In a post on Eonline it is stated that 20th Century Fox may block the release of Warner Brothers’ The Watchmen.
20th Century claims they were working on a film of the comic book and that Warner Brothers never acquired the rights. They would rather block it than try and get some money out of it?!
According to News Askew Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier will sit down with the MPAA, watch “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” and then argue/defend why their movies should get a R rating. Kevin has already made cuts to the movie and I hope he doesn’t have to make anymore. Scott(Mr. Movie Geek) and others have wondered how the donkey scene and all the dirty talk of going @$$ to mouth only got a R for “Clerks 2” I loves me some Kevin Smith but even those 2 items made me quite uncomfortable. So this weekend while you are out and about keep in mind Kevin and Scott will be fighting for you and for your cinematic enjoyment!
Also check out the Zack and Miri site for some cool pics and a screen shot from “Entertainment Weekly” that has a small tid bit o’ dialogue.
DreamWorks Animations CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg has apparently said that George Lucas will re-release the Star Wars films in 3D! Now I am a Star Wars geek so this is pretty neat. In spite of my geeky-ness I am a little tired of all the re-releases and edits he has made in the past. I already have episodes 4 through 6 in the original theatrical on VHS and DVD and special edition VHS and DVD’s and episodes 1 through 3 on DVD ( my brother has 1 on VHS.) Now I will have to buy them all over again in 3D! Either way I am still excited. I remember watching “Return of the Jedi” at my friends house right after he got surround sound back in ’98 and being amazed and the sound of the TIE fighters flying around me. Now imagine hearing them flying around me and then seeing them coming right at me!! Sweet! It will be even better on the big screen! The lightsabers! The explosions! The Wookies!
I read about it here.
With the recent flick “Speed Racer” flopping and the unexciting news of an “Akira” remake this story gets my blood a boiling!! They are talking about making a live action “Cowboy Bebop”!!!! If you have not seen the greatest anime to come out of Japan you are missing out! The story, the animation, the music! Oh god the music is phenomenal!!! As long as they keep the story, or write a good one, use the music from Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts and have some great effects this movie will be fan-double-tastic! It may not be the most popular anime from Japan so it may also flop at the box office. I hope that it will expose this great anime to more people and it will become more popular. If they are going to make a Dragonball and Speed Racer flick they have to make movies of far superior source material. Erwin Stoff is the producer and he also worked on “A Scanner Darkly” and “Constantine” so he is familiar with Keanu. I like Keanu, I have no problems with him… I just don’t see him as Spike Spiegel. I just wonder who will play Faye!
If you have not seen “Cowboy Bebop” I urge you to check it out. For just a taste of the music check out the opening title sequence. “Tank” is the name of the tune.
This picture is similar to the first, but this one has a little more “action.” Either way, he looks sweet! Ray Park has usually played cool action packed characters … maybe not so much Toad from X-Men, but everyone thinks Darth Maul is a bad ass!
I thought these might be interesting to share. I found some earlier but these should be better quality. Thanks Scott!!!
From left to right and top to bottom: Storm Shadow, Baroness, Breaker, Destro, Duke, Hawk, Heavy Duty, Rip, Scarlett and Snakeeyes.
Is this the new Enterprise pre tell?
I was browsing through some of the Tumblr blogs I have been following and noticed a post about Captain America casting news.
It appears Matt McConaughey is the leading candidate for the leading role! The flick is not due to be released until 2011 which means filming won’t start until 2009? maybe 2010? and Matt’s name is already being thrown around? This is some really early speculation but the site claims to have a reliable source. They also mention his physique could be Captain quality and he is popular with the ladies so they could draw in a slightly different demographic than the Cap usually draws.
What do you think? Good choice? Would someone else be better? Did anyone ever read Wizard magazine back in the day when they had the Casting Call section? They would “cast” a movie version of a comic book picking the best thespians for the roles. I picked Patrick Stewart to play Professor X and I was right! My friend and I thought Bruce Willis would have been a great Wolverine.
What do you think? Matt McConaughey as Captain America? Who else could/should play the role?
By now you should have seen Iron Man and you should know to stay till after the credits. At the end there is a great cameo by a great actor. You should also be able to point out the cameo by Stan Lee.
But did you notice the rock guitar god know as Tom Morello playing ‘insurgent #5″ Apparently he is one of the “baddies” that enters the cave after the door explodes and one of the first to get pummeled by Iron Man. How did I miss that?! ( I also cannot find a pic) Tom has a small acting rà ©sumà © but one of those rolls was in Made with Jon Favreau.
While checking the web for more Iron Man and other Marvel movie news I came across a few articles that stated Hillary Swank also had a cameo in Iron Man. I missed that also and cannot find any pictures. IMDB does not list her in the flick. Does anyone recall seeing her? Have any pictures?
Now we have to wait till 2010 for more Marvel movie madness? Hulk is later this summer and that will be great but 2 years until another Iron Man?! Really?! 2 years?! You tease us with War Machine foreshadowing, allude things about the Avengers, theorize about Thor and capture our attention with Captain America but make us wait 2 years?!?
Two of the new Marvel Comics movies have some small updates.
Iron Man: You can view the “hi-res” trailer on Marvel’s site. Is it just me or does this gooey warmth flow through you when he says “… lets throw some hot rod red in there.” and Audioslave starts to kick in followed by kick ass action shots? no? just me? oh well.
Wolverine: just some pictures, one above and both here on Marvels site again. Nothing big but cool to look at. Some casting/character news has already been announced so we know Weapon X will be covered but I wonder if they will go all the way back to the beginning? Did anyone read the Wolverine Origin mini-series? If not you should check it out! Gorgeous art and a cool story.
