There’s no script, there’s no story, there’s no producers or directors, but there is an idea. And that idea of Bruce C. McKenna’s is to make a movie about the Battle of Midway, so sayeth Deadline…original. If you didn’t know, the Battle of Midway was a battle on Midway Island during WWII. During the battle, the U.S. whooped the Japs and made them cry Uncre.
Mr. McKenna plans on having a story written in about eight weeks (but he’s probably a liar) and the movie is expected to cost around $200 million, chump change really.
Anyway, could be cool, could be horrible. It’s way to early to even speculate…so there.
It seems that Fox is really starting to get the gears turning for their upcoming reboot of FANTASTIC FOUR and that means there are rumors about stuff involving the reboot of FANTASTIC FOUR. One rumor is that Adrien Brody and Amber Heard are in the running to play Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman. Now comes word from Latino Review that some guy named Stephen Moyer may be Doctor Doom, Alice Eve may be the Invisible Woman instead, and Kevin Pennington may be The Human Torch. But wait, there’s also the news from Comic Book Movie that Joe Carnahan, David Yates, and James McTeigue are all being pursued to direct. They also mention that the studio wants Bruce Willis to voice The Thing, who will be a CG rock monster for much of the movie.
The only thing that I care about in all of that crap is that Doctor Doom will be shown as the ruler of Latveria in the new movie…’bout damn time! Otherwise, I’m always down to hear the soothing sounds of Bruce Willis. Though, if I was you, I’d take all that “news” with a grain of salt.
A while ago (like, May or something) it was confirmed that there would be another IMPOSSIBLE: MISSION with Tom Cruise as spy-guy and Brad Bird as director. What we’re hearing now, from places like Variety, is that the next movie will be more of a passing-of-the-torch type of deal, with Ethan Hunt taking a backseat to a new spy played by Jeremy Renner. If the movie did well and more sequels were demanded by the movie going public, those movies would star the Jeremy Renner character. The suits aren’t even sure if they’re going to use the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE name.
I guess this is what happens when your last few movies stink up the box-office; you’re kicked off of your own franchise to make room for the flavor of the month. Then they have to retitle your franchise as a way of burying the body so the smell doesn’t make the neighbors suspicious. Anyway, the article above uses a lot of studio-speak like “fresh perspective” and “different direction,” but my guess would be more of the same, only with one new face.
I also found it a little amusing that the article mentioned that the new movie wouldn’t pick up where the last one ended. It’s like the person who wrote it has never seen any of these movies. None of them pick up where the others left off. They were basically three different movies who happened to star the same main character.
Can you smell that? That’s the smell of freedom my friends! Trust me, it is. And that smell can only mean that we’ve got some video footage of a set that was used by America…Captain America! You may check it out below this text.
I rarely ever get excited about these camera-phone videos of unused sets and this is no exception. Sure, it’s cool that there’s a Sherman tank and stuff, but those are all things I expected to see anyway. That must have been a pretty awful USO show if the soldiers decided to point their tank at the stage afterward or during. I think they needed more Bob Hope, God rest his soul.
If we, as a nation, all sat down together and spoke honestly, I think that we would all agree that the one thing we all want is a TERMINATOR movie that is both CG animated and PG-13. The good news is that the company Hannover House (who also make delicious chocolate-chip cookies) wants to do just that and name it TERMINATOR 3000; the bad news is that they don’t have the legal authority too, according to Deadline.
If you’re the praying type, now would be a good time to get down on your knees.
It’s been a little while since we last heard anything about upset Max and his adventures in the desert, but that changes today! Straight from the horse’s mouth (or The Heat Vision Blog if you wanna be technical) Riley Keough, whose last name I have no clue how to pronounce, is in talks to play one of the “Five Wives,” otherwise known as the damsel’s in distress, in MAD MAX: FURY ROAD. Zoe Kravitz, Teresa Palmer, and Adelaide Clemens will play three of the other wives.
Apparently Ms. Keough is Elvis’s granddaughter, which is just awesome. Other than that…I don’t know. It doesn’t really matter anyway because she’s probably just going to be the plot device that gets Max angrier and forces him to fight guys and perform spectacular automobile stunts.
In more super-people related news, The Playlist is reporting that Christoph Waltz (who played the douche-bag Nazi General in INGLORIOUS BASTERDS) will be playing Curt Connors, a.k.a. The Lizard in the upcoming SPIDER-MAN reboot.
This news doesn’t interest me to much because The Lizard isn’t all that intriguing of a villain to me. Waltz is a great actor who I’m sure could handle this just fine…I just can’t shake the feeling of meh.
People often come up to me on the internet and ask me “what’s popular with the kids today,” because no one knows more about the youth’s than some old guy on a website no one reads. I always tell them the same thing “men in tights…white tights.” Thanks to this article over at Bleeding Cool, I know that Tony Scott is a smelly eavesdropper because he’s ready to direct the movie version of the comic book NEMESIS.
NEMESIS was written by Mark Millar and is about a super-villain who wants to kill somebody because he blames that person for the death of his father. So it’s like a mix between the Punisher and KUNG FU; which, hey, can’t be all bad…unless, you know, it’s all bad.
Every now-and-then, Sylvester Stallone comes down from his golden home in Valhalla to converse with us mortals, and other times he just responds to them over the internet. He chose the internet this time, as is his right.
Anyway, over at Aint It Cool, Stallone has been answering fan questions for the last five days upon the eve of THE EXPENDABLES. Some of them are insightful and some are entertaining, but they are all Stallone. Check them out at the links below and learn stuff.
According to the news machine that is Variety, Len Wiseman has somehow gotten the job as the remake director of the Arnold Schwarzenegger facial expression clinic that was TOTAL RECALL.
That's how Elvis died.
I’ve never actually seen a Len Wiseman film all the way through, but that’s kind of because they couldn’t really hold my attention. Needless to say that I don’t have a lot of faith in this new version of TOTAL RECALL. That, and I really don’t see a need for this movie considering that the original has aged really well. Sure, there aren’t stormtroopers riding dewbacks, but everything looks damn good.
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