Movie News Weekly Round-Up: September 18, 2010
Movie News
- Another Resident Evil on the way, according to Milla Jovovich (Vulture)
- Tekken movie picked up by Anchor Bay, will be released sometime in 2011 (ComingSoon)
- Lionsgate selects Gary Ross to direct The Hunger Games adaptation (Deadline)
- Oliver Hirschbiegel to direct adaptation of The Dark Side of The Moon (Variety)
- My Fair Lady Remake with Carey Mulligan will not go in production soon (Worst Previews)
Now, during the Toronto Film Festival, we had the chance to speak to Mulligan and asked for an update. “It’s not happening this year,” she replied. “I’ve definitely spoken about it, and I would love to do it if it happens, but it’s just not happening right now.”
She added: “I read the script and the script is incredible. Emma Thompson wrote it. It’s telling the story again, in another way and not trying to sort of copy anything and not trying to take away anything from that version of it. It’s just telling it in a new era to a new generation of people.”
- Andy Fickman to direct Boy Scouts vs. Zombies (Production Weekly)
- Ryan Reynolds gives an update on Deadpool (Hero Complex)
“It goes in such a different direction than a superhero movie usually goes,” Reynolds said over lunch recently at 101 Coffee Shop. “It’s a nasty piece of work. It’s just based in so much emotional filth, completely. It’s like ‘Barfly‘ if it were a superhero movie. It sort of treads into the world of an emotionally damaged person. I always say that Deadpool is a guy in a highly militarized shame spiral…. It’s so different than the superhero movies to date, it departs so far from that.”
- Spike’s Deadliest Warrior TV series will be adapted to the big screen (Deadline)
- Alex Proyas to direct Paradise Lost (Deadline)
- First look at live-action movie Voltron (JoBlo)
- Mark Romanek teams up with Ben Stiller in comedy A Parking Ticket (Worst Previews)
- Casey Affleck admits that the Joaquin Phoenix documentary I’m Still Here was all an hoax (The NY Times)
Virtually none of it was real. Not even the opening shots, supposedly of Mr. Phoenix and his siblings swimming in a water hole in Panama. That, Mr. Affleck said, was actually shot in Hawaii with actors, then run back and forth on top of an old videocassette recording of “Paris, Texas” to degrade the images.
- Guillermo del Toro talks about Mountain of Madness (Collider)
- Will Ferrell’s Everything Must Go finally acquired by Roadside Attractions (Deadline)
- Terrence Malick’s new romantic drama begins shooting, first set photos of Olga Kurylenko in (Rockville Music Magazine via The Playlist)
- Andrew Dominik and Casey Affleck to team up again for a crime movie (The Playlist)
Casting News
- Matthew McConaughey attached to William Friedkin’s Killer Joe (THR)
- James Gandolfini joins the cast of indie drama Violet and Daisy, Carey Mulligan out (Variety)
- Al Pacino and Joe Pesci “circling” Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman (Deadline)
It’s Goodfellas meets Casino meets Heat. So if you’re a fan of those great crime movies, get ready: I’m told Al Pacino and Joe Pesci are now circling The Irishman, the mob drama that Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro have been working on together based on the exploits of mob hitman Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran as chronicled in the book I Heard You Paint Houses.
