Archive for Sci-Fi Movie News
Warner Bros. Adapting Tad Williams’ Otherland Books
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.
Final Hunger Games Poster, or, Say, You Think We Can Air Brush Her Some More, Guys?
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.
Vin Diesel is All Dressed Up and Ready to Shank Someone in an Image from the Riddick Set
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.
Captain America Will Save us in Snow Piercer
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”.
Tom Cruise’s Horizons Gets Two Lovely Ladies
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.
Someone Name Nolan Funk Has Joined the Cast of Riddick
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.”
Platinum Studios Still Thinks You Could Use an Atlantis Rising Movie
“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.
George Lucas May Quit Making Movies And It’s All Your Fault, Fanboys
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.
Hunger Games Sequel Gets Writer, New Pic
Hard to believe, but yes, “Hunger Games” fans, the first movie based on the Suzanne Collins trilogy of novels will be heading to a theater near you in March. Until then, check out a new image (above) and this news that a writer has officially been hired to pen the second film in the series, “Catching Fire”.
New Pics from Men in Black 3 and Hunger Games
Sprinkled liberally among their coverage of the upcoming films of 2012, the LATimes also featured a couple of sci-fi films of note, including new images for “Men in Black 3″ starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith, as well as “The Hunger Games”, featuring what appears to be a meeting with Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, and Jennifer Lawrence. I think you can also catch a body part from Josh Hutcherson in the photo, but don’t hold me to it.
Hey, Noomi Rapace, Look Behind You!
Check out the latest image from Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus”, which finds Noomi Rapace skulking about a mysterious alien ship with some mysterious alien types lurking about behind her in the corridor. Those guys are somewhat dark, but they sure look mighty familiar…
Lock-Out Featurette Explains Why Guy Pearce is Such a Badass
In the Luc Besson movie “Lock-Out”, Guy Pearce plays a character name Snow. He is one badass fellow, as this featurette can certainly attest to. Heck, it’s even helpfully titled, “Snow — The Badass Guy”. I mean, you can’t get more on the nose than that, folks. Check it out, won’t you?
Very Cool Posters for Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 3D Re-Release
Hell, these posters for “The Phantom Menace” are so cool, you might almost forget that the movie sucks donkey balls. Almost.
Katee Sackhoff and Jordi Molla Will Hunt Riddick
Variety and Deadline are reporting that both Katee Sackhoff and Jordi Molla are now officially in talks to play mercenaries tracking down everyone’s favorite space fugitive with a bad attitude in “Riddick”, the third movie in the “Pitch Black” franchise from star Vin Diesel and writer/director David Twohy.
