And not just one measly sequel, too, but two. Or at least that’s the word from IESB, who says the deal is all but done for Smith to come back to one of the first movies that made him a bankable star, presumably as fighter jock Captain Steven Hiller, the character he played in the first one.
Talk about sticking a fork in your career! Or perhaps not, since according to IMDB.com, writer J.D. Shapiro hasn’t had much of a career since being known as “one of the two guys who wrote ‘Battlefield Earth’” (along with Corey Mandell, whose own screenwriting career never progressed pass “Earth”).
There’s a new T.V. spot for “Iron Man 2″ that debuted during the Kids’ Choice Awards on Nickelodeon. There’s some new footage within and man is this movie going to be good. I can’t tell you the Geek tech envy I have when I watch what Tony Stark gets to play with.
WHAT IS IT: “Cargo”, a moody, ambitious sci-fi thriller from Switzerland, directed by Ivan Engler and Ralph Etter, and co-written by Engler, Arnold Bucher, Johnny Hartmann, and Thilo Roscheisen. Made for an estimated $4.5 Swiss Francs (about $4.2 million dollars), the film recently made its North American debut at the SXSW Festival.
As “Blade Runner” is my favorite movie and actually a bit of an obsession, I’ve always treated the thought of a sequel with mixed emotions. If you go there and mess it up, it’s going to sting. I really love “Blade Runner” because of all the movies I’ve ever seen, it came closest to generating the feeling like this alternate or future place actually existed. It was as real as a documentary or like a really interesting place you went to on vacation but could never afford to go to again.
You don’t get a lot of independently financed and produced sci-fi action movies nowadays. Or at least, you don’t get one that looks decent enough to tell people about without, you know, lying your ass off. The Brothers Shumway are trying to change that with their new movie “Enigma”, which looks like it’s got shades of Christian Alvart’s “Pandorum” and David Twohy’s “Pitch Black”. Trust me, those aren’t bad comparisons at all. Check out a full synopsis and trailer for the film below.
Grand, big idea and stately Sci-Fi epics have been in some short supply lately. Sci-Fi movies that work principally on story and feel have been largely replaced with more explosions, big toothy otherworldly human munchers or furry blue persecuted natives.
Brian K. Vaughan is a killer comic book writer of considerable fame. He’s the man behind Y: The Last Man, soon to start filming starring the rumoured Shia LaBeouf. Brian was also a producer for a little show called LOST. Brian has a new script that’s getting some serious buzz and it sounds like a can’t miss green light.
The latest “Predators” sneak peek gives us a look and some insights into Royce, the character played by Adrien Brody, because when you think of sci-fi balls to the wall action movie, you of course think Adrien Brody. Okay, maybe not so much, but maybe that’ll change after “Predators” invades movie screens everywhere.
After a lot of fits and starts, Buck Rogers is finally going to wake up in the 25th century again — thanks to Paul W.S. Anderson, who has signed on to direct a 3D feature film based on the character originally created by Philip Francis Nowlan and was launched way back in the 1920s. The character’s most famous incarnation is, no doubt, the TV show “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” starring Gil Gerard and the comely Erin Gray.
