Australian Adelaide Clemens has secured a role in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, according to The Sunday Herald. The actress is one of over 45 actors who have been cast in the film, since production began earlier this year.

Clemens is a Graham Kennedy Award (for Outstanding Talent) nominee, and had a starring role in the Australian television series ‘Love My Way’.

It’s unknown who she will play, but the role is said to be small.

An updated flash gallery for Nicktoons’ Wolverine and the X-Men 2009 animated series has been added to XMF! Included are 69 screen shots from the latest trailer, which debuted on Marvel.com.

All site galleries can be accessed via visual media>photo gallery.

Update: The agency tells XMF that the info is correct. According to them, he was indeed cast as the younger Scott Summers. Official confirmation from Fox has not yet been received.

Australian actor Tim Pocock (Showreel, Resume) has been cast as Scott Summers in X-Men Origins: Wolverine according to the talent agency, Meissner Management.

Um…what??? For those who don’t know, Scott Summers is CYCLOPS.

Does this make any sense? No, but that’s what they’re saying.

Summers never had a connection to Wolverine before the first X-movie, but are trying to tie-in this film with the ‘Young X-Men’ project in development at Fox? Stay tuned for any additional confirmations or denials. Thanks Retro!

Marvel has posted the first official trailer for the upcoming Wolverine and the X-Men animated series, which is set to air on NickToons in 2009 (tentative for Spring).

Watch the trailer now!

Besides Wolverine, there has been talk of two specific spin-off’s which are being developed at Fox. Magneto - a prequel featuring Eric Lensherr and Charles Xavier, and Young X-Men (not actual title) - featuring teenage mutants at Xavier’s School for the Gifted.

Which spin-off film are you more interested in seeing? Or are you not interested in any of them? Vote in the poll below, and leave your comments!

Just a quick note: Production on X-Men Origins: Wolverine is set to wrap sometime in June, according to The Sydney Morning Herald! Star Hugh Jackman and family will be moving to New York after he completes filming and publicity commitments overseas.

The film is not due until May of next year, so hopefully director Gavin Hood and crew will use the extra time in post production to make sure this is the best possible film!

Gossip Girl creator Josh Schwartz might be writing an X-Men film. I say might because the original links to the story have oddly disappeared from the site.

In the original article by Blackbook Magazine, they mention that Schwartz will ‘pen the screenplay for the next installment of X-Men’ which will be a prequel of sorts; focusing on the teenage mutants who attend Xavier’s School for the Gifted. Sounds like Zak Penn’s ‘Young X-Men’ spin-off doesn’t it?

Schwartz also didn’t have very nice things to say the directors of the X-franchise, saying “Brett Ratner didn’t have a lot of credibility going to the third X-Men movie, but I think Bryan Singer got a free pass on Superman Returns because of his work on X-Men.” He also was rude enough to say “The Hulk looks like it’s going to be terrible.”

Umm…it might be a bad idea bad-mouthing past directors that set up the very film you’re ‘possibly’ working on, and it’s even worse to say negative things about Marvel’s The Incredible Hulk, Schwartz. Thanks JC!

Gustavo n’ Joyce’s site features a few photos from the set of X-Men Origins: Wolverine in New Zealand!

Some of the photos seem to connect pretty well with this past article and early script reviews. The specific photos in the gallery have ‘Wolverine’ in their titles. Thanks Retro!

Does Ian McKellen plan on returning for MAGNETO, which is being developed at Fox? Empire Online asked him that very question, and here’s what he had to say:

“They are making a ‘Magneto’ spin-off, but I don’t think it will involve me.” said McKellen. “It’s about the younger Magneto, it’s a back-story.”

“Would I be willing to return to play a young Magneto? A cameo in my own movie? I don’t think so. I don’t think I could get away with playing a 19 year old.”