While director Darren Aronofsky is busy finishing pre-production on his sequel to ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine,’ he’s reportedly also developing another movie adaptation of a comic book, Slashfilm.com is reporting. In a recent interview with Clothes on Film, Aronofsky, whose recent psychological thriller, ‘Black Swan,’ has become a critical and box-office success, admitted that he’s creating a comic book to base his next script on. If the reports are true, this will be the second time Aronofsky will have created an original graphic novel for one of his films. In 2005, he released a graphic novel for his movie ‘The Fountain,’ which was met with critical and box-office disappointment. The news…

Hugh Jackman, who is known around the world for starring in such acting films as ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine,’ was injured while performing a stunt on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show,’ Reuters UK is reporting. The 42-year-old actor was trying to make a grand entrance onto the set while the talk-show host was filming in his native Australia when he was minorly injured. Jackman was sliding down the Sydney Opera House on a cable when he failed to hit the brakes on time. Blaming the excitement of the stunt, he failed to stop and hit the lighting rig. “That was so much fun, until the end,” the actor told Winfrey. “I came…

Finally confirming rumors, Fox has confirmed that fresh off the opening-weekend success of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” development has started for a solo spinoff featuring the fan-favorite character Deadpool, the nonstop-joking, sword-swinging mercenary portrayed in the film by Ryan Reynolds. Reynolds is attached to reprise the character in what is being called “Deadpool.” Lauren Shuler Donner and Marvel Studios would act as producers, and the studio is seeking writers. Deadpool is known as “the merc with a mouth,” a character that first debuted in “New Mutants” in 1991. A wise-cracking mercenary with superhuman healing powers, he gradually gained a cult following of his own through several solo series and appearances in…

IESB is reporting that an inside source from the film “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” says that extra shooting in Vancouver, British Columbia recently was to add more screen time for Ryan Reynolds character of Deadpool alongside Hugh Jackman. Internet hype for the movie, which will detail the mysterious origins of the long-lived mutant with the healing factor and killer metal-laced claws and skeleton, has been building ever since the inclusion of Reynolds to the cast as a military teammate of Logan in his earlier days, Wade Wilson, aka “Deadpool”. There has been speculation of a spinoff of the “Origins” film featuring Reynolds as Deadpool. Deadpool, knicknamed “The Merc with a Mouth”…

Superhero Hype.com recently talked with Lauren Schuler Donner, producer of the upcoming “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” movie, a solo spin-off of the popular character starring Hugh Jackman as the clawed Canadian mutant hero. Not only did she hint at several sources of material the writers of “Wolverine” drew from for the script, which also stars Liev Schreiber, Danny Hudson, Ryan Reynolds, and Kevin Durand, but also hinted at the possibility of spinning off another character from “Wolverine”, Deadpool, played by Reynolds, into his own film franchise. Rumors have been circulating on the internet for years about the big-screen adaptation of the beloved “Merc with a Mouth”, a Bea Arthur-loving samurai sword-and-gun…