Archive for July 24th, 2007
Marvel Studios producer Avi Arad confirmed to MTV News that Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry, Million Dollar Baby) will appear in Jon Favreau’s Iron Man comic book adaptation.
Rumours about this first began circulating after Favreau capitalized the ‘S’ in ’swank’ in a post on his MySpace page back in June.
‘How do you know [about that]?,’ a stunned Arad replied to MTV when asked about Swank. With the cat out of the bag, he admitted: ‘It’s a cameo.’
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An extra in Bryan Singer’s WWII drama Valkyrie indicated to the German Tageszeitung that the film’s title may have been changed to Rubicon.
Apparently, he heard the title at the agency that’s casting the film’s extras. The suggested new title is likely an allusion to the famous quote by Col. von Stauffenberg (played by Tom Cruise in the film) about the crossing of the Italian river Rubicon.
The thriller is based on actual events, and sees German generals hatching a scheme to assassinate Adolph Hitler at the height of the Second World War.
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IGN Movies sat down with Matt Damon for a talk about his upcoming film The Bourne Ultimatum, during which the Oscar-winner was also asked about the rumours that he might play a young Captain Kirk in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek XI.
Damon’s reaction was a short ’no’, but admitted that he wasn’t averse to the idea. The actor said he’s aware of the internet rumour and Shatner’s welcome response to the idea. He even spoke with J.J. Abrams about it, who told him that they’re looking for a young actor in his twenties to play Kirk.
Official Star Trek XI casting announcements are expected at this week’s Comic-Con, with Zachary Quinto (Heroes) the favourite the play the young Spock.
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New Line have recruited D.J. Caruso (Disturbia) to helm and Carl Ellsworth to write the comicbook adaptation of Y: The Last Man for producers Chris Bender, JC Spink, Mason Novick and David Goyer reports Variety.
Y: The Last Man is a comic book series written by Brian K. Vaughan and published by Vertigo. It tells the story of the sole surviving male human after the spontaneous, simultaneous death of every male mammal on Earth. The series has received considerable acclaim from a wide array of critics. The series’ art is handled primarily by series co-creator Pia Guerra.
New Line-based Benderspink is also developing the adaptation of the comicbook Power and Glory, the comedy Mancation and remaking the Spanish franchise Torrente for New Line.
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ShockTillYouDrop.com has posted some behind-the-scenes footage from J.J. Abrams’ enigmatic 1-18-08 in Los Angeles. Click here to watch. In addition to this, it appears that Paramount Pictures have registered the domain TheMonstrousMovie.com.
In other news, a member at unifiction has posted some photos of a possible teaser poster for the film, writing ‘I just wanted to let you know about something I saw at a warehouse sale called Frank & Son’s here in Southern California. Basically they sell collectible stuff like cards, comics, toys, etc. It is like a mini convention hall every wed and saturday. Anyway, I was at a large booth where they sell movie posters. One of the posters there had a snapshot of the statue of liberty overlooking the city of new york. The statue was missing it’s head and at the top in large white letters it said ‘Monstrous’. The lower right corner had in smaller white letters, 1-18-08.’
Here’s the photos that he posted (not the possible tagline, or maybe even title in the second shot):
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Warner Bros. is planning to adapt the DC comic book Jonah Hex says the Hollywood Reporter.
Filmmakers Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank) are on board to adapt with Andrew Lazar taking production duties. Jonah Hex is a western comic book anti-hero, created by writer John Albano and artist Tony DeZuniga, and published by DC Comics. The right side of his face is horribly scarred as a result of an attack by an Apache chief, and he is normally shown wearing a Confederate States Army uniform. The original comic book heavily subverts that western genre conventions with Jonah battling alcoholism, and having to deal with issues like his mother’s turn to prostitution.
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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. 