Good guys, bad guy join 'Wolverine'

February 20, 2008 "Wolverine," set 17 years before the "X-Men" movies, traces the origins of the popular mutant superhero. Huston, who most recently appeared in "30 Days of Night," is playing Stryker, the military general who subjected Wolverine to the experiment that laced his bones with an unbreakable metal called adamantium. Kitsch, one of the stars of NBC's "Friday Night Lights," is playing Gambit, a Cajun thief whose powers include the manipulation of kinetic energy, which allows him to use card-throwing to deadly effect.

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