Time for
your weekly notable news update! Below you'll find a
slew of sentences meant to provide a brief glimpse of what's
been going on over the past week in movieland. If
something leaves you desperate for more info then my advice
is to do a little extra research on one or all of the
following fantastic sites:
Latino Review,
Dark Horizons,
Ain't It Cool News,
CHUD and/or
JoBlo. Now, read on!
Movie News
Rundown
It looks as
though the rather unknown Benjamin Walker will play Beast in
Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class.
It's really great to see Sofia Coppola back. Here's
the
trailer for Somewhere.
Alexander Skarsgard (True Blood) has been cast as one
of the main characters in Battleship. The board
game adaptation is set to be directed by Peter Berg (Hancock).
The new American
trailer makes the movie look a bit more
action-filled. Check it out.
After a few months of speculation, Leonardo DiCaprio has
been confirmed to be playing J. Edgar Hoover in Clint
Eastwood's currently untitled biopic that's based on the
famous FBI Director.
Sam Worthington (Avatar) is said to be considering
whether or not to stay attached to Man On A Ledge
(it's about a cop who creates a diversion for a diamond
heist) or to replace Martin Lawrence in This Means War
(a romantic comedy about spys).
Conviction looks like it could be solid. See
the trailer
here.
Logan's Run is once again in the process of possibly
being remade. This time it's Alex Garland (28 Days
Later) who has been brought in to pen a script.
Tom Hanks, James McAvoy, Ian McKellen, Natalie Portman and
Halley Berry will star in Cloud Atlas. The book
it's being adapted from apparently follows a group of people
over the span of a millennia.
A remake of Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead is
currently being mulled over.
Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D has a
trailer. Do people still care about
these movies?
Louis Leterrier (Clash Of The Titans) might direct
Gravity. The plot is currently unknown, but it's
said to be a disaster movie (no pun intended).
Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum will star in The Vow.
The movie, which is supposedly based on a true story, is
about a man who must win his wife's heart again after she is
in a car accident and loses her memory of him.
Don Cheadle and Frieda Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire)
have reportedly been offered roles in the poorly titled
Planet Of The Apes: Rise Of The Apes.
The
trailer for The Chronicles Of Narnia:
The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader is now up. I
couldn't be less excited.
Bradley Cooper will star in a currently untitled baseball
movie for Disney. The flick is said to follow a major
leaguer who gets hurt and must work is way back up from the
minors.
Here's the
trailer for Luke Wilson's Middle Men.
Could be fun.
David Yates (Harry Potter) may direct an adaptation
of the graphic novel Fables. The series
followed characters from famous fables who have all gathered
in a community in New York City.
Corey Edwards (Hoodwinked) recently mentioned on his
Twitter account that he had his Fraggle Rock script
returned to him because it wasn't "edgy" enough.
The new
trailer for Never Let Me Go looks
rather creepy.
Russell Crowe will star in The Equalizer. The
movie is an adaptation of the 80s TV series that followed a
former secret agent who tries to make up for his dark past
by helping those in need.
Doug Liman may abandon his Three Musketeers movie
(probably because Paul WS Anderson's will be completed long
before his) in favor of All You Need Is Kill.
The plot is said to revolve around a soldier who must figure
out why he has to repeatedly relive the day he dies on the
battlefield.
Robert Rodriguez has reportedly been offered the director's
job for the Deadpool movie.
Is Kevin Spacey back? I hope so. Here's the
trailer for Bagman.
Sam Raimi has officially signed on to direct Oz: The
Great And Powerful.
Saw this
trailer for Legend Of The Guardians
in front of Toy Story 3. Really not sure what to
think.
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