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News - May
31/05/11 - Orlando Bloom to return in The Hobbit
Director Peter Jackson has confirmed that Orlando Bloom [pictured] will reprise the role of Legolas in The Hobbit.
"Ten years ago, Orlando Bloom created an iconic character with his portrayal of Legolas," said Jackson. "I'm excited to announce today that we'll be revisiting Middle-earth with him once more. I'm thrilled to be working with Orlando again. Funny thing is, I look older - and he doesn't! I guess that's why he makes such a wonderful elf."
The Hobbit is currently filming down in New Zealand. The movie is due to open in cinemas on 19 December 2012.
27/05/11 - Bill Nighy latest name for Total Recall
According to trade paper The Hollywood Reporter, Bill Nighy [pictured] is in negotiations to join the cast of Total Recall, Columbia’s Colin Farrell-led remake of the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi action movie.
The film, which starts shooting in June, will be directed by Len Wiseman. It also stars Bryan Cranston as the villain, and Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel as the female leads.
The movie scraps the Martian storyline from the original film and instead involves nation states Euromerica and New Shanghai. Farrell plays Douglas Quaid, a factory worker who begins to believe he is a spy - although he doesn't know for which side.
If negotiations go to plan, Nighy will play Quatto, the leader of the resistance (In the 1990 movie, the character, called Kuato, was played by Marshall Bell with the conceit that the leader was actually a small mutant living off the human).
26/05/11 - Star Trek II could be delayed
The second movie in the Star Trek franchise looks likely to be delayed, despite the fact that the film already has a release date of 29 June 2012. According to the Deadline website the project doesn't have a script or even an official director yet.
While it's expected that J.J. Abrams will return to direct, he hasn't officially signed up.
And as far as the script is concerned, apparently the movie's writers Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof are waiting for Abrams to commit before they start work on the screenplay.
In addition star Chris Pine, who played Captain Kirk in the first movie and who is expected to reprise the role in the second film, is currently rumoured to be in negotiations to take over the role of Jack Ryan in a new spy thriller based on Tom Clancy's character. This could cause further problems for the start date of principal photography on Star Trek II.
25/05/11 - Megan Fox wants to play Carrie
Megan Fox [pictured] is rumoured to be seriously interested in the lead role for MGM/Screen Gem's Carrie reboot.
According to Showbiz Spy website, Fox is a huge fan of the original 1976 Carrie film and would love the chance to play the lead: "Megan is 25 now but she's sure she could still do justice to teenage Carrie. She's told her people to make it happen. Megan is desperate to get away from her Transformers image and move on with her acting career."
24/05/11 - Frankenstein tale to be resurrected
According to the Deadline website Peter Ackroyd's novel The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein is to be turned into a movie.
The story covers the youthful days of Frankenstein, who begins experimenting with corpses, influenced by the outspoken English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose wife Mary wrote the book.
This is just one of several Frankenstein films currently in the works. Universal is developing a new version of the 1931 studio classic movie with Guillermo del Toro; Summit Entertainment is developing This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, an adaptation of the Kenneth Oppel novel; and Columbia Pictures recently acquired Frankenstein, a contemporary re-telling of the famous tale based on a pitch by Craig Fernandez.
23/05/11 - Tron director to film his graphic novel
Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski's [pictured] next project will be to bring his own graphic novel to the big screen.
The movie will be a sci-fi epic based on Kosinski's Oblivion graphic novel which will be out later this year. Tom Cruise has committed to starring in the picture.
Production on the movie, which takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where the surface of the Earth has been ravaged by hostile aliens, will start this October.
It is expected that Cruise will play the main character - who fixes the drones that hunt down the aliens - and finds a beautiful woman in a crashed spaceship who alters his view of the world.
20/05/11 - Are you ready for a zombie invasion?
For those worried about possible zombie invasions, fear not. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has just released a zombie preparedness plan. So if a zombie outbreak occurs, the U.S. government has a plan of action that will kick in.
So what would happen if the dead did start rising from their graves and roaming the streets? Apparently CDC would conduct an investigation much like any other disease outbreak. They would attempt to determine the cause of the illness, the source of the infection/virus/toxin, learn how it is transmitted and how readily it is spread, how to break the cycle of transmission and thus prevent further cases, and how patients can best be treated.
They would also send medical teams and first responders to help those in affected areas. For those who decide to stay and defend their homes, the CDC recommends keeping an emergency kit, which should include fresh water and first aid supplies.
19/05/11 - No Stan Lee in X-Men: First Class
For comic book fans who look forward to Stan Lee's [pictured] cameo roles in the Marvel related movies you won't see him in X-Men: First Class.
The reason? According to Lee, who explains in his Twitter feed: "Warriors mine, grieve thee not that I have no cameo in X-Men: First Class. It's just that the movie was filmed too far away for me to attend. But know ye this, I have already completed my roles in Captain America and the new Spider-Man, so all is well in cameo land."
18/05/11 - Seth MacFarlane to reboot Flintstones
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane [pictured] has been given the green light to start work on an animated The Flintstones TV series.
According to Deadline the deal comes after complicated negotiations between 20th Century Fox TV, where MacFarlane is based, and Warner Bros Television, which owns the rights to the series after absorbing The Flintstones's famed producer Hanna-Barbera.
