ywayI just read this on Empire's website and thought to myself "To The Batcave!",-I know this isn't technically a James Bond phrase but you get the jist- that I had to just put this up here.
Anyhew...this news as an avid fan of all things James Bond just made me so excited, but I've just thought that this is just another link back to the original James Bond films, as you may or may not know but many of the more recent Bond films have had scenes or things in them that hark back to these original films as in Quantum Of Solace Agent Fields was killed by Dominic Green via being soaked in oil and then draped on Bond's hotel bed like in GoldFinger where the girl was draped on Sean Connery's hotel bed soaked in gold, also there were the little quips of "Slate was a dead end" and in Sam Mendes's "Skyfall" there was the quip "he really wanted to get home" along with the story of how James Bond lost his parents in a climbing accident and that he went to Oxford and studied languages...the list of links back to the original Bond films goes on and I do realise that I have maybe gone on a bit too much here but I'm trying to say that more and more directors have already put scenes in their Bond films to try and make their films feel more like a Bond film by putting things in their James Bond films that made the original film what we ( the James Bond fans) know and love.
Previously though according to Deadline Hollywood Blofeld and SPECTRE couldn't be reused as back in 1991 when McClory who worked with creator Ian Fleming and writer Jack Whittingham on a script for Thunderball and the outcome of this was that McClory got partial copywrite for this story, but there was more legal dramas to come between Kevin McClory, MGM and it's producers even after Thunderball was released in 1965, and in 1983 McClory used his rights to bring back Sean Connery in Never Say Never Again. In 1997 these troubles were kicked up a notch by Sony buying McClory's rights for $2million dollars with the intent of making a Bond franchise all of their own, but thankfully MGM hit back at Sony with a lawsuit and in 1999 Sony gave up this franchise idea but Kevin McClory continued with his lawsuit, but then when McClory died in 2006 his estate continued to be a never ending villain in this cat and mouse game between MGM and Danjaq (the hero's).
Anyway...the result is that MGM/Danjaq/EON have now bought all the rights held by Kevin McClory and his estate meaning that Blofeld and SPECTRE could come back in some form like Moneypenny was brought back in "Skyfall" to be Eve Moneypenny who shot Bond.
Of course there is a rather large pinch of salt had to be taken with this but saying how there how there have already been links to past Bond films put into modern day Bond films this might just might happen...fingers crossed! Anyway we'll just have to see if this does become a reality as Bond 24 which will be directed by Sam Mendes and screenplay written by John Logan is currently pencilled in to get released October 23rd 2015...oh what I can't wait that long! and all set to get released in the USA on November 6th 2015
Monday, 18 November 2013
Friday, 15 November 2013
I...Frankenstein trailer
I saw this on Empire Online and just had to put this up. I, Frankenstein the sort of retelling of the famous and world renowned story,- everyone by now must know this story by now as there's been so many films / adaptions of the book into film that have been done including the film "Van Helsing" with Kate Beckinsale and Hugh Jackman in that had Frankenstein helping them to take down Dracula-, and now that I think about it there is a bit of a connection here with Kate Beckinsale and Bill Nighy...
I say this because Kevin Grevioux who co-created Underworld who has written this along with the director Stuart Beattie have rewritten the tale as old as time story of Frankenstein's monster,-
which for people like me who are a little bit foggy on the details of the story in a nutshell-, of scientist doctor Victor Frankenstein who managed to while at university via harnessing the power of lightening he developes a secret technique to reanimate dead tissue thus creating a botched up from other people's dead bodies person but seeing how hideous it is he (Frankenstein) flees after recovering from a mental breakdown, he goes home to the news of his brother being killed and that the nanny has been hanged for it but he then sees the creature at the crime scene so assumes he's done it but doubts anyone will believe him so he retreats into the mountains where the creature catches up to him and tells him he wants him to make a woman for him and that once its done they'll retreat into South America, so he reluctantly agrees after fearing for his family and starts working on her on the Orkney Islands but starts getting dreams particularly if the creature and the female creature were to ever be together they would create a new race of beings that could plague mankind so Victor kills the female corpse, and in revenge the monster kills his childhood friend Henry Clerval where the monster makes it look as if Viktor has killed Henry so he then goes to prison, but he then suffers another mental breakdown while in prison but after being aquitted of it he then returns to his family home in Geneva with his father. Here he marries Elizabeth his childhood sweetheart, believing that the creature threatened his life he tells her to stay in her room in the house while he goes looking for the creature, but while he searches the house and grounds the creature murders Elizabeth then Viktor's father dies, Viktor then chases his creation all the way to the North Pole but doesn't kill him.
