Hell yes!!
[Expletive Deleted] Dan Didio. :mad:
Cant really think of anything else to say about that.
Am feeling about the same. This just isn’t going to end well 
I’m hearing that the new Tron Legacy trailer will be with the Alice in Wonderland movie on March 5th.
awwwww yeah…
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35254774/ns/health-diabetes/
“Test of ‘artificial pancreas’ offers diabetes hope
Device works better than conventional treatment for type 1 patients”
As is to be expected, director Joe Johnston was bombarded with questions about The First Avenger: Captain America, as he appeared on the junket scene to promote his new film, The Wolfman. Collider, The LA Times, Shock and AICN collectively learned a bunch of bits about the next Marvel comic adaptation. I’ve included the highlights below:
Casting: Captain America will definitely be played by an American actor, Johnston says he wants to discover a complete unknown and surround him with more prominent names. Johnson says he’s testing five or six guys, “The youngest is 23, the oldest is 32. Most of the guys in the war are just kids, 18 or 19, but we want to go a little bit older.” Casting needs to be complete by March 1st 2010
Location/Shooting: The film will be shot in the UK as most of the story is set in Europe. It will be an origin story with “virtually the entire” movie set in World War II, aside from “the bookends.” Filming starts in London at the end of June.
Camera/Look: The film will be shot in 2D High Definition, with a visual style Johnston describes as “a bit different,” trying to interpret the visual style of the more recent comics “into a film in a way that I think hasn’t been tried before”
Villain: The villain has been confirmed to be RED SKULL.
Costume(s): They’ve come up with a reason to explain why the scientifically enhanced super-soldier wears a bright red, white and blue costume in the World War II battlefields: “After he’s made into this super-soldier, they decide they can’t send him into combat and risk him getting killed. He’s the only one and they can’t make more. So they say, ‘You’re going to be in this USO show’ and they give him a flag suit.” … “So he’s up on stage doing songs and dances with chorus girls and he can’t wait to get out and really fight. When he does go AWOL, he covers up the suit but then, after a few things happen, he realizes that this uniform allows him to lead. By then, he’s become a star in the public mind and a symbol. The guys get behind him because he embodies something special.” The USO outfit will look closer to the classic Jack Kirby-designed costume, but later he will be wearing “a sturdier, more muted version that he makes himself that is more like battle togs. The stripes across his mid-section, for instance, will be straps, not colored fabric.” Johnston says “He realizes the value of the uniform symbols but he modifies his suit and adds some armor, it will be closer to the Cpa costume in some of the comics in more recent years.”
Check out Collider, The LA Times, Shock and AICN to see the full interviews and read the full quotes.
Per AICN - Disney is so happy with Tron: Legacy that they’re planning a TV show for 2011 & 2012. No news on whether it will be animated or live action. They’re also already planning another Tron film for 2013
…I’m all for it either way
Should James Horner’s Avatar Soundtrack Be Disqualified?
The score for James Cameron’s Avatar sounds suspiciously similar to a track on the score of Glory. Of course, both films were scored by composer James Horner. I understand that composers tend to use the same instruments and tones for different dramatic beats. Horner is notorious for this, as it sounds like he borrows (or repeats) from his past filmography. But what makes this more notable is that Horner is nominated for an Academy Award for his Avatar score, in a year when a lot of other musical artists have been disqualified from nomination.
The list includes Sad Brad Karen O (of Where the Wild Things Are), T Bone Burnett (of Crazy Heart), Brian Eno (of The Lovely Bones), Carter Burwell (The Blind Side), Nicholas Hooper (Half-Blood Prince), Erran Baron Cohen (Bruno) and Jason Schwartzman (Funny People). Only 84 films qualified for consideration for a Best Score nomination, which actually makes the category the “smallest field among the 15 categories” of this year’s Oscars. And many more were disqualified from Best Original Song, including Sad Brad’s awesome track Help Yourself (for Up in the Air). The rule which disqualifies many composers states: “Scores diluted by the use of tracked themes or other preexisting music, diminished in impact by the predominant use of songs, or assembled from the music of more than one composer shall not be eligible.”
