I was just perusing the internet this morning and I saw that the second trailer for the new "King Kong: Skull Island" has been released into the wilds,-sorry for the pun I just couldn't resist- and is now doing the rounds on the internet.
Here is the link to the IMDB.com page where you can see this second trailer of this film if you haven't already seen the trailer for this film yet:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3731562/?pf_rd_m=A2FGELUUNOQJNL&pf_rd_p=2703897782&pf_rd_r=02KWMABA4PJ4CZGCGW2A&pf_rd_s=hero&pf_rd_t=15061&pf_rd_i=homepage&ref_=hm_hp_cap_pri_1
This new film "King Kong: Skull Island" is according to Wikipedia,-I know I know what your thinking whilst reading this "that these pages can be edited by anyone and they can't always be trusted as a source of news", but I've checked out what it says on this page and so far from what I can see the things it says are true,- this is set to be a reboot of the "King Kong" franchise and is said to serve as the second instalment in Legendary Pictures "King-Kong"/ "Godzilla" series.
And according to IMDb.com this is a film based on the origins of King Kong...but I was thinking "Does there really need to be another "King Kong" film"? and now that I'm writing this I'm thinking that "this better be bloody good because nobody needs another "X:Men Origins: Wolverine", but I'm thinking that the only reason that Legendary Pictures wants this to be the first film to reboot this franchise is for the money...because after the first movie I really can't see why you'd want or need another movie of "King Kong" as Kong died after Jack Black's character thought it would be a good idea to take him out of his natural environment and bring him back to America and make a show out of him...and we all know how well that idea turned out to be.
Anyhew...this movie sees another group of explorers want to go deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific unaware that they're venturing into the domaine of a mythical giant gorilla "King Kong" as well as other giant beasts...what could possibly go wrong?
But if you ask me a lot can go wrong...like this movie trailer just looks like it should have been marketed as a comedy rather than an action/adventure as Tom Hiddleston looks like to me he's orange and if this film is set in the 1970's why is everyone apart from Samuel L Jackson looking like their wearing modern day clothes...and the only thing to say this is set in the 1970s is a Motown record.
And when the film has cast "StepBrother"'s John C Reiley how can this possibly be anything serious?
Well this is just my opinion and I guess that when this film is officially released in cinemas in the UK on March 2017 will we know for sure how well this origins film fares.
This film also features Brie Larson, Tom Hiddleston of course, Samuel L. Jackson, John C. Reilly and has been directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Dan Gilroy wrote the screenplay for this movie as well as writing the story for this film, Max Borenstein also wrote the screenplay for this movie and John Gilroy who also wrote the story for this movie.
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
Thursday, 10 November 2016
Finally the loooooooooooooooooong awaited "Dark Tower" adaption of Stephen Kings book news!
You may or may not have heard already but for ages now there has been news on how Ron Howard was set to direct an adaption of Stephen King's "Dark Tower" but for aaaaaaages and through lots of various different things this wasn't looking like it was ever going to be made into a film....but the other day I heard that Idris Elba had been cast as the gun slinging Roland Dechain "The Gunslinger" and Matthew McConaughey cast as his sworn enemy "Randall Flagg" a.k.a "The Man In Black" and both of these are joined in "The Dark Tower" by Tom Taylor who is cast as Jake Chambers.
Also according to ComingSoon.net's website this movie won't be a direct adaption of "The Dark Tower" series of books but more of a continuation and sort of remix of the series that will focus more on Roland's final cycle in his pursuit of "The Dark Tower" and will use elements from all the books in the series.
If you haven't read this book series it's about Roland Deschain, Mid-West's last gunslinger, who is traveling southeast across Mid-World's post-apocalyptic landscape, searching for the powerful but elusive magical edifice known as "The Dark Tower". Located in fey regions of End-World, amid a sea of singing red roses, The Dark Tower is the nexus point of the time-space continuum. It is the heart of all worlds, but it also under threat. Someone, or something is using the evil technology of The Great Old Ones to destroy it.
Nikolaj Arcel is set to direct this adaption through MRC and Sony Pictures.
The release date has been delayed though and is now pencilled in to be released July 28th 2017 (this is according to IIMDb.com the USA release date) ...which was when the new Jumanji film was thought to be released but this according to ComingSoon.net Jumaji will now be released December 22nd 2017.
Other cast members are: Abbey Lee will play Tirana, Franz Kranz will play Pimli the right hand man of Randall Flagg, Jackie Earle Haley, Katheryn Winnick and Claudia Kim.