So with this in mind the movies going to be a little bit dark in theme, and with the creators of Underworld it's fair to say that the film is going to be action packed. But this time it looks like this film has given Mary Shelly's tale a modern twist as the story for this film is that Frankenstein's monster is immortal and is now called Adam played by Aaron Eckhart who you may have seen as Harvey Two Face in Batman: The Dark Knight, and he's now the focal point to a centuries old war .between powerful supernatural forces...the baddies led by Bill Nighy want to use Adam's immortality and abilities to create an army to destroy the human race, the goodies led by Miranda Otto want to save the human race.n as
But...stuck in the middle and of course the love interest for Adam is a scientist Terra played by Yvonne Stahovski who you may or may not have seen as Lady Penelope in the modern version of The Thunderbirds film.
I say this because Kevin Grevioux who co-created Underworld who has written this along with the director Stuart Beattie have rewritten the tale as old as time story of Frankenstein's monster,-
which for people like me who are a little bit foggy on the details of the story in a nutshell-, of scientist doctor Victor Frankenstein who managed to while at university via harnessing the power of lightening he developes a secret technique to reanimate dead tissue thus creating a botched up from other people's dead bodies person but seeing how hideous it is he (Frankenstein) flees after recovering from a mental breakdown, he goes home to the news of his brother being killed and that the nanny has been hanged for it but he then sees the creature at the crime scene so assumes he's done it but doubts anyone will believe him so he retreats into the mountains where the creature catches up to him and tells him he wants him to make a woman for him and that once its done they'll retreat into South America, so he reluctantly agrees after fearing for his family and starts working on her on the Orkney Islands but starts getting dreams particularly if the creature and the female creature were to ever be together they would create a new race of beings that could plague mankind so Victor kills the female corpse, and in revenge the monster kills his childhood friend Henry Clerval where the monster makes it look as if Viktor has killed Henry so he then goes to prison, but he then suffers another mental breakdown while in prison but after being aquitted of it he then returns to his family home in Geneva with his father. Here he marries Elizabeth his childhood sweetheart, believing that the creature threatened his life he tells her to stay in her room in the house while he goes looking for the creature, but while he searches the house and grounds the creature murders Elizabeth then Viktor's father dies, Viktor then chases his creation all the way to the North Pole but doesn't kill him.
So with this in mind the movies going to be a little bit dark in theme, and with the creators of Underworld it's fair to say that the film is going to be action packed. But this time it looks like this film has given Mary Shelly's tale a modern twist as the story for this film is that Frankenstein's monster is immortal and is now called Adam played by Aaron Eckhart who you may have seen as Harvey Two Face in Batman: The Dark Knight, and he's now the focal point to a centuries old war .between powerful supernatural forces...the baddies led by Bill Nighy want to use Adam's immortality and abilities to create an army to destroy the human race, the goodies led by Miranda Otto want to save the human race.n as
But...stuck in the middle and of course the love interest for Adam is a scientist Terra played by Yvonne Stahovski who you may or may not have seen as Lady Penelope in the modern version of The Thunderbirds film.
From what I can see of the trailer this looks like it might,- cross your fingers, hold your breath and knock on wood-, like it might be on a par with the original Underworld, which I might add is probably the best. I do have to say though that the CGI soldier at the start of this trailer is a really good effect as I thought at first that it was Pegasus coming through the roof.
But I'll just have to wait and see for January 24th 2014 to roll around to see if this film lives up to these good CGI effects, action packed trailer and Underworld writers.
Monday, 21 October 2013
Ben Affleck to be the new Bruce Wayne!?
I've just read this news on iamrogue.com and this has got me very excited...well not really the bit about Ben Affleck being Bruce Wayne because of Daredevil with the all in one red leather cat suite. I think the less said about this the better.
Anyhew.... according to I Am Rogue Zack Synder who I read on a website said that he would at some point like to do a Batman movie with Christian Bale at say around 50 years old, this may have been said jokingly and age is probably the reason why Christian Bale didn't want to do this film...but I think Batman is character wise probably already this age as in Batman Begins Bruce Wayne celebrated his 30th birthday so to my mind he'd be 30 something in Batman: The Dark Knight and so he'd Bruce Wayne would probably be character wise 40 years old or there abouts in Batman: The Dark Knight Rises...so from a casting point of view this sounds to me probably smart as I guess that Ben Affleck is around the 40-50 years old mark so it would make sense for him to play Bruce Wayne...but I hope this time there's no red leather catsuit with red leather hat with ears!
