Berry Returns to 'X-Men' for Bigger Role
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retro_eidasGreat. Since Storm is like the bestest character in the movies and all.
Halle Berry only agreed to star in the second X-Men sequel after studio bosses agreed to give her a bigger role in the forthcoming movie. The Oscar-winner was reluctant to reprise her role as Storm in X-Men 3 - but producer Lauren Shuler convinced her by boosting her character's involvement. Schuler says, "I love working with her. We would only write a huge role for her, so she's right in that respect. We would make sure that would happen." Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos and Famke Janssen are also expected to reprise their roles in film, set to begin shooting next year.
The IMDB has a reputation of rampant inaccuracy and that includes the "news" section. They very well could have taken the recent LSD quotes (posted at just about every movie news-site) and put their own special spin on them. Yet, I don't find LSD's perpetual Halle-love very comforting. Wouldn't put it past her or the other X-M producers placating her. Big effing star and all. Eh. Forget Movie!Storm isn't quite as (unintentionally) entertaining as watching Halle stuff sushi down her throat and drinking cream "straight up". Movie!Storm? Boring as hell.
At the moment, X3 is looking to be a Storm and Wolverine movie with that Phoenix chick coming in at third "in some respect" (inexplicable as that is considering how X2 ended). Perhaps LSD is a "Swordfish" fan? Maybe I'm shallow because I admit I like the image of Wolverine in a towel, but... even the off-handed idea that an X-Men movie would follow along the lines of something like "Swordfish"? X-Men 3: Swordphoenix, or How I Stopped Worrying And Learned to Love Hugh Jackman (and ONLY Hugh Jackman, cause the rest of this movie? It's total shite) Which seems to be a trend with Hugh's movies (Hell. All of them, barring X-Men).
No news on Ian, Anna or Patrick, but by god, Halle's going to be in it! Rah. [/sarcasm]
Halle Berry only agreed to star in the second X-Men sequel after studio bosses agreed to give her a bigger role in the forthcoming movie. The Oscar-winner was reluctant to reprise her role as Storm in X-Men 3 - but producer Lauren Shuler convinced her by boosting her character's involvement. Schuler says, "I love working with her. We would only write a huge role for her, so she's right in that respect. We would make sure that would happen." Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos and Famke Janssen are also expected to reprise their roles in film, set to begin shooting next year.
The IMDB has a reputation of rampant inaccuracy and that includes the "news" section. They very well could have taken the recent LSD quotes (posted at just about every movie news-site) and put their own special spin on them. Yet, I don't find LSD's perpetual Halle-love very comforting. Wouldn't put it past her or the other X-M producers placating her. Big effing star and all. Eh. Forget Movie!Storm isn't quite as (unintentionally) entertaining as watching Halle stuff sushi down her throat and drinking cream "straight up". Movie!Storm? Boring as hell.
At the moment, X3 is looking to be a Storm and Wolverine movie with that Phoenix chick coming in at third "in some respect" (inexplicable as that is considering how X2 ended). Perhaps LSD is a "Swordfish" fan? Maybe I'm shallow because I admit I like the image of Wolverine in a towel, but... even the off-handed idea that an X-Men movie would follow along the lines of something like "Swordfish"? X-Men 3: Swordphoenix, or How I Stopped Worrying And Learned to Love Hugh Jackman (and ONLY Hugh Jackman, cause the rest of this movie? It's total shite) Which seems to be a trend with Hugh's movies (Hell. All of them, barring X-Men).
No news on Ian, Anna or Patrick, but by god, Halle's going to be in it! Rah. [/sarcasm]
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Date: 2004-05-12 11:42 pm (UTC)I suppose it's all subjective, but this would be under the estimation if Halle were given more screentime, she would do something with it. Based on what I've seen of Movie!Storm so far? Eh. Movie!Storm is completely wooden to me. Nightcrawler didn't get necessarily all that much screentime as compared to some of the other actors and his lines were en par with most of the script, but Alan Cumming brought it to the plate every time (and he was covered in ridiculous blue prosthetics to boot). Halle didn't do anything with Storm that would make me think she or the character should get any more screentime than she's already got.
Once again, it's subjective, but I'd rather see more Cyclops, for example, because as it stands he'd have understandable reason to get more time in X3 (considering what happened and what will be happening to Jean, his fiance), he's team leader (yet we know almost nothing about him) and Marsden, at least, got me to feel something for Cyclops. Couldn't say the same for Storm. She could have gotten cut out of X2 completely and I wouldn't have batted an eyelash. The budget could have probably used the extra coin too.
Halle can go off and be the lead in other movies. Like "Catwoman 2" or something.