Watch this for Erwin Beekveld’s trance techno look at the kidnap of the Hobbits. You’ll laugh. I promise.
Movie News: V for Vendetta, Undead Trek, Spielberg
It’s just been one thing after another for V for Vendetta: Now the release date has been moved back a second time to March. By the time this movie comes out, Natalie Portman may actually have hair.
Star Trek may not be actually dead. Again: Stake. Heart. Plunge. Rinse with holy water. Repeat.
Steve Spielberg’s next project is When Worlds Collide, which sounds like an Armageddon retread. Spielberg being Spielberg, it should turn out okay if Ben Affleck and Aerosmith are kept far, far away.
Jessica Alba is not Jeannie. (As in I Dream of.) Instead, she’s starring in a movie called The Wake with Sigourney Weaver and Hayden Chistensen. Classic TV fans breathe a sign of relief… I mean, do we really need a remake of I Dream of Jeannie in this day and age? Did Nicole Kidman’s Bewitched teach us nothing?
Dawn of the Dead Poet’s Society
Worth1000.com’s Mate a Movie Photoshop contest is the funniest thing I’ve seen all week. There’s a few duds, of course, but it’s hard to beat “Raylien,” “Freaky Friday the 13th,” “Dirty Harry Potter,” and “House of Flying Robots.” Perhaps the geekiest offering is “Office Space Balls,” narrowly beating out “Saving the Life of Brian.” (Via Posterwire)
Trailer park
V for Vendetta – a movie from the folks who brought us the Matrix, starring Hugo Weaving and (an almost-bald, British) Natalie Portman.
Mirrormask, a film directed by Dave McKean, written by Neil Gaiman, and involving the Jim Henson company. Could do without the more-annoying-than-usual Voiceover Guy…
And I can’t remember if I linked this before, but what the hell – The Brothers Grimm. Terry Gillam! Matt Damon! Heath Ledger! Some girl who looks kinda like Keira Knightly!
Let’s be bad guys
Aslan confirmation
Liam Neeson is indeed voicing Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Disney confirmed it at Comic Con.
Qui-Gon as Lion!Jesus? Quite possibly.
NarniaWeb reports that Liam Neeson could be the voice of Aslan in WETA’s adaption of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The source of the rumor is AICN and there’s no official proof, but with the film’s December release fast approaching there’s little doubt that someone must be filling the role. Neeson is as good a guess as any!
A look at the War of the Worlds web
Personally, I’m informally refusing to go see Spielberg’s War of the Worlds in the theatre because Tom Cruise is insane. (Although mostly it’s because I’m cheap and lazy and already spent too much time in the theatre watching ROTS.) You can’t hold an actor’s Scientology-induced dementia against H.G. Wells, but you can read the entire text of the original War of the Worlds online for free, since it’s out of copyright. Dark Horse, the folks who bring us SW comics, are also getting in on the public domain action with an eComic adaption. This book cover collection of the various editions of the sci-fi classic is also worth a peak. For a more classically flavored take on the definitive alien-invasion tale, I’d also recommend Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 2.
For those inclined towards a more modern era of WOTW, War of the Worlds Invasion: The Historical Perspective is a great resource for info on Orson Welles’ infamous 1938 radio broadcast, as well as many other adaptions and historical information. They even have a blog.
I’ll give you something to whine about…
Word on the street is that the next Spider-Man film will have four villains. Four! Have we learned nothing from the downfall of the 90’s Bat-movies? And didn’t Daredevil have double-villain action as well? You don’t want to go there.
Will Ewan Lose Another Apprentice?
Ewan McGregor will play the role of the mentor in the upcoming film Stormbreaker.
Let’s hope he has better luck with this apprentice!