This I realise may sound like I am an obsessive fan that has thought about this a bit too much and therefore sounds a little bit nuts but I swear I'm not nuts...just a big fan of the Batman films I swear!
Anyhew I digress....Zack Synder who will direct this film has according to I Am Rogue.com been shooting some quick footage of American football on location at East Los Angeles College Weingart Stadium which will show three takes of three passages of play during half time and that these scenes will capture the crowd and actors reactions, as well as it doubling for Gotham City University home ground.
These are the new look uniforms that Gotham City University and Metropolis State University will be wearing during this football game.
Anyhew.... according to I Am Rogue Zack Synder who I read on a website said that he would at some point like to do a Batman movie with Christian Bale at say around 50 years old, this may have been said jokingly and age is probably the reason why Christian Bale didn't want to do this film...but I think Batman is character wise probably already this age as in Batman Begins Bruce Wayne celebrated his 30th birthday so to my mind he'd be 30 something in Batman: The Dark Knight and so he'd Bruce Wayne would probably be character wise 40 years old or there abouts in Batman: The Dark Knight Rises...so from a casting point of view this sounds to me probably smart as I guess that Ben Affleck is around the 40-50 years old mark so it would make sense for him to play Bruce Wayne...but I hope this time there's no red leather catsuit with red leather hat with ears!
This I realise may sound like I am an obsessive fan that has thought about this a bit too much and therefore sounds a little bit nuts but I swear I'm not nuts...just a big fan of the Batman films I swear!
Anyhew I digress....Zack Synder who will direct this film has according to I Am Rogue.com been shooting some quick footage of American football on location at East Los Angeles College Weingart Stadium which will show three takes of three passages of play during half time and that these scenes will capture the crowd and actors reactions, as well as it doubling for Gotham City University home ground.
These are the new look uniforms that Gotham City University and Metropolis State University will be wearing during this football game.
There is no official UK release date set yet according to IMDb.com but there is a 17th July 2015 USA release date for this film...lucky devils!
David S. Goyer has written both the screenplay as well as the story for this film, and just in case all of you who had seen Man Of Steel and were wondering if Henry Cavill will be returning don't worry your pretty little heads anymore he is as well as Amy Adams, Diane Lane and Lawrence Fishburne.
Monday, 14 October 2013
Old Boy Update!
I'm sorry that I've been away from here for so long but I have just read on Empire Magazine an exciting update about the Spike Lee Old Boy remake. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT OLD BOY IS ABOUT PLEASE LOOK AWAY NOW....CONTAINS SPOILER ALERT!
I'm such a big fan of this movie (the original one that is), and I do realise that other people who like me have seen this movie and know what the story of this film is that being a big fan of the film may sound a bit wrong but it is the film that all Quentin Tarrantino films are based on...or so it said on the back of the DVD when I bought it.
Anyhew... for those that haven't seen this film and don't know what it's about then I'll fill in the blanks for you:
The story is that a man Oh-Dae-Su is kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years in what appears to be an apartment block, but every so often at the same time every day within these 15 years he is poisoned with hallucinogenic drugs where he has the most frightening dreams and then he passes out, but he is also fed during this imprisonment but then for no reason at all he is let go and told he has to find out who has imprisoned him and that he only has 5 days to do this in with a trusty sidekick in tow.
This then leads to all manner of fantastic martial art style fight scenes and also to the disturbing secret that he went to school with his captor and his sister but she killed herself and that it was all because he found out that his captor was sleeping with his sister and that his sidekick really isn't his sidekick but in fact Dae Su's daughter and they both been hypnotized to forget about each other and this then leads into them sleeping with each other and when Dae Su learns this at the end he cuts out his own tongue as he is so disgusted with himself about what he has done.
Thanks to Empire Online this new poster for the remake has popped up which IMDB says will be coming to the UK on December 6th 2013 with Josh Brolin who you might have seen recently in "Gangster Squad":
But this time the story is that Josh Brolin will play Josh Doucett a businessman who is mysteriously kidnapped, drugged and imprisoned for 20 years in a hotel room style chamber but then out of the blue without no explanation he is let go and sent on a mission to find out who did this to him.
Here is the link to find out the other release dates for other countries:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1321511/
According to Entertainment Weekly this will/already has had a panel at New York's Comic Con and will/ has been attended by cast members Michael Imperioli who will play Chucky in the movie and Pom Klementieffas well as the screenwriter Mark Potosevich.
