Those going to see the remake of the sci fi classic, The Day the Earth Stood Still, starring Keanu Reeves on Friday, Dec 12th will get a special treat...(and no, I will not be at your local theater showing off my popcorn snake)...instead you'll just have to settle for...the X-Men Origins: Wolverine trailer!  Woo Hoo! According to the IGN "exclusive" interview with 20th Century Fox, the trailer will not be showing online "officially" anytime soon... You can see the "exclusive bootleg copy" of the X-Men Origins: Wolverine Trailer below here though: [flash width="400" height="342" flashvars="name1=value1&name2=value2"]http://www.tudou.com/v/I1Sl2FmYLpk[/flash] ...so if you want to see it "legally", you are just gonna have to fork over the dough ...

It looks like rather than expanding on the current movie X-Men universe and continuing to develop a lot of the characters they introduced in the Last Stand, 20th Century Fox (who owns the film right's to X-Men after deals made in the 90's when Marvel was under the gun financially), is going towards the "Youth Route" with X-Men First Class. According to Zak Penn (who is writing the Avengers movie, and was involved with both Hulk films, Elektra, the X-Men movies, and FUCKING Inspector Gadget (wtf??), he is leaning towards the comics of the same name that began in 2006 and ended in 2007. Included in those comics as part of the line ...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWz4WGHtu-A[/youtube] This vid has been floating around the YouTube streams for the past several months (since Comic Con) and before it gets yanked, figure I would share with anyone that wants to have a look-see. And I have to say it looks grade A fucking awesome!  Tyler Mane did a serviceable job as Sabretooth in the first X-Men flick, but Liev Shreiber is going to blow it straight up! (and yes I AM considering growing out my lambchops for the premiere, Sabretooth and Gorilla Grodd style) And for those keeping score at home, in the trailer you can see William Striker, Silver Fox, Deadpool! (NiCE), ...