The Mechanic:Resurrection Update!

Unlike "The Transporter:Refuelled" Jason Statham will be back to reprise his role as the "mechanic"/hitman Arthur Bishop.

If you haven't seen this film I'll help fill in the blanks Arthur Bishop is a "mechanic" or hitman that helps fix things or solve problems and he is employed by a company that you really don't see much of in the film other than when Bishop gets sent files and unregistered phones for when theirs a problem to solve or something they want fixing, and he is trained by Donald Sutherland's Harry McKenna who also works for this agency, but when he is asked to kill Harry and teams up with Harry's son Steve played Ben Foster and teaches him the trade that things go awry and after Arthur Bishop learns that he and Harry were set up he then sets out to get revenge with Steve's help.

All caught up, this new "Mechanic:Resurrection" sees according to IMDb.com Arthur Bishop thinking he can leave his murderous past behind him, but he of course has to go back to doing what he does best by making hits look like perfect accidents as his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life.

Dennis Gansel is set to direct from a script written by Philip Shelby, Tony Mosher, Rachel Long and Brain Pittman. This will also star Jessica Alba, Tommy Lee Jones and Michelle Yeoh, and has a USA release date of January 22nd 2016 but there's no UK release date yet but by Empire Magazine's thinking if this film were to follow suit of the last film then they seem to think that the UK release date probably be the same as the USA release date.

 

I have heard from Jason Statham Source that part of "The Mechanic:Resurrection" will take part in The Gulf Of Thailand and this 208 foot super yacht SuRi from Phuket based Yacht Solutions will play a vital part in this film, as Managing Director Gareth Twist told Jason Statham Source that:

"We know that there will be some fight scenes on board, as these have been rehearsed while she was in the dock."

And he went on to say that:

"Jason Statham came to the yacht in Bangkok to check it out before they took the yacht out to sea for filming", but he said that "...we can't reveal any more of the plot than that!..."

Other cast members are child actor Dylan Farrell who will star as a young Arthur Bishop and Sam Hazeldine.

The Transporter Refueled news update!

I've been meaning to put up more news of this new film sooner but things just keep getting in the way.

Anyway its here now so I hope you are as excited as I am to here there will be another "The Transporter Refuelled" film as well as another Mechanic film coming out, but if you already know or don't Jason Statham will be starring in "The Mechanic:Resurrection" but won't be starring in the new "The Transporter Refuelled".

"The Transporter Refuelled" will instead star Ed Skrein (who you may or may not recognise from "Game Of Thrones") as Frank Martin who if you haven't seen this series of films before will deliver anything to anywhere no questions asked, and he has rules no names, no details and never look in the package, all he needs is payment on delivery.

According Deadline Hollywood the story for this film which is set to be a rebooted prequel of the franchise which starred Jason Statham and was directed by Luc Besson, and will be the first in a new trilogy of new "Transporter" films is Frank Martin crosses paths with Anna who will be played by Loan Chabanol who is the leader of a group of deadly assailants that decides Frank is the right person to take down a group of ruthless Russian human traffickers, and to make sure Frank cooperates she takes his father hostage who will be played by Ray Stevenson and both Frank and his father are forced to team up with Anna in order to deliver justice.

Sounds to me like the story from the first "Transporter" film but with the added bit of Frank's father being kidnaped and held hostage.

And according to M.A.A.C Martial Arts Action Cinema website this will like the first "Transporter" film also take place in the criminal underworld of France...so I expect to see some nice scenery like in the first one which showed some nice shots of Nice/South Of France.

Here is a first look at the new look Frank Martin:



EuropaCorp will be jointly distributing this with Relativity Media under a deal that was agreed back in February, which under this deal EuropaCorp will release EuropaCorp produced films under EuropaCorp USA and Relativity Media produced titles will be released under Relativity Media, with Camille Delamarre directing from a script written by Bill Collage and Adam Cooper with EuropaCorp producing (i.e putting up the money for this film) Luc Besson and Mark Gao.

On the 11/5/2014 The Hollywood Reporter reported that the USA release date for this movie had been pushed back though to June 19th 2015 and the original UK release date was March 6th, but now according to IMDb.com the new UK release date for this is 19th June 2015.

