Movie News Weekly Round-Up: January 23
Movie News
- Alexander Payne to direct Nebraska for Paramount Pictures (The Playlist)
“Centering on a father and son dynamic, “Nebraska” is about an aging alcoholic father who thinks he’s won a million dollar Publisher’s Clearing House sweepstakes prize. He is unbowed when his family tries to dissuade him from making the long trip from Montana to Nebraska to cash in his winnings. So his estranged 20-something son—who doesn’t believe the ticket is a winner—is forced to go along with him for the ride to keep him out of trouble, providing an opportunity to bond with his father after years of separation.”
- First look at a low quality picture from X-Men: First Class (Bleeding Cool)
- Timecrimes remake in the works at DreamWorks (Deadline)
- Joe Johnston talks about Captain America with the LA Times (Hero Complex)
“The movie is going to be something more than people are expecting. This movie is going to surprise some people. It is the origin story of Captain America but it is also something rare — it’s a period superhero film but there’s great action in it. You don’t normally think of guys driving around in 1939 sedans in an action film but there are some great action beats in it. It’s just a helluva lot of fun to watch.”
- Sony Pictures picks up Neil Blomkamp Elysium (Deadline)
- Director Mike White pulls out of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Deadline)
- Warner Bros working on remakes of Lethal Weapons, Westworld and The Wild Bunch (THR)
- More new pictures and info for X-Men: First Class (/Film)
Knife Hand!
- Will Smith, Willow Smith working with Sony to develop a remake of Broadway musical Annie (Variety)
Sasha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator will be released May 2012 (First Showing)- New pictures for W.S. Anderson’s The Three Musketeers (Coming Soon)
- Viral website for Battle: Los Angeles (unidentifiedenemy.com)
- Clint Eastwood will direct Beyoncé in remake of A Star is Born (Deadline)
“The flick follows the general storyline of a has-been celebrity who falls in love and helps an up-and coming star with her career, and this version would take place in the music world.”
- James Howard will compose the score for Green Lantern (Film Score Reporter)
- Make sure to check out the LA Times’ annually insightful Directors’ Roundtable (LA Times)
Casting News
- Mia Wasikowska, Vera Farmiga to star in A View From the Bridge (Variety)
- Josh Lucas cast in Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar as Charles Lindbergh (Deadline)
- No J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man reboot? (IGN)
- Anne Hathaway cast as Catwoman, Tom Hardy as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises (/Film)
BURBANK, CA, January 19, 2011 – Warner Bros. Pictures announced today that Anne Hathaway has been cast as Selina Kyle in Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises.” She will be starring alongside Christian Bale, who returns in the title role of Bruce Wayne/Batman. Christopher Nolan stated, “I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Anne Hathaway, who will be a fantastic addition to our ensemble as we complete our story.”
In addition, Tom Hardy has been set to play Bane. Nolan said, “I am delighted to be working with Tom again and excited to watch him bring to life our new interpretation of one of Batman’s most formidable enemies.” Nolan will direct the film from a screenplay he wrote with Jonathan Nolan, from a story by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer. Nolan will also produce the film with his longtime producing partner, Emma Thomas, and Charles Roven.
“The Dark Knight Rises” is slated for release on July 20, 2012. The film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
- Robert Downey Jr. drops out of Sam Raimi’s Oz The Great and Powerful (THR)
- Russell Brand in talks to join Adam Shankman’s Rock of Ages (Deadline)
- Jeff Daniels joins the cast of sci-fi Looper (Variety)
- Rebecca Hall to star in Stephen Frears’ coming-of-age adaptation Lay The Favorite: A Memoir Of Gambling (IndieWire)
Trailers
- International trailer for Water for Elephant with Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz (YouTube)
- Romantic thriller Perfect Sense with Ewan McGregor, Eva Green (MTV)
- Featurette for George Nolfi’s The Adjustment Bureau (Moviefone)
- Red Riding Hood with Amanda Seyfried (Apple)
- Coming-of-age indie Skateland (MTV)
- Wes Craven’s Scream 4 (Apple)
- The Son of No One with Channing Tatum, Al Pacino, Juliette Binoche, Tracy Morgan (MTV)
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X-Men: First Class has had a rather large foul stench for some time now, and I’m thinking this pictures are just piling on the rotted milk. At the moment I’m rating its potential awesomeness somewhere between a fifth grade science project and a Mel Gibson musical entitled “Tolerance.”
Ahaha indeed, it looks terrible so far. We will probably get a trailer fairly soon so let’s hope Matthew Vaughn can surprise us…
I guess I’ll be the optimistic one in regards to X-Men: First Class, but yeah, can’t wait for the trailer.
How many more The X-men and scream will they make in the future? I wonder.
Is anyone else sick of superhero movies?
I’m still waiting for someone to make a live-action version of the Ambiguously Gay Duo. After they do that one, then I might be sick of them.
ME!!! *raising hand enthusiastically*
I’ll stand up for First Class. I’m digging the retro costumes and the cast, frankly, looks good in their uniforms. I don’t think a frame from an action shot of Magneto’s enough to really go on, but at least the characters look okay. It’s enough to raise my interest from “yawn” to “intrigued”. Put it this way, they look no goofier than Captain America.
One note– Hathaway isn’t necessarily playing Catwoman. The press release only refers to her as Selina Kyle. Who, admittedly, is Catwoman, but Kyle showing up doesn’t necessarily mean we’re going to get Catwoman action. I think everyone in the world still remembers the dogshit that was Halle Berry’s superheroine vehicle, and I can’t see Nolan putting Hathaway in costume– or at least referring to her as Catwoman.
“It’s…it’s incredible. You’re clearly a woman, and yet…so much like a cat.”
Tom Hardy should be in many movies by virtue of his awesomeness, and I’m thrilled that he’s playing Bane. Makes me confident that they’re going with the real character instead of Sir Grunts-A-Lot from Batman and Robin.
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