Variety today confirmed rumors that Ryan Reynolds will play Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.  Also joining the cast is Black Eyed Peas front man will.i.am (oh my god creative punctuation – you’re so clever!!).

Marvel has been eyeing the possibility of casting Reynolds as Deadpool, an assassin with self-healing powers, for some time with the idea of spinning off the character into his own film series should the character prove popular among moviegoers.

will.i.am will play Wraith, a mutant who has the power to teleport, and is another test subject of the Weapon X program that created Wolverine and other mercenaries. It would be his first film role.

I hate this guy.  He always shows up wearing stupid hipster clothes and that self-satisfied look on his face that only dumb people can truly master.  I’m afraid any second he’s going to launch into an interpretive dance or a def poem.  He’s like the pretentious friend who’s super average but wants desperately for people to think he’s smart, whom you encourage in his artistic endeavors by never making eye contact and always changing the subject to sports or food.  But to his credit, I think his buddy might be the guy from ‘The Scream‘.     

That’s right, folks, question marks in the headline can mean only one thing: it’s time to prognosticate! Will humans land on Mars?  Is purple the new pink? Would this monkey let me squeeze her tits for a banana?  No one can say for sure, and that means we’re free to speculate wildly! Yee ha!

Though I have it on good authority that Gambit wasn’t in the original X-Men Origins: Wolverine script, the consensus on the interwebs is that he’s in it, and he’ll be played by some fruity looking nancy boy.

Scooper ‘Chaos Bringer’ has revealed on Superhero Hype!‘s message boards that "Friday Night Lights" star Taylor Kitsch will play Gambit (AKA Remy LeBeau) in director Gavin Hood’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Kitsch has signed a three-picture deal.

You may remember Chaos Bringer from his pulitzer prize winning reportage vis a vis the Teapot Dome scandal. 

Anyway, remember when a superhero could be played by a regular dude with a swagger and a beer gut, a la George Reeves?  Now we get former Diesel models who are "passionate about nutrition and fitness" and the guy from Hairspray.  Not to mention, his name is "Taylor".  Might as well name your kid "Twinkle Toes", or "Jazz Hands".  In this movie, instead of throwing exploding playing cards, Gambit’ll probably release butterflies or white doves… okay, on second thought, exploding doves would actually be really cool.

IESB is reporting that the role of Silverfox in the upcoming Wolverine movie (initially rumored to be played by Maggie Q) has gone to Lynn Collins.  They also report that William Stryker (played by Brian Cox in X-2) will be Danny Huston.

They go on to mention an appearance by The Blob, whom a FilmDrunk tipster claims will be played by Kevin Durand.   The tipster says the Blob’s part will be small – on par with The Juggernaut in Brett Ratner’s rape of X-3, and that the script includes some other minor mutants such as Beak.   

Still no word on whether we’ll see Glass Man (he’s abnormally fragile!), Mr. Sensitive (be careful what you say!), or Chuck, the guy who can shapeshift into a hoagie sandwich (but not back again!).  Typical Hollywood move, focusing only on the glamorous aspects of mutantry. 

USA Today has your first look at Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in, uh, Wolverine, coming this  May 2009.

Wolverine will be a prequel to the X-Men saga. It will center on the origins of the superhero with animal-like reflexes, an alloy skeletal system and the ability to heal from virtually any wound. He also could use a friend.

I always think it’s funny when they want to show off a guy’s muscles and they stick him in a wifebeater.  Hey, maybe in the next pic we’ll stick him in a lacy bra and panties, I bet he’d look totally jacked in those too.  I have a sun dress in my closet – oh my God bro I look so shredded.

According to a couple sources, Maggie Q, Timothy Olyphant’s girlfriend in Live Free or Die Hard, is in talks to play Silver Fox in the upcoming Wolverine movie. 

As fans of the X-Men know, a big part of Wolvie’s background involves a love story with a woman known as Silver Fox. The two live in a cabin in the Canadian Rockies until she is eventually killed by Sabretooth. [CinemaBlend] 

If you’re anything like me, you probably heard that and went, “Wait, her last name is ‘Q’?  I call bullshit.”  And you’d be right.  According to Wikipedia, the Q stands for Quigley, and though she got famous in Hong Kong, she was actually born in the US to a Polish/Irish father and a Vietnamese mother.   

This reminds me of when I saw a black guy with an Asian chick the other night and thought to myself, “C’mon man, now you’re just being greedy.”

It also reminds me of Gary Glitter getting arrested for child molestation in Vietnam.  Can you imagine how many children you’d have to molest to get arrested in Vietnam?  I imagine it’s a lot.