Nov 12 2008
Movie News (Nov 12th, 2008)
Sounded re-god-damn-awful last summer, and it sounds even worse now…Variety has confirmed that Jaden Smith (son of cinema-destroyer, Will Smith) will be playing the role of Daniel in the upcoming remake of the Karate Kid. With Stephan Chow (Shaolin Soccer) set to direct and star as Mr. Miyagi, this is the tell tale sign of the coming of the Mayan Apocalypse.
New Watchmen posters are circling online. With the already impressive amount of skill going in to the making of the posters, I don’t doubt this film will destroy the box office. While the posters so far have been epic city-scapes and detailed renderings it looks like this series of one-sheets are the individual characters themsevles: The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Silk Spectre II (Malin Akerman), Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup) and Nite Owl II (Patrick Wilson). Now, I can’t wait for the solo smiley face button with blood on it.
Looks like the X-Men Origins series will continue with the much rumored about film, Magneto. David Bentley got his hands on the official studio synopsis of the film. The following is from the film magazine, Production Weekly:
“The original X-Men film began with a prologue that showed the character as a child being led to a concentration camp by Nazis and that is the period in which the Magneto film will take place. This setup will allow a future villain to at least flirt with the designation of protagonist since the character will be seen almost exclusively in his formative years. The storyline will heavily involve Professor X, the wheelchair-using X-Men leader. That character was a soldier in the allied force that liberated the concentration camps. The professor meets Magneto after the war and while they bond over the realization that they are alike in their special powers, their differences soon turn them into enemies.”
Sir Ian McKellen will be reprising his role from the previous 3 X-Men movies while David Goyer (Blade Trinity, (the fucking retarded) Invisible) will be helming the direction.
I think Kevin Smith and Miramax just got pissed and decided to be ironic (after all, if you can’t be funny, irony is your best friend). After the heated war held by numerous theaters, television stations, and ad companies that all refuse to show the correct title for Kevin Smith’s new film, “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” it would seem that their new poster is one to shake a stick at.
After the stick figure campaign this seems like the logical next step. It’s clever and funny and has 100% nothing to do, beside the two main actors, with the film.
On a side note, the film is funny as shit. I will be reviewing this later with my pros and cons.
Danny Boyle, director of 28 Days Later, has come out and sounded very interested in rehashing his zombie-lore in 28 Months Later:
“I’ve got an idea for it, so I can’t really tell you any more than that at the moment, but hopefully that might happen. I’d certainly like to…I feel the idea is quite a strong idea, and it could well involve directing it. Yeah, absolutely.”
And for those of you who have not yet seen the wonderfulness of the new trailer, FAN BOYS. It’s funny and Star Wars-esque, but there are slight problems with it.
The trailer makes the movie look like a high school kid road trip movie, which I know, technically it is, but they failed to mention about the story with the friend dying of cancer and where is Kristen Bell mentioned? I think the trailer is designed for initiating people who aren’t that big into Star Wars to get in to the theaters… while the hard core Star Wars fans (cough cough…raises hand slowly) are looking at it with some wearisome worries.
I have read numerous accounts from the people who got a chance to see the film these last couple years and everyone loved it, as long as it wasn’t the recut edition where the cancer friend was taken out. Crossing my fingers and hoping.
