Hold the bus....New Hitman news!

When I saw this headline today I have to say that this did get me very excited as being a massive fan of the Timothy Olyphant "Hitman" film I was a little bit anxious that all news on whether this film was going to get filmed at all had seemed to me to have gone quiet as you may or may not already know that the reboot of this film was one of the many projects that Paul Walker who recently died in a car accident was going to do.

But now according to The Wrap the actor Rupert Friend is currently in talks to replace Paul Walker to star in this film which is now going to be called "Agent 47",- this I hope isn't going to be the only thing about the film that is going to be changed as you may or may not know that stories have already been circulating that the storyline for this film is that Agent 47 is now retired, out of shape and has lost his crown as the best at what he does which is killing people and he now wants this title back, but I think this sounds like a rubbish, storyline and if these talks don't work out and the studio wants to get Timothy Olyphant back as Agent 47 then it'll have to come up with a much better storyline for this movie reboot,-.

Aleksander Bach who is already known for directing adverts is said to be directing this new reboot that 20th Century Fox will distribute using a script written by Skip Woods, Kyle Ward and Michael Finch, with Chuck Gordon, Alex Young and Adrian Askarieh producing and Daniel Alter executive producing.

I just thought that this sounds to me like the studio are trying to give this new film a fresh new approach, so with this new approach to the film I hope that the film will still be as action packed as the last film and that it will be as cleverly written and not just go straight to DVD.

But as these are just talks at the moment we'll just have to wait and see if Rupert Friend who you may or may not have seen in "Pride and Prejudice" (the Keira Knightly version not the Colin Firth version) will actually get the role or not.

Veronica Mars Trailer!

I do realise that by putting this up here I may appear as a massive geek/saddo but I do have to say that when I first saw this trailer up on Empire Magazine's website the other day I was a bit excited to see the trailer finally.

Here it is, for your viewing pleasure...or if you just want to see what it looks like if your curious:

 

 

This also is the new poster for the movie out in the US on 14th March 2014, but there is no release date for when it'll be released over here yet, so we'll just have to wait and see and as soon as any news of this comes out an update will follow. The movie which is co-written and directed by Rob Thomas the creator of the original series.  The story for this is that Veronica has moved out of Neptune and put her Jessica Fletcher sleuthing behind her, and as she is graduating law school and going for interviews at law firms in order to get a job she gets a phone call from he ex boyfriend Logan saying he needs her help as he has been accused of the murder of his pop star girlfriend, so off she goes back home to Neptune to help Logan find a good solicitor but of course Veronica is drawn back into her old sleuthing ways as all about the case is not what it appears.
 

More news on Veronica Mars movie!

You may or may not already know that back on March 13th Kristen Bell and Rob Thomas reached a goal of $2million on Kickstarter to in essence to Kickstart up into production the idea of there being a Veronica Mars movie, and because of this fan led campaign for this to become a reality this is now actually happening it now according to TheWrap.com has a USA release date of the 14th March 2014.



There's not that much known yet about the film other than Kristen Bell will back to play the lead role, Percy Daggs III who if played Veronica's best friend Wallace Fennel in the TV series, Jason Dohring who played Logan Echolls in the TV series who was her boyfriend, Francis Capri who played Weevel in the TV series who saved her from dying when her High School bus fell into the ocean off a cliff, Ryan Hansen who played Dick Casablancas in the TV series the older brother to Casey Casablancas who built a device to cause the bus to go into the ocean, Tina Majorino who played Mac in the TV series who was the tech person that helped Veronica in her investigations and Krysten Ritter who played Gia in the TV series but you may or may not have recently seen her in the E4 comedy "Don't Trust The Bitch In Apartment No. 23", will be back in this film.

You just have to see this....new trailer for Anchorman 2:The Legend Continues

You may or may not have already seen this but I just saw this awesome trailer for Anchorman 2:The Legend Continues...and the crew are suited and booted in new suits and are ready to go with Baxter of course.

But unfortunately I can't get this from Youtube so this will have to do I'm afraid:

http://www.anchormanmovie.co.uk/

This though I think does the same job as a video clip would, it still is filled with all the best lines and will have you quoting from it like the last film did.

And thankfully there are connections back to the old old wooden ship Anchorman:The Legend of Ron Burgundy with Brian Fantana's secret cabinet stash of hidden cologne such as Blackbeard's delight, sex pantha (this actually became a real thing and was being sold on Firebox.com) Brick can't do anything but the weather etc.

But I have to say that although Brick has a love interest in this film I was sad that we the audience don't get to see her until her big unveiling in the movie, and I just thought that this new girl played by Kristen Wiig might or could even be the women who he as said at the end of the last movie has 14 children with and becomes George Bush's speech writer. Also to coincide with the film being released on the new date of 18th December in the UK there will be a Scotch released:



This will apparently be released through Drink Supermarket and has been bottled by Riviera Imports...Yes! another classy thing that will go perfectly with my copy of Ron Burgundy's Autobiography...this is a must buy if you haven't already got it.

I just thought that there might be a fight scene in this one like the other film as that was in my opinion was the best fight scene that really got out of hand fast.

So sit back, start the countdown clock and stay classy everyone...sorry about all the Anchorman puns but it is the most awesomist movie ever! and plus I just can't help myself!

Need For Speed vs. Fast and Furioous

I saw the first trailer for the new Need For Speed trailer the other day and Empire Magazine were saying something that really got me thinking according to them this new film "...promises to offer a more emotional element than even the Fast and Furious films contain..."

This in my opinion is a pretty big promise and I was just thinking that there would have to be a hell of a lot of emotionality in this film to give it something that the Fast and Furious series of films hasn't got.

Anyhew...as you probably can tell from the above writtings that I am a massive fan of the 'Fast and Furious' films and am probably a little biased in my opinion of this movie so far as Need For Speed is adapted from a racing car game and Fast and Furious isn't it was purely made on the basis of the director at the time Justin Lin reading an article in the paper about street racing, but I will give it this though, that some game adapted movies that I've seen like "The Punisher",-FYI Punisher fans like me will be excited to know that I read on Collider.com the other day that as a result of the rights for both The Punisher and Daredevil lapsing over at Lionsgate and Fox Marvel have now got them back and has plans in the pipeline to make movies of them but when is anyone's guess and these movies would have to be reboots, but I really liked the last Punisher film it definitely wasn't as bad as Daredevil and although Frank Castle did wear a floor length black leather jacket it suited and I think that it didn't take anything away from how the character was supposed to look action packed unlike in Daredevil- and "Hitman"  are red dewatch really good and well written so that the film is all action packed and make you want to buy it on DVD and make you want to watch it over and over again.

Also something that will have fans like me of the Fast and Furious films screaming with excitement as it did me the other day when I first read about this on Collider.com was the studio is hoping to film a Fat and Furious 8,9 and 10, there is a guaranteed 8th instalment of these films in the pipeline already...I don't know how much more crazy ass you can get with the car stunts and chases and where else you can locate this film but I'm guessing with Jason Statham in this next film there is a whole load of crazy involved if his previous films like The Transporter, The Mechanic and Parker are anything to go by, and there is a new director on this latest one as Justin Lin has walked away and James Lin is the new director.

But this does have from the looks of this new trailer like this film is a bit tamer than Fast and Furious in terms of car chases, unbelievable stunts (which both films have) and I definitely from seeing this trailer didn't think that this was more emotional in terms of storyline than Fast and Furious movies.

The plot sounds exactly like The Fast and Furious films though,-a tale about revenge that involves a team of precision drivers and a hell of a lot of crazy ass stunts and cars like Ford Mustangs, Ford Chargers, Aston Martin (this was the bad guys car in the last Fast and Furious) etc, but this time though there seems to be a Buggati thrown into the mix- as Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad plays a street racer Tobey Marshall who goes into business with rich arrogant car supplier Dino who is played by Dominic Cooper who you may or may not have seen from Mamma Mia, but then goes onto find himself framed by Dino for the murder of a friend during a race. He wants revenge, so once out of jail Tobey signs himself up to a cross country race hosted by none other than Michael Keaton for a chance to strike back at Dino, but then Dino finds out about his plan and puts a bounty on Marshall's head, which cues the crazy ass stunts while Marshall tries to fight illegal drivers off his tail...and of course there has to be a pretty girl to play the love interest Imogen Poots who plays an exotic car dealer.

Here is the trailer for you to take a gander at:

I do realise though that this does sound like I am just killing it's buzz though and that it won't be anything on Fast and Furious as I am a huge fan of the films but I'll still go see it when this comes out at cinemas in the UK on March 14th 2014 because of the cars especially the Buggatti...who doesn't want to see a Buggatti but I'll reserve judgement until then.

Oh My God! All Bond Fans Stop What you are doing now and read this...Ernst Stavro Blofeld and SPECTRE might be back for more!

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

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.

 

 

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.