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
Zack Snyder
will direct the Superman reboot that Christopher
Nolan is producing. Early word says the plot will deal
with Clark Kent traveling the world as a journalist while he
decides whether or not to become Superman.
David O. Russell (Three Kings) has been hired to the
pen the adaptation for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.
The videogame's story follows the adventures of a treasure
hunter named Nathan Drake.
Peter Weir's The Way Back looks pretty good.
See the trailer
here.
Peter Jackson has now come out and said that there is no
green light for the Hobbit films. Bummer.
Shia LaBeouf is said to be interested in a film called
College Republicans, which is a comedy drama based on
the the early years of Karl Rove and Lee Atwater.
Steven Spielberg is said to be interested in trying to
finally make a Halo movie.
There's a new
trailer for 127 Hours. Can't
wait to see the movie.
Tom Cruise and John Woo seem to separately be making the
same movie. Both have the title Flying Tiger
and will tell the story of a volunteer American squadron
that assisted the Chinese against the Japanese in WWII.
Johnny Depp and Tom Hanks may star in the next Kathryn
Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) film. It's called
Sleeping Dogs and follows five men working in the Triple
Frontier, a haven of organized crime located between
Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil.
The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Dawn Treader has a
trailer. Looks boring.
Pride And Prejudice and Zombies has been shelved for
the time being. Natalie Portman was set to star.
Darren Aronofsky is said to be interested in directing
X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2. Oddly enough, he's
also being rumored as the director for a Brad Pitt movie
called The Tiger and for Tales Of The Gangster
Squad.
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 will not
undergo a 3D conversion.
I love how terrible Burlesque looks. See the
new trailer
here.
Natalie Portman has officially bowed out of Gravity.
Sandra Bullock is now the leading contender for the lead
role opposite Robert Downey Jr.
Sam Raimi has reportedly decided to go ahead and direct
Oz The Great And Powerful. The plot apparently
deals with a magician who ends up in Oz and must defeat the
Wicked Witch. Robert Downey Jr. will star.
And in more Robert Downey Jr. news, he may also star in
Yucatan, which is about a renegade deep-sea salvage
diver that's in search of a lost Mayan treasure. The
script is based off of a movie that Steve McQueen sketched
out in a notebook back in the 60s.
Not sure what to think about the
trailer for The Tempest.
Michael Meyers will star in the big screen CGI/live action
adaptation of Pepe Le Pew. Sad.
The third movie in the Transformers series is all set
to be titled Transformers: The Dark Of The Moon.
Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson may star in El Presidente,
which follows a Secret Service agent that has to protect an
aging ex-President.
Emma Stone has officially been cast as Gwen Stacey in the
upcoming Spider-Man reboot.
Tony Gilroy, who wrote the first three movies in the series,
is being looked at as a possible director for The Bourne
Legacy.
The
trailer for Burke And Hare is
pretty entertaining.
Bruce Willis says he expect the next Die Hard film to
shoot next year.
Because it wouldn't make sense to just move, it's the new
trailer for Paranormal Activity 2.
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