I’ve included the two musical tracks after the jump, so that you can listen to them for yourself. They are not identical, but they sound extremely similar. In a time when the Academy is disqualifying so many scores due to previous created compositions, why does this qualify? How different does a musical piece need to be to qualify?
Glory - Starts about 1:04 in:
Avatar - Starts about 0:30 in:
And here is a video someone put together showing a bunch more examples (via: ElisabethRappe):
Per iO9 -the New Captian America movie, may be including “The Invaders”
Doing press for The Wolfman, Johnston admitted that the Invaders - Marvel’s team of WWII-era superheroes taking the fight to the front lines in Europe - will play an important role in the Captain America movie, appearing in “the entire second half.” According to Faraci, the movie Invaders will be European, unlike their comic book counterparts, which may mean that they’ll be different characters altogether in their new incarnation… which is still less of a change to the Cap mythos than adding a musical element.
Also, Johnston told a press conference that the Red Skull is indeed this film’s main villain, and the whole thing takes place during World War II, except for present-day “bookends” at the movie’s beginning and end. Says Johnston:
…now I’m all for the Red Skull. But which of “The Invaders” will they use? My guess is that the one charater from that team that fans would really want to see is Sub Mariner. But I’d be a little surprised if they put him in. But who knows…
Perhaps the original human torch?
A upcoming Studio Ghibili movie-
WHY!?!
A couple years back, New Line Cinema was trying to remake John Carpenter’s 1981 sci-fi actioner Escape from New York. They first hired Live Free or Die Hard helmer Len Wiseman who got replaced with Brett Ratner. I wasn’t excited about either of the two filmmakers rebooting Snake Plissken, although Wiseman’s production design background made him the better choice of the two. This is a time right after 300 made huge bank at the box office, resulting in the casting of Gerard Butler as the new Plissken. The project thankfully fell into the wayside, never to be heard from again… until now.
Vulture is reporting that New Line is now “quickly moving forward” with their remake plans thanks to a rewrite by 21/Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps scribe Allan Loeb. Vulture claims that in the new draft, “Loeb nailed the humor in Plissken without slipping into camp, and he changed Snake’s rescue-mission target from a president to a female senator, thereby upping the banter quotient.”
They also found a much cheaper way to film the story, by changing destroyed Manhattan into a “geographically undesirable, but intact” privately run penal colony which was created “after the detonation of a crude radioactive dirty bomb on the outskirts of the city.” The remaining details are pretty thin, but it seems like they are trying to remain faithful to the original, at least when it comes to Snake (apparently part of Carpenter’s agreement with New Line for the remake is that the Snake character would have to remain almost identical to the original film).
I know that many of you have a gag reflex when it comes to sequels and reboot, but sometimes I’m willing to give them a chance. Escape From New York is an awesome film, but I’ve revisited it recently, and the special effects don’t hold up at all. The concept begs for a remake, and the new computer effects technology could create a future dystopian New York like we’ve never seen before. And that is where New Line has lost me. What is the point of creating this world if Manhattan is still standing? I’m waiting until a director is announced before making any judgements on this one. I haven’t been impressed with Loeb’s screenplays thus far, and so many writers have done drafts on this project that it is hard to imagine it won’t be a mess (as they say, too many cooks ruin the soup).:mad:
gues what kids…Spider Man is in…
Spider-Man is the latest tentpole to get the 3D treatment.
Columbia Pictures has decided to make the next installment, which follows Marvel superhero Peter Parker during the high school years, in 3D.
Studio has also dated the Marc Webb-helmed pic for July 3, 2012.
