Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Ewan McGregor gets back to sci-fi with Michael Bay’s The Island:
DreamWorks’ sci-fi project follows a “harvested being” who makes a bid to escape the utopian facility where he is being kept. The studio is eyeing a fall start. Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (“The Legend of Zorro”) are on board to write the script, which originated as a spec by Caspian Tredwell-Owen.
Sounds like The Matrix meets The Truman Show…
Comic Book Resources has an interview with Michael Polis, Executive Producer of Mirrormask, a film written by Neil Gaiman, directed by Dave McKean, and produced by the Jim Henson Company. What’s NOT to love about this film?
Aside from the fact that it hasn’t come out yet, that is…
Ringer Garfeimao of theonering.net had a chance to get up close and personal with the LOTR costumes shown at Comic-Con. See the pictures.
(I’m also pleased to announce this is the 100th post on this blog! Whoohoo!)
The rumor mill have been running wild with this information, and it’s finally confirmed… Ralph Fiennes will be playing Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Keira Knightley is set to star in Domino, scripted by Richard Kelly of Donnie Darko.
The summary, from Hollywood Reporter:
The real-life story centers on Domino Harvey, the daughter of actor Laurence Harvey, who starred in the original version of “The Manchurian Candidate.” Domino Harvey ditched a career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter. The project has long been gestating at Scott Free, but it heated up when Scott took to Kelly’s script, which incorporates flashbacks, flash-forwards, and characters from “Beverly Hills, 90210.”
Mixed reviews are rolling in for The Village.
Kerry Conran, who helms Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, will be directing A Princess of Mars.
Zach Braff is blogging for Garden State; the movie, costarring Natalie Portman, is doing very well with critics.
Fametracker snarks on franchise film stars in the latest Galaxy of Fame.
A Cinescape poll has Joss Whedon as the leading choice to helm the next X-Men movie. Whedonesque discusses the possibility.
And of course, the big movie news of the week… Pierce Brosnan steps down as James Bond.
And so we have the first trailer. I am really loving the look of this. Actual focus on character. Wonderfully filmed. I think this will be a Batman I can get behind!
Check it out in a million different formats here.
An overview of Joss Whedon’s Serenity presentation at Comic-Con. Whedon also said that he’s looking into a comic adaption of the movie. See pics and download mp3s (!!) from the panel discussion with the cast at fireflyfans.net.
Also, don’t forget that Astonishing X-Men #3 comes out tomorrow.
In the midst of all the Comic Con Star Wars excitement, I forgot that the LOTR folks screened a preview of the Return of the King extended DVD there. Theonering.net has the scoop and some pictures.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire‘s Rita Skeeter is cast.
I know the 80’s are back, but a Transformers movie?
A teaser for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was shown at Comic-Con.