Daniel Henney will be starring along side Hugh Jackman in the upcoming Hollywood blockbuster film, “X-men Origins: Wolverine” to be released in May 2009. This will be his debut performance in the U.S. film industry.

Dominic Monaghan and Daniel Henney are the latest mutants to join the cast of Twentieth Century Fox’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”

Ex-Hobbit and “Lost” star Dominic Monaghan will play the unfortunate mutant “Beak” and Asian newcomer Daniel Henney will be Weapon X’s “Agent Zero”.

Agent Zero, originally called “Maverick,” is an expert tracker, marksman and was a fellow guinea pig for the Canadian Weapon X program at the same time as Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), Sabertooth (Liev Schreiber) and Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds).

LOTR alum Dominic Monaghan will be getting a less sexy role as “Beak,” a chicken-like mutant with hollow bones and lackluster ability to fly short distances. But don’t underestimate this lame chicken, which also has the ability to manipulate energy and electricity.

Hugh Jackman stars as the titular character, while Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Taylor Kitsch, will.i.am, Lynn Collins and Ryan Reynolds have already boarded the project, which is shooting in New Zealand, Australia and New Orleans. Gavin Hood directs from a David Benioff screenplay, which chronicles the origins of the talon-sprouting protagonist.

Daniel Henney has been filming in New Zealand since January of this year. He recently sent a message saying that he likes the mood of the film setting. Also, Hugh Jackman’s acting coordinates very well with his own.

Daniel Henney’s reason for picking “X-men Origins” as his debut film, “Although I received many offers from Hollywood in the past, they were usually for stereotypical, hackneyed Oriental roles that Western audiences are used to. However, the advantage of being a native English speaker and having a westernized physique can be utilized to play a different, more original role not given to other Asian actors; therefore, breaking the barrier of the stereotypical oriental character. The character in “X-men Origins” fulfilled my expectations, which helped me decide to play a role in this film.”

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Sep 24 2007, 11:17 PM

From Parents of “Daniel Henney”

Just wanted to say hi to everyone in the forum from Seoul, Korea

We are having a nice visit with Daniel in Korea. A special gift for us. As most of you know, this is my second trip back to Korea, but Daniel’s father first visit. We went to see the move, “My Father”. From a parents perspective, very awesome. Especially watching our son on the big screen. We would recommend everyone to see.
Having a great time seeing all the sites in Seoul and surrounding area.

Will write again soon to Daniel’s Fans.

Parent of Daniel Henney

Phillip and Christine

Editor: Grace@Shenyuepop

If you’re an avid reader of Korean newspapers, or E-newspapers, you must remember about some “shocking” news last month, about some celebrities faked their education histories. These celebs mostly veteran artists, or shall we say, old? like Choi Soo Jung and Jang Ming Hee who confessed she never really attend the school she always mentioned on her resume.

Now it’s your man’s turn, ladies. but no worries, according to what i’ve read, the blame shouldn’t be all his.

So you know, when you read a bio of Daniel Henney’s, you’ll get to know that he attented University of Illinois, Chicago, and further, took economics major, right? well, it’s only  a rumour. He’d never been there. He was in Albion College, Alma College, and Elgin College in Illinois (do people in US usually go to many colleges? o.O) but he never completed his degree. Some sites also write about Henney as attended Albion College, and transferred to state university on a basketball scholarship. That is not true.

The manager said, the University of Illinois rumour might be started when Daniel mentioned that he was in his college basketball team and play with other local universities. Neither him or Daniel Henney himself never say anything about false education history. Now if you ask me, sometimes people just read too much over a little, but why would someone read too much and too detailed so they can even add “Ecomics Major” to his false school? duh, talking about making up a life history…

And lemme quote what the manager said : 

“Henney never knew his academic records were falsely publicized, and the agency did not give much thought about the misinformation on the Internet. With the recent issue about academic records, we avoided correcting the problem because we were afraid it would reflect badly,” said Jeong. “We are very sorry and deeply apologize.”

yeah, of course people will give you the apologize, Henney, we don’t love you for your school certificate nor your brain, do we? but, really, NEVER KNEW YOUR ACADEMIC RECORDS WERE FALSELY PUBLICIZED? duh..you really don’t give a damn to us poor people who adore you and praise you and drool over you all the time on the net, huh? So next time, spare your time to check the net, Henney honey, just to kindly know we’re exist, and maybe to find another hole in your internet bio.

oh i forgot to add, his movie “My Father” opens this Thursday.

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Aigooo …. Daniel Henney’s new Movie ” My Father” is out .. It is said that he lost 10kg for the movie! and the way it seems like it .. we will be seeing him for the next up coming months promoting it *rolling eyes* I desperately pray the promotions of this one won’t get anywhere to Rain’s “I’m Cyborg but it’s ok!” cuz it seems to me this time Danniel’s going toward the same direction … ya’ll remember those days, right? Was there a day Rain didn’t show up somewhere with a new suit on the cover of a magazine, in a threater, on the news or a festival!

Now Daniel promotions started way before filming the movie! Couple days ago he showed up with Eva that made us scratch our head even in our dreams … now he had a concert for his new movie like you’ve seen nothing before! He changed 3 times throughout the night .. brought bunch of performers and performed himself!

We sure will watch this movie specially when it’s based on a true story! Anyways, wish him tons of luck with this movie … we won’t get tired of seeing him .. but can’t stand the draggy promotions!

His parents like always left us a message in Soompi
(How sweet of them ^^)

brianna_chris :

From “Daniel Henney” Parents.
We are, as parents, excited for the soon to be released movie “My Father”.
If you have a chance to see his movie, please do, as fans of Daniel.

“Thanks For Being You !!!”
“Daniel Henney’s” Parents
Phillip and Christine

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