Montcalm County native goes from “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” to “Three Rivers”

Updated 5/21/09:  This fall, “Three Rivers” will air Sundays at 9pm after Amazing Race on CBS.  Avi the TV Geek says: ”Hard time slot. Up against football, Desperate Housewives and Family Guy. It’ll be interesting to see what happens.”

Daniel Henney is on the big screen this summer in the blockbuster action movie  “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”, but he’ll soon be starring in the CBS medical drama “Three Rivers” with Alex O’Loughlin (”Moonlight”).

CBS is expected to announce “Three Rivers” in their lineup tomorrow.

The Carson City native will play a doctor in the show written by Carol Barbee from “Jericho” and Judging Amy”.   

British actress Ormond will portray a doctor at Three Rivers Hospital, while Henney will portray a kidney, liver and pancreas transplant specialist.

“Three Rivers” is described as a medical show about organ transplants seen through three points of view: the doctors, the donors and the recipients.

Thanks to the TV Geek for a Heads Up on this one!!

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UPDATE: Henney in a large part of the movie, antagonist to Wolverine

He shoots, he’s quick and agile, he shoots some more.

Carson City (Montcalm County) native Daniel Henney is a loyal company man working for Col. William Stryker and the Weapon X program in “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” … and that means he grapples and trades verbal jabs with title character Wolverine.

Not bad for his first U.S. movie.   Henney does a great job immersing himself in the character as Agent Zero, the marksman with deadly accuracy.   Although he isn’t given a lot of lines or screen time, he does make the most of it… I’m sure we’ll be seeing more of him in the future.

Carson City native Daniel Henney shoots it up in first U.S. movie

Montcalm County native Daniel Henney may not be in the poster, but he is in the trailer, and presumably in several scenes of the latest X-Men movie “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” that opens on Friday.

Henney graduated from Carson City-Crystal High School in 1998, where he was a standout basketball player.

For the last few years, he has been acting in South Korea.

Now the 29 year old will share the screen with one of the most popular characters in the comic book/superhero world: Wolverine.

Henney plays “Agent Zero”, a member of the “Weapon X Program”, the group that gives Wolverine his adamantium skeleton and claws.

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Hugh Jackman is great returning as Wolverine, the character that put him on the movie map, but “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” is not  the best movie in this franchise.

I waited to write this review, because as a fairly die hard fan of X-Men, I have to say this prequel has me going back and forth on how great it is… or isn’t, mostly because some of the things I thought I knew about the characters in the X-Men universe were quite different in this movie.

After walking out of the theater when the end credit clip was finished (you should stay to the very end), I had the movie rated an 8.5… but I’ve decided that’s too high.

The action is great, the fighting sequences are solid, the story is well crafted, the special effects and editing and photography are good and most of the casting is spot-on.

For the fanboys: Ryan Reynolds was a great choice as the wisecracking Wade Wilson (Deadpool), Liev Schreiber is good as Victor Creed (Sabretooth), Danny Huston does well as the younger Col. William Stryker, Daniel Henney was good as David North (Agent Zero), Kevin Durand does well as Frederick J. Dukes (The Blob), and Will i Am does well as John Wraith.

I’m not saying Taylor Kitsch was bad as Remy LeBeau (Gambit), he just wasn’t the loner with a cajun accent and rebel attitude that I’m used to.

There’s a lot of creative licenses the filmmakers took with several storylines (and obviously timelines) that had me puzzled… and will have other fans scratching their heads.  For example the relationship between Wolverine and Sabretooth, the progression of Wade Wilson’s character, the physical difference between Sabretooth in this movie and the less intelligent, more feral one played by Tyler Mane in the original “X-Men”, etc.

It was cool to see some fun cameos by characters from the other “X-Men” movies.

THE BOTTOM LINE:

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Tempe, Arizona wins the world premiere of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”

Thousands voted to win the premiere for Tempe.    The red carpet premiere on Monday, April 27th will include cast members:  Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Will.i.am, Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins and director Gavin Hood.

The rest of the country will have to wait until Friday, May 1st.

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 This is the first of planned prequels to the X-Men movies focused on popular characters.  Hugh Jackman returns to play Wolverine for a fourth time as we see his life before the events of the X-Men movies from childhood to adult.  We’ll also get to see a variety of X-Men characters that never made it in the three movies (like Gambit, Deadpool, the Blob, and Emma Frost).

“X-Men Origins: Wolverine” the first chapter in the X-Men saga, unites Wolverine with several other legends of the X-Men universe, in an epic revolution that pits the mutants against powerful forces determined to eliminate them. 

Nationwide release is May 1st.

CHECK OUT THE TRAILER THROUGH THIS LINK

Cast of characters:
Hugh Jackman (Wolverine)
Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool)
Liev Schreiber (Sabretooth)
Dominic Monaghan (Beak)
Lynn Collins (Silver Fox),
Danny Huston (William Stryker)
Daniel Henney (Agent Zero)

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