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
Sam Worthington
is all set to play Allan Quatermain. The movie is currently
untitled, but it will supposedly be a very futuristic take
on King Solomon's Mines (the Quatermain character
first made an appearance in this book).
Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine For The Spotless Mind)
has been hired to polish the script for Kung Fu Panda:
The Kaboom Of Doom.
Brett Ratner has said he's still working on adapting the
comic Youngblood. First though, he'll complete the
movie Tower Heist.
Alvin Sargent, who helped on the first three Spider-Man
films, has been brought in to fine tune the script for
upcoming reboot from director Marc Webb.
Nowhere Boy is looking like an interesting take on
John Lennon. Here's the
trailer.
Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood) has joined Jon
Favreau's Cowboys And Aliens. Also on the cast is
Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde, Harrison Ford, Sam Rockwell,
Keith Carradine and Noah Ringer.
Naomi Watts is set to Marilyn Monroe in Blonde. The
adaptation of the book will be directed by Andrew Dominik (The
Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford).
Paz Vega (The Spirit) has signed on to appear in
The Jesuits. The film is said to follow a man who
plots an elaborate revenge after being wrongly imprisoned.
First
look at Easy A. Could be good
... for teens? Same goes for Charlie St. Cloud.
See that trailer
here.
Jamie Foxx has joined the cast of Horrible Bosses,
which is said to be a workplace murder comedy.
Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell and Jason Bateman are also
rumored to be appearing in the movie.
Sharlto Copley has been replaced by Timothy Olyphant in the
upcoming I Am Number Four. Rumor has it that
it's because the actor insisted on wearing facial
prosthetics for the role.
The
trailer for The Adjustment Bureau
looks pretty cool.
Kurt Russell will star in Undying, which is about a
detective who gets pulled into a seedy underworld.
Darren Aronofsky and Brad Pitt may team up for The Tiger.
As you probably guessed, it's about a tiger ... terrorizing
a small town on the Siberian plain.
The Wachowski's are said to be shopping a script for a
sci-fi war movie.
Pierce Brosnan will replace Mickey Rourke in St. Vincent.
The movie, which also stars Billy Bob Thornton, Maria Bello
and Giovanni Ribisi, revolves around an assassin who goes
undercover as a priest to get to his target.
Bruce Willis will apparently play the older version of
Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Looper. To be honest,
I'm not entirely sure what this film is about.
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jonah Hill will join Brad Pitt in
Moneyball. Bennett Miller (Capote) will
direct the story of the Oakland A's manager that built a
successful baseball team with the lowest payroll.
Sylvester Stallone told Ain't It Cool News that he is
absolutely not working on another Rambo movie.
Michael Fassbender (Inglorious Basterds) is the
frontrunner to star in the adaptation of The Woman In
Black. The book follows a man who is haunted after
he takes up residence in a mansion on the coast.
In case you haven't seen it yet, here's the
trailer for Super 8.
Brad Anderson (The Machinist) will direct Jack,
which follows a serial killer who begins to recover from
amnesia and must choose between the woman he has recently
fallen in love with or his past murderous ways.
Sony is looking at adapting the video game Rollercoaster
Tycoon into a movie.
Colin Farrell and Marion Cotillard will star in David
Cronenberg's (Eastern Promises) Cosmopolis.
The movie, which is said to mostly take place in a limo,
follows a newlywed billionaire on a wild night.
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