20th Century Fox has released a full presskit today for its upcoming film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and enclosed within are some new details about the role being played by Lost’s Dominic Monaghan.
In the movie, Wolverine and several other mutants of tremendous power are recruited by Colonel William Stryker to join a covert black ops unit called Team X. From the production notes:
Another Team X member is Bradley, portrayed by Dominic Monaghan. Bradley, who can control and manipulate electricity, is a haunting figure, having gone into hiding from Stryker and Sabretooth, as a circus sideshow attraction. “When we meet Bradley in the film, he’s kind of fallen off the grid,” says Monaghan. “With Team X, he was a guerrilla soldier, but when things got out of hand, and he saw things he didn’t want to see, he left the unit.”
This is not the role past news reports led us to believe Monaghan would be playing. In those early reports, Monaghan was described as playing Barnell Bohusk, aka “Beak,” a deformed man mutated into a kind of part-human/part-bird hybrid. So who is this Bradley character? A little digging turned up a Marvel mutant named Chris Bradley, aka Maverick, a comic book mutant with the same ability to manipulate electricity as the one in the film. Looks like Monaghan’s character was loosely based on this.
Curiously, though Monaghan (who’s pictured above at the 6th Annual Global Green USA Pre-Oscar Party in February) is listed in the credits as one of the top-billed stars of the film, Fox has not released any images of his character. Every other major character has multiple photos made available to press, but there are no images whatsoever of this character “Bradley.” I wonder if this is intentional secrecy for some reason, or just an oversight on Fox’s part.
What do you think of Monaghan as “Bradley”? Will you be going to see Wolverine?
Image: Newscom.
Tags: wolverine, x-men origins wolverine
Go to Source
