I have to say I’m not a big fan of the person who invented the new phenomenon of trailers for trailers, but it’s becoming an ever more popular way to build early hype. It’s now spreading beyond the big budget blockbuster type movies to the likes of Looper, which is hoping that by releasing a trailer tease, it’ll suggest people should be as excited about it as they are an event movie. The time travel movie follows a hitman, Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who is sent victims from the future so that he can kill them in the past, and then there’s absolutely no trace of the crime in the present. When the hitman’s older self (Bruce Willis) arrives with orders to be killed, things get difficult. The film reteams Gordon-Levitt with Brick director Rian Johnson and is currently set for UK release on September 12th. A full trailer should arrive later this week.
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Tim Burton Plans Seth Grahame-Smith’s Stop Motion Night of the Living
It would appear Tim Burton has pulled someone else into his inner sanctum alongside the likes of Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter – Seth Grahame-Smith. The Pride & Prejudice & Zombies author wrote the screenplay for Burton’s upcoming Dark Shadows, and Burton is a producer on the adaptation of Graham Smith’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
Now it appears Grahame Smith is writing a stop motion movie for Burton, called Night Of The Living. Not a huge amount is known about the movie, as the only info about it comes from a single answer in an interview Grahame Smith gave to THR.
He says, “Night of the Living is an idea I have had around for years that I’m doing with Tim Burton. When we were shooting Dark Shadows last year I worked up the nerve to tell Tim about it because I always thought it would make a good movie. When I saw what he had done with Frankweenie and Corpse Bride, it always struck me as a great idea for that form. I’m writing it at Warner Bros. for him (as a stop-motion monster movie).”
There’s no info on the plot or when the film might go into production.
Woody Harrelson Jumping Out Of The Furnace
If nothing else, the cast for Out Of The Furnace is going to be a good one, with the latest person who’s sniffing around the film being Woody Harrelson, who Variety reports is in early talks to join the crime drama.
Christian Bale and Casey Affleck are set to play brothers, who get lured into a violent crime ring when a cruel twist of fate lands the one of them in prison. Harrelson will play the villain, Curtis DeGroat, the ringleader who Christian Bale’s character winds up seeking vengeance against. Zoe Saldana is playing Christian Bale’s love interest with Sam Shepard portraying his uncle.
Scott Cooper is directing, with production due to begin later this month.
Seth Gordon To Be A Has-Been Director
Horrible Bosses director Seth Gordon is set to team up with New Line Cinema once again to direct their upcoming comedy, The Has Beens, Variety reports, which comes from a script by Max Werner.
The storyline is being kept slightly secret, so for now, you’ll just have to speculate on the plot based on The Has Beens title. And to give you a clue, Werner most recently wrote Fun Size for director Josh Schwartz, which follows a teenager who loses her brother after being forced to take him out trick-or-treating on Halloween.
It’s not certain when Gordon might get around to The Has Been, as he’s due to shoot, Identity Thief, which stars Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy, this summer and has numerous other movies on his development slate.
Gemma Arterton Circling The Wright Girls
While quite a few Japanese horror movies have gotten an English-language makeover, it’s rarer for a comedy from the Land Of The Rising Sun to get the same treatment, but Gemma Arterton is now in talks to star in The Wright Girls, which is inspired by the Japanese comedy 2LDK, according to THR.
The film is about two young actresses who live together, pretend to be best friends and are co-stars on a successful television show. In reality, they detest each other and go to extreme and violent lengths to do one another in, after they end up competing for the same movie role. The search is still on for the second female lead.
Andy Fickman (She’s The Man, