Ninja - That's all you need to know.

Scott Adkins is the actor / stuntman / martial artist who is portraying Deadpool / Weapon XI (along with Ryan Reynolds of course) in the forthcoming film X-Men Origins: Wolverine - I mentioned that a while back. He has starred in The Bourne Ultimatum, Unleashed (Danny the Dog), The Medallion, The Pink Panther, Hollyoaks and Holby City. He gets around. That's him below.
Now his time has come to play the lead in a film.

• Will it be a romantic comedy?
• Maybe a film looking into the depths of one man's soul?
• Or could it be a film where he plays a kick-ass Ninja?

Pick one of those three and see if you are right.
You guessed it. Option 3. He will be starring in Isaac Florentine's upcoming martial arts extravaganza, Ninja. What's not to love about that title.
A westerner named Casey (Adkins), studying Ninjutsu in Japan, is asked by the Sensei to return to New York to protect the legendary Yoroi Bitsu, an armored chest that contains the weapons of the last Koga Ninja.
Great synopsis as well. Tells you everything you need to know. Quiet Earth dug up the photos on this post (they have a few more so check them out as well) and they show that it will look lovely as well as having kick-ass Ninja action.

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine - The Weapon XI mystery cleared up

Previously on Live for Films: The X-Men Origins: Wolverine Trailer was released and we saw a bit more of Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson aka Deadpool. There was also a bald mutant guy with a claw on each hand, eye beams and no mouth. In my previous post I said this was Weapon XI played by Scott Adkins so it wouldn't be Deadpool. I thought he had all the mutant powers grafted onto him. I was half right.

Topless Robot, via their new inside source, have cleared this up and this is what their source told them about Weapon XI and some other mutants we may see (Spoilers Ahead).

• Ryan Reynolds shows up for 10 minutes in the beginning of the film. He's part of Stryker's team, and his mutant ability is mostly being a badass with swords, cutting bullets and the like. He is called Wade Wilson during this period.
• Stryker's big plan (or one of 'em) is to make Weapon XI, a mutant with a shit-ton of mutant powers.
• Stryker uses Wilson's body as the mutant power receptacle, and because of the scarring (I'm not sure whether that's from a previous fight, or as a result of all the mutant powers getting packed into him), Weapon XI is played by Scott Adkins. Weapon XI appears for about ten minutes near the film's end, and has the claws seen above (a la Wolverine), Cyclops' optic blast, Wraith's teleportation ability, and Wolverine's healing factor, too. Also, his mouth is indeed sewn shut.
• Just like Weapon X is given the name "Wolverine," Weapon XI is given the name "Deadpool."

Apparently, there's a cameo by a certain Professor at the end of the movie. When Stryker's compound is falling apart and Wolverine is leading young Emma Frost and Cyclops out of the building, Cyclops suddenly knows the way out. When they get to the door, standing there -- oh yes, standing -- is Charles Xavier, controlling wee Cyclops' mind like he'll be doing several billion more times in the future. He's apparently not played by Patrick Stewart, by the way. Weird.

Also: Despite what the trailer would have you believe, most of the other mutants are only cameos as well. Gambit only has about 10 minutes of screentime, for instance. Just like the Marvel Universe, it's Wolverine's show.

I think it sucks that Ryan Reynolds doesn't get to be the wisecracking Merc with a Mouth we know and love. However, it could be a good setup for a Deadpool film. I am glad that it will be Wolverine's film and not loads of people fighting for time on screen.

Deadpool fans what do you think of the news?

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Deadpool or Weapon XI?

The recent trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine had more footage of the weird bald mutant with the metal claw, cyclops eyebeam and markings on his skin. Is it Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) after going through the Weapon X procedure or is it a totally new mutant, Weapon XI? A British actor called Scott Adkins (Bourne Ultimatum, Holby City, Hollyoaks) is down to play a character called Weapon XI.

MTV Splash Page had these exclusive shots of the mouthless mutant.
The confusion as to the whole Deadpool / Weapon XI mix up is a result of the recent photos for a Deadpool action figure, but maybe that was marked up wrong or is a bit of studio misdirection. Whatever, the toy does look like the guy in these photos. However, the guy does not look like Ryan Reynolds.

I think it may well end up being somebody like Agent Zero or another human character who has all the various mutant abilities grafted onto him. The markings on the skin look similar to those drawn on Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) when he is about to go through the Adamantium procedure. I can't think of any character from the X-Men comic books that has that look or powers but I could well be mistaken?

Who do you think this new mutant is? Are they an established X-Men character or something new for the film?

UPDATE: The mystery is cleared up in this later post and in this review of the film.

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Final Trailer and Gambit finally has the correct eye colour!

Some interesting things shown here. More Logan, more Gambit (with the right eye colour), Sabretooth (liev Schreiber) chasing down a young Cyclops and the young mutants in the cells are wearing uniforms that remind me of the Hellions from the comic. It also shows Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) going sword crazy and what could be Deadpool again near the end with a kind of Cyclops eye beam effect going on - the character in question is bald and has some weird kind of scarring or marking that the Deadpool toy showed a while back. Not sure though as Deadpool never had the eye beam malarky and POV (Pool O Vision) from the comic is just his hallucination given name.

Could it me Weapon XI that has been mentioned? I don't know. What do you make of it?

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