I'm such a big fan of this movie (the original one that is), and I do realise that other people who like me have seen this movie and know what the story of this film is that being a big fan of the film may sound a bit wrong but it is the film that all Quentin Tarrantino films are based on...or so it said on the back of the DVD when I bought it.
Anyhew... for those that haven't seen this film and don't know what it's about then I'll fill in the blanks for you:
The story is that a man Oh-Dae-Su is kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years in what appears to be an apartment block, but every so often at the same time every day within these 15 years he is poisoned with hallucinogenic drugs where he has the most frightening dreams and then he passes out, but he is also fed during this imprisonment but then for no reason at all he is let go and told he has to find out who has imprisoned him and that he only has 5 days to do this in with a trusty sidekick in tow.
This then leads to all manner of fantastic martial art style fight scenes and also to the disturbing secret that he went to school with his captor and his sister but she killed herself and that it was all because he found out that his captor was sleeping with his sister and that his sidekick really isn't his sidekick but in fact Dae Su's daughter and they both been hypnotized to forget about each other and this then leads into them sleeping with each other and when Dae Su learns this at the end he cuts out his own tongue as he is so disgusted with himself about what he has done.
Thanks to Empire Online this new poster for the remake has popped up which IMDB says will be coming to the UK on December 6th 2013 with Josh Brolin who you might have seen recently in "Gangster Squad":
But this time the story is that Josh Brolin will play Josh Doucett a businessman who is mysteriously kidnapped, drugged and imprisoned for 20 years in a hotel room style chamber but then out of the blue without no explanation he is let go and sent on a mission to find out who did this to him.
Here is the link to find out the other release dates for other countries:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1321511/
According to Entertainment Weekly this will/already has had a panel at New York's Comic Con and will/ has been attended by cast members Michael Imperioli who will play Chucky in the movie and Pom Klementieffas well as the screenwriter Mark Potosevich.
Tuesday, 6 August 2013
NEW! 30 Seconds to Mars video!
WOOHOO! I just saw the new video for "Do or Die"one of the many fantastic songs off the amazing album "Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams".
http://www.vevo.com/watch/thirty-seconds-to-mars/do-or-die/USUV71301747a
I have to say that the stage set in the last bit of the video looks amazing, and as always the clips of the band in this video including the bits like the sunset, outside the airoplane etc at the start of this music video look amazing, I was just thinking though that I still can't believe that (and I know that this sounds very unfan of me but I still haven't seen them and this really shows what I'm missing as they look awesome...and now I can't even believe this but I have just booked tickets to see them on my birthday in Nottingham....Aaaah! I'm soooo excited can't wait for the 21st of November to role round!)
The song though on the end credits though I have to say though I still have to say sounds very much like a song from Drive and is still my favourite....I hope you enjoy this video!
http://www.vevo.com/watch/thirty-seconds-to-mars/do-or-die/USUV71301747a
I have to say that the stage set in the last bit of the video looks amazing, and as always the clips of the band in this video including the bits like the sunset, outside the airoplane etc at the start of this music video look amazing, I was just thinking though that I still can't believe that (and I know that this sounds very unfan of me but I still haven't seen them and this really shows what I'm missing as they look awesome...and now I can't even believe this but I have just booked tickets to see them on my birthday in Nottingham....Aaaah! I'm soooo excited can't wait for the 21st of November to role round!)
The song though on the end credits though I have to say though I still have to say sounds very much like a song from Drive and is still my favourite....I hope you enjoy this video!
All KOL fans stop what your doing right now and watch this!
I was just on Twitter and thanks to Jared Followill I saw this, drum roll please...the new video for "Supersoaker" this for me is the and most exciting thing I'd heard seen today.
http://www.vevo.com/watch/kings-of-leon/supersoaker/USRV81300303
Well that's a downer, raining on my parade...I can't seem to get the actual video up only this link up.
Oh Well! Enjoy!
And the other day when I was listening to this on Radio 1 where they let slip the name for the new album "Mechanical Bull" I just had to look on Amazon to find out when this was out...and this is out on the 23rd September 2013 so like many Kings of Leon fans I'll be definitly preordering this!
http://www.vevo.com/watch/kings-of-leon/supersoaker/USRV81300303
Well that's a downer, raining on my parade...I can't seem to get the actual video up only this link up.
Oh Well! Enjoy!
And the other day when I was listening to this on Radio 1 where they let slip the name for the new album "Mechanical Bull" I just had to look on Amazon to find out when this was out...and this is out on the 23rd September 2013 so like many Kings of Leon fans I'll be definitly preordering this!
