The X-Men are coming back to the small screen, this time in
Wolverine & the X-Men. And now, the people at
Marvel.com, have made the trailer available to everyone. Check it out below.
The studio provided the following description of the series:
When an explosive event shatters the lives of the X-Men and takes away their mentor, the beaten heroes walk away from it all.
But then they're given a rare glimpse into the future, and see a world in utter ruin, ruled by giant destructive robots. A world that spiraled out of control because the X-Men had given up.
So now the most legendary of all X-Men takes the lead - Wolverine! Reuniting these broken heroes, Wolverine embarks on the ultimate mission - to prevent the world's destruction.
To rescue us from ourselves. To save the future.
Wolverine & the X-Men will be airing on Nickelodeon beginning in the spring of 2009.
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His story of a soldier kidnapped and turned into a killing machine is as old as time itself. His origin has been done and redone so many times it's sickening and I can name at least 10 marvel characters that can mop the floor with him without even trying. Marvel's creators should take a lesson from Astonishing X-Men and leave Wolverine in the background only appearing to ocassionally kill something, drink beer and belt out a few witty quips here and there. Stories need to stop focussing on him.
Seriously, there are much more interesting X-Men out there. If only everyone would jump off Wolverine's adamantium tool, they could get some focus. In any event I like the darker tone of the story, though the X-Men Evolution-like feel is a bit off putting. The animation isn't really a turn on for me and, if you couldn't guess, I'm not to big a Wolverine fan. Now put X-23 in there and then you've got a story. I find her much more interesting. Anyway that's my rant. Sorry folks.
1. now that I've seen the trailer, I kinda like the fact that wolverine will hopefully not be a side character anymore
2. I'm not as pumped about this as I was before I saw the trailer, but I was probably just overhyping the arrival of something wolverine-centered. I wish the animation style wasn't as blocky, because this makes it look like a combination of Avatar: the last airbender and Skyhawks. Weird? Yes. Tolerable? Also yes... but it could be better.
3. Marvel does need to cut out the phoenix annoyance, or if they absolutely HAVE to keep it, don't make it end with dead Jean again. Her character never gets to develop enough.
4.If Steve Blum reads this (which I doubt he will, but hey, It would be cool), I congratulate you on getting the job for Wolverine's voiceover, but it still blows my mind that you can do voices like this when you voiced Kenta and Guilmon (If I got my facts straight there). Truthfully I would have preffered the guy who voiced him in X-men Evolution, but you're doing a great job as well.
5. I want to say something else, but I can't quite form the statement as well as I'd like to...well, here goes: I hope this X-men show either A) gets to live in semi normalcy by having mutants become widely accepted and maybe having to fight small extremist groups or B) Xavier uses cerebro to reset the memories of everyone and make everyone forget that mutants existed and go back to Evolution's plotline. Preferrably option A.
Please respond to this! I'm going to try to check back for responses as often as possible. I wish I could talk to someone at Marvel, because the story of the X-men was what got me started on my own project that I hope someday will become a real show or comic. (I won't tell anyone what it is though, because they might steal my idea, obviously, :).)
I understand that everyone LOVES wolverine, why not just make a movie about him alone, why drag my favorite x-men characters into a film only to make them look like pansies and have wolverine be the only person who isn't a crying weak little punk. Can we please stop doing this? PLease. Give the man his own movie so we can actually see a good film about the X-MEN. And the character designs look like slightly polished X-Men evolutions designs, can we TRY to be slightly more original? This one is definately a download.
DAMN YOU JACKMAN FOR BEING SO COOL!!