{"id":26288,"date":"2012-07-20T09:20:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T08:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=26288"},"modified":"2012-07-20T09:40:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T08:40:50","slug":"the-wolverines-jessica-biel-replaced-by-svetlana-khodchenkova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/the-wolverines-jessica-biel-replaced-by-svetlana-khodchenkova\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wolverine’s Jessica Biel replaced by Svetlana Khodchenkova"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Svetlana<\/a>
Svetlana Khodchenkova on the cover of the Russian Playboy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After it was previously reported<\/a> that Total Recall<\/em><\/a>‘s Jessica Biel was in negotiations to play the villainous Viper in the Hugh Jackman-starred, James Mangold-directed The Wolverine<\/em><\/a>, it seems that things haven’t worked out, and the studio’s second choice is now in the running.<\/p>\n

Russian star Svetlana Khodchenkova\u00a0most recently played Soviet agent Irina in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy<\/em>, so she’s arguably far more suited to the role of the Hungarian-born Viper, who in the comic-book was\u00a0the head of an underworld empire in the fictional South East Asian city of Madripoor \u2013 a sort of analogue for Singapore \u2013 who manipulated Logan into marrying her and then fighting for her against her criminal rivals.<\/p>\n

As we said previously, Viper is also known as Madame Hydra, a leading light in the terrorist conspiracy last seen in Marvel Studios’\u00a0Captain America: The First Avenger<\/em><\/a>, so while Khodchenkova definitely has the acting chops for this role, we might not be seeing it unless 20th Century Fox decide to reinvent Hydra under another name…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy’s Svetlana Khodchenkova will now play Viper in Hugh Jackman and James Mangold’s The Wolverine, in cinemas 26 July 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":26289,"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":[854,1988,800],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/48972904204892.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26288"}],"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=26288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}