The Joker Sneaks Himself Online

It's as blurry as hell, but for a movie that's over a year away, this is a big picture to let out. Apparently someone over in Chicago got close enough to see Heath Ledger decked out in full psycho-villian mode. I give you, the Joker. Click to enlarge it:


Theaters, July, 18 2008.

The Silver Surfer's Voice Has Been Cast

Looks like the new Fantastic 4 movie will be pulling a Darth Vader. Laurence Fishburne will be voicing the Silver Surfer in "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer".
While my enthusiasm for the movie isn't too high anymore, I suppose the voice fits. I find it funny the best actor in this movie wont actually appear in it though.

Bruce Willis Reels Back to Comedy

He may be a creep in "Perfect Stranger", a nut job in "Grindhouse" and one of film's most popular action heroes in "Live Free and Die Hard". But Bruce Willis will be returning to his comical roots in "Assasination of a High School President". Willis will play a high school principal who is also Desert Storm veteran who enjoys talking his adventures freeing Kuwait.
The film is described as a "comedic homage" to the film legend, "Chinatown", and is about a sophmore investigating the theft of SAT exams for the high school newspaper.
Finally....something a little a original...

Harry Potter Goes 3-D

In a weird move by IMAX and those in charge of the film, the last 20 minutes of the 5th Harry Potter movie will be shown in 3-D at IMAX theaters. Apparently they want to give the finale of this film one, grand blast at the IMAX by converting it to 3-D.It's kind of weird to me, why not just show the entire movie in 3-D in this case? But I have yet to see the movie or read the book, so perhaps the effect would be best served for just the final 20 minutes? I guess I'll find out.

Lost's Doctor Goes To Race Speed

Lost's Matthew Fox, who plays Jack Shepherd on the show, is going to play "Racer X" in the new live action Speed Racer film. The film stars Emile Hirsch as Speed. Other cast members include Christina Ricci, Susan Sarandon and John Goodman. The film is due next year and directed by The Matrix Trilogy directors, and "V for Vendetta" writers, the Wachowski Brothers.
Very intersting casting. Lots of big names, with Hirsch not really being one of them. I'm a bit more excited about the movie due to the casting alone. It looks like Fox is really hoping to expand his career from Lost. And John Goodman? Haven't seen him in awhile.

Lack of Updating - Quick Updates

Yeah, I have not done it in awhile. Part of it has to do with the fact that not much has really interested me. The other part is I've had a great deal of work to take care of over the last few days and my computer was down on Monday, so I had to catch up with it.
Anywho. Lets go over some major things that have happened.

THE INCREDIBLE HULK UPDATE -
Edward Norton of "Fight Club" fame will play Bruce Banner/The Hulk in the Hulk movie said to not have anything to do with the Ang Lee film. Very unexpected I must say, but he certianly fits the part-- If not better than Eric Bana did.

THE DARK KNIGHT BEGINS FILMMING -
Lots of reports have come in from Chicago stating how filmming for The Dark Knight is taking place at an office or a bank or something like that. No doubt a chace seen is or will be filmed there as well due to the batmobile sightings.

NEW TRANSFORMERS STANDEE -
Click to enlarge, it's just the previous posters with Shia and Megan undersized inbetween the two rivals.


WOLFMAN ACTORS ATTACK -
Oscar nominated actors Anthony Hopkins and Benicio Del Toro have been cast in a retelling of the Wolfman mythos directed by Mark Romanek. For a very uninteresting sounding movie (as if we haven't been here before) it sure has a nice cast!

SHIA "WILL" BE INDIANA'S SON -
As it turns out Shia LeBouef will bein the fourth Indiana Jones movies as Indy's son. Though previously it was announced as false information and Shia denied having been contacted about the project, it looks like Lucasfilm worked quickly to remedy that. Shia will in fact be in Indy's fourth adventure.

IRONMAN SUIT REVEALED
Ironman's "Mark 1" suit has been revealed recently. Though I know this isn't the final suit in the film, it's kind of...cheesy looking. We'll see how it looks in action though. Click to enlarge.


RICK O'CONNER RETURNS WITHOUT HIS WIFE
It's confirmed that Brendan Fraiser will return for the third Mummy film, but Rachel Weisz will not be with him sadly. This comes as very disappointing news and is already a huge let down for fans of these rather fun, cheesy films.

Hollywood, Stop Remaking Movies - The Day the Earth Stood Still

One of the greatest sci-fi classics will be remade into special effects schlock. "The Day the Earth Stood Still". The original film tells the story of an alien man who comes to warn Earth (with his robot) of a great danger. The visitor is met with skeptisism and suspicion and as a result discovers Earth to be a planet of violent beings...so he escapes and leaves for good.
The movie was one of the first to take sci-fi seriously and primarily a heavy drama. The film is just another oen of those that doesn't need to be remade. It's not suppose to be a special effects extravaganza, but a dramatic look at the darker side of man. Scott Derrickson ("The Exorcism of Emily Rose"...UGH!) will direct the film for a May 9, 2008 release.

"Get Smart" Pic and New Info

Well here it is. Carell as Maxwell Smart and Hathaway as Agent 99. I admit I expected Carell to be more made up. He looks a little too..."The Office" than he does Max Smart.
Peter Segal announced that while the original show was a satire on the Cold War, this movie will be a satire that shows, "the disconnect between government agencies as we saw right after 9/11 when the CIA and FBI weren't really communicating."

The films' story centers on Max Smart trying to stop KAOS, (the villianous agency from the original show) which is threatening the United States to give away launch codes for nuclear weapons to "bad guys". The movie is also the origin story of Smart and how Agent 99 teaches him the ropes.

I hope this ends up well. I don't really like the whole origin story angle. I don't recall the show all that well, but wasn't part of the humor the fact that Max is suppose to be this "expert" and Agent 99 ends up bailing him out of everything? Well, I like the casting and it has potential. But my expectations for it just dropped a few notches. The story "sounds" too dark; but I can see that being fixed up... Of course, "Stranger Than Fiction" and "Thank You for Smoking" were dark, but also two of the funniest movies in awhile. I'll cross my fingers.

A "Different" Kind of Superhero Film

David Goyer plans on making a Green Arrow film, but not the type you'd expect. Apparently he will only be Green Arrow for the first ten minutes of the film and then we find ourselves dealing with a very different kind of movie that Goyer calls, "Super Max". Goyer gave details on his script:

“He’s Green Arrow for the first 10 minutes of the movie, and then he’s arrested and his secret identity is revealed. They shave his goatee and they take his costume and send him to prison for life, and he has to escape. It’s like ‘Alcatraz,’ and he has to team up with, in some cases, some of the very same villains he is responsible for incarcerating in order to get out and clear his name. Of course, tons of people try to kill him while he’s in there. We’ve populated the prison with all sorts of B and C villains from the DC Universe. For the fans, there will be all sorts of characters the hardcore comic book junkies will know, but they’re all going to be there under their human names and no one is wearing a costume, but there will be a lot of characters with powers and things like that.”

A movie about a superhero put in prison to team up with the very villians he put there in order to prove he's not guilty? Ok, so the concept itself has been done before, but the players could make this very interesting, I like the idea of a superhero movie that's not really about the hero's origins or personal troubles of being a hero. We've done that 100 times already. A person becomes a hero. He has trouble accepting his life as one, but in the end he realizes it's for the best! We get the point. This concept sounds much, MUCH more interesting. I hope it takes off.

One New Harry Potter Photo

Well...it's something! Enjoy, for what it is.