his mouth), Toad (a boy with an amphibious tongue), Psylocke (an East Asian girl with blue and purple streaks in her hair), Whirlwind (young man spinning as a tornado in his cage, however, other fans believe this to be Riptide), Dust (South Asian girl seen frozen in her cage).

[toni]

In the comics, David North uses the alias of "Maverick". However, he has also used the alias "Agent Zero" in recent times.

[eli]

On-screen brothers Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber are good friends in real life.

[eli]

(At around one hour and ten minutes) In New Orleans, Victor Creed (Sabertooth) asks Logan (Wolverine) if he even knows how to kill him, to which Logan responds "I'm gonna cut your goddamn head off!" In the comics, Wolverine actually killed Sabretooth that way (it doesn't happen in the movie though).

[ray]

Danny Huston compared his character of William Stryker to a racehorse breeder, who rears his mutant experiments like children, but abandons them when something goes wrong.

[francisco]

Will.i.am accidentally punched the camera while filming a fight scene and scarred his knuckles.

[melinda]

More than 1,000 shots have visual effects in them, which required three visual effects supervisors and seventeen different companies to work on the movie. The most prominent was Hydraulx, who had also worked on the first three X-Men movies, and was responsible for the battle in Three Mile Island and Gambit's powers.

[gabriel]

The Comic Con and official trailers featured scores from movies that were released in 2007. The Comic Con trailer features "Come and Get Them!" from Tyler Bates' 300 (2006) score, and the official trailer featured "Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor)" from John Murphy's score to Danny Boyle's Sunshine (2007).

[amber]

Gavin Hood has stated that the scripting process was a mess, and that portions of the screenplay were hastily re-written as the movie was filming.

[leo]

According to David Benioff, the script was influenced by the Wolverine-centered comics "Wolverine" (1982), "Weapon X" (1991), and "Origin" (2001); the latter being Benioff's favorite comic.

[charlie]

(At around forty-five minutes) In the rear window of the Hudsons' truck is a sticker reading "Not all who wander are lost", paraphrasing Aragorn's motto from the J.R.R. Tolkien novel "The Lord of the Rings".

[kristina]

Tyler Mane, who played Sabretooth in X-Men (2000), requested he reprise the role, but he was turned down by the filmmakers who wanted a younger actor for this movie.

[ella]

William Stryker sports a silver cross pin on his jacket lapel. This is a reference to the character's comic book origin as a radical Christian Televangelist.

[lonnie]

Gavin Hood was attracted to the project because, as a South African, he could relate to the idea of mutants versus humans segregation. He was particularly keen on concentrating on the personal angle to the movie, instead of all of the pyrotechnics.

[bessie]

Although Will.i.am initially did not get along with the casting director, he got the role because he wanted to play a mutant with the same power as Nightcrawler. He enrolled in a boot camp to get into shape for the part.