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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

Ryan Reynolds Up For Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden’s Mississippi Grind

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Ryan-ReynoldsRyan Reynolds likes to mix his big budget Hollywood flicks with a few smaller movies where he gets to flex his acting muscles. He’s going for the latter with Mississippi Grind, which Deadline reports he’s just signed on for, from Half Nelson writer/directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden.

The film is about a veteran gambler, who is over his head in debt. He recruits a younger gambling addict (Jake Gyllenhaal) to raise enough money to pay down his money owed. They travel across the American south with a vision to win back the money he lost. The producers are still searching for someone to play the older gambler.

Jake Gyllenhaal was previously attached to star, but it appears he’s off the project and Reynolds is taking his role. The current plan is to shoot early next year.

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Ryan Reynolds & Jeff Bridges Are Defending Souls In A New R.I.P.D. Poster

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ripd-poster2-2A new poster has arrived for R.I.P.D., via Empire, with Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds looking pretty heroic and rather Ghostbusters as they promise that they’re ‘Defending Our World One Soul At A Time’.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds headline the supernatural action-adventure R.I.P.D. as two undead cops dispatched by the otherworldly Rest In Peace Department to protect our world from an increasingly destructive array of creatures who refuse to move peacefully to the other side. R.I.P.D. is directed by Robert Schwentke (Red) and produced by Neal H. Moritz (the Fast and Furious series, I Am Legend), Michael Fottrell and Mike Richardson.’

It’s out July 19th in the US and August 30th in the UK.

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Ryan Reynolds May Be Selfless For Director Tarsem Singh

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ryan-renoyldsDirector Tarsem Singh was averaging one film ever six years with The Cell and The Fall, but he’s speeded up his output considerably, as Immortals and Mirror Mirror were released within eight months of one another in 2011 and 2012.

Now he’s planning a new movie, as Deadline reports that Tarsem and actor Ryan Reynolds are in talks for the thriller Selfless. Based on an script by Alex and David Pastor (who wrote and directed the 2009 horror Carriers), the film is about a wealthy old man who pays to have his mind transplanted into a younger body after he realises that is dying. In a very bad turn of luck, he soon realises that the body he’s taken over is a man murder victim, and the body’s killers aren’t happy to see him walking around again. The hero is then forced to go on the run and work out who’s trying to kill him.

Neither Tarsem nor Reynolds is confirmed as yet, but they could make a pretty good pairing if the film does go ahead.

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R.I.P.D. Trailer – Ryan Reynolds & Jeff Bridges are dead cops!

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R.I.P.D. was filmed over 18 months ago, but it’s only now that we’re getting the first trailer, ahead of its summer release. It certainly looks a bit nuts, but could be a lot of fun.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds headline the supernatural action-adventure R.I.P.D. as two undead cops dispatched by the otherworldly Rest In Peace Department to protect our world from an increasingly destructive array of creatures who refuse to move peacefully to the other side. R.I.P.D. is directed by Robert Schwentke (Red) and produced by Neal H. Moritz (the Fast and Furious series, I Am Legend), Michael Fottrell and Mike Richardson.’

It’s out July 19th in the US and August 30th in the UK. [Read more…]

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Great New Posters For 300 Rise Of An Empire, Oldboy & R.I.P.D.

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New posters have emerged for three films that have slightly got lost in the shuffle as the studio concentrate on their biggest summer tentpole flicks. Even so, there are a lot of people out there waiting for 300: Rise Of An Empire, R.I.P.D. and Spike Lee’s remake of Oldboy.

300 director Zack Snyder tweeted the Rise Of An Empire poster (he’s producing and writing this time around, with Noam Murro directing). The follow-up stars Sullivan Stapleton as General Themistokles, who attempts to unite all of Greece in battle against the evil Persian ruler Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro). The film hits cinemas this August.

R.I.P.D. follows a recently killed beat cop (Ryan Reynolds) who joins the Rest In Peace Department, where undead police patrol the underworld. He agrees to 100 years service in return for a shot at getting the guy who killed him, and is teamed with an old gunslinger (Jeff Bridges), who’s been dead hundreds of years. Robert Luketic directs, with a July US release date set (there’s no official UK date yet).

Oldboy follows an advertising executive (Josh Brolin) who is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement without any indication of his captor’s motive. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his bizarre and torturous punishment, only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment. Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley and Samuel L. Jackson also star. It’ll be in cinemas this autumn.

