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Samuel L Jackson has not only signed on for playing Nick Fury in the upcoming Iron Man 2, but he has signed on to play Fury in 9 more films from Marvel. 9 FILMS? Holy shit. Let’s take a look: Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America, and the Avengers. These are the films we know about right now. Where do the other 5 come in? Is Marvel planning on sequeling them selves stupid? They have so far. There also might be a Fantastic Four reboot, similar to Hulk, but at this point, does anyone give a shit?

At San Diego Con last year, Zack Snyder made it publicly known that he “would love to see Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns made into a movie.” Apparently, Miller caught up with Snyder and said “You can do it anytime you want, Zack.” Zack went on to quote:
“I think the thing that’s awesome about Dark Knight, like Watchmen, is that it is a complete and total experience, that was unlike anything anyone has ever seen, and still is,” Snyder said. “I think the big challenge for me would be — it’s so ‘montage-y’ and so media thick, that you just have to — that’s the techniques you’d have to develop and make work. But as far as the rest goes, the thing I’d be really interested in is that kind of Frank [Miller] narration over that cool action, that’s a thing we haven’t really seen in that context.”

After Danny Boyle won his landslide awards at the Academy he showed the world that he isn’t just some tight-assed Hollywood type and… in other notes… won himself back into our hearst here at Junk Film. With some of the money he accrued from Slumdog Millionaire he bought new houses for the child actors in the movie for their families. I can’t critique this… it’s too awesome.

Cool shirt of the day! They retial for $18, and they are so worth it that it hurts.

Edgar Wright’s latest photoblog, we get our first look at Ramona’s fourth “Evil Ex” — Roxanne “Roxy” Richter, from his upcoming film Scott Pilgram. Slash Film reports that, “That’s right, not all of Ramona’s Evil Exes are boys. Richter was Ramona’s college roommate and lesbian fling. Who is the actresses behind Bryan Lee O’Malley’s sketch? It is Mae Whitman, who most of you probably recognize as Ann Veal from Arrested Development.” I can’t stop loving the photos from Wright. They are amazing.

Two films are being stream lined to the front as American remakes from French films: The first is District B 13, and if you’ve seen it, you already love it, so an American remake will only mean disaster. The other is a sequel, as if it fucking needed it, to Taken. GROAN…… Why can’t we leave good enough alone?

Stephan Chow is out for the directing Seth Rogan’s Green Hornet but it would seem Aronofsky isn’t the only director heading a strange title for such a powerful directing force. Michel Gondry might be stepping into the reigns of the Green Hornet as it’s head visionary. How odd? Aronofsky is doing Robocop and now Gondry is rocking the Green Hornet? Hmmm….Could be fucking awesome.

The Dark Knight has finally breached the $1 Billion line for ticket sales. Variety has quoted that the film has made the illustrious $1B mark. Congrats!

The S DARKO trailer has been released. For those not in the know, S Darko is the sequel to Donnie Darko…. having very little if anything to do with the original and not touched by Richard Kelly, the DVD hits stores April 28…. I think I will check it out simply because of the sequel factor and the following of the Sparkle Motion younger sister (you remember… “What’s a Shit Fuck?”). I am guessing it won’t be very good though.

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