Also according to ComingSoon.net's website this movie won't be a direct adaption of "The Dark Tower" series of books but more of a continuation and sort of remix of the series that will focus more on Roland's final cycle in his pursuit of "The Dark Tower" and will use elements from all the books in the series.
If you haven't read this book series it's about Roland Deschain, Mid-West's last gunslinger, who is traveling southeast across Mid-World's post-apocalyptic landscape, searching for the powerful but elusive magical edifice known as "The Dark Tower". Located in fey regions of End-World, amid a sea of singing red roses, The Dark Tower is the nexus point of the time-space continuum. It is the heart of all worlds, but it also under threat. Someone, or something is using the evil technology of The Great Old Ones to destroy it.
Nikolaj Arcel is set to direct this adaption through MRC and Sony Pictures.
The release date has been delayed though and is now pencilled in to be released July 28th 2017 (this is according to IIMDb.com the USA release date) ...which was when the new Jumanji film was thought to be released but this according to ComingSoon.net Jumaji will now be released December 22nd 2017.
Other cast members are: Abbey Lee will play Tirana, Franz Kranz will play Pimli the right hand man of Randall Flagg, Jackie Earle Haley, Katheryn Winnick and Claudia Kim.
Say What!?...20th Century want to redo the X-Men films!...and more
Now I saw this headline on The Hollywood Reporter's website whilst I was reading another article and I just had to read it as this sounded to me just ridiculous...a redo or a reboot or whatever of these films sounds absurd as how on earth can you reboot these films as they were in my opinion amazing and had such big visual effects and they must have had a rather large budget to make these films as well as getting the actors such as Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy and Nicholas Hoult.
Anyhew...according to this article over at 20th Century Fox the superhero film franchise is waning and it looks like the studio has pressed the reset button on this flagship franchise with Simon Kinberg who oversaw the original X-Men film franchise as writer and producer now working on a new script but insiders say that according to The Hollywood Reporter that this script has been written with these stars optimistically in mind.
But in doing this 20th Century Fox has a problem, Bryan Singer's "X-Men's: Day's Of Future Past" earned $748 million and "X-Men: Apocalypse" made only $544 million at the box office...so I think it's fair to say that the number of people going to see this movie dropped from this second in the new line of "X:Men" films and this probably means that people weren't as eager to see this follow up of Brian Singer's first rebooted "X:Men" film and probably either didn't go the first week that this film was released and went to the cinema when they could go or when their wasn't such a rush on at their local cinema, or they waited for it to be released on DVD, Blu-Ray or they waited for it to be available to stream on their devices at home.
So if this was to be rebooted how bigger budget do you give the filmmakers and how do you reboot this film franchise without just throwing lots of money at it and just filling the movie with lots of things blowing up, visual effects or action without it looking shit and having critics as well as audiences leaving the cinema or people watching it saying "that that was an hour of my life I'm never going to get back".
Also the new chairman at 20th Century Fox Stacey Snider has the headache of if they want to do this reboot with Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Nicholas Hoult as they've come to the ends of their 3 picture deal contracts then Fox better be prepared to stump up lots more cash than before as these actors won't come as cheap like before.
Also according to this same article the long talked about "X:Men" spin-off film "Gambit" that is set to star Channing Tatum has yet again stalled in its production as Doug Liman who was set to direct this film has already left the project leaving 20th Century Fox in desperate need to find a new director asap as well as the production that was set to start in August not happening.
Anyhew...according to this article over at 20th Century Fox the superhero film franchise is waning and it looks like the studio has pressed the reset button on this flagship franchise with Simon Kinberg who oversaw the original X-Men film franchise as writer and producer now working on a new script but insiders say that according to The Hollywood Reporter that this script has been written with these stars optimistically in mind.
But in doing this 20th Century Fox has a problem, Bryan Singer's "X-Men's: Day's Of Future Past" earned $748 million and "X-Men: Apocalypse" made only $544 million at the box office...so I think it's fair to say that the number of people going to see this movie dropped from this second in the new line of "X:Men" films and this probably means that people weren't as eager to see this follow up of Brian Singer's first rebooted "X:Men" film and probably either didn't go the first week that this film was released and went to the cinema when they could go or when their wasn't such a rush on at their local cinema, or they waited for it to be released on DVD, Blu-Ray or they waited for it to be available to stream on their devices at home.
So if this was to be rebooted how bigger budget do you give the filmmakers and how do you reboot this film franchise without just throwing lots of money at it and just filling the movie with lots of things blowing up, visual effects or action without it looking shit and having critics as well as audiences leaving the cinema or people watching it saying "that that was an hour of my life I'm never going to get back".
Also the new chairman at 20th Century Fox Stacey Snider has the headache of if they want to do this reboot with Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Nicholas Hoult as they've come to the ends of their 3 picture deal contracts then Fox better be prepared to stump up lots more cash than before as these actors won't come as cheap like before.
Also according to this same article the long talked about "X:Men" spin-off film "Gambit" that is set to star Channing Tatum has yet again stalled in its production as Doug Liman who was set to direct this film has already left the project leaving 20th Century Fox in desperate need to find a new director asap as well as the production that was set to start in August not happening.
David Leitch may be first in line to direct "Deadpool 2"...and there may be a 3rd already in the pipeline
I was just perusing the internet and this caught my eye on The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision pages...well I just thought after hearing the news that Donald Trump will be running America for the next 4 years I think we are all in need of a palate cleanser...or just something to forget that America will now be run by a giant orange monster.
Anyhew...you may or may not already know that "Deadpool" director Tim Miller won't be coming back for "Deadpool 2" as of tensions boiling over about how he wanted this second film to be more stylised so as to compete with the big blockbuster franchise films but everybody concerned from Ryan Reynolds to the writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick didn't want this...and the studio agreed with Ryan Reynolds and Co...so in the end Tim Miller walked, and according an article posted on The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision pages on October 28th 2016 insiders say that the studio and producers have been meeting with other potential candidates such as Drew Goddard (who directed "The Cabin In The Woods") and Magnus Martens (who is just one of the directors on Netflix's "Luke Cage"), but the name that remained consistently on top of this list is David Leitch who is one half of the directing and stunt team behind "John Wick".
But according to other sources of The Hollywood Reporter it's still to early to declare Leitch as a frontrunner as other meetings are still taking place and no official offer has been made and no negotiations are underway...but according to an article posted on The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision pages on the 9th November 2016 it looks like David Leitch is now in negotiations to fill this directors chair that 20th Century Fox so desperately needed to fill in order to get a sequel up and running for this surprise box office hit.
And according to this same article to show how much faith the studio has in this Ryan Reynolds lead franchise, 20th Century Fox is lining up a "Deadpool 3" already, which sources say will have filmmakers readying for a storyline that will involve another X-team...X-Force.
Anyhew...you may or may not already know that "Deadpool" director Tim Miller won't be coming back for "Deadpool 2" as of tensions boiling over about how he wanted this second film to be more stylised so as to compete with the big blockbuster franchise films but everybody concerned from Ryan Reynolds to the writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick didn't want this...and the studio agreed with Ryan Reynolds and Co...so in the end Tim Miller walked, and according an article posted on The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision pages on October 28th 2016 insiders say that the studio and producers have been meeting with other potential candidates such as Drew Goddard (who directed "The Cabin In The Woods") and Magnus Martens (who is just one of the directors on Netflix's "Luke Cage"), but the name that remained consistently on top of this list is David Leitch who is one half of the directing and stunt team behind "John Wick".
But according to other sources of The Hollywood Reporter it's still to early to declare Leitch as a frontrunner as other meetings are still taking place and no official offer has been made and no negotiations are underway...but according to an article posted on The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision pages on the 9th November 2016 it looks like David Leitch is now in negotiations to fill this directors chair that 20th Century Fox so desperately needed to fill in order to get a sequel up and running for this surprise box office hit.
And according to this same article to show how much faith the studio has in this Ryan Reynolds lead franchise, 20th Century Fox is lining up a "Deadpool 3" already, which sources say will have filmmakers readying for a storyline that will involve another X-team...X-Force.
Thursday, 3 November 2016
Beauty and The Beast first pics!
I saw this headline on Facebook.com's website and just had to look at these pictures that Entertainment Weekly Magazine had on their website...well it is "Beauty and The Beast" after all who wouldn't want to see pictures from this new live-action version that is said to be featuring original songs from the original Disney version.
These are just some pictures from this new "Beauty and the Beast" Disney movie which will star Emma Watson as Belle, Dan Stevens as "The Beast", Luke Evans as "Gaston" the hunter who will hunt down the beast at any cost and wants Belle for himself, Josh Gad as Gaston's servant Le Fou, Kevin Kline as Belle's father, Ewan Mcgregor, Stanley Tucci, Ian McKellen and Emma Thompson.
