Tarsem Singh's Mirror, Mirror trailer comes in

After perusing my favourite website Empire Magazine for any news on upcoming films I was very suprised to see that Tarsem Singh's Mirror, Mirror (his take on Snow White and the seven dwarves tale) trailer has come out today and I have to say that I think the heat in on competition wise as this is coming out for official release 16th March 2012...this is only a few months behind the other Snow White and the Huntsman gets released on June 1st 2012.

For your perusing pleasure here is the trailer below:

This film if you ask me again looks like its stuck to the traditional fairytale of "...who is the fairest of them all..." and in this respect it is very different to the other film as Snow White and the Huntsman has clearly got all the big visual effects that they clearly use to good effect as in all the action scenes in that film look clearly beefed up by these CGI effects...but with this it clearly has the feel of a play...I mean it has all the big costumes...the big set displays...the non elaboratness of the forest.

I this I guess this is inkeeping with sticking to the traditional storyline of Snow White and not trying to make it too modern and updated.

But I do have to say that eventhough that Snow White is suppose to be a bit young but Lilly Collins does look like a child but it works for the type of comedy that they have put into the film with making her an absolute pampered princes that can't do anything but it is a bit like "That was a bit obvious!" with making the dwarves use kikes like "Snow Really".

But Armie Hammer who plays the "Prince Charming" other name "Prince Andrew Alcott" who both Snow and the evil Queen wants to win over...I do have to say that the joke about puppy love is again quite an obvious joke.

But Julia Roberts does look like she is still pulling out a great performance that shows the joky side of the evil queen especially with the big exaggerated corsets she wears as well as the costumes that she wears...so all in all I think from this there will be ups, downs but all in all Tarsem Singh has defintly thrown the gauntlet down to the other Snow White film.

But I think I'll be definitly going to see both of these Snow Whites as they both look like their going to be brilliant!

So we'll have to see when it comes out next year to see if this stands up to expectations.

More word of The Host

Thanks to Empire Magazine I have found out that things on the Host being adapted from Stephanie Meyer's book to cinema screens are moving on quite slowly but surely as they've already got Saoirose Ronan to star as the lead Melanie Stryder.

If you haven't read the book then all credit to you as I have and all I can say is that nothing really happens up until the end so I hope that the film will be a lot more exciting.

But here is the story in case if you are still in the dark:

The story is set in the future where human race are being used as hosts for an alien race...these in turn drown out if you like the human host's thoughts and feelings thus making them become shells, these then live in their own communities that reflect them the homes are just shells with no photos just beds and the basics.

However there are some humans who have left their homes to go live underground and have to keep moving in order to survive as the aliens have teams of kind of police that capture humans so that the aliens can survive human planet...here is where Melanie comes in she and her brother Ian go on the run with Jared another man that's on the run that Melanie falls in love with Ian and Jared manage to go underground but Melanie gets corned in Chicago and soon has an alien in her that is called Wnderer...but Melanie is still there.

So Wanderer leaves the community to find Jared and Ian but in the end befriends the community of humans that are living underground away from the aliens.

Anyhew...Jake Abel who was in the Lovely Bones with Ronan is at the moment in negotiations with the director Andrew Niccol to play Ian in this film adaption.

Also other names that have been thrown around for this film have been Max Irons who was in Red Riding Hood, Kit Harrington, and Liam Hemsworth.

But Max Irons will as an update on Empire's website says that he will play Jake another human that Wanderer befriends.

Yet Another Merlin Movie

It was reported by Empire Magazine on the 4th November that Warner Bros. want him to be in the loooooong awaited Akira film but also they have given David Dobkin the opportunity to write and direct this new retelling of this tale as old as time story...I think I've lost count of how many films I've seen that are either telling the tale of Arthur, the Roundtable, Merlin, Guenevere and Lancelot...or are based on this.

