2009 saw Hollywood’s rumor mill really do a number on Spiderman 4 (no pun intended), with headline after headline flooding just about every major entertainment website. After 2007′s Schumacheriffic threequel, the wheels had begun to fall off the Spiderman gravy train. Still, a fourth film was always a priority for Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios.
We previously reported on Peter Morgan’s script for Bond 23, but only found out it will be ‘shocking’ to some degree. There was no word on when the film would start production.
Now it appears despite MGM’s fiscal woes, the project is still on track for a 2011 release.
In fact, according to Heat Vision, the Broccolis have even found a director. It’s none other than one of our Ten Best Directors of the Aughts, Oscar winner Sam Mendes. Continue reading
Last month, we brought you news about Paramount trying to get the ball rolling on a remake of “Dune”, which has thus far been adapted twice: once by surrealist auteur David Lynch and then by Sci-Fi (Syfy?), which was basically a cheap stageplay.
Personally, I was perfectly fine with the Lynch version and thought what neutered the film in the first place was studio interference. Now it seems Paramount is shying away from that direction from the get-go and taking the lowest-common-denominator approach. Case in point, before the 2007-2008 WGA strike, Peter Berg was attached to direct the film. Continue reading
Excited for “Iron Man 2″ to hit this May? Did you watch the trailer and think: “Wow, I can’t wait to see War Machine shred some metal!”?
No one seems more eager for premiere day than Superhero Hype user Masterle247- AKA Anthony Le- who constructed his own faux power suit based on the one Don Cheadle will wear in the movie. Continue reading
Slow news day or we would be ignoring this completely. Even though it’s got a great director at the helm (Kevin MacDonald, “Last King of Scotland”, “State of Play”); even though it’s got a strong cast (Channing Tatum, Donald Sutherland, Mark Strong)- sometimes you just got to call a spade a spade.
“The Eagle of the Ninth” is another Roman war drama about a young man named Marcus Aquila, who is searching for the remains of his father’s legion in 140 AD. The source material is a YA novel of the same name, which was released in 1954 when it was still called a children’s book.
Hit the jump for a few of the frames courtesy of Yahoo: Continue reading
When talking about the most anticipated sequels of all time, “Ghostbusters 3″used to rank right up there behind “Indy 4″, “Rocky V”, and “Die Hard 4″, but now that those all went to the box office and underwhelmed, it’s only fitting that the beloved 80′s blockbuster suffer the same fate.
In an interview with Heeb magazine, Harold Ramis, the director of the first two films, said Columbia Pictures is looking to fast-track the third movie with a release date for Summer 2011. Continue reading
You know, I’m glad that graphic novels are finally seen as a respectable medium, but it’s still embarrassing trying to argue their literary value to older folks when movie studios keep churning out crappy adaptations from even crappier source material.
The latest, Empire reports, comes from comic book writer Shane McCarthy and Gil Adler (“Superman Returns”, “Constantine”), who will join forces in an unholy production duo tour de force by translating Studio 407′s “Night and Fog” to the silver screen.
The original miniseries is about oogie boogie Nazi science and yeah…brainless, hungry hordes of undeadish people running around.
I’ve never read it personally, so of course I may be skimping on the details, but fans of this book don’t have a lot to be hopeful about. I mean Adler’s production credits aren’t terribad, but they’re not stellar either. This one’s more of a ‘wait-now-groan-later’ than anything else.
He’s still got two LotR prequels under way, as well as the Tintin franchise with Steven Spielberg, but Peter Jackson is as ambitious as ever.
A local paper in New Zealand reports that Jackson is “secretly working” on a sci-fi project based on a book series called “Mortal Engines.” Uh oh, it’s not that secret, is it?
The books by Philip Reeves are about giant cities on wheels that eat each other to survive. Sounds like Waterworld meets Highlander.
Nevertheless, apparently Jackson has already brought in his FX firm, WETA, for some test shots and we’ll be waiting to see if this project will get fast-tracked or not.
Jackson also just released “The Lovely Bones” to limited markets, and so far it isn’t receiving stellar reviews. Take that how you will.
CHUD has a piece about “Project 880″, which turns out was a massive 114-page treatment for Avatar, with several new characters, animals, and plot changes.
Now Cameron’s written these before. Just google his “Spiderman” treatment, which might have been an unmitigated disaster. But goddamn…this version would have been so much better.
In an interview for Austrian newspaper Kurier (get your Babelfish ready), screenwriter Peter Morgan (“The Queen”, “Frost/Nixon”, “Last King of Scotland”) talks about his script for 007′s next romp, saying only that it will be a “shocking story”.
Morgan finished his script in October this year, but due to MGM’s financial status, production is on hiatus.
You can be sure that whether MGM goes bankrupt or gets sold (likely candidate: WB), the Bond franchise will be fast-tracked immediately.
What’s got us and several Bond fan sites wondering is: what will make it so shocking? Here’s a few of our ideas:
