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A Justice League source over at UGO has been spilling the beans on the upcoming spandex team-up pic, apparently gleaning his information directly from the script. The source has also said that the supposed leak a few days ago was a fake.
The following report (if true) could potentially contain spoilers to read at your peril…
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While promoting the US Release of Revolver, Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch) told IESB that he has been hired to direct The Dirty Dozen remake.
The original Dirty Dozen (1967) was a war film directed by Robert Aldrich from the novel by E.M. Nathanson. Starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Telly Savalas, Charles Bronson, and NFL Hall of Famer-turned-actor Jim Brown. The plot involved the recruitment of twelve American soldiers, all general convicts convicted of capital offences including murder, desertion, robbery and rape, and sentenced to either execution or long terms of imprisonment. The soldiers are trained and eventually ordered to destroy an assigned target, the identity of which remains secret.
Next up for Ritchie is a feature film version of his graphic novel Gamekeeper.
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Posted in Movies •
You might remember that we reported earlier this week that the Superman Returns writing team of Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris have opted not to return for sequel The Man of Steel.
Now it seems that despite support from several producers and directors, Scottish comic book Mark Millar is out of the frame as a replacement because he’s so closely associated with Marvel.
Posted in Movies •
Moviehole reports that George Miller’s Mad Max 4 : Fury Road is finally ready to go.
The site writes that Kennedy Miller Productions is talking to animation houses and speculates that Mad Max 4 will be shot in Namibia as per the original plans and could even be released before superhero ensemble flick Justice League.
Mad Max IV: Fury Road was set to film in 2002, but the project was aborted when the dollar collapsed and took the budget with it. Miller has already confirmed that the movie will be set in Max’s days in the Main Force Patrol prior to the events of the first film.
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NYmag have got their hands on the 111 page screenplay for the Spike Jonze feature film version of Where the Wild Things Are and apparently it’s ‘really, really good’.
‘Eggers and Jonze have fleshed out the story not, unexpectedly, with wild plot developments, and not, thankfully, with densely packed pop-fiction references.’ writes The Early Word. ‘Instead Where the Wild Things Are is filled with richly imagined psychological detail, and the screenplay for this live-action film simply becomes a longer and more moving version of what Maurice Sendak’s book has always been at heart: a book about a lonely boy leaving the emotional terrain of boyhood behind.‘
Click here to read the full article.
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Jason Cahill (The Sopranos) is coming on board Bionic Woman as showrunner says the Hollywood Reporter.
Cahill joins executive producers Jason Smilovic and David Eick. The show, starring Michelle Ryan as a 21st century reincarnation of mechanically enhanced Jaime Sommers, has gone through a series of behind-the-scenes changes, including the departures of executive producers Glen Morgan and Michael Dinner, who directed the pilot.
After an impressive start, the show has slipped in the ratings, steadily dropping from 13.59 million viewers for the opener to an audience of 8.52 million for the October 17th episode.
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Posted in Television •
SCI FI Channel has greenlit Warehouse 13, a one-hour dramedy project described as ‘part X-Files, part Raiders of the Lost Ark and part Moonlighting.’ writes the Hollywood Reporter.
The channel has ordered a two-hour pilot written by Farscape creator Rockne O’Bannon, Battlestar Galactica co-executive producer Jane Espenson and D. Brent Mote. It is being eyed for a summer premiere. Ronald Moore, creator of Sci Fi’s signature series Battlestar Galactica, was involved in the project early on but isn’t any longer.
Warehouse 13 revolves around two FBI agents who, after saving the life of the U.S. president, are abruptly promoted and relocated to Warehouse 13, a top-secret location in South Dakota that houses artifacts, relics and supernatural objects the U.S. government has collected over the centuries. The duo’s assignment is to retrieve missing objects and investigate reports of new ones.
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Posted in Television •
Released this month by Del Ray books is MAD about Star Wars, a retrospective book containing humorous Star Wars parodies from the past 30 years of MAD magazine and featuring an introduction by George Lucas.
The collection has been collected and annotated by author Jonathan Bresman, himself an ex-employee of Lucasfilm (interned on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and Radioland Murders). This insight has enabled him to add lots of behind-the-scenes stories, both on the Lucasfilm end of things and the MAD Magazine side of things.
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Darkhorizons have published a Justice League spy report from an individual called Russian Blue.
‘About three weeks ago some casting sessions took place in London’s SoHo area for a movie called Justice League.’ writes the scooper. ‘I didn’t know what it was until I saw the character list later. I would have figured it out earlier but with a movie like that one they don’t let them actually read from the proper script until they’re officially cast.’
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The SCI FI Channel’s Stargate Atlantis is set to return for a 20-episode fifth season.
Produced and distributed by MGM Television, Stargate Atlantis is set to resume production in early 2008. Its fourth season is currently airing Fridays at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The fourth season premiered on Sept. 28 and delivered more than 2 million viewers. The new season added two new regular cast members: Amanda Tapping, formerly of Atlantis’ predecessor series, Stargate SG-1, and Jewel Staite, formerly of Firefly and Serenity.
Stargate Atlantis follows the adventures of a human expedition to the lost city of Atlantis in the Pegasus Galaxy. The Stargate has brought humanity into contact with other cultures, including new and powerful enemies: the Wraith, the Genii, and later the Asuran, all while trying to uncover the secrets the Ancients left behind.
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Three years after Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars is back in theaters with a new twist. Never ones to let go of a dollar without a fight, Lucas and company kick off a TV series that doesn’t quite feel like Star Wars.
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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. 
- jangofett101