Here is the link to Entertainment Weekly's website where you can see the full gallery of images:
http://www.ew.com/gallery/beauty-and-the-beast-photos/2809401_emma-watson-belle
These are just some of the long line of other images and hopefully a full trailer that will be no doubtedly making their way onto the internet as part of the build up to this film that is said to be released in the UK according to imdb.com's website on the 17th March 2017.
And if you haven't seen it already there is a teaser trailer, you can watch via this link on imdb.com's website:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2771200/?ref_=nv_sr_1
But in this Disney version of the original film there's a twist, instead of Belle's father being the inventor in this Bill Condon directed version Belle is the inventor and her father Maurice just makes music boxes for Belle as the film's set director Katie Spencer explained to Entertainment Weekly what was with all the music boxes:
"Kevin Kline as Maurice, is making all these music boxes that have to tell the story of Belle not travelling..."
she goes on to explain:
"She's overprotected in a way, by her father, because she's lost her mother. So we've made all these music boxes that represent different countries of the world, so she can see what she's missing."
These are just some pictures from this new "Beauty and the Beast" Disney movie which will star Emma Watson as Belle, Dan Stevens as "The Beast", Luke Evans as "Gaston" the hunter who will hunt down the beast at any cost and wants Belle for himself, Josh Gad as Gaston's servant Le Fou, Kevin Kline as Belle's father, Ewan Mcgregor, Stanley Tucci, Ian McKellen and Emma Thompson.
Here is the link to Entertainment Weekly's website where you can see the full gallery of images:
http://www.ew.com/gallery/beauty-and-the-beast-photos/2809401_emma-watson-belle
These are just some of the long line of other images and hopefully a full trailer that will be no doubtedly making their way onto the internet as part of the build up to this film that is said to be released in the UK according to imdb.com's website on the 17th March 2017.
And if you haven't seen it already there is a teaser trailer, you can watch via this link on imdb.com's website:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2771200/?ref_=nv_sr_1
But in this Disney version of the original film there's a twist, instead of Belle's father being the inventor in this Bill Condon directed version Belle is the inventor and her father Maurice just makes music boxes for Belle as the film's set director Katie Spencer explained to Entertainment Weekly what was with all the music boxes:
"Kevin Kline as Maurice, is making all these music boxes that have to tell the story of Belle not travelling..."
she goes on to explain:
"She's overprotected in a way, by her father, because she's lost her mother. So we've made all these music boxes that represent different countries of the world, so she can see what she's missing."
Get ready for more Lisbeth Salader in "The Girl In The Spider's Web" sequel
I was just perusing the web when this caught my eye on ComingSoon.net's website.
I have to say this piqued my interest as I loved the original Swedish with English subtitles version of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" films and really didn't understand why after these films that starred Noomi Rapace an Michael Nyqvist were so successfully there was another film made about this that starred Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig...well maybe now I write this I do understand why the powers that be wanted to remake this as the original was so successful for both the main actor and actress as I think it's probably fair to say that this film made Noomi Rapace a breakout star and even though it made $10m in North America and $104,617,430 globally it did,-I think it's fair to say,-amass a big audience, well it must have done from those figures and the second film was an English speaking American version so the people in the movie industry probably thought "Well if the first film was so successful why not remake it for English/American audiences, maybe it'll be that successful again?"...
But I think we all know how that remake version of the film went...down like a lead balloon,-that's just my opinion, for anybody reading this and thinking that they quite liked this version of the film-, even if it did star Daniel Craig.
For those that haven't seen the movie where the hell have you been?...anyway I will help fill in the blanks for you to catch you up, in the first movie "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" it follows Mickael Blomvist who is head of Millennium magazine who was the top journalist that wrote hard hitting expose stories but he falls out of favour as one of his expose's lands him in prison for 2 years and he has to pay damages for printing a story about a high profile person in society because he didn't check his sources where the information came from, after these 2 years he gets an odd request from a man asking him to find his niece who has disappeared he reluctantly agrees and goes to this man's house to interview his family about the day Hattie went missing, but this film also follows Lisbeth Salander who is a psychologically damaged hacker and has been declared legally incompetent by the government and after her guardian has a stroke is appointed a new guardian to take control of her money and life, she later finds out that this new guardian is a sadist and one night when she goes over to his house to ask for money to buy a new laptop he tells her he won't give her money unless she gives him a blow job, after that he then ties her up and rapes her but unbeknownst to him Lisbeth has filmed it all using a hidden camera in her ruck sack and then the next night she goes back for revenge this time she ties him up and attacks him with a tattoo pen writing on his stomach that he is a rapist pig and she tells him that he can never remove it or she'll come back and write it on him again...anyhew whilst this is going on she gets involved in this case and together both Salander and Blomvist find out that Hattie didn't disappear that she in fact was smuggled out of the country by her sister Anita who looks exactly like her and she is now living Australia away from her family as it turns out both her father and her brother had been abusing her.
