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

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

GENERAL MOVIE NEWS

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser (www.moviemuser.co.uk)

Shawn Levy Producing Sci-fi Flick The Story Of Your Life

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It sometimes feels that Night At The Museum and Real Steel director Shawn Levy is on a mission to produce all movies, as he has a ridiculous number in the works that have his name attached to them. Now a new one has surfaced via ComingSoon, as he’s set to produce the sci-fi flick, The Story Of Your Life, with commercials director Nic Mathieu planning to make his feature directorial debut on the film.

Eric Heisserer (The Thing, A Nightmare On Elm Street) is writing the screenplay, based on Nebula Award-winning short story by Ted Chiang. After aliens land around the globe, a linguist is recruited by the US government in a race to decipher their intentions on Earth. However learning their language teaches her how to think like them, which results in her being able to perceive time ‘chrono-synclastically’, which essentially means she can remember the future.

Unsurprisingly this causes more than a few issues, not least that she now has the ability to see what will happen to her currently unborn daughter.

Casting is apparently now underway, with shooting set to start in the first half of next year.

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Dante Harper Writing Ridley Scott’s The Forever War

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One of the projects Ridley Scott has up his sleeve is The Forever War, based on Joe Haldeman‘s novel. The movie was due to reunite Scott with Blade Runner writer David Webb Peoples, but now a new scripter has taken on the job, Dante Harper.

He’d seem a good choice, as he worked on All You need Is Kill, another movie about human soldiers battling an alien race. However The Forever War is slightly different, as it’s based around something that’s normally ignored in interstellar sci-fi, Einstein’s Theory Of Relativity. The theory says that the faster you get to the speed of light, the more tima dilates, so that, for example, while a few weeks may pass for you, it could be months for people who aren’t going as fast as you.

The Forever War follows reluctant conscript Private William Mandella, who’s propelled into a war between mankind and alien enemy that is seemingly unconquerable and very far away. To get to the battlefront, he must spend a year travelling at incredible speeds, but it means that when he returns to Earth, decades have passed. As he goes back and forth, the Earth is aging centuries, and he discover his ‘home’ may be even more terrifying than battle.

It’s an interesting idea for a film, although could easily get confusing, as Einstein’s theory does tend to make people’s brains collapse as they try to figure exactly how differences in speed actually affect time. Hopefully Harper’s the man to sort it out. (Source: Movies.com)

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Cate Blanchett Going Wicked Stepmother For Disney’s New Cinderella

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Disney made its name with fairytale films and it seems they want them to be a big part of the studio’s future too. After the success of Alice In Wonderland, they moved forward with the Angelina Jolie starring Maleficent (about the bad fairy in Sleeping Beauty) and now they’re putting together a live-action Cinderella.

TheWrap reports that the movie may now have found its wicked stepmother, with Cate Blanchett in talks for the role. It’s now known whether this is a straighforward telling of the tale or if, like Maleficent, it’s a revisionist take on the story – indeed it’s currently still just known as Untitled Cinderella Story. Whatever way they’re going, Blanchett is always a class act.

Mark Romanek (Never Let Me Go) is set to direct from a script that was started by Aline Brosh McKenna (The Devil Wears Prada), but has since been taken over by Chris Weitz (About A Boy).

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Joe Carnahan Feels Undying Love, Adapting Vampire Graphic Novel

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Back in 2011, Warner Bros. picked up rights to Tomm Coker and Daniel Freedman’s graphic novel, Undying Love. Now Deadline reports that The Grey and A-Team director Joe Carnahan has signed up to helm the film version.

The graphic novel is about ‘an ex-soldier who falls for a vampire, though in order to be with her, he must take on her creator. And that creator happens to be protected by an army of mobsters (and undead beasts) in the Hong Kong underworld.’ Coker and Freedman also wrote the first draft of the movie script.

Carnahan commented, “I really took to it [the graphic novel], and the metric I use is how fast I come up with ideas and an outline, and this brought about a bunch of ideas. It is a little out of my wheelhouse, taking place in China with mysticism and swordplay, but there is a lot of potential here.”

Alexandre Aja was previously interested in directing, but nothing came of that, so now Carnahan has stepped in.

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Colin Trevorrow Up For Flight Of The Navigator Remake

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Few people knew the name Colin Trevorrow until a few weeks ago when it was rumoured he’d met George Lucas and was top of the list to direct the planned, Star Wars: Episode VII. While Trevorrow has now said he definitely won’t be taking that job on, it appears Disney has given the Safety Not Guaranteed helmer a consolation prize, with a remake of Flight Of The Navigator.

Variety reports that Trevorrow and co-writer Derek Connolly will rewrite the script, based on the 1986 movie (which actually only became a Disney movie after the company that made is went bust before they could complete the film). The film is about a young boy who falls down a ravine in the woods, but when he crawls out he discovers that while he’s the same, eight years have passed and that his family is now older and living in a different house. While they’re shocked but surprised to have him back, NASA also becomes interested in him, as they think he may have some connection to an alien craft they’ve discovered.

The film is a childhood favorite of Trevorrow’s, so hopefully he’ll be a good choice to direct (although if the remake can make Flight Of The Navigator’s robot Max slightly less annoying, that would be good).