Christian Slater cast in indie horror thriller Playback (Variety)- Dominic West, Rosamund Pike, Daniel Kaluuya cast in comedy John English Reborn (THR)
- Lauren Ambrose has joined the comedy Wanderlust (Variety)
- Sam Riley cast in A Dead Man in Deptford (THR)
- Sigourney Weaver, Steve Buscemi, Anne Heche, Cynthia Nixon, Robin Wright join crime drama Rampart (Variety)
- William H. Macy to star in crime novel adaptation Freaky Deaky (Deadline)
- Terry Jones, John Oliver to star in comedy Absolutely Nothing (Deadline)
- Russell Crowe in discussion to join RZA’s kung-fu epic The Man with the Iron Fist (Twitter)
Ron Perlman joins the cast of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive (Screen Daily)- Olivia Wilde cast in comedy Change-Up starring Jason Bateman, Ryan Reynolds (Deadline)
- Danny Trejo, Erin Cummings join the cast of indie thriller Tarantula (Heat Vision)
- Jennifer Garner to star in The Odd Life of Timothy Green (Vulture)
- Garner is also in discussion to join dramatic thriller Better Living Through Chemistry (THR)
- Sacha Baron Cohen to play Freddie Mercury in The Story of Queen (Deadline)
- Malin Akerman cast in romantic comedy Wanderlust starring Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd (Variety)
- Kate Bostworth, Krysten Ritter to star in indie comedy BFF and Baby (Variety)
- Kevin James to star in an untitled project at Sony (Variety)
- Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler cast in Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi movie Super 8 (Vulture)
- Mark Strong cast in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (The Daily Mail)
- Bryan Cranston, Demetri Martin, Jennifer Ehle, Elliot Gould cast in thriller Contagion (The Playlist)
- Kate Beckinsale to star in Contraband next to Mark Wahlberg (Latino Review)
Trailers
- The Tourist with Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie (Yahoo)
- Disney’s Tangled (Moviefone)
- Paranormal Activity 2 (Official site)
- The Fighter starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams (Apple)
- Casino Jack with Kevin Spacey (Apple)
- The Nutcracker 3D with Elle Fanning (Awards Daily)
- Due Date (Apple)
- Ron Howard’s romantic comedy The Dilemma (Apple)
- The Roommate with Leighton Meester (Yahoo)
Links
- Darren deconstructs the Gerard Butler “romantic comedies” (The m0vie blog)
- Check out Kai’s coverage of the Temecula Valley Film Festival (The List)
- Groovers and Monsters take a look at some of the best prison movies this month (Movie Mobsters)
- Check out Ronan’s latest post on censorship and the role it plays in movies (Filmplicity)
24 Comments
Even though I was pretty sure the Affleck-Phoenix I’m Still Here was a hoax I kind of wanted to see it without that having been let out of the bag. I think they should have kept that close to the chest for a while longer. Though of course when Phoenix (hopefully) goes back to acting normal soon it would be a dead giveaway.
Supposedly, he will not be in-character tonight on Letterman so I guess that would give it away then lol
In the words of Roger Ebert: “If this film turns out to still be part of an elaborate hoax, I’m going to be seriously pissed.”
Not excited about Deadpool, and hopefully the My Fair Lady remake doesn’t ever come to pass. Leave my Audrey Hepburn alone dammit!
Can’t say I’m not giddy about The Irishman. I mean come on. I can’t help but get enthused about that.
I’m with you, Heather, that’s one of my beloved classics. But at the same time, if done respectfully, I think Carey Mulligan can do Eliza Doolittle justice.
Oh, and even though I think Mulligan can pull off that role, the entire movie now just feels like Emma Thompson trying to back her previous statements of thinking Hepburn was overrated.
While I can’t say that I’m excited to see Al Pacino attached to it at this point in his career, The Irishman will definitely be a opening weekend watch for me. The book that it’s based upon is still one of my all-time favorite reads, and it’ll be interesting too see if Scorsese feels forced to cut certain parts out.
Thank you, Heather!!! Agree with you 100% on My Fair Lady….a shame, but we really should not be surprised.
And thanks for the Groovers link!
You welcome!
Why would they make another My Fair Lady? I hate it when they try to re-make already perfect films! So useless!!!
Ha, well you should read what Thompson thinks about the original…
Would really like to see The Irishman come to production with that cast intact. Pacino, Pesci, De Niro, holy crap what an ensemble.
AND Scorsese directing. Can I get a “hell yeah”?
HELL YEAH!!!
sounds amazing. Pacino has never worked with him before, that I know of. Sounds like a great project!
Thanks for the link, my friend. I’ve been a bad blogger buddy lately cuz I’ve been so busy and am really behind on my reading and commenting but thanks for helping me get the word out for some really indie films!
And Paranormal 2 looks friggin’ awesome.
It’s cool, I know you’ve been busy bud
Carey Mulligan should be in everything. I’m just saying.
Another quite disappointing news item which debuted on The Film Stage today is that PTA’s “There Will Be Blood” follow-up “The Master” – starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jeremy Renner – is being delayed. Based on the report, it seems as if it is more the fault of creative mishaps rather than financial ones. It’s a shame, but I’m at least glad PTA is taking the time to make sure he gets it right.
PTA should take his time with the project because the source material needs to be tight. He won’t have a Daniel Day-Lewis around to elevate questionable lines.
I love the casting of Cohen as Freddie Mercury. Seems to be tailor made for him.
Do we really need a remake of My Fair Lady? Is this necessary? Emma Thompson, what are you doing?? And the whole Casey Affleck flick is a complete turn-off. He’s terrible and admitting it’s a hoax is like giving us the middle finger before we even go to see it. I’ll save my money.
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