FilmSchoolRejects claim that Kevin Durand has been cast as The Blob in the currently filming X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE and will begin shooting his scenes for the movie next week in Canada.
Durand was the guy who went one to far in pissing off Russell Crowe’s outlaw Ben Wade in 3:10 TO YUMA and was one of The Tremor Brothers in SMOKIN’ ACES.
Interestingly Gavin Hood and the rest of the crew are out in New Zealand/Australia filming right now, so presumably it means that either Durand will be green screened and digitally inserted into the film with the rest of the actors or the rest of the crew are flying halfway across the world next week – moving production to Canada.
A CGI Blob? Could they have not just cast a big rotund actor/wrestler?
Also over the weekend there seems to be some confusion of which character Dominic Monaghan will play in the movie. We previously heard that he was to Barnell Bohusk, a.k.a. Beak – but in the trades write up of the story they claim he will play a character linked to “Wolverine’s past who has the ability to manipulate energy and electricity”. Bizarrely though, they also call this character Barnell.
Now Beak could never manipulate energy or electricity (and nor does he have a past history with Logan), so maybe they are talking about another character and just got their report mixed up? Who knows but one thing I wanna say is…
Dominic Monaghan would have made a great Electro in a SPIDER-MAN movie.
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Why CGI the Blob when there’s plenty of obese people( being as every time we put the news on we are told about it!) around these days they could have just cast some really fat dude.
seems like a lot of hassle to me.
They could have cast Eddie Murphy in a fat suit..he really seems to like doing that fat shit.