{"id":25947,"date":"2012-07-14T14:44:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T13:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=25947"},"modified":"2012-07-17T11:33:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T10:33:35","slug":"jessica-biel-joins-the-wolverine-and-brings-hydra-with-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/jessica-biel-joins-the-wolverine-and-brings-hydra-with-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Biel joins The Wolverine… and brings Hydra with her?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jessica Biel and Colin Farrell in Total Recall<\/em>, out 3 August 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Total Recall<\/em><\/a> (2012), Blade II<\/em><\/a> and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/em><\/a> (2003) star\u00a0Jessica Biel has signed on to play Viper, also known as Madame Hydra, in James Mangold and Hugh Jackman’s The Wolverine<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the comic-book, the Hungarian-born Viper was the head of an underworld empire in the fictional South East Asian city of Madripoor – a sort of analogue for Singapore – who manipulated Logan into marrying her, and then fighting for her against her criminal rivals.<\/p>\n

All of this, though, comes from a completely different storyline to the one director James Mangold (3:10 To Yuma<\/em>) is drawing on for The Wolverine<\/em>, one written a decade later, albeit by the same author, Chris Claremont<\/a>.\u00a0How Viper will be incorporated into the Japanese setting of The Wolverine<\/em> remains to be seen, as does her Hydra connection, as that secret society’s only movie outing to date has been in 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenge<\/em>r<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the comics, Viper\/Madame Hydra has a relationship with Captain America’s nemesis the Red Skull, obviously the property of Marvel Studios in the great Marvel\/Fox movie divorce, and presumably he took the multi-headed kids when he moved out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Total Recall’s Jessica Biel joins the cast of James Mangold and Hugh Jackman’s The Wolverine, in cinemas 26 July 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":25948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[2362,854,871,1988,800,708],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Jessica-Biel-The-Wolverine-Hugh-Jackman.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}