By J.R. Pepper
Like any other geek by night/ pixel pusher by day, I often don’t get the ‘what’s new’ until way after the fact. However, I do I have my ever vigilant league of geek informers who keep me up to date.
So imagine my surprise when I was forwarded the leaked Wolverine trailer about a week ago.
I figured “what the hell?” since Marvel movies can go either one way or the other. I.e., Iron Man = awesome. Downey was perfect, just enough cheese and more than enough hidden geekiness. Fantastic Four = all due respect for Doug Jones, but why is Galactus a cloud and why did I pay $11.50 when re-watching the trailer would have done just fine?
But despite my skepticism, I watched it and within about a little bit more than a minute I saw what my aching geek-girl heart has been waiting for ever since he leaped out of the illustrated bayou.
The Ragin’ Cajun himself, Remy Le Beau.
“Miss me, Petite? I reckon so.”
Oh yes, oh yes I did.
I remember back in X2 freaking out because I saw his name in Stryker’s database. I figured that was a hint that he was going to show up in the next film. How disappointed I was when all I got were a bunch of mutants who looked like leftovers from a goth club.
I fell in love with this character all the way back before the films were even a thought, back when alternate covers littered the shelves of our comic stores. Enter our man, this gallant Cajun with great eyes and a trench coat (what is it with us geek women and trench coats?) with a dark past and charm to spare. My interest was piqued. The only other mutant in the Marvel world that came close to a heartthrob was Longshot and that was many moons ago. Then the whole Rogue/Gambit thing started and I was hooked. The man with oozing raw sexuality and the hottest untouchable mutant-girl ever fall in love… one of the best comic book romances ever ensues. I may have stopped buying comics quite a while ago, but whenever I see the two of them in a near kiss on the cover, I fervently give up my three to four bucks and tear through that comic.
Now, I am not saying that I am getting myself all excited just yet. There is a long time before this movie is even out and as any geek knows, sometimes the trailers are better looking then then movies. Additionally, my poor lil’ Xphile heart was broken just this past June, when the long awaited X-Files film turned into nothing but a sappy fanfiction gone horribly wrong. Needless to say, I am used to getting my hopes too high and having them crashing down.
But, I leave this as an open ended plea to the folks at Marvel.
Please don’t let that movie suck. Wolverine is awesome on any day – he doesn’t deserve a sucky movie. Please, please don’t kill Gambit off in some stupid last minute way or use him for five minutes like poor Lady Deathstrike.
Marvel, I implore you to give the geek girls of America what they want. Did you not hear the girly shrills on that leaked trailer?
We want Gambit.
We want him hot, we want him sexy, we want him red eyed and seductive.
And if he does NOT have that accent, that beloved Cajun voice- the message boards will resound with our fury.
A lot of people think that the comic geek community is just men ogling at big-breasted women in tight spandex. Okay sure, especially in the nineties and especially Top Cow comics. But there are female geeks out here as well, and we obsess over our heart throbs just as insanely and we are very annoyed when Hollywood fails to meet our expectations.
Do we have to draw you a picture???
Oh yeah, wait! You already have one… hehe
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So, I open the floor to our readers- what comic book movie casting were you most annoyed/disappointed or just plain furious with?
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J.R. Pepper, is a trained Art Historian and Photographer as well as being a full time geek, tea addict and guinea pig slave. When not at work she can be found wandering through the anime conventions, working on many personal projects,schooling kids in Guitar Hero and trying to educate her non-geek boyfriend for the upcoming “ Xfiles” movie. Check out her site at www.pepperart.com or www.myspace.com/pepperart, leave a comment why don’tcha!
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I remember back in X2 freaking out because I saw his name in Stryker’s database.
Me, too.
My friends all looked at me funny. Kind of the way they did when I laughed my butt off at the opening of Transformers when Bumblebee beat up the yellow VW.
(what is it with us geek women and trench coats?)
It’s the post-modern cape. Long and flowing in the wind of awesomeness. And less likely to get caught in things. (See The Incredibles for the perils of actual capes.)
Oh man. Gambit was my first X-crush, back even from the animated show that was on Fox. I loved everything about him. Everything. I’m a tad miffed that the movie version won’t have the eyes (come on, Mystique’s eyes were awesome!), but I’d be lying if I said I cared when I watched that trailer. The throwing the card, the spinning the staff… ::fans self::
I was completely floored when they cast Kirsten Dunst to play MJ – she brought no charisma, no red hair actually after the first movie, and none of the one liners shes known for to the movie franchise. Bryce Dallas Howard should have been MJ – she had the look she has the spunk, and she was an ok Gwen, the writing was horrid for her, but she would have killed as MJ from the start. And now cardboard cut-out barbie aka kirsten is in talks for Spidey 4?! *slaps forehead* no one wants the quiet and moody pretty girl, thats just NOT MJ.