“Spider-Man is the ultimate summer movie-going experience, and we’re thrilled the filmmakers are presenting the next installment in 3D,” said Jeff Blake, chairman of Sony Pictures worldwide marketing & distribution.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118014990.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
…cough…
Mark Sheppard is a busy man.
He is set to appear in at least 2 episodes of CHUCK.
[spoiler]Sheppard will play a villain in Episodes 12 and 13 of the third season of “Chuck” (and if you don’t want to know the exact nature of his character, don’t look up Sheppard on IMDb.com).
One of Sheppard’s episodes, he said, is “all about Casey. And I got to do scenes with ‘Superman’ [guest star Brandon Routh], that was so much fun.”[/spoiler]
And Supernatural.
[spoiler]In the memorable November episode, “Abandon All Hope…,” Sam and Dean met a demon named Crowley, who wasn’t so keen on Lucifer walking the Earth (he guessed that once Lucifer wiped out the humans, the demons would be next). Crowley gave Sam and Dean the Colt, a powerful weapon that, as it turned out, didn’t have much of an effect on El Diablo.
Well, Crowley will be back in cahoots with Sam and Dean toward the end of the season. Sheppard said he’s going to appear in Episode 20 of Season 5 – and don’t be surprised if Crowley is around for more than one episode.
Even better news? “Supernatural’s” Ben Edlund is writing Episode 20 (he also wrote “Abandon All Hope…” as well as any number of memorable Winchester outings).
Sheppard said he was looking forward to returning to Vancouver in a couple of weeks to work on the show. Crowley, who’s not nearly as contemplative as “Supernatural’s” Lucifer (Mark Pellegrino), is “real fun to play with,” he said.[/spoiler]
ETA: Link
[spoiler]freakin’ sweet! :D[/spoiler]
sigh ok…
New Line Cinema has hired Allan Loeb (21 and Wall Street 2 ) to rewrite the new Escape To New York reboot, and according to New York Magazine’s sources, the script’s dialogue doesn’t stink of campiness and overwrought dialogue.
In the original, set at the end of World War III, New York City was a husk of itself after being turned into a giant prison, but that kind of destruction gets pricey.* So in Escape 2.0, the Big Apple that the as-yet-uncast Snake Plissken is dropped into will be geographically undesirable, but intact: This Manhattan was evacuated and turned into a privately run penal colony after the detonation of a crude radioactive dirty bomb on the outskirts of the city. “It is not a disaster movie,” says a source close to the project. “It is an exposé of an ecosystem, if you put a huge wall around Manhattan and then dropped in the most fucked-up, dangerous criminals on Earth.” This means New York will still be recognizable to audiences, à la I Am Legend, rather than an entirely new Armageddon Island.
(see http://io9.com/5469315/snake-plissken-heads-back-into-new-york-prison for more)
…but without lines like “AAAAA NUMBER ONE!!” and “CAN YOUUUUUUUUUUU DIG IIIIIIT???” - is it still Escape?
After floundering in development hell for years, the long-awaited, long-threatened American version of Akira has taken a big step to actually happening. The Hughes brothers are currently in talks with Warner Bros. to direct the adaptation of the manga classic based on the success of their recent post-apocalyptic semi-hit The Book of Eli (it probably doesn’t hurt that Warner and the Hughes have the whole “brothers” thing in common, either). Nothing’s been signed yet, though, but since this is the first time Akira has popped up in the Hollywood news in over a year (or so it seems) I figured it was worth mentioning.
Now, the last movie the Hughes brothers directed before Eli was From Hell, based on the Alan Moore graphic novel, back in 2001. I thought the movie was okay, but I’m told as an adaptation it was horrible. This does not bode particularly well for Akira fans, but I doubt anyone’s that surprised by this, right? I’m pretty sure this is the best we could ever hope for from an American Akira – a travesty of an adaptation, but a serviceable movie, because there was never any way we were going to get a good adaptation. So… yay?
Can it be any worse than the Akira dub? … Forget I asked…