Friday, 2 August 2013
Update on Scarface!
I saw this today on Deadline Hollywood's website this morning and I just had to put this up.
According to a source of Deadline Hollywood:
"Universal has been through a couple of drafts and now is very high on the current draft . The first stop is the director. This is before any conversations on talent or timing."
Also according to Deadline Universal Studios were when this was written on the 31st of July (I know this is now old news but I'm still catching up on all things while I've not been on here plus anything to do with a reboot of this movie is still dead exciting!) that drum roll please the director they're in final talks with to direct this is....David Yates who directed the last couple of Harry Potter films (Harry Potter 5,6,7,8).
He's been this article says charged with the hard task of updating Scarface and making it live up to the classic Al Pacino film and another Scarface that was made before as it says that this film became part of popular culture along with the other one- well you live and learn something everyday, as I thought that there was only one Scarface that being the Al Pacino one with Michelle Pfeiffer, I've just seen the poster for the older version of Scarface and I have to say that it looks a bit like the movie poster for Cassablanca that is another must see old movie that if you haven't seen it yet why on earth not, and when I say this I mean that it looks like a real old gangster movie so I think that this is a movie that I'm definitely going to be renting as this has definitely piqued my curiosity to see what it's like-, but I just thought that it's probably a good idea to try and bring it more up to date, but I think you should only update some of Scarface and not update all of it as you don't want loose what made this film bloody brilliant in the first place or upset any die hard fans of the Al Pacino version it's then I think that its not going to be as good as those versions and then what was the point in the first place of even trying to make a revamped modern version of Scarface.
And I've just thought if it's not kept some things or not as good as the other versions of Scarface then this is going to make not very many people want to go and watch it and this is going to mean that if not very many people are buying cinema tickets for it then not a lot of money is going to get made for Universal Studios.
I just thought it you haven't seen this film yet and don't know what this is about then I'll fill in the blanks:
Al Pacino plays Tony Montana a cuban immigrant who along with his friend tries to overthrow the local coke kingpins to become the one and only in order to get everything he's ever wanted in life and succumbs to greed.
Head of Universal Studios under his banner Global Produce Marc Schmuger will produce along with Martin Bregman (who produced the Al Pacino version),-thank god is all I can say to this as hopefully he'll be able to keep all the best parts in the last version-.
According to a source of Deadline Hollywood:
"Universal has been through a couple of drafts and now is very high on the current draft . The first stop is the director. This is before any conversations on talent or timing."
Also according to Deadline Universal Studios were when this was written on the 31st of July (I know this is now old news but I'm still catching up on all things while I've not been on here plus anything to do with a reboot of this movie is still dead exciting!) that drum roll please the director they're in final talks with to direct this is....David Yates who directed the last couple of Harry Potter films (Harry Potter 5,6,7,8).
He's been this article says charged with the hard task of updating Scarface and making it live up to the classic Al Pacino film and another Scarface that was made before as it says that this film became part of popular culture along with the other one- well you live and learn something everyday, as I thought that there was only one Scarface that being the Al Pacino one with Michelle Pfeiffer, I've just seen the poster for the older version of Scarface and I have to say that it looks a bit like the movie poster for Cassablanca that is another must see old movie that if you haven't seen it yet why on earth not, and when I say this I mean that it looks like a real old gangster movie so I think that this is a movie that I'm definitely going to be renting as this has definitely piqued my curiosity to see what it's like-, but I just thought that it's probably a good idea to try and bring it more up to date, but I think you should only update some of Scarface and not update all of it as you don't want loose what made this film bloody brilliant in the first place or upset any die hard fans of the Al Pacino version it's then I think that its not going to be as good as those versions and then what was the point in the first place of even trying to make a revamped modern version of Scarface.
And I've just thought if it's not kept some things or not as good as the other versions of Scarface then this is going to make not very many people want to go and watch it and this is going to mean that if not very many people are buying cinema tickets for it then not a lot of money is going to get made for Universal Studios.
I just thought it you haven't seen this film yet and don't know what this is about then I'll fill in the blanks:
Al Pacino plays Tony Montana a cuban immigrant who along with his friend tries to overthrow the local coke kingpins to become the one and only in order to get everything he's ever wanted in life and succumbs to greed.
Head of Universal Studios under his banner Global Produce Marc Schmuger will produce along with Martin Bregman (who produced the Al Pacino version),-thank god is all I can say to this as hopefully he'll be able to keep all the best parts in the last version-.
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