IGN visits the Prince Caspian set, and comes back with costume details. It’s light on pretty dresses, but armor fans will be pleased.
Oh, snap: Alleged Indy 4 thief nabbed
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI apprehended the alleged thief with the help of an ‘unnamed member of the online press,’ IESB reports. The stolen property included production stills and a budget breakdown, and the thief was asking a mere $2,000 for the stolen goods.
Tyler Nelson goes to the courts
Sort of – The infamous Indiana Jones blabber settled with the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull filmmakers yesterday. The terms of the agreement are confidential.
Making an example for plot spoilers everywhere: priceless.
Boycott The Seeker?
Livejournal’s Cleolinda Jones encourages The Dark is Rising fans to boycott the film adaption because of the myriad changes the movie has made to the book’s plotline. I usually think people get far too worked up about this sort of thing (OMG Arwen has linez, oh noes!) and I haven’t read the books, but the changes made in The Seeker do seem pretty drastic.
Plus, Cleolinda brings up a very good point:
What if The Dark Is Rising adaptation (“adaptation”) is a hit?
Oh, the studios will say, you can still make a ton of money, but you can do whatever you want? You can change the story and put in pointless but trendy family conflicts, love interests, younger characters? You can squeeze action into bizarre places and completely miss the point of the story? You can whittle it down until it hardly resembles the original at all? Wow, this is really convenient! All this time, we were busting our collective ass for nothing! Why bother actually trying to do the work of translating a beloved property to a different medium? We can just use a known title to sell people a completely different story, and it doesn’t even have to be any good!
So fans… What say you?
Another Indy IV security breach
Computers, photographs and ‘proprietary information’ have been stolen from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Variety reports. Is this film cursed?
Movie News: Pixar, Batman, Trek
Today’s biggie: a new trailer for Pixar’s Wall-E. Sorry Artoo – there’s a new adorable robot in town.
Elsewhere…
- Michael Caine praises Heath Ledger’s performance in The Dark Knight.
- Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy not getting a sequel. I don’t think anyone is going to mind.
- Bay and ILM promise to step it up on Transformers 2.
- Zachary Quinto gushes about Trek co-stars.
- Krypton footage may make Superman Returns sequel.
- Next on the remake trail: Friday the 13th.
Mashup: Batman through the ages
Cheesy Adam West Batman meets angsty Frank Miller Batman in this series of 1966 Batman: The Movie images with captions from 1986’s The Dark Knight Returns.
Movie quickie: Blade Runner, Wolverine, JLA
According to The New York Times, the Blade Runner: The Final Cut answers one of the film’s most lingering questions.
- Director Gavin Hood talks Wolverine.
- Writer’s strike might put the kibosh on Justice League.
- Lois Maxwell died Saturday. She originated the role of Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond series.
Movie news: Indy 4, JLA, Blade Runner
Rumor Mill of the Crystal Skull
- AICN reports that the Indy 4 crew have recreated a very familiar location from the first movie.
Franchise Madness
- Jessica Biel is not Wonder Woman. Entertainment Weekly reports she passed on the role; fanboys mourn.
- Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz‘s Simon Pegg wants a Potter role. Who would you cast him as?
- Another Terminator trilogy? Oh, for Christ’s sake…
- Six Flags building Bat-coasters. Three The Dark Knight Coasters will be opening in May 2008.
- Adrien Brody was up for Spock role.
And then…
Del Rey gets the contract!
…To publish Indiana Jones books. (Nuk nuk nuk.) They’ve tapped author James Rollins to write the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull novelization, with Laurent Bouzereau and old hat J. W. Rinzler on nonfiction duty.