The Coventry Telegraph are reporting that local man Scott Adkins, a martial arts expert has been cast as the mysterious Weapon 11 (or Weapon XI) in the Wolverine movie.

No one knows who the Weapon XI character is, and this move is very intriguing. Wikipedia offers us some insight:

No individual with the ‘Weapon XI’ moniker has been seen, but John Sublime has mentioned it. A likely candidate for Weapon XI’s true identity is the Hound (a mutant with the power to hunt and kill other mutants), who was transformed by the Hound Program of the US government into a techno-organic killing machine. He battled the government-sponsored incarnation of X-Factor after massacring scientists at a US government research facility, nearly killing Sabretooth in the process, but was stopped by Polaris, who was forced to use her power at its full limit. He was later after Shard, but was destroyed in an explosion after being defeated by her and Bishop.

The folks over at Goliath were on hand in Glenorchy to catch the action as it took place, and were kind enough to post their pictures online,

During our trip through New Zealand we got a hint telling us the location where the fourth X-Men movie, “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” starring Hugh Jackman was currently filmed.

Thanks to another hint we found our way to the set on the day a house built for the movie was to be blown up with explosives.

More budding photographs have been snapping their cameras at Hugh Jackman whilst on set for the Wolverine movie. This time Flynet have posted some shots of our movie star looking jovial, some possible spoilers here if you can read into the clues, but mostly just hunky images with large watermarks. I wouldn’t get too excited.

We’ve just got our first pictures showing Liev Schreiber donning claws and green torn shirt as Sabretooth. I’ve included the best shot below, the rest are rather candid and unappealing, but you can see the full gallery at Just Jared, there’s also a couple of shots of Hugh Jackman throwing an apple in similar attire.

The Daily Telegraph have been on location at the Wolverine carnival shoot, covertly snapping shots of scenes filmed, making their own videos of the unfolding events and getting some expert images of Hugh Jackman dressed fairly casually.

Wolverine Carnival Picture Gallery: