Black Eyed Peas To Star In X-Men Origins: Wolverine And Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li
InKill Bill: Vol. 2, Budd has to clean up a particularly fouled strip club restroom, and right now I have to write aBlack Eyed Peascasting post. Night capping the last few days ofX-Men Origins: Wolverinenews, BEP memberwill.i.am(the one who looks like Wyclef) will star asJohn Wraithaka Wraith aka Kestrel, a mutant with teleportation powers and a thing for explosives who, in comic canon, belonged to Team X alongside Wolverine, Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber), Maverick, Mastodon and Silverfox (Lynn Collins). This casting news arrives viaIESB. The musician-actor, real name William James Abrams, Jr., previously starred on the TV showCane, and the big budget film marks his feature debut. No word if he’ll contribute to the soundtrack or will have a scene teaching Gambit how to rap obnoxiously.
In a flick more befitting a BEP, rapperTaboo(the one who looks like he has a crystal skull), will star in 2009’sStreet Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, the second big screen incarnation of Capcom’s classic video game series. Taboo’s role has not been officially announced, butFirst Showingspeculates he might be up for the still unfilled roles of Ryu, Ken, or Guile. If so, total hilarity. Also joining the film, which is directed byDoom’s Andrzej Bartkowiak, areAmerican Pie’sChris Klein(as Nash), the formidableMichael Clark Duncan(as Balrog), Korean American actorRick Yune(Gen), and others.Smallville’s Kristin Kreuk is in the title role. Did Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raul Juliateachour society nothing in 1994?
Discuss: What is the point of casting the Black Eyed Peas in genre movies? Also, anyone want to be /Film’s BEP movie news-gathering intern?
