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EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Durand to play The Blob in Wolverine
Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on February 23, 2008
And just like that, we’ve got another little scoop for you from inside the production of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Last week we told you that Wolverine would encounter The Blob at some point during the upcoming prequel, and now we know who will be jumping into the big rubber fat suit. His name is Kevin Durand.
Not familiar with the name? Just look at the picture to the right. Durand is “that guy” from movies like Wild Hogs, Mystery, Alaska and most recently 3:10 to Yuma. Our source inside the production tells us that Durand was “live-scanned” for The Blob a while ago, but has just officially signed on to the project in recent days. Word is that he will be heading up to his native Canada to shoot scenes for the film sometime next week. This is also important because the rest of the production is happening half way across the world in New Zealand and Australia. Does this mean that The Blob will not share too many scenes with Wolverine himself? Or does it mean that he will be shooting everything in front of a green screen and be digitally inserted into the film? Or better yet, is the production moving to Canada at some point? Time will tell, I’m sure.
In other Wolverine news, Lord of the Rings and Lost star Dominic Monaghan has also joined the production as Barnell, a former military ally of Logan with the power to harness energy and electricity.
Stay tuned for more Wolverine news in the coming weeks… We will keep our recon team working overtime for you.
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9 Comments
February 23rd, 2008 at 8:03 am
Not really an exclusive. Filmdrunk reported this a few days ago
http://www.filmdrunk.com/post.phtml?pk=1158
February 23rd, 2008 at 10:37 am
Leon — It appears that you are right, but FilmDrunk never really goes into much detail. I would say that we can share the scoop, based on the fact that we’ve got a little more information for you…
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:01 pm
That’s true.
Its interesting about him shooting in Canada, whereas the rest of the cast is in Australia.
Blob will be an interesting character to see on-screen thats for sure!
March 5th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Neil - I don’t go into much detail because it’s not my style. And I’m happy to share the scoop because I assume you got the info elsewhere. But how come I’m not part of your cool little movie blogger clique? (http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/03/05/first-look-tropic-thunder-robert-downey-jr-as-a-black-man/)
Frownie face :-(
March 6th, 2008 at 1:15 am
Kevin Durand is shooting in Australia right now, not Canada.
March 6th, 2008 at 1:17 am
Lance — You can totally be part of our clique if you want… I dig your site, man.
March 6th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Yay! Likewise (even though it took me forever to find your freaking RSS feed). Is FSR on East or West Coast time?
March 13th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Actually just saw him in Sydney. He is a freaking tank
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:25 am
All of that information and you fail to mention that Durand himself is also on Lost? He has had a rather major role in the past few episodes, to boot.