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
Now that Megan
Fox has quit (or been fired, depending on which story you
believe) Transformers 3, expect to see newcomer Rosie
Huntington-Whiteley, a Victoria's Secret model, as the love
interest in the movie.
Gary Oldman will voice a character in Kung Fu Panda: The
Kaboom Of Doom.
James Franco will star in the Planet Of The Apes
prequel Rise Of The Apes. He'll also play the
lead in Ricky Stinicky, which is about two friends
who hire an actor to play their "friend" at party.
Drew Barrymore may star in and direct a re-imagining of
The Wizard Of Oz. It would be called
Surrendering Dorothy.
You can see the alternate trailer for Predators
here. Still looks like a great time.
Jermaine Clement (Flight Of The Conchords) has signed on to
play the villain in Men In Black 3.
Eddie Murphy has said he is considering a third Nutty
Professor movie.
Zoe Saldana (Avatar, The Losers) has signed on
to star in Colombiana, which is said to be about an
assassin searching for those responsible for the murder of
her parents.
Tarantino isn't directly involved, but it would appear that
a prequel to Jackie Brown is close to being made.
The film is called The Switch and it will follow
younger versions of Robbie and Gala (characters from the
JB) as they work together to pull off a big score.
Wes Craven has added a variety of new faces to the cast for
Scream 4. Expect to see Hayden Panettiere, Lake
Bell (Boston Legal), Ashley Greene (Twilight)
and Rory Culkin (Twelve).
Whoa. The Love Ranch
trailer is some serious stuff.
Producer Akiva Goldsmith will make his directorial debut
with Man And Wife. The movie is said to be
about an assassin who falls in love with the family he's
supposed to kill.
Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me), Harry Knowles (Ain't
It Cool News), Stan Lee and Joss Whedon are teaming up to a
documentary on Comic Con. It will be called Comic
Con Episode 4: A Fan's Hope.
Jason Richman (Black Hawk Down) has been hired to
write a big screen adaptation of MacGyver.
Frank Marshal may direct an adaptation of Robert Ludlum's
Covert One: The Hades Factor. The book is said to
follow a top secret agency that fights corruption in the
highest levels of society.
Be on the look out for 3D/CG animated Looney Tunes
shorts in front of upcoming kids movies from Warner Bros.
Two movies based on the life of the Russian mystic Rasputin
are currently underway. One is titled Raspoutine,
and the other is Rasputin: The Healer.
Robert Rodriguez has acquired the rights to Frank Frazetta's
(RIP) 1983 animated movie Fire And Ice. No word
yet on when he would actually do the remake.
Phil Alden Robinson (Sneakers) is penning the script
for JJ Abrams' heist movie. The movie is currently
untitled, but the plot is said to revolve around those who
robbed the Antwerp Diamond Center in
Belgium in 2003.
Unique Features is trying to purchase the rights to the PS3
game Heavy Rain.
Well, I've certainly seen worse looking romantic comedies.
The
trailer for Going The Distance is
out.
Tim Burton is looking at adapting the manga Mai, The
Psychic Girl. The story follows a psychic girl who
is being chased by the government.
Jeremy Irons, Tony Shalhoub and Kirsten Scott Thomas have
joined the cast of Tangier. The film, which
stars Emile Hirsch, is about a young soldier who goes AWOL
and gets involved in something in shouldn't.
Ellen Page will star in Freeheld. The "based on
a true story" movie will follow two lesbians in New York who
fight to secure pension benefits after one of them is
diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Cameron Crowe has officially signed on to direct the
long-gestating We Bought A Zoo. Crowe is also
in talks with Terrance Howard to have him play the lead role
in his Marvin Gaye biopic.
Ewan McGregor has joined the cast of Terry Gilliam's The
Man Who Killed Don Quixote.
Not sure what to expect from Rio. The first
trailer really doesn't show much.
Keanu Reeves will star in The Passenger, which is
about a mechanic who wakes up a century too early on his
journey to another galaxy.
A Tall Man will star Jessica Biel as a mom out for
revenge on the man who kidnapped her daughter.
- John Laird -
-
Unless
otherwise expressly stated, all text in this blog and any
related pages, including the blog's archives, is licensed by
John Laird under a
Creative Commons License.
