Gavin Hood Talks Endings and Leak at Wolverine Screening
By Krystal Clark
Director Gavin Hood made an appearance at one of the early press screenings for his upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine. As you can expect the director appeared in front of the audience with a heavy heart when discussing the highly publicized leak that occurred early this month. Hood was visibly upset, and emotional when discussing the incident. He acknowledged that neither he nor the studio knows how this will effect the box office reception of the film. He used this as an opportunity to explain to the fans how “unfinished” the bootleg is and how the theatrical version is worth the wait.
See what Hood says was missing from the leaked copy after the jump.
Hood confirmed that Wolverine was downloaded from an Avid computer, and gave some specifics about what was missing from the footage.
- There are a total of 967 special effects used in the film, and 400 are missing from the leaked copy.
- There was no music present just a temporary score.
- The sound wasn’t edited.
- There was no color time.
- It was low resolution.
Overall, Hood wanted to emphasize that you should wait to see the finished product. Not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because there are certain things that were added later on that you wont find online. He told the audience that there are two Easter Eggs present at the end of the theatrical version of the film. The only catch is that they will be shown at different screenings, not simultaneously. I’m assuming that means if you see one, you probably will have to catch another show to see the other.
Word on the street is that one of them may have something to do with another franchise that has been talked about quite a bit recently… but we’re not giving that away!
Monday, April 27, 2009 7:19PM
Its the Deadpool franchise…
Monday, April 27, 2009 9:48PM
Youtube might get a flogging after the screenings…
Monday, April 27, 2009 10:35PM
Another franchise….maybe X-Men Origins: Magneto finally coming???
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:28AM
im hopin the ending might tie him to the avengers or i know theres a scene of him in a war maybe world war 2 maybe a glimpse of cap?
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 4:46AM
the problem with the movie wasn't the lack of sounds or affect the story is bad, the characterization of certain characters was wrong. I'm all for writers and directors changing a character here and there but the movie just isn't good because of script, and it seems that there was no respect for the license. Although I thought it was bad i must say Hugh is awesome as Wolverine. Fox just let X-men Go you killed it with x3 just let it go
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 6:36PM
" Not just because it's the right thing to do" Screw all hollywood slime! Telling people about the right thing to do then rapping people of their money all day long. How dare any of you ever tell people what the right thing do is. You rape the environment, steal from everyone, do every bad thing imaginable, and create a culture of depression and greed. This movie sucked and I am glad it leaked. No one see this please it is terrible and you can watch it for free. It is not worth a dollar let alone 10. I don't know how these guys can live with themselves. Hood and Jackman had to have watched the early copies and seen how bad this was yet they still try to sell it like it's the greatest movie ever. The celebrity sits on their ivory tower judging the morallity of midle america all day. Calling us racist and greedy. Saying we are destroying the planet. Yet they are the most wealthy, greedy, judgemental and carbon users of all. F*** them!
Saturday, May 2, 2009 4:36AM
I sat down preparing to be disappointed and surprisingly, I wasn't. I really enjoyed it. It reminded me a lot of X2. They could have beefed up a couple areas like X Force. I had no idea what they were so they could've expanded a bit on that part and they could've beefed up wolverine's love interest story line. She's also a mutant but they could've made her use her powers more. They also never said why Liev had a problem with his brother. Explaining that would've made sense. The action scenes were really good. There just seemed to be so much that needed to be explained but they cut a lot to make up for the movies time which clocked in at just under 2 hours. Overall I really enjoyed it. Great escapism!
Saturday, May 2, 2009 9:26PM
A Cap or Avengers tie in is unlikely given Wolverine is not under the Marvel title. I think it's under Fox's control.
That was my dream for Fantastic Four 3. Hulk is already under Marvel again. Wolverine back under Marvel's control along with the possibility of getting Spider-man and Ghost Rider back, we could have the alternate FF.
Monday, May 4, 2009 9:25AM
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