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Chances are, I’m not seeing the “Star Wars” films when they’re re-released in theaters in 3D, staring with the first movie “Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace” on February 10th. No offense, but I got the whole “You need to see ‘Star Wars’ in theaters at least once!” kick out of my system when Georgie re-released them into theaters the first time around.
Snore. Here’s the cliche-filled, incredibly uninspiring U.S. trailer for Guy Pearce’s new sci-fi actioner “Lock-Out”. It really, really sucks. It sucks so much, I had to watch the International trailer again just to get the suckness out of my mouth.
A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president’s daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.
Liam Hemsworth, fresh off flexing his muscles in “The Expendables” and soon to be seen battling the evil Capitol overlords in “The Hunger Games”, has signed on as the male lead in Relativity Media’s time-travel sci-fi drama “Timeless”.
Phillip Noyce (“Salt”) will direct from a script by Bill Kelly, about “a man’s efforts to develop a scientific breakthrough that will turn back time after his wife dies.”
Lena Headey, Queen Gorgo herself, has joined the cast of Ethan Hawke’s sci-fi mystery flick “Vigilandia”. I say “mystery” because no one seems to know what the Universal film is all about, and writer/director James DeMonaco isn’t telling. Yet.
So yeah, that’s pretty much all we know about the movie so far. It’s called “Vigilandia”, and Hawke was the first actor signed to the lead. Headey now joins him.
Cybermen! Silurians! The Silence! Daleks! Those are just some of the alien menace that Doctor Who and River Song will be facing in the Time Lord’s new game. Here’s your first look at a new trailer for the new “Doctor who” game “The Eternity Clock”, which reveals the foes the good Doctor will be confronted with. Check it out, won’t you?
I used to think casting Jennifer Lawrence, who just naturally has this super serious, “I’m 20 but I look and feel like 40″ expression was a bad idea. After all, the character she’s playing is supposed to be a teenager. But the more I see of Lawrence in the role, and think about the character, the more it makes sense. Katniss Everdeen is a kid, but she’s a kid who has grown up in a bad, bad time in the world, and Lawrence’s oft-somber appearance reflects that perfectly. I guess Gary Ross knew what he was doing when he cast her after all.
Warner Bros. is getting into the “Otherland” business, the series of sci-fi novels by author Tad Williams. The studio has tapped screenwriter John Scott III to adapt the first film and Dan Lin to produce.
Published between 1996 and 2001, there are four entries in the book series, including “City of Golden Shadow,” “River of Blue Fire,” “Mountain of Black Glass” and “Sea of Silver Light.”
Jesus Cripes, they really put the airbrush to poor Jennifer Lawrence here, didn’t they? Criminey.
Anywhatever. Here’s the final poster for “The Hunger Games”, starring Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson as a pair of crazy kids stuck in a game where if they lose, they die. I call that Monday. Heyo! I’ll be here all week, folks.
Yup, after a lot of start and stop, and start again, it appears David Twohy and Vin Diesel’s “Riddick” is actually, honest to goodness, getting made. Go figure. I know the film has been casting for a while (Katee Sackhoff, Jordi Molla, that Funk kid), but I gotta tell you, I wasn’t still sure it would actually happen. I mean, the film has so much potential to be badass, I just naturally assumed Hollywood would find a way to kill it. Cause, you know, that’s what Hollywood does.
If you need saving from a post-apocalyptic snow-covered world, you could do worst than Chris Evans, who has already saved us plenty of times. There were those two Godawful “Fantastic Four” movies, then he did it again in “Captain America: The First Avenger”. Now Evans will save us in the post-apocalyptic drama “Snow Piercer”.
Hey, they’re not Jessica Chastain, but they’ll do.
Now that Chastain has dropped out of his sci-fi movie “Horizons”, Tom Cruise and writer/director Joseph Kosinski has replaced her with Andrea Riseborough and Olga Kurylenko. Well, not that the two actresses will be playing one role, but rather, one of them will be playing the role originally set for Chastain. Ahem.
Yeah, I don’t now who the dude is, either. Here’s what Variety says:
Nolan Funk is set to star alongside Vin Diesel in the next installment of the “Riddick” franchise. Funk can be seen next in the Bold Films pic “Evidence” and just wrapped the co-lead role in the ABC Family pilot “Intercept.”
I guess they don’t know who the dude is, either, or what he’s playing in the movie “Riddick”.
“Atlantis Rising” is a limited series comic book about Atlantis declaring war on the surface world, and you know, invades. Yeah. It’s going to be pretty damn expensive to make, which is probably why a film version of the comics hasn’t moved since it was announced nearly four years ago. Heck, at one point Len Wiseman was even attached to direct.
On my list of things to worry about, George Lucas retiring to a life of making small arthouse indie films that only a few dozen people on the east and west coasts will ever see is not exactly at the very top. It’s somewhere between “doing laundry” and “finishing that apple I started last night”. So yes, this revelation that ol George is feeling a bit insulted that so many fanboys on the Interwebs hates his guts for relentlessly and pointlessly tinkering with the “Star Wars” movies does not feel me with sadness.
You gotta love Volkswagen. Their “The Force” trailer from last year, featuring the little Darth Vader walking around trying to use the “Force” to do bad things to various objects (and creatures) in his house was easily one of the best commercials during last year’s Super Bowl. The car company has a new Star Wars-inspired commercial that they plan to run during this year’s Super Bowl, and this one involves dogs barking out the “Imperial March” from the franchise. Awesome, awesome stuff.
