Archive for January 13th, 2008
The future of the anticipated Justice League movie is hanging in the balance according to a couple of sources over at IESB.
It’s pretty much common knowledge that the production is in trouble following casting problems and the impact of the writer’s strike, but IESB claim that if these snags aren’t resolved in the next few days pre-production will come to a halt and a decision will be made on the future of the property.
They also speculate that Warner Bros could have been seeking non-WGA writers to apply last-minute tweaks to script, so the next few days could be very interesting for the DC comics ensemble outing.
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The Hollywood Reporter writes that Fox network has given the go ahead for casting to begin on the hour long Sci-Fi pilot Inseparable, from Invasion creator Shaun Cassidy and ABC Studios, but the ongoing WGA strike has put the brakes on the project.
Inseparable is a modern-day Jekyll and Hyde tale about a partially paralyzed forensic psychiatrist with a split personality whose alter ego is a charismatic criminal.
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According to SCI FI Wire, Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures are negotiating with the estate of pastry expert turned Science fiction author E.E. Doc Smith for the film rights to adapt Smith’s Lensman novels.
Smith’s grandson Al Trestrail, who owns the rights to the properties has said that Imagine and Universal are negotiating for an 18-month renewable option.
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Horror movies are not normally included within the X-Realms scope, but as George A Romero’s upcoming undead opus Diary of the Dead very nearly shuffles into the realm of Sci-Fi and will probably deliver more insightful commentary on the Youtube age than JJ Abram’s monster flick Cloverfield, I feel compelled to report.
The ageing gore maestro has unveiled the trailer for his Dead saga prequel on Myspace. Click here to watch.
Diary of the Dead, in Romero’s own words, is his ‘first film since his original Night of the Living Dead that he can say is completely his own‘. Shot in a documentary style, the picture chronicles the origins of the nightmare scenario that is explored in his original quadrilogy.
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According to CHUD, Tony Award-winning American actor Liev Schreiber (Scream) has been recruited to play Victor Creed aka Sabretooth in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Sabretooth is a mutant who possesses bestial superhuman physical abilities, most notably a rapid healing factor, razor-sharp fangs and claws, and hyper senses. He is a savage sociopath responsible for numerous deaths both as a paid mercenary and for his own, personal pleasure.
In additional casting news, the site is also claiming that Michelle Monaghan is currently favourite to play Silver Fox, a member of covert ops outfit Team X and a female victim of the Weapon X project. This is a role that was recently connected to MI3 star Maggie Q.
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MTV has spoken to Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood about New Line’s planned adaptation of The Hobbit and a potential LOTR sequel that bridges the books.
‘I haven’t spoken to him [Peter Jackson] directly about it [but] I’ve e-mailed him, and as far as I know the two films that they’re doing, one will be ‘The Hobbit’ and another will take place between the 60 years that happened between ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ said Wood, adding ‘If I’m asked to go back and revisit that character and it makes sense, I would love to. I would absolutely love to.’
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ComingSoon reports that the look of Pandora, a fictional world featured in James Cameron’s 3-D epic Avatar is based in part upon the offshore deepwater submersible Noble Clyde Boudreaux Oil Rig built by Vyborg Shipwayd which currently operates in the Gulf of Mexico.
Design team members from Lightstorm Entertainment, the company founded by Cameron after the release of the Abyss, visited the rig to study the photograph and video almost every aspect of the rig to draw inspiration from its working and living environment.
‘The visit to the Boudreaux was a great help to our design process to our efforts in making our sci-fi fantasy believable,’ said production designer Rick Carter. ‘You can’t make up the kinds of things we learned.’
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We’ve already seen the Mach 5 and Mach 6 from Speed Racer and now Rocket Punch have revealed exactly what kind of vehicle Speed will be racing against in the upcoming movie.
Racing team Autobacs Racing Team Aguri (ARTA) who compete in the Super GT 300 series in Japan have signed a marketing deal to have their concept car, which was unveiled at the Tokyo Auto Salon this week feature in the ucpoming movie. Click here to take a look at the futuristic racer in our galleries.
Based on the 1960s Japanese cartoon series, Speed Racer follows the adventures of the youthful Speed (Emile Hirsch) as he tries to obtain victory in his tricked-out racecar, built by his father. Speed is often bailed out of danger by Racer X, a rival with a mysterious connection to Speed.
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I prefer Obama to McCain. Now, McCain’s better than average for a Republican. And though his ads are intellectually offensive, he’s just bowing to his campaign masters and would calm down and be more sane once in office and not campaigning. But I have a few concerns with McCain on foreign policy. He’s not a full-fledged Neocon. That’s good. He opposed Reagan on Lebanon. Good. He was critical of Bush’s initial strategy in Iraq. That’s good. But there’s a problem. He thinks the Vietnam war was winnable and that the US shouldn’t have withdrawn. He’s also eager to spread democracy with force. This just isn’t a good set of beliefs for inheriting Iraq.