17/05/11 - Green Lantern director won't be back
Green Lantern director Martin Campbell [pictured] has stated that he won't be returning if a sequel is made.
In an interview with Total Film he revealed he wouldn't be sitting in the director's chair for any future movies in the franchise: "This film has become the instruction manual if they do any further ones. It's what we call pipe laying".
16/05/11 - Amityville Horror to be resurrected
The Weinstein Company and Miramax are to join forces to produce The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes.
The movie will use the genre cliche of "found footage" to revisit the mythology of the series.
The original fictional story (which was originally presented as fact in order to sell the real house to ghoulish prospective buyers) dates back to 1976, when George Lutz moves his family into and out of a house where the previous tenants were murdered by their son, Ronald DeFeo, who claimed he was possessed.
The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes will shoot this summer and be released in cinemas on 27 January 2012.
13/05/11 - Wonder Woman already cancelled
Despite having an experienced TV creator behind it, David E. Kelley, and an appealing star, Adrianne Palicki, the planned Wonder Woman TV series has fallen at the first hurdle. Despite the shooting of a pilot the show won't be going into production as a series.
According to the Deadline website the test audience reviews were mixed with one industry insider stating that: "The audience couldn't buy into the modernisation."
12/05/11 - Highlander remake is very much alive
It's been quiet recently on the much rumoured remake of the 1986 sci-fi movie Highlander, but recently Justin Lin, who's about to direct Terminator 5, says the project is still going ahead.
In an interview with MTV, Lin said: "I've been working with [Iron Man writers] Art Marcum and Matt Holloway on the script. That's one where Summit has been really good [about letting it develop], and for me, it's about making sure that we can take it to the place where I feel comfortable and great about making it. I feel like I have a very good studio and team and we're working on it.
"I have different projects at different stages. You work on so many projects all at once, and at some point, you have to make the call. I feel like right now, Highlander is in pretty good shape, but I still have to see all the other things come together for us to go make it."
11/05/11 - Ethan Hawke joins Total Recall cast
Trade paper, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Ethan Hawke [pictured] is to join the cast of the remake of Total Recall.
The original 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie, based on the Philip K. Dick story, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, followed a man haunted by a recurring dream of journeying to Mars who buys a literal dream vacation from a company called Rekall Inc., which sells implanted memories. The man comes to believe he is a secret agent and ends up on a Martian colony, where he fights to overthrow a despotic ruler controlling the production of air.
The new story will do away with the Martian storyline and instead involves nation states Euromerica and New Shanghai, with Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell) a factory worker in the latter who begins to believe he is a spy, although he doesn't know for which side.
The movie will begin principal photography in June.
10/05/11 - Is Keanu up for the role of Akira?
For some time now Warner Bros. has been attempting to get the ball rolling on its Americanised movie version of the classic manga series Akira. The main stumbling block has been finding an actor to play the lead.
According to trade paper, The Hollywood Reporter, the current favourite to play the part of Kaneda is Keanu Reeves [pictured].
Reeves is currently 46, a lot older than the teenage biker character in the original manga, so is this latest rumour just a way for the studio to grab publicity for the project?
09/05/11 - Miller's Batman art sells for £274,000
While it's no surprise that original comic book art fetches ridiculous prices at auction these days, the high prices are normally reserved for artwork from early examples of Superman, Spider-Man and Batman.
However, a Batman and Robin splash page [pictured] from Frank Miller's revolutionary 1986 four-issue series The Dark Knight Returns recently went under the hammer, fetching $448,125 (£273,580) smashing its estimated pre-auction value of $125,000 (£76,000).
06/05/11 - Tomb Raider reboot to explore origins
The writers behind Iron Man are to bring Lara Croft back to the big screen with a Tomb Raider reboot which will revamp the character and her origins.
GK Films claim that they will deliver an "origin story for Lara Croft that solidifies her place alongside Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor in the pantheon of great female action heroes."
No one's been cast yet, but the movie's scheduled to be released in cinemas in 2013.
05/05/11 - Enterprise Trek films were planned
In a recent interview Scott Bakula [pictured] who played Capt. Jonathan Archer in Enterprise, revealed that originally it was planned that Enterprise would continue the Star Trek movie franchise.
Interviewed at Germany's FedCon, Bakula said: "We were going to be the next movie franchise. Going in that's what we were told."
Bakula added that he wasn't expecting to see any Enterprise movies in the future. But he did say this on whether we are likely to see him in the next Star Trek film: "I'm not anticipating a role in the next Star Trek movie. I was shocked that Archer was even mentioned in the last one!"
04/05/11 - Will Hugh go on a Fantastic Voyage?
The Deadline website is reporting that Hugh Jackman [pictured] is in the running to star in a 3D remake of 1966's Fantastic Voyage.
The original movie followed a miniaturised team of doctors as they travelled in a tiny ship through the body of a scientist to repair a clot in his brain.
The original film starred Stephen Boyd, Donald Pleasence and Raquel Welch and was based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby.
03/05/11 - Family Guy comic comes out in July
Family Guy fans will be overjoyed to hear that Titan Comics is to start publishing a new comic series based on the hit cartoon comedy.
The first issue will be released in July and will feature all-new stories following the Griffins, Quagmire, Cleveland and co, with artwork by SL Gallant (G.I. Joe, Torchwood) and Anthony Williams (Judge Dredd, Superman, Batman).