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So Comic Book Resources - via JoBlo - tells us that FOX are going to milk the shit out of the "X-Men" franchise (its teats must be stinging after Brett Ratner had its way with the poor thing!) by slipping to disc several straight-to-video "X Men : Origins" movies.

So, I'm guessing they'll decide which characters aren't worth a big screen outing of their own and send them straight to your loungeroom. Who was the guy with the inability to speak in public but had the power to start wars at the drop of a biro? Oh, my mistake, that's Bush I'm thinking of. Gambit, he's one of 'em right? Surely it's time he gets his own movie - I've heard his name mentioned for the past few "X-Men" movies (I believe Josh Holloway of "Lost" fame) was in line to play him at one stage, until FOX decided -once again - not to include him in the line-up.

So which characters can we expect - besides Wolverine and Magneto who, as we all know, have big-screen ventures in the prep stages - to invade Blockbuster? Here's one possibility...

Joe Carnahan left an interesting cryptic message at his site last week : A picture of Juggernaut, the character played by Vinnie Jones in "X-Men : Ratner fucks us over". Carnahan's apparently doing a direct-to-video sequel to "Smokin' Aces", would it be at all presumptious to assume he's also involved in a DTV "Juggernaut" movie? Yeah, of course it would be, but that's what us web wankers are here for... guessing, predicting, speculating and passing on whatever we hear.