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First Pic Of Ryan Reynolds & Jeff Bridges In R.I.P.D. Arrives

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Back in 2011 Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges headed to the set to shoot R.I.P.D., but it’s been in post-production for a long time, with the release still a couple of months away (it’s set to hit US cinemas on July 19th). Now the first image from the film has arrived via the print edition of EW (scan via Bloody Disgusting), showing Bridges and Reynolds looking armed and serious.

The plot revolves around two dead cops, one recently passed away (Reynolds) and the other a gunslinger (Bridges) who’s been dead for hundreds of years. They work in the Rest in Peace department, which is essentially the divine police department of the dead. The new R.I.P.D. member has agreed to give 100 years service in return for a shot at finding out who killed him.

Robert Schwentke directs from a screenplay by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi, which is adapted from the comic book series created by Peter M. Lenkov. Hopefully we really will get to see it later this year.

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New Turbo Trailer Revs In – Ryan Reynolds’ snail has the need for speed!

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Turbo looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun, even if it’s also going to be very silly. Ryan Reynolds stars as the title character, a snail who becomes serendipitously blessed with incredible speed after a bizarre accident. With the help of his new friends, Turbo sets off on a journey to race in the Indianapolis 500.

The movie also features the voices of Paul Giamatti, Michael Peña, Luis Guzmán, Bill Hader, Richard Jenkins, and Ken Jeong.

The film reaches the us in July and the UK in October.

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Rosario Dawson Joins Ryan Reynolds In Queen Of The Night

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rosario-dawsonSeveral months ago now it was revealed that Ryan Reynolds had signed on to star in Queen Of The Night, which Sweet Hereafter helmer Atom Egoyan is planning to direct. Since then the likes of Scott Speedman and Mireille Enos have signed on for the movie, and now Reynolds has got some more company in the movie, as Variety reports that Rosario Dawson has signed up for the film.

Based on a screenplay by Egoyan and David Fraser, Reynolds will play a father who goes in search of his missing daughter. While the girl was eight at the time of her abduction, her dad gets new information about the case almost nine years later, which leads him to think his daughter is still alive.

Mireille Enos will be Reynolds wife, who always checks in with the police on her missing daughter’s birthday. She realises that disturbing memorabilia left at her workplace are clues leading to her daughter’s whereabouts. Dawson joins Speedman as a detective heading up an investigation into the location of an abducted child.

Shooting starts this month in Canada.

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Has The Justice League Superhero Lineup Been Revealed?

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justice-leagueLast month rumours emerged that the villain in Justice League would be Darkseid, and now a new report via Comic Book News has what they say is the full line-up of supheroes for the movie. While we knew Batman and Superman would be included, the report includes various others who should be part of the movie.

Perhaps most intriguingly is that if the report is correct, it’s our clearest suggestion yet that DC wants Henry Cavill in the Superman role and may also try to get Ryan Reynolds back as Green Lantern.

Here’s what CBN says:
• Superman is essentially the same character from Man of Steel, and Zack Snyder is consulting regarding the writing of the character.

• Batman: The strategist of the group. Batman doesn’t really want to be involved with these super powered beings he considers too powerful. Easily the most complex written.

• Wonder Woman: She has only been in man’s world a few short months. The Wonder Woman script Michael Goldenberg is developing will be set before the Justice League movie.

• Green Lantern: Will be Ryan Reynold’s character from the Green Lantern movie, but will be freshly written with a more serious tone.

• Flash: The most popular hero in civilian eyes who loves media attention, but when called upon is very serious.

• Martian Manhunter: Alien who has lived on Earth in secret for over a hundred years who has knowledge of Darkseid and his reign.

• Aquaman: Will be the King of Atlantis who has a key role in the film.• There will also be a heavy military presence in the film which in future rewrites could include characters featured in Man of Steel or even Amanda Waller (Angela Bassett) of which neither are included in the first draft.

• Alfred Pennyworth is in the film in a minor appearance.

• Lois Lane is also in the film in a cameo.

• Darkseid’s Elite will be featured who go up against the Justice League early on in the film.

Will Beall (Gangster Squad) is writing the film, which is currently being planned for a 2015 release (the same year as Avengers 2).

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Turbo Teaser Trailer – Ryan Reynolds turns talking snail

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One of Dreamworks Animation’s 2013 offerings is Turbo, which from the looks of the first teaser, is the studio’s take on Cars, although with human drivers and a talking snail rather than living automotives.

Ryan Reynolds stars as the title character, a snail who becomes serendipitously blessed with incredible speed after a bizarre accident. With the help of his new friends, Turbo sets off on a journey to race in the Indianapolis 500. The movie also features the voices of Paul Giamatti, Michael Peña, Luis Guzmán, Bill Hader, Richard Jenkins, and Ken Jeong.

It reaches UK cinemas next October.

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