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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
After seeking to live a normal life after 200 years, Logan sets out to avenge a death by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine.
2009 · Directed by Gavin Hood · 107 min · Adventure · Action · Science Fiction · Screenplay in the scene database · 5 frames
Tagline
Witness the origin.
Plot
In 1845, James Howlett, a boy living in the Northwest Territories, witnesses his father's murder by groundskeeper Thomas Logan. Rage activates the boy's mutation: bone claws that protrude from his knuckles, and he impales Thomas, who reveals that he is James' biological father before dying. James flees with Thomas' other son, Victor Creed, James' elder half-brother, who has sharp claw nails and a healing factor mutation like James. They spend the next century fighting in the American Civil War, both World Wars, and the Vietnam War. In Vietnam, the increasingly violent Victor attempts to rape a Vietnamese woman and kills a senior officer who tries to stop him. James returns to Victor and rushes to defend him. The pair is sentenced to execution by firing squad, which they survive. Major William Stryker offers them membership in Team X, a group of mutants including marksman Agent Zero, katana-wielding mercenary Wade Wilson, teleporter John Wraith, super-strong and invulnerable Fred Dukes, and technopath Chris Bradley. They join the team for a few missions, with James using the alias Logan, but Victor and half of the group's lack of self-control and empathy causes Logan to leave.
In 1985, Logan works as a logger in Canada, where he lives with his girlfriend Kayla Silverfox. Stryker and Zero approach Logan, reporting that Wade and Bradley have been killed, revealing someone is targeting the team. Logan refuses to rejoin Stryker, but after finding Kayla's bloodied body in the woods, he realizes that Victor is responsible. He finds Victor at a bar but loses the subsequent fight. Stryker explains that Victor has gone rogue and offers Logan a way to become strong enough to get his revenge. Logan undergoes a painful operation to reinforce his skeleton with adamantium, a virtually indestructible metal. Stryker orders that Logan's memory be erased so he can be used as their personal weapon, but Logan overhears and escapes to a nearby farm, where an elderly couple takes him in. Zero kills the couple the following morning and tries to kill Logan, but Logan takes down Zero's helicopter, killing him as he swears to kill both Stryker and Victor.
Logan locates Wraith and Dukes at a boxing gym in Las Vegas. Dukes, who has ballooned in size due to a guilt-induced eating disorder, explains that Victor still works for Stryker, hunting down mutants for Stryker to experiment on at his new laboratory, located at "The Island". Dukes also mentions Remy "Gambit" LeBeau, the only one who escaped from the island and therefore knew its location. Wraith and Logan find Gambit in New Orleans, and then both fight Victor, who kills Wraith and extracts his DNA. Agreeing to help release mutants that Stryker has captured, Gambit takes Logan to Stryker's facility on Three Mile Island. Logan learns that Kayla is alive, having been forced by Stryker into surveilling him in exchange for her sister's safety. However, Stryker refuses to release her sister and denies Victor the adamantium bonding promised for his service, claiming that test results revealed Victor would not survive the operation. Stryker activates Wade, now known as Weapon XI, a "mutant killer" with the powers of multiple mutants.
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Crew
- Screenplay: David Benioff, Skip Woods
- Cinematography: Donald McAlpine
- Edited by: Megan Gill, Nicolas De Toth
- Music: Harry Gregson-Williams
- Production design: Barry Robison
- Produced by: Hugh Jackman, Lauren Shuler Donner, John Palermo, Bryan Singer
Cast
- Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine
- Liev Schreiber as Victor Creed
- Danny Huston as Stryker
- Lynn Collins as Kayla Silverfox
- Kevin Durand as Fred Dukes
- Dominic Monaghan as Bradley
- Taylor Kitsch as Remy LeBeau
- Daniel Henney as Agent Zero
- Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson
- will.i.am as John Wraith
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: The Donners' Company, Seed Productions, 20th Century Fox, Marvel Entertainment
- Budget: $150,000,000
- Box office: $373,062,864
- Themes: army, corruption, superhero, mutant, boxer, based on comic, prequel, spin off, aftercreditsstinger, duringcreditsstinger
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