I do have to say that I do love the tale of King Arthur and the Roundtable as much as I love Robin Hood, so I can't be too harsh on this as everyone in the world has a soft spot for this.

Anyhew...David Dobkin has said that this new Arthur film will "...will reinvent the mythology a little and make the characters more 'grounded' "


Well...if this is how he describes this new look 21st Century King Arthur movie then it sounds like that these characters are going to be hopefully rounded characters but I hope that Arthur doesn't loose any of his what I think he should be with having a streak of eccentricity about him but also knowing that he has to keep King Arthur safe as he is the King after all.

At the moment Dobkin has his Lancelot this will be Joel Kinnamen who you'll probably recognise from The Killing as he was the sidekick of the Policeman who was in charge of the investigation.

But there is no word on who will be Merlin but Warner Bros. want Gary Oldman to play this which would be a good choice to make.

New Look Godzilla has another writer

Thanks to The Hollywood Reporter Legendary Pictures has been developing a 21st Century look Godzilla...and there is another writer that has been sworn in to write this script...this is non other than Max Borenstein.

Gareth Edwards who directed a sci-fi indie film 'Monsters' is also on board to direct this film along with Legendary Pictures Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni, Dan Lin, Roy Lee, and Brian Rogers are going to produce this picture.

Warner Bros. are going to distribute the film.

Empire Magazine say though that David Goyer (who wrote Batman Begins as well as Batman The Dark Knight ):

" Goya arrived over the summer, but after a few months of musing it appears that all concerned still believe there's work to be done"


And Empire also reports that:

"...aside from Legendary's oft-repeated promise that they want to go the Batman route of updating but remaining true to the character's roots..."


Being a huge fan of the Christopher Nolan Batman films along with all the other Batman films...this film will be a bloody good film as David Goyer being on hand will make this really really fantastic and much better than the Matthew Broderick Godzilla. But if I'm honest I saw this Godzilla and even though it maybe wasn't going to win any major awards such as an Oscar it still in my mind was a good all action family fun film that as I am a bit of a big kid still at the age of 20...whenever it is on the TV I have to watch it....and the music is still as fantastic as it was when it was put in the movie...I'm thinking the Jamiroqui "Going Deeper Underground" and Sean P Diddy Coombes "Come With Me".

I know that I may sound like I'm diggressing here but I just thought that the music video for both maybe more Jamiroqui was amazing!

Here they are below in case you want to have another look:

 

Oh and before I forget the summer 2012 release date is now looking like a fairytale

Haywire trailer 2

I was going to put a post up about how there is a new Merlin film planned....but then thanks to Empire Magazine I saw that there was a second trailer out for the Steven Soderburgh's Haywire.

Here is the link to Entertainment Weekly where the second version for this trailer is where you can peruse it at your pleasure:

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/11/10/michael-fassbender-haywire/#more-52062

In case you haven't seen the first version of this trailer here is the link from Apple:

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/haywire/

I do have to say that the poster artwork for this film reminds me of an old school style type of no holds barred fight film with all manner of fight scenes, blood, guts and all manner of guns being used, which is the kind of film I love...not the blood and guts because this would make me sound like a complete weirdo if I were to like blood and guts in a film...but I love the fight scenes especially as these all seem so fast and furious...no holds barred fights.

This though I have to say though looks great but hearing that Steven Soderburgh is only going to do a couple of more films then retire is very sad to hear as his films are really really fantastic to watch....but if your going to retire from directing then why not go out with a bang I say and this film definitely does that.

The story for this film is that Gino Carano plays CIA trained assassin Mallory Kane who is betrayed by her bosses...and therefore she has to rely on her training (and as Gina is a MMA it looks like she rely's also on a little more from her MMA training).

This also stars Michael Fassbender as the guy who is assigned to as Ewan McGregor puts it "finalise the divorce".

But this then turns into him getting his ass kicked by her...which if you ask me looks very fast and furious but in all these fighting scenes Gina looks very intimidating .

This though looks like it will definitely get good reviews when it comes to cinemas on January 20th 2012.

 

Assasins Creed to become a film!

I know that Empire Magazine have reported this ages ago but I just felt the need to post about this.

Ubisoft (the games company) back in May announced to the film reporting journalists that it would form its own film company Ubisoft Motion Pictures so as to put up on the cinema screen some of its biggest named games like:

• Splinter Cell
• Assassins Creed
• Ghost Recon

Assassins Creed though is one of these games that Sony wants to definitly give this a go as Variety reported that Sony Pictures has been trying to secure the rights for this as they want to develop this into a new franchise of films based on this videogame. 

Other studios who want to develop as well as distribute this film are Universal Studios. And now Sony has finally won this bidding war...and Sony has been eyeing up more opportunities to make video games into new franchises of TV and films. Sony's other adaptions now include a new TV series that will be shown on Nickelodean that has been based on the  RabbidRabbits video game.

Other projects in the pipeline for Sony are it's adaption of "Uncharted: Drake's Fortune", and "InFamous"...these are already going through directors and producers.

Variety also says in this report that the former CEO of Luc Besson's EuropCorp will be heading up Ubisoft Motion Pictures,-Jean-Julienne Baronnet,-. It says that:

"Ubisoft wants to maintain more creative control over the development of it's games for other platforms rather than broker traditional one-off licensing deals with studios..."

"The company views adaptions as a way to turn its games into larger brands that will get the titles in front of more consumers while creating lucrative new revenue sources for the company..." 

I thought though only the other day that after I saw a advert for the new Assassins Creed game that it definitely should be made into a film as it looks like there are definite elements that look like it has been taken from a cinema script and transported to the video game world.

But then that got me thinking, if it was going to be a film I would definitly want it to be on the same level as Hitman as that was for me an amazing video to film adaption. 

And just as a reminder their has been a rumour on the grape vine that the big buffs in movie land want another Hitman and that they want Timothy Olephant to do this Hitman 2.

Snow White and the Huntsman!

Thanks to Empire Magazine I have seen the new trailer for Snow White and The Huntsman with Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth and Sam Clafflin.

This has been directed by Rupert Sanders. This trailer is over at Apple so here is the link if you want to have a gander at this epic what I think has a Brother's Grimm feel to it...I do realise that this story of Snow White was a Brothers Grimm tale but I am talking about the Brothers Grimm film that Matt Damon and Heath Ledger did that showed the darker more gothicky take on all the stories like 'The Gingerbread Man' and 'Repunzal'.

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/universal/snowwhiteandthehuntsman/

I do have to say though that Charlize Theron who is the evil Queen who kills anyone who is more beautiful than herself and who is after Snow White,-Kristen Stwarts character,- she looks fantastic in her costume and she does look frightening as the Evil Queen.

This film though has been produced by the production team behind Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland so I'm thinking that if any production team can make something look epic but also look dare I say this a bit squiffy...I mean all the films of Tim Burton I've seen down from the director himself to the production these films  do seem to have a definite direction telling the story from a kind of distorted point of view...making things look very gothiky and spetacular on an odd scale as you watch these films that Tim Burton's team have worked on and its nothing like you expected it to be, as you don't think that a retelling of a story going to cinemas could be told in that way...I'm thinking here Ed Wood!

Anyhew...I do realise that I have just rambled on about my love for all things Tim Burton and I am quite pleased at myself for not mentioning Nightmare Before Christmas in the same breath as mentioning Tim Burton...oh wait I just did...sorry!

So...anyway this film looks like it is going to be really good when it comes out on June 1st 2012.

And I have to mention the visual effects that give this film its massively epic battle scenes as well as the mirror coming off the wall...I think this has to be a few tips of the cap to Peter Jackson...sorry Empire for copying this but the battle scenes do remind me of everyone from the trees that come to life, the hobbits, elves, and other Fellowship of The Ring members going into battle.