Archive for May 1st, 2007
In the most unlikely of sequel news, Hollywood.com reports that Mel Gibson and James Garner are keen to reunite for a sequel to their 1994 western comedy Maverick.
Apparently Gibson told WENN that ‘There’s talk of doing another Maverick. Garner and I have been looking at that for a while. It’d be fun to play that character again. I think audiences would probably like to see him again too. We really cooked the first time. We’ve got some great ideas–I think audiences will enjoy what we’ve got in mind. It won’t be happening immediately, but I dare say, it’ll happen’.
Gibson also confirmed that he won’t be revisiting his other two big franchises, saying ‘We’ve put Mad Max and Lethal Weapon behind us now. There’s nowhere to move with those characters. We were pushing it with the last ones.’
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20th Century Fox have released The full trailer for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Click the links below to watch:
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Variety reports that Peter Jackson’s script adaptation of Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones, which he co-wrote with his LOTR and King Kong partners Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh is now in circulation with the Kiwi director seeking a studio partner. The only major studio excluded from the auction, which begamn yesterday, was New Line, whose chief, Robert Shaye, is currently in dispute with Jackson.
Jackson has said he plans to direct the project about a teenage girl who, after being brutally raped and murdered, watches from heaven as her family and friends go on with their lives, while she herself comes to terms with her own death.
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Some of the elaborate sets constructed for the exclusive SCI FI miniseries Tin Man will be reused for another original production, Flash Gordon, reports Sci-Fi Wire. Flash Gordon, a 21st-century update of the classic comic-strip serial, begins shooting on May 1 and premieres on Aug. 10.
Reusing the sets will allow Flash to create a rich look for the planet Mongo, Stern said. ‘There are some elements of the villain in Tin Man that are similarly dictatoresque in the villain Ming the Merciless on Mongo [in Flash Gordon]. The Wicked Witch in Tin Man definitely has this dictatorship thing going on. So her palace has this Albert Speer-like 1930s design, with Roman columns and fascinating big elaborate halls. So we could retool and repaint and change the glass, and it will be very distinguishably different.’
Smallville star Eric Johnson is set to play the lead role, created by comic strip artist Alex Raymond in 1934.
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Variety has revealed that Luke Ford has joined the cast of The Mummy 3: Curse of the Dragon.
Apparently the 26-year-old Australian actor has been cast as Alex O’Connell, the grown-up son of Brendan Fraser’s Rick O’Connell and Rachel Weisz’s Evelyn Carnahan O’Connell from the first two installments. This is a move that may potentially set up the franchise for future films, with Ford eventually carrying the franchise. Ford has acted in a multitude of Australian television shows and commercials including Breakers, Water Rats, Home and Away, Stingers, All Saints, Headland and McLeod’s Daughters.
In The Mummy 3: Curse of the Dragon, Alex journeys into the forbidden tombs of China and into the Himalayas, where he and Fraser’s character run into a new shape-shifting mummy, a former Chinese emperor who was cursed by a female wizard. Jet Li plays the mummy with Michelle Yeoh taking the role of the wizard. With a script by Smallville creators Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, filming will commence in Montreal on July 27 before moving to China. The film has a July 2008 scheduled release date.
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I am a little leary of the situation. The truth will come out when, and if the US economy, and the dollar begins to strengthen. If prices remain high, you’ll know someone is lying. Either OPEC doesn’t have the supply they claim they have, or Analysts are incorrect when they say demand has decreased. Personally, I don’t buy the claim that demand has decreased. Population is ever increasing, so, the the demand should always be increasing. 