Third Wolverine Trailer Fights Piracy with Decapitation

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on April 22, 2009

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The folks at 20th Century Fox have offered up a peace offering to the internet this morning with a brand new internet-only trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine that debuted over on Apple. The action-packed trailer comes mere weeks before the official release of the film on May 1st. As you may already know, a workprint of the film was leaked onto the internet and has since been downloaded over a million times. That means a million people have seen the version of the movie that is sans effects and, at least according to Fox’s CEO Tom Rothman, without the footage from reshoots.

Though of course, there’s a bunch of hubbub about that as well. Earlier this week the Huffington Post’s Scott Mendelson wrote about catching Rothman in a lie about Wolverine’s running time. When the leak happened, Rothman claimed that fans weren’t seeing the finished product (obviously), but that it went deeper than special effects and temporary soundtrack. In addition, there was 10 minutes of additional footage that was yet to be included in the film. Though according to HuffPo, the running time on the workprint and the film’s official running time on the movie are identical, both clocking in at 107 minutes. This forced MovieLine to get the following quote from an unnamed studio source:

“It’s lunacy. When the workprint was uploaded and pirated, the final cut of the movie wasn’t done. The music was temporary, the sound was temporary, the effects weren’t in place, there was still wirework, the footage that was shot wasn’t integrated. What [Rothman] said to EW was that there was about ten minutes of [new] footage, so I don’t know if Mendelson is just comparing apples to apples.”

Moral of the story: if you downloaded and watched the workprint online, you didn’t see the movie that will end up in theaters in a few weeks. But we already knew that, didn’t we. In the end I believe that you should heed the warning delivered by Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in the final moments of the trailer below… should you pirate, he may cut your damn head off.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine hits theaters May 1, 2009. It is directed by Gavin Hood and stars Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Will.i.Am, Danny Huston and Lynn Collins.


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  • Greg
    From what i'm hearing, the final cut is pretty much the same as the workprint with only the CGI added in. The runtime is the same and everything.
  • Despite all the controversy, warnings, possible heresies, and fanboy pessimism, I am still pretty damn excited to see this film.
  • I could swear that I remember Wolverine saying "I'm gonna cut your goddamn head off" in the original footage shown at Comic Con. Do you know if they just took this out for the trailer, or was it a casualty of the pg-13 rating?
  • Yeah - that's one of the few things that actually had me really excited. How cool would the film be if that tone was kept? Really cool is the answer.

    That footage at Comic-Con was awesome.
  • It'll be in the final film, if you look at it they cut to Wolverine right before he says "head off" so "goddamn" is probably right before it. You can't say "goddamn" in a trailer thats not red-band.
  • sean
    if you listen closely, you can tell it's edited so that a part of the sentence is cut out. I think that part is probably what your talking about
  • Like Paul said, regardless of the negative comments coming from people who have seen the bootleg version I will still pop down my $8 to see this. It can't be as bad as X-Men III, to do that they would have had to do the whole movie in Mime make up.
  • I would never listen to people who watch bootleg's... For a movie like this it has to be seen at the cinema. Now if you have to watch bootlegs because your a tight ass then watch something like the Pinkpanther, because I dont think anyone would want to pay to watch that...
  • I believe that the creators of this game looked at God of War and said to themselves, "This game is awesome, what can we learn from it"? The red orbs and brutal hack and slash game play is very similar. This game is not just pressing two buttons for combos like Dynasty Warriors. They did a good job on this one.
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