Anyhew....according to Variety.com's website David Lagercrantz's novel "The Girl In The Spider's Web" which he wrote as follow up to this "Millennium" series of books after Steig Larsson who wrote the other books in this series died from a heart attack in 2004 is set to be adapted into a film by Sony after it acquired the rights for this book in 2015.
Also according to Variety.com's website Fede Alverez who directed "Don't Breath" is said to be eyeing up this as his next potential project for Sony.
Steven Knight is said to have co-written the script for this adaption along with Scott Rudin, Amy Pascal, Elizabeth Cantillon and Eli Bush, with Yellow Bird's (who produced the original Swedish version of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo") Ole Sondberg and Soren Staermose producing this with David Beaubaire overseeing this for the studio according to Variety.com's website.
According to this website Sony has now fast tracked this to be made next year.
This film will see both Salander and Blomvist teaming up again and entering a world of cybercriminals, government operatives and ruthless underworld spies-some even willing to kill to protect their secrets.
I have to say this piqued my interest as I loved the original Swedish with English subtitles version of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" films and really didn't understand why after these films that starred Noomi Rapace an Michael Nyqvist were so successfully there was another film made about this that starred Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig...well maybe now I write this I do understand why the powers that be wanted to remake this as the original was so successful for both the main actor and actress as I think it's probably fair to say that this film made Noomi Rapace a breakout star and even though it made $10m in North America and $104,617,430 globally it did,-I think it's fair to say,-amass a big audience, well it must have done from those figures and the second film was an English speaking American version so the people in the movie industry probably thought "Well if the first film was so successful why not remake it for English/American audiences, maybe it'll be that successful again?"...
But I think we all know how that remake version of the film went...down like a lead balloon,-that's just my opinion, for anybody reading this and thinking that they quite liked this version of the film-, even if it did star Daniel Craig.
For those that haven't seen the movie where the hell have you been?...anyway I will help fill in the blanks for you to catch you up, in the first movie "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" it follows Mickael Blomvist who is head of Millennium magazine who was the top journalist that wrote hard hitting expose stories but he falls out of favour as one of his expose's lands him in prison for 2 years and he has to pay damages for printing a story about a high profile person in society because he didn't check his sources where the information came from, after these 2 years he gets an odd request from a man asking him to find his niece who has disappeared he reluctantly agrees and goes to this man's house to interview his family about the day Hattie went missing, but this film also follows Lisbeth Salander who is a psychologically damaged hacker and has been declared legally incompetent by the government and after her guardian has a stroke is appointed a new guardian to take control of her money and life, she later finds out that this new guardian is a sadist and one night when she goes over to his house to ask for money to buy a new laptop he tells her he won't give her money unless she gives him a blow job, after that he then ties her up and rapes her but unbeknownst to him Lisbeth has filmed it all using a hidden camera in her ruck sack and then the next night she goes back for revenge this time she ties him up and attacks him with a tattoo pen writing on his stomach that he is a rapist pig and she tells him that he can never remove it or she'll come back and write it on him again...anyhew whilst this is going on she gets involved in this case and together both Salander and Blomvist find out that Hattie didn't disappear that she in fact was smuggled out of the country by her sister Anita who looks exactly like her and she is now living Australia away from her family as it turns out both her father and her brother had been abusing her.
Anyhew....according to Variety.com's website David Lagercrantz's novel "The Girl In The Spider's Web" which he wrote as follow up to this "Millennium" series of books after Steig Larsson who wrote the other books in this series died from a heart attack in 2004 is set to be adapted into a film by Sony after it acquired the rights for this book in 2015.
Also according to Variety.com's website Fede Alverez who directed "Don't Breath" is said to be eyeing up this as his next potential project for Sony.
Steven Knight is said to have co-written the script for this adaption along with Scott Rudin, Amy Pascal, Elizabeth Cantillon and Eli Bush, with Yellow Bird's (who produced the original Swedish version of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo") Ole Sondberg and Soren Staermose producing this with David Beaubaire overseeing this for the studio according to Variety.com's website.
According to this website Sony has now fast tracked this to be made next year.
This film will see both Salander and Blomvist teaming up again and entering a world of cybercriminals, government operatives and ruthless underworld spies-some even willing to kill to protect their secrets.
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