Radivoje Bukvic, Gabriella Wright, Anatole Taubman and Tatiana Pajkovic also star.

New Live Action Beauty and the Beast new!

At the end of last year I heard on the grapevine through the ethers of movie news that there would be yet another adaption of "Beauty and The Beast" and as you can imagine as with everybody who has ever seen Disney's version of this classic tale... as old as time, -I'm sorry I just couldn't resist doing this pun-, that my heart sank as the last time this was adapted to give a modern take on this was "Beastly" and that bombed really badly.

And I think the reason for this was because this is a classic story and Disney did and in my opinion there are some classics that you don't touch, like for example in music for instance "Smells Like Teen Spirit" classic people try to sing it differently but fail, any Adele song again people try and badly fail, Chris Isaac's "Wicked Game" tried and failed, I can only think at the moment of the one film other than "Beastly" that I don't think did very well but I think it was only saved by the music in it "A Cinderella Story",-this starred Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray and had Jimmy Eat World with "Hear You Me", I'll put it here for you to have a little listen to if you haven't heard it-, oh and "Maleficent" that starred Angelina Jolie I think that did well at the box office but I'm not sure if the retelling of Sleeping Beauty but from the angle of the wicked witch that put the spell on the beauty and how she became so evil was a winner for the audience.

 

Anyhew... this live action film will be starring Emma Watson as Belle and there seems to have been a change around in the casting department as I read on The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision's website that Dan Stevens who you may or may not recognise from either Downton Abbey as Matthew Crawley or "The Guest" as "David" the psychopath killer that enters a family on the pretence that he served in the military with their dead son but it's only revealed when the sister has suspicions about him and makes a phone call to double check his story that they really find out he's part of a project where "David" killed all the other participants including their brother in a fire and assumed the identity of "David" in order to get out of the project, was set to play Gaston the big, strong, hunter in the Disney version who every women wants to be with character who wants Belle but she doesn't want him, but now according to Heat Vision he will now play The Beast/Prince in this new live action film.

 

And now according to The Wrap Emma Thompson has now been cast as Mrs. Potts the enchanted singing and talking teapot and Kevin Kline will star as Belle's inventor father Maurice who gets imprisoned in the beast's castle when he gets caught in a snowstorm.

 

Luke Evans who you may or may not recognise from "The Hobbit" he played Bard the smuggler who helped the Dwarves get away from the wood elves and hid them in barrels of fish on his boat as he was trading, or from "Fast and Furious 5" he played Owen Shaw has been cast to play Gaston with Josh Gad who you may or may not recognise did the voice of Olaf in Frozen has signed on to play Le Fou the bumbling sidekick of Gaston.

 

Bill Condon is directing with David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman producing, and Oscar winning Alan Menken who  wrote the original musical aspects of the film will be back to craft the score as well as re-record some of the songs along with new material from himself and Tim Rice.

 

Bill Condon is working from a script written by Stephen Cbosky and filming for this will start in May at Shepperton Studios with a pencilled in USA release date of March 17th 2017 in 3D.

 

 



Stop whatever you are doing right now, put down any heavy machinery if your operating it...and read this! Flash Gordon has a sequel!

Yes your reading this right, your eyes are not deceiving you...news just in from Empire Magazine online via Den Of Geek which first reported this story on the 11th March 2015.

According to Den of Geek in an over the phone conversation with Sam J Jones Flash Gordon himself he says that:

"...up to date now Matthew Reilly, VP of production at Fox Studios, acquired the screenplay rights to Flash Gordon last year, and he hired John Davies and his staff to write the script. They're looking to bring out a sequel actually. I met with Matt, we're in talks about that. I'm very excited. A lot of people over the years, including Stephen Sommers and Neil H. Moritz, have acquired the screenplay rights, but for whatever reason they did not do a follow up on the option. So I'm very excited about it."

He goes on to say that:

"However they want to use me, I'm very excited. I told Matt, however he wants to use me, keep one thing in mind: whatever a younger, leading man can do, I cannot only match him, I can do more! If he does 20 pull-ups I can do 30 pull-ups. If he can 100 push-ups, I can do 150 push-ups. Just keep that in mind!".

