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The credibility of the live action G.I. Joe movie has received a massive boost with the news that Larry Hama has joined the production team as a creative consultant.

The 58-year-old Japanese-American writer, artist, actor and musician is best known as a writer and editor for Marvel Comics, where he wrote the licensed comic book series G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero, based on the Hasbro action figures.  Hama also wrote the majority of the G.I. Joe action figures’ file cards—short biographical sketches designed to be clipped from the G.I. Joe and COBRA cardboard packaging and created classic characters such as Snake Eyes, Destro, Scarlett, Cover Girl and Zartan.

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Acccording to Christopher Plummer,  Director Terry Gilliam is determined to complete The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnasses,  a film project left in tatters  following the death of Heath Ledger last week.

‘Terry’s throwing himself into the job of trying to salvage the picture,’ Plummer told People. ‘Terry was a very good friend [of Heath’s], he very wants to go on with the movie, and I can very much understand why. Because he wants to dedicate it to Heath, of course.’

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Universal Pictures is searching for a new director for horror-thriller The Wolf Man after Mark Romanek left the film in a dispute over the budget, among other creative issues reports Variety.

The studio claims the film will cost $85 million, counting about $15 million in tax breaks for shooting in the U.K. and is aiming to start production in March. 

Benicio Del Toro has long been attached to play the title character. Romanek’s exit comes after the studio firmed up Anthony Hopkins to play the title character’s father and Emily Blunt to play the female lead.  Romanek wrote and directed One Hour Photo but is best known for videos that include Johnny Cash’s swan song,  Hurt.

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D.J. Caruso,  who is set to make a film adaptation of comic book series Y: The Last Man has told USA Today that it might become a trilogy with Shia LaBeouf (Transformers) in ‘preliminary discussions’ to play Yorick.  New Line Cinema will release the first movie,  which will be based on the first 14 issues of the series. 

‘For me, thematically, the most important thing and the reason I want to do this is … I don’t want to say it’s the end of the innocence,  but it’s actually a man-child who has to become a real man now,’ said Caruso. ‘I think it’s a really simple, beautiful theme, but at the same time, the movie’s really pop-culture entertainment.‘ 

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.

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Comingsoon reports that J.J. Abrams has cast child actor Jimmy Bennett as a young James T Kirk in Star Trek.

Bennett, who will turn 12 on February 9th has appeared in Hostage, The Amityville Horror, Firewall, Poseidon and Evan Almighty.

Star Trek,  which is scheduled for release on Christmas day, stars Chris Pine as the Captain James T Kirk,  Zachary Quinto as the young Spock and franchise stalwart Leonard Nimoy as the older version.

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