Update: Along with Vaderbilt, writer Scott Silver has also been working on polishing the script, which will be ready to go for the May 1, 2009 film!

James Vanderbilt (Zodiac, The Rundown) is ‘flipping’ the current X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE script by David Benioff in order to make the script filmable by studio standards, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Many studios are rushing the completion of ready-to-go scripts in order to beat the upcoming Writers Guild of America strikes.

Composer Harry Gregson-Williams is set to create music for 20th Century Fox’s X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE according to The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency. His previous work includes ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ franchise, ‘Gone Baby Gone’, ‘Deja Vu’ and ‘Shrek the Third’.

Thanks to SHH for the heads up!

CASTING CALL: The next addition to our Casting Call page will be the villainous Apocalypse! Born nearly five thousand years ago in Egypt, Apocalypse inspired fear even as an infant. This popular X-Men villain has superhuman strength, and the ability to alter the atomic structure of his body.

If you were the casting director, who would YOU cast? We’re putting the canidate choices in your hands!

E-mail us here, or comment below with your top actor choices. We’ll pick our favorite five and add them to the upcoming poll. Don’t know who Apocalypse is? Click here.

Update: Prizes will be awarded to 2nd and 3rd place winners! These prizes have yet to be announced, but will have lesser value than the grand prize.

Why are you a fan of the X-Men? Tell us why you love this uncanny mutant team! Write one paragraph or more, and e-mail it to contest@xmenfilms.net. Include your name and country. We’ll pick our favorite responses; post them on the site, and award the ‘grand prize’ winner with…

X-Men: The Characters and Their Universe - a lavishly illustrated large-format book (a $75 value), which serves as an encyclopedic reference to the entire X-Men franchise in comics, film, and tv.

CONTEST ENDS NOVEMBER 9TH!

From The Daily Telegraph: 

Melbourne’s Kodi Smit-McPhee has signed up to play a young version of Jackman’s claw-wielding mutant alter ego in the up-coming action thriller Wolverine.The 11-year-old, who is up against his Romulus, My Father co-star Eric Bana for best lead actor at this year’s AFI Awards, will begin filming at Fox Studios in December.

““I am very excited about it. I like how their claws come out.” he said yesterday.

Hmm…I wonder if they’re going to give him BONE CLAWS like in the comics, or just display young Wolverine’s healing powers? The movie-verse (in X2: X-Men United) said that Logan gained his claws from William Stryker. We’ll see…

Thanks Pat!

Gavin Hood talks a bit about X-Men Origins: Wolverine in this video interview from JoBlo (begins around the 2:30 mark). Click the >| button if interview doesn’t start.