And according to a post written on Empire Magazine's website last April JD Payne and Patrick McKay part of Star Trek 3's writing process were working on writing the screenplay that would have seen Flash Gordon have his reputation saved from being a stupid but much loved character and restore it to being a much more serious space adventurer, for this but they have since been replaced.

And no new word has been heard about this since. So who could say what is going to happen with this.

Anyhew...what is known though is that Sam J Jones will be cameoing in Ted 2 which is set to be released in cinemas on July 10th.

But by the sounds of this it's not very clear if Sam J Jones will be doing a cameo role in this sequel or if he'll take up his mantle again as Flash Gordon, though I think this is highly unlikely judging by how old he must be by now, and now that I think about it if he were to do an of the things that were in the original film like have a fight on the revolving spiked metal table with bull whips against Timothy Dalton it might look a bit more ridiculous than it did then, but by the sounds of it he is ready to do anything he even by the sounds of this interview even did The Jump but had to pull out before the show aired on TV because he needed shoulder surgery.

But judging by his last comment I'm not sure how much of him wanting to do just anything that a younger actor can do isn't just a joke as to me this sounds exactly something out of "Tropic Thunder" where they say that if he cries you cry harder.

But for now Sam J Jones is doing a documentary that has been funded by a Kickstarter campaign called "Life After Flash" where he says:

"The fans are going to get some pieces of gold, some nuggets, of my successes and my failures, so a lot of life values and morals-when I faced challenge, what got me through it. I'm really excited about it."

Also in this interview Sam J Jones says:

" We're trying to work on that for London Comic Con, to have that 35th anniversary reunion for the Flash Gordon cast members. We've only really had three of us together- Melody, Brian Blessed and myself. We want to get every living cast member together. We're still waiting for confirmation, but we'll see you in London!".

So this hasn't been confirmed yet but if this does actually happen than this will be really exciting, and now that I think about it this wouldn't be a bad move financially for the organizers of London's Comic Con as with this being a bit of a cult classic lots of fans are going to want to get their hands on tickets to see these cast members, but as well as this there's also the fans of Ted who are going to probably want to get tickets for this just to meet Sam J Jones.  

Nicholas Cage has a new film you might of not heard about...but well worth a look at the trailer!

The other day I was perusing IMDb.com and found this on its home page as one of the upcoming films but I have to say that if your in need of some laughter or just a little pick me up if you've got some time or just are a little bit bored, have a little gander at this:

I also found this film trailer that I think you should find time to have a little gander at:

To the first film "Outcast", this stars Nicholas Cage and Hayden Christensen who I have to say looks like he's still sporting the same hairstyle he wore in "Star Wars: Episode II Attack Of The Clones",-in case you've never seen this and as a avid fan of the star wars film franchise I can't believe you haven't seen any of these films or just haven't seen this one, and I really can't believe I'm writing this as how on earth could you not have seen any of Star Wars films, it's sooo awesome and incredible their really aren't enough words to describe it, but that's enough as I'll be at this all day, anyhew the haircut he wore in this film is what you think would be normal short on the sides but long on top but with a braid attached to the side-.

But in this the hairstyle looks to me like it just doesn't look right, as the story of this film is according to IMDB.com a mysterious warrior Arken who by the looks of the trailer fought with Nicholas Cage's Gallain 'White Ghost' as a young warrior during the crusades, teams up with the daughter and son of a deposed Chinese Emperor to defeat their cruel brother who seeks their deaths who is seeking redemption, but as with Nicholas Cage's character his hair has grown out and his face is supposed to be ravaged by time whereas Hayden Christenson has still got his youthful mohican haircut and no makeup applied to look like any time has passed.

But this might tie in with the sorcery that is said to be involved in this movie...i.e there might be some spell that leaves Hayden Christensen's character untouched by time kind of a lot of Hollywood celebrities today...or is that just a combination of botox and special effects teams.

Anyhew...not only this but for some reason Nicholas Cage seems to be putting on a weird accent somewhere an amalgamation of Scottish, English and American.

This film is set to be released in UK cinemas February 27th 2015, but I have seen on Amazon that it is on their website but only as a Blue Ray.

Everly the second film on here, stars Selma Hayek as a prostitute who by the looks of this first trailer has to fight to the death to defend herself against multiple scores of people who want to kill her, and why do they want to kill her you may ask?

Well because her mob boss ex-boyfriend/ex-husband (according to The British Board Of Film Classification) who sends multiple assassins to kill her and she has to not only kill them but do it all the while protecting her estranged mother and daughter so says The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision website.

This according to Heat Vision is "...a high-concept revenge flick with ultra violence and a career reinvention on behalf  of the "Grown Ups 2" (and , to be fair, "Desperado" star..." .

This will be directed by Joe Lynch and will be released in the USA by Radius. And according to The British Board Of Film Classification this has a UK release date of 01/05/2015.
 

More Suicide Squad Updates!

I decided rather than to make a really long post about this new film I'd split this up, I was reading this late on Friday evening so I thought I'd put this up on here today.

According to ComicBook.com there's a rumour going round that Ed Harris might appear in this movie as the villain of the piece playing Antiphon the head of a special ops team called Onslaught, according to ComicBook.com Antiphon and Onslaught will come into conflict with Amanda Waller's Suicide Squad, and that both Antiphon and Onslaught will be seeking out villians as well as superheros for their own agenda.

According to ComicBook.com Antiphon is a burns victim with a prosthetic leg.

Also according to ComicBook.com it reports that it is rumoured that Deathstroke will be Onslaught's gun-for-hire. It's rumoured that Joe Manganiello (you may or may not recognise him from starring in more recently "Magic Mike" playing Big Dick Ritchie and in True Blood playing Alcide Herveaux) may or may not be playing the role of Deathstroke.

Umberto Gonzales reports on Instagram that "...he's a huge part of both of the major set pieces of the film. His introduction is INSANE!..."

Gonzales goes on to say that "...His suit is very stealth orientated. They used an actual US military tactical outfit for the basis. He's armed to the teeth, uses a sword and automatics. In concept artwork he has two eyes. The mask is there and it's the iconic one..." -this "iconic mask" being orange-.

And according to Gonzales "....He's badass and almost takes the team down on one mission single handed..."

But in another thing to set this film apart from any other superhero film is that "...he doesn't have any powers like in the comic book. They're going for a pre-super villain Deathstroke."

Suicide Squad is released in the UK on 5th August 2016.  

Suicide Squad Update!

If your like me and are a huge fan of Jared Leto and his band 30 Seconds To Mars and follow either one on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc you'll probably have seen the never ending stream of pictures of Jared Leto and his new hairdo...I'll just give you a minute to catch your breath if you haven't seen these pictures yet or don't know yet that Jared has changed his long locks to bright blonde short haircut.

I have to admit when I first heard that this had happened because he was going to be playing The Joker in the new Suicide Squad film directed by David Ayer I wasn't sure why as the Joker has always had black hair in anything I have seen from reruns of the old TV series of Batman and Robin, Tim Burton's Batman films and excluding the new Christopher Nolan films where the Joker has green hair.

But in answer to this question ComicBook.com had reported on 13th March that according to Latin Review scoopster Umberto Gonzales on Instagram the Joker will in this film be heavily based on Frank Miller's Joker from "The Dark Knight Returns", and that this Joker will be slight, but fit, and he will have bleached but not painted skin and scars running over his body, and that there will be lots of references to the Joker's past crimes including the killing of one of Batman's sidekicks...-being a big fan of anything to do with Batman I'm thinking "oh no please don't let it be dick grayson"-, Umberto Gonzales also says that the psychiatrist and oldest enemy of Batman Hugo Strange is said to have a lot of scenes with the Joker but he hasn't heard any news on casting for this role.

Also ComicBook.com reports that already deep in pre-production David Ayer has tweeted this picture of squibs set up for a gunfight scene in this film all ready and waiting for filming to start this month:



Suicide Squad is set to be released in the UK according to IMDb.com in the UK on 5th August 2016.