My X Men Story
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Just watched DP and Wolvie over the weekend and the out-takes during the end credits reminded me of something that some of you might find amusing.
My husband has always been into comic books. When Fury showed up at the end of Ironman his head exploded. When X-Men came out we were housebound due to babies, but everyone and their mother kept telling us we had to watch X-men 2. So we rented from the local Blockbuster.
The movie pays an unusual amount of attention to a secondary character, prison guard Mitchell Laurio. The credits showed that the screenplay was written by David Hayter, who went to school with my husband. They bonded over comic books, but had a falling out over a girl. They kind of, sort of made up before graduation, but their friendship was never the same. Thrilled, my husband tried to find him but had no luck. This was before Facebook and social media.
So fast forward to a couple of years ago. We went to a comic con in LA. Those conventions are huge and we were properly lost. We turned a corner, and there sitting in a booth, signing autographs was David Hayter.
My husband bellowed out "David fucking Hayter!"
David Hayter stood up. "Michael Fucking Laurio!"
They hugged, caught up on the last 35 years, and exchanged numbers. Turns out that after high school, David Hayter tried to make it in "the industry" but wasn't getting anywhere. Worried because he was depressed, one of his friends got him a job answering phones for some guy.
This guy was trying to write the screenplay for X-Men, but didn't know anything about comic books. David Hayter would tell him "No man, that's wrong. It's like this...." Finally the guy told him to write the screenplay.
So he did. And he put my husband in the movie. Made him an overweight, disgruntled guard who gets pants by Mystique, and before dying a painful death, gets told by Magneto to never trust a beautiful woman interested in him.
But that's not the kicker. The kicker is that the next day my husband texted him.
"great running into you. happy for your success. next time x,y,z are in town let's get together".David Hayter never responded. Not even with a thumbs up. Hahahahaha. I guess he's still mad at my husband.
Sorry if this is long. I just thought this was funny.
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Wait a minute… So Hayter (who also is a video game voice actor of some renown) named the guard (who got duped over a beautiful woman) after your hubby?! (Who Hayter had a disagreement with over a beautiful woman)?! That is frigging hilarious, and obviously he still had a problem, LOL!
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@LuFins-Dad said in My X Men Story:
LOL! Scroll to the bottom!
https://xmenmovies.fandom.com/wiki/Mitchell_Laurio
Living in his head!
I have never seen that!
Yeah, that David Hayter. He bascially stole my husband's name.
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I assume that your hubby got the girl?
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True dat.
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@LuFins-Dad said in My X Men Story:
LOL! Scroll to the bottom!
https://xmenmovies.fandom.com/wiki/Mitchell_Laurio
Living in his head!
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Yes, great story.