While Trevorrow is out of Star Wars, he doesn’t seem too upset, as talking to THR he says, “It’s not going to be me for Episode VII, and I can’t believe I’ve actually had to come out and say that. That was the most shocking thing, like around the dinner table when I was 8, I had to assure everyone that it wasn’t me, but now actually for real. But there are a lot of things that have come up that are a lot of exciting opportunities that have come up because of this.”

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Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D. TV Series Lands Brett Dalton As Agent Grant Ward

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Plans for the S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series continue to build with the news, via THR, that Brett Dalton has signed on for the pilot, which Joss Whedon has written alongside Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen.

The actor will portray Agent Grant Ward, who’s described as ‘a skilled rising star within the organization who is described as deadly, precise and cool under fire but lacking people skills.’. He joins Ming-Na as Melinda May, Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Gemma Simmons, and Ian de Caestecker’s Agent Leo Fitz. Initial casting breakdowns also featured an agent known as Skye, but so far nobody has been cast in that role.

Dalton isn’t a particularly well known actor, although he has guest spots on the likes of Army Wives and Blue Bloods, and is due to appear in National Geographic’s telepic Killing Lincoln next year.

Joss Whedon is also expected to direct the pilot episode, with production slated to begin in January. Quite when we’ll get to see it isn’t known yet.

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Ian McKellen & Patrick Stewart Back For X-Men: Days Of Future Past

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For a while now people have been wondering if X-Men: Days Of Future Past would feature both the First Class mutants and some from the original X-Men trilogy, due to the fast the comic book story arc it’s based on features time travel.

Now we know that it will indeed, as Bryan Singer, who recently picked up the directing reins when Matthew Vaughn stepped down, has revealed on his Twitter account that Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are returning as the older version Professor X and Magneto in X-Men: Days of Future Past. He also confirmed that James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, and Nicholas Hoult are returning.

Here’s what he had to say: ‘I’d like to officially welcome back James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, & Nicholas Hoult to #XMEN for #DaysOfFuturePast’

Adding, ‘Thrilled to announce @ianmckellen118 & @sirpatstew are joining the cast of #XMEN#DaysOfFuturePast#magneto#professorX More to come…’

As for how the older Professor X and Magneto exist alongside the younger versions played by James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, he simply says, ‘The movie is called X-Men: Days of Future Past, use your imagination. More to come.’

It’s believed the plot involved the First Class X-Men getting involved in time travel in order to stop a terrifying future from happening.

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The Baytown Outlaws Trailer – Eva Longoria and Billy Bob Thornton go redneck

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Featuring Eva Longoria and Billy Bob Thornton, The Baytown Outlaws follows follows the Oodies, a trio of redneck hillbilly brothers whose main source of fun – and only source of employment – is illegally enforcing several unwritten laws on behalf of the local corrupt sheriff. When their latest job goes disastrously wrong and ends in a massacre at the wrong address, the brothers are approached by Celeste (Longoria), a witness to the mayhem, with a proposal. She’s willing to pay them $25,000 for the safe return of her godson, who has been kidnapped by her ex-husband (Thornton).

What she fails to tell them is that the man in question is a ruthless mobster who believes Celeste is dead, having previously arranged for one of his goons to pump her full of lead.

Unsurprisingly, what should be a simple rescue mission soon turns into a southern fried battle royale of epic proportions as the brothers fall foul of a seemingly endless parade of psychopaths and miscreants who want them dead, ranging from a gang of crazy-ass biker chicks and a pack of ruthless road warriors to Federal agents, crooked cops and some very angry Native Americans. The movie hits DVD & Blu-Ray in the UK on 26th December 2012.

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New Les Miserables French Poster Debuts

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I’m always a little wary of responses to films based on the very first screenings, as it often seems audiences are more prone to praise the film, based on the giddy feeling of being one of the very first to see it. However in the case of Les Miserables, the reaction to the first looks at the movie that took place over the weekend have been difficult to ignore.

Some loved it so much they’ve already pretty much decided Tom Hooper will get his second Best Director Oscar, with many of the actors likely to be top runners in the Academy Awards race too. Although we may well get some more measured responses over the next few weeks, it definitely seems the film will be a hit and it’s now certainly one of the frontrunners in the Oscar race.

With the US release coming at Christmas and a UK date set for January 11th, we’ve now got a new French poster for the movie, which gives everything a bit of a classic look, with the traditional photoshopped multi-head image that final posters love.

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Kellan Lutz Set To Be A Tattooed Assassin In Tatua

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Now that Twilight is over, the actors have to look to what they’re going to do next. While the main players (and Anna Kendrick) have flourishing careers, the others are yet to use the fantasy franchise to propel them to the top of the film star tree. One who seems to have a better chance than most is Kellan Lutz, who’s already segued into Immortals and is playing the title role in an upcoming motion-capture Tarzan movie.

Now Deadline reports that he’s signed a deal to star in a movie called Tatua, playing a rather unusual tattooed assassin. Based on an original idea by comic book creators Paul Jenkins and Rob Prior, Tatua is about a man with a rare blood type that allows him to be tattooed with a powerful ink. He is able to pull those weapons straight off his skin, giving him an enviable leg up as a covert assassin.

Apparently the weapons must be used quickly or they’ll start to dissolve, while the whole thing takes a toll on the body of the assassin.

Aaron Sims, who wowed Hollywood with his effects filled short Archetype, will make his directing debut with the film. Hopefully his FX experience will ensure he can make the $15 million budget go a long way.

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