When you have a hi-rez shot of Scarlett Johansson in the probably artificial, yet wonderfully skin adhering material called pleather (plastic leather), it’s all you really need for an evening of drunken wish fulfillment. She is pretty amazing.
Archive for Sci-Fi Movie News
Tony Stark, Scarlet In Pleather In New Iron Man 2 Pics
Summit and Eli Roth are Planning an Invasion
Those damn aliens and their damn invasion plans. Why can’t they just leave us alone? You don’t see humanity going around trying to invade other planets, do you? Okay, okay, that’s probably because we still can’t do more than fly to the moon, since as we all know, if humans ever mastered intergalactic space travel, I’m pretty sure we’d be “colonizing” worlds by now in the name of humanity. So, yeah, it sorta kinda makes sense that other races would be prone to invading us. The latest invasion plans come from Summit Entertainment and “Hostel” director Eli Roth, who have snapped up a spec script called “Invasion” from writer Ben Magid.
Behold The First Poster For Iron Man 2
May 7 it says will be the day we will all be treated to some delightful “Iron Man 2″ sequel-age. We have the first poster for you and it colourfully depicts our man Tony Stark ensconced in his new Iron Man armour back to back with the bare metal look of War Machine.
Nimrod Antal Promises Guy in Suit Predator, Explains Adrien Brody Casting
Nimrod Antal has got a lot going against him. For one, his name is Nimrod. Seriously, can you imagine the pounding the poor guy must have taken in school? I don’t even want to think about it. Secondly, he’s already knee-deep in shooting “Predators”, the long-awaited sequel to the “Predator” franchise, with Robert Rodriguez producing, and fanboys are tad squeamish about everything they’ve heard about the movie so far. Talking with Comingsoon, Antal explained his casting of Adrian Brody (a move that resulted in a collective, “What the EFF????” from fans everywhere, I would imagine), and promises that the Predator in “Predators” will indeed by a guy in a suit.
Avatar Interactive Trailer is All Kinds of Interactive-y Goodness
James Cameron’s “Avatar”, the movie that will change the face of moviemaking (or perhaps not), opens December 18th, but until then, you can check out this interactive trailer that Twentieth Century Fox is calling the first-of-its-kind “next generation” doohickey. I’ve tested it out to make sure it actually works, and it doesn’t do anything you wouldn’t want it to, so go ahead and follow the instructions to download the Adobe® AIR® software (if you don’t already have it installed on your PC, which chances are you won’t) once you land on the page.
Fede Alvarez’s Alien Invasion Pitch Goes To Ghost House
Some of you might remember that recently I posted a fiendishly awesome vid of commercial director and special effects man Fede Alvarez’s “Panic Attack”, where giant robots entered cinematically from the mists and proceeded to drop some heavy metal on the innocent? denizens of some unnamed city.
Surrogates (2009) Movie Review
Bruce Willis’ “Surrogates” may have had a good idea going in, but the result is … middling. To be sure, as with any big-budget sci-fi film, it’s enjoyable enough on a base level, but this isn’t a movie that people will be using to salute Bruce Willis when the “Die Hard” star signs off to visit that Big Hollywood Sky. It’s a vanilla effort, disappointingly so given all the talent (not to mention money) involved. Jonathan Mostow is a good director with a knack for action, but his work here feels restrained and muted. I’m not sure how much of the idea survived from the script by Michael Ferris and John D. Bracato, or from the original source material, a comic book by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele, but what’s left is average at best, not-even-trying at worst.
A Nice Closeup Of Denzel’s Post Apocalyptic Mug In New Book Of Eli Poster
Won’t be too much longer before the “Book Of Eli”, a tale of a Clint Eastwood (ish) man, alone on the road, fully equipped and chock full of all kinds of serious Sci-Fi badass and determined to protect something in his possession that could change the fate of mankind from grungy to golden.
Burgeoning Sci-Fi Queen Zoe Saldana in Details
Zoe Saldana, star of “Star Trek” and the upcoming “Avatar”, has quite the mouth on her. Luckily for her, she has quite the face and body to make up for all that swearing like a sailor drunk on swearing juice. Here’s Zoe Saldana in Details Magazine, talking about what it’s like to star in a movie for James Cameron, female action movie roles, and why she’ll stab you in the eye with a unicorn horn if you mess with her TV viewing habits.
Hugh Jackman Confirmed For Real Steel
It has been confirmed that Hugh Jackman has been tapped for the Dreamworks production of “Real Steel”, a film based on the Richard Matheson (The Button) story about an ex-fighter that turns to the sport of robot on robot gladiatorial combat to make ends meet. Since he’s poor and can’t afford decent buzzsaws and giant pincers, he must turn to the scrapheap where he magically finds a droid that has the pluck to win!
British Television Fav UFO Returns
Being old and Canadian, I was treated in my post larvae stage to some fine 70′s British Sci-Fi television. Nobody did great Sci-Fi with no money like the Brits.
A Feature On The Human Tech Inside Avatar
I’m just wondering, should I just go ahead and buy two tickets for “Avatar” for myself right away and save myself the effort required to log myself in to my local IMAX theatre and slap the VISA down?
Dan Abnett On Writing Ultramarines
Some of you may have heard of or even play the role playing games based on the Warhammer 40k universe. 40K is kind of like the Alien 2 marines but on steroids and with religion. In Warhammer, war is religion and I’m thinking that will make some fine source material for an excellent Sci-Fi movie. 40K is a long established IP, with a rich history of novels and video games. Dan Abnett happens to be the man (over a million 40K books and graphic novels sold) tasked with writing the script for the movie based on the world of Warhammer. Here’s a nice video of Dan talking about the process of getting the movie started. Keep an eye on this one. Not only is 40k incredibly violent and everything a good war movie should be, it’s also very funny.
Avatar Featurette On Bad Guy Colonel Quaritch
You have no idea how hard it is this morning to spell featurette. In the heading there, above, there’s no spell check and after last night there’s no spell check in my brain either. We have a nice little clip (easier to spell) of Stephen Lang as he discusses his character Colonel Quaritch. Mr. Lang is a criminally under-used actor. He’s going to kick some serious booty in Avatar and I predict a major surge of good work coming for this very fine actor.
Fox Lives In Transformers 3
After some previous buzz involving the possibility of Michael Bay killing off Megan Fox’s character in Transformers 3, it appears that the very opposite is true. Despite the friction between Bay and Fox, not only will she live in the next movie, she will have a “great part”.
