July 30th, 2006
After the rather surprising news that Heath Ledger is set to play The Joker in the upcoming sequel to “Batman Begins”, it comes as yet another shock to discover that Batman may also be up against multiple villains. According to The-Batman-On-Film.com coming to me via IGN, “The Joker will be just one of the villains in a larger story and that he won’t appear until halfway through the movie, a la Batman in “Begins.” He is also expected to have a backstory. From what I’ve heard about the direction of the film expect The Joker to be very creepy and very extreme,” a trusted source for BoF advised the site, claiming that Ledger’s Clown Prince will be totally unlike Jack Nicholson’s portrayal in the 1989 film.”
Posted by David in General, News
July 24th, 2006
Over the next two weeks there will be a limited amount of news updates due to the fact that I am taking a well deserved vacation. But don’t worry, I’ll work on some content for the site whilst I’m away and make a huge update when I get back (there will also be a major new community related addition to the site). Anyway, until then, please feel free to sign-up to the forums, read the archives and brush up on your film knowledge in the reference section.
Posted by David in General, Site Related
July 22nd, 2006
Despite “Superman Returns” not managing to gross enough at the box office to meet studio expectations, Bryan Singer has confirmed that there will be a sequel and that he will, once again, be in the director’s chair. “I have nothing, I have only ideas,” he told Empire Magazine. “I just know that there are certain things that were established in this movie, certain aspects of the characters’ relationships and reveals and a great sense of unresolved and romantic dilemma that Superman faces, and now that the character is established, I’d like to take the opportunity to bring in a more threatening element, a more terrible, foreboding element.” It really was rather inevitable, for thsoe of you that don’t know already, the end of SR was rather inconclusive and left the series open for yet another sequel.
Posted by David in General, News
July 21st, 2006
As you may or may not know, world famous comic convention Comic-Con has been going on for the past couple of days over in San Diego, California. There have been a number of interesting announcements related to the world of film, many of which shed light on previously hazy situations. First up, was a little bit of plot info regarding the sequel to Danny Boyle’s “28 Days Later” (which Boyle will not be a part of). “28 Weeks Later picks up six months after the Rage virus has decimated the city of London . The US Army has restored order and is repopulating the quarantined city, when a carrier of the Rage virus enters London and unknowingly re-ignites the spread of the deadly infection, wreaking havoc on the entire population.” Plot holes and problems? Yes, as we all predicted.
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Posted by David in General, News, Trailers, Rumours
July 18th, 2006
Steven Awalt, the owner of the online shrine dedicated to Steven Spielberg, SpilebergFilms.com, managed to interview the legend himself at the Chicago Film Festival on Saturday and obtain some juicy information on a number of his upcoming projects including “Jurassic Park 4″, “Indiana Jones 4″, “Transformers” and “Interstellar”. Head on over to SpilebergFilms.com for the full interview, which I’m sure you will find rather interesting - Awalt even managed to snag a small conversation with Roy Scheider which resides below the Spielberg section and outlines what lies ahead for him too.
Posted by David in General, News
July 17th, 2006
“Casino Royale” hasn’t even seen the light of day yet, but it seems that the team behind Mr Bond’s big screen escapades are already planning his next outing. Codenamed “Bond 22″, the project currently has no script in place but according to Empire may have a rough plot outline derived from an idea that Bond producer Michael Wilson came up with. Another piece of speculative news that has been flying around is the indication that a director has already been approached with regard to stepping into Martin Campell’s shoes. Roger Michel has been linked with the negotiation of a deal, but as always with rumours - nothing has been finalized!
Posted by David in General, News, Rumours
July 15th, 2006
Rather than contain my excitement in the run up to the public theatrical release of “Clerks II”, I decided to post a round-up of some of the production and press photos so that you can understand why I emit spontaneous tones of joy when I come into contact with anything related to Kevin Smith’s illustrious Askewniverse.
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Posted by David in General, News
July 15th, 2006
Fox has decided to spoil us by letting us in on the release dates of three of next years most interesting horror sequels - when I say interesting, I mean probably rather poor but worth a watch to see whether any of the directors have managed to pull off something special. Anyway, Bloody-Disgusting.com rounded up all the necessary details and first in line was “28 Weeks Later”, which is the follow-up to Danny Boyle’s “28 Days Later” and has been confirmed for a theatrical release on May 11, 2007. Next was “The Hills Have Eyes II” which should be hitting our screens at the slightly earlier date of March 2 and finally, the already scorned sequel to 2004’s dismal “Alien vs Predator” which has been set for December 21 2007. I really can’t wait…
Posted by David in General, News
July 14th, 2006
More rumours surrounding Peter Jackson’s upcoming big screen adaption of Halo have surfaced today with a number of websites reporting that Denzel Washington could be up for the role of Master Chief. According to Rotten Tomatoes Washington recently met with Jackson to discuss working together - but as you can probably tell, there is no stone cold evidence to suggest that they will be collaboarting on this particular movie, even though Denzel would probably make the perfect Master Chief. “Halo” is scheduled for an estimated release in 2008 and despite popular assumption, currently has no director (Jackson is executive producer) although Hellboy fanatic Guillermo Del Toro has been loosely linked with the project.
Posted by David in General, News, Rumours
July 13th, 2006
Cinematic legend John Woo is delving into another industry for a while in order to oversee an upcoming comic book which is to be published by, as Empire puts it’s it, the “freshly formed Virgin Comics Company”. The book has been dubbed “Seven Brothers” and follows seven siblings who traverse the globe in separate Chinese trader ships, cluminating in a battle 500 years on involving their descendants - interesting, no? “We see this franchise as a great way for filmmakers to flesh out their ideas and it helps set up a great template to continue developing the projects for film or other mediums,” said Virgin’s co-founder, Gotham Chopra “And starting with John Woo and Terence Chang, we have paved the road with gold so far.”
Posted by David in General, News
