Movie News Weekly Round-Up: October 10, 2010
Movie News
Zack Snyder to direct The Man of Steel (Heat Vision)- James Merendino to direct musical comedy Vampire Summer Camp (The Playlist)
- Another Hulk movie in the works? (Empire)
- The Hobbit will be shot in 3D for about $500 million (The NY Times)
- David O. Russell, Natalie Portman pull out of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Vulture)
- Darren Aronofsky offered Wolverine 2 and Tales from the Gangster Squad (Vulture)
- Tomas Alfredson set to direct period fantasy adaptation Larklight (Heat Vision)
- Sam Raimi will officially direct Oz: The Great and Powerful next (Deadline)
- Transformers 3 official title will be Transformers: The Dark of the Moon (Collider)
- DreamWorks wants to develop a Halo movie (Vulture)
- Broadway musical Jersey Boys will be adapted to the big screen (Deadline)
- Seven posters for the upcoming Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows (ComingSoon)
- Billy Ray to remake Oscar winning The Secret in Their Eyes (Deadline)
- Sean Anders and John Morris to direct comedy We’re the Millers (24 Frames)
- Dan Aykroyd takes over the script of Ghostbusters 3 (Vanity Fair)
- Darren Aronofsky gearing up to shoot The Tiger with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie? (The Playlist)
- Tom Cruise still developing a movie about the Flying Tigers of WWII, independently of John Woo’s project (Deadline)
- First look at Michelle Williams as Marylin Monroe in My Week with Marylin (Deadline)
- The Family Circus coming to the big screen (Deadline)
- David O. Russell to write and direct video game adaptation Drake’s Fortune (First Showing)
- Three movie posters for the upcoming comedy Morning Glory (Hollywood.com)
- Mad Max: Fury Road production delayed until 2012 at the earliest (The Australian)
- Tony Gilroy’s The Bourne Legacy will be without Matt Damon (Hollywood Elsewhere)
- Naomi Watts unlikely to return for Eastern Promises sequel (MTV)
- How to Train Your Dragon sequel set for 2013 release, most of the cast returning (Variety)
Casting News
Idris Elba the next Blade? (Total Film)- Alan Alda cast as the villain in Brett Ratner’s action comedy Tower Heist, also joins the romantic comedy Wanderlust (The Wrap)
- Kathryn Bigelow pursuing Tom Hanks and Johnny Depp for starring role in thriller Sleeping Dogs (Deadline)
- Bruce Willis to star in drama Ten (Deadline)
- Idris Elba cast in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (Heat Vision)
- Chelsea Handler cast in McG’s action comedy This Means War (Deadline)
- Thomas Haden Church cast in We Bought a Zoo, Amy Adams considering a role (Variety)
- Ray Liotta, Ving Rhames, Christian Slater to star in indie The River Sorrow (Variety)
- Melanie Griffith joins The Grief Tourist (Coming Soon)
- Natalie Portman declines lead role in Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity, Warner Bros wants Sandra Bullock (Deadline)
- Robert Downey Jr. to star in treasure hunt movie Yucatan (Deadline)
- Mike Myers to voice Looney Tunes’ character Pepe Le Pew in a live-action/CGI movie (Vulture)
- Anil Kapoor, Lea Seydoux cast in Mission: Impossible 4 (Deadline)
- Emily Blunt, Rachel Weisz, Mark Duplass join semi-improvisational comedy by Lynn Shelton (Variety)
Trailers
- Burke and Hare with Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis (Hey U Guys)
- The Tempest starring Helen Mirren, Russell Brand (Apple)
- Badass red band trailer for Faster with Dwayne Johnson, The Rock is back!! (IGN)
- The Tourist with Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie (/Film)
- Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours (Apple)
- Peter Weir’s The Way Back (The Guardian)
- Blue Valentine with Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams (Yahoo)
Let me know what the MPAA saw to slap a NC-17 rating on this movie…
- Ron Howard’s comedy The Dilemma starring Vince Vaughn and Kevin James (Yahoo)
- Animated Ultramarines (Empire)
- Horror flick And Soon the Darkness with Amber Heard, Odette Yustman, Karl Urban (Apple)
- Drama Night Catches Us with Anthony Mackie (Apple)
Links
- Kai lists the top 5 actors he would like to see in The Expendables sequel (The List)
- Ripley ranks the top 5 David Bowie film performances (Four of Them)
- Luke makes his early Oscar predictions (Journalistic Skepticism)
- Will W. makes his Oscar predictions as well (Mr. Will-W: Pop Maven)
- Dan lists his top 25 films to make you happy (Top10 Films)
- Interview with Chloe Sevigny (The Guardian)
33 Comments
Dan Ankroyd working on the ghostbusters script? Doesn’t feel terribly good.
I kinda like that!
Again I think I’m with you Joel. He wrote the storyline for the Ghostbusters video game and that seemed pretty uninspired as it didn’t cover that much new ground/material. Still the argument could be made that “it was just a game” but it was rather thin.
I think the only reason II is looked at fondly after all these years is that we’ve had time to accept it. As much as I LOVE Ghostbusters, I’m not looking forward to it especially after the geriatric fiasco that was Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
OK I’m off my soap box now, sorry for the rant:P
No Murray? No deal.
Two Michelle Williams items?! xD
She actually looks kinda good as Monroe, and I’m still dying to see Blue Valentine. I wonder why it’s NC17 though. O_o
Because Ryan Gosling goes down on her and the MPAA hates women having orgasms.
We had a bit of fun with the trailer for And Soon the Darkness on the latest LAMBCast, which I think goes up some time next week? Was my first one so I’m not exact on the turnaround.
Faster looks meh, but I think the Red Band shows most of the film.
I read via one of my fellow tweeters (can’t remember who or I’d link) that the scene that earned Blue Valentine its NC-17 is rather important to the film.
I was a bit skeptical about Michelle Williams as Marilyn, but the photo does do her justice. My worry lies in them making the film about her, such an over the top persona, without it being comically so.
I also read that it’s important, but the rating is very unjustified.
And yes, that photo is quite something.
Akroyd working on Ghostbusters 3 makes more sense to me than the guys who wrote Year One.
Good point. Harold Ramis, how far you’ve fallen.
It’s sad, but hopefully this third Ghostbusters can be a return to form.
It’s so cute, seeing Harry and Ron grow stubble.
Thanks for the the link.
Thanks for the link, Castor!
So many things on here but the 2 things sticking in my craw are that:
1. I NEED PRIDE & PREJUDICE & ZOMBIES. And…
2, Michelle Williams is a horrible choice for MM. She looks nothing like her!
You welcome!
Charlize Theron would have been a great Marilyn Monroe.
@ Kai: I actually think that photo looks close enough. And, actually, I think that if an actor is good enough, they make you forget they don’t resemble the character.
Yes, I’m thinking of Anthony Hopkins as Nixon.
WOW, you’ve been a busy little bee, Castor! Lots of stuff to comment on… but here goes:
• I was curious to see what they’ll do with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but not sure that thing will get off the ground
• Glad to see Idris Elba’s career is going somewhere, but PLEASE, why Ghost Rider 2??!
• Those are some gritty character posters for HP7, clearly this ain’t for kids anymore. I kinda like the ones they released not too long ago (i.e. http://www.impawards.com/2010/harry_potter_and_the_deathly_hallows_part_i_ver2.html) but it kinda reminds me a bit of Inception’s
• My excitement for The Tourist is wearing down fast as they still haven’t shown ANY glimpse of either Rufus Sewell or Timothy Dalton [sigh]
• Night Catches Us premiered at TCFF as well last week, alas I was working that day I couldn’t er, catch it
lol you are kidding, we have really been slacking for the past couple weeks! Not to worry, I am coming back with some ideas for posts
If this is slacking then I don’t know what it’d look like when you’re busy Castor!!
OMG that remake of “El Secreto de sus Ojos” sounds like the devil’s plan. It makes me just sad how unimaginative Hollywood is getting.
Especially given the fact that it’s an Oscar winner!!
I’m waiting for the remake of the remake, myself!
- The fact that they’ve went from Jolie to Portman and now possible Bullock for Gravity is just disturbing.
- While I doubt he takes it, I hope Aronofsky goes with Wolverine 2…I want to see Affleck take gangster squad.
- Elba jokes around in the Blade post about expanding with another role in the Marvel universe and then gets brought on for the Ghost Rider movie…that’s more than likely the role he knew he was getting, and just wanted to twist peoples arm and bring up Blade/Cage.
- Other than maybe True Grit and the first Potter film, The Way Back might be might most anticipated movie left this year. Looks like a wonderful epic, and it’s gotten wonderful reviews so far.
Gravity is so screwed. Portman passing up is nothing surprising because this isn’t really her type of movie but the fact that they can’t get a leading lady is bad augur.
With respect to Idris Elba, there’s one man I’d like to see even more in the role of Blade – Michael Jai White. The return of The Rock is finally here – and in a hard-R rated action flick, no less! A delight, isn’t it? Plus, Clint Mansell will score the music. Can’t wait for this one!
And as much as I was looking forward to the Ultramarines, I’ll be the first to admit this, so far, looks like shit. I have no fear for the script, for it was written by Dan Abnett, the author of Black Library’s most praised WH novels… but the animation is… ugh… just ugly.
Jai White as Blade would be totally awesome and a much better pick than Elba. I’m just glad The Rock is finally making a movie worth his presence. Welcome back The Rock!
That’s Mr. The Rock to you.
And I like Idris Elba, I think he deserves a shot at leading man status (which, sadly, Michael Jai White had and lost – save Black Dynamite, of course).
Greta to see the Burke and Hare trailer. Looking forward to this one. Good cast and nice to see John Landis back behind the camera. Hopefully the film will be a lot better than his recent efforts. I don’t think Landis has made a good film for 20 years so the jury is out but this looks like a good one.
Oh, and thank Heavens that at least the first Deathly Hallows isn’t being changed to 3D….I’m still hopeful that it doesn’t happen for The Hobbit, but with the budget that it’s gonna have, Warner Bros and others will demand that 3D be available.
Yeah, why ruin a potentially good film with abhorrent 3D treatment?? After seeing the botched Clash of the Titans 3D, I’m not wasting my $ on movies that aren’t made with 3D technology to begin with.
I love to see Simon Pegg and Andy serkis’s movie…but doubtful it’ll be here, DVD is i\my only hope
Oh my god – are they kidding with the Hulk thing?? I mean, yes, the Norton go of it was a vast improvement on the first attempt, and I’m very excited about the Ruffalo addition, but how much do you want to bet they’ll start with the origin story once again to catch up people who avoided the first two stabs at it? Ugh. They maybe should just let this one die.
I actually kinda dug way that Norton’s movie dealt with the origin. “Look, you’re going to be watching credits anyway, so here’s the origin for the five people in the world who don’t get the Banner/Hulk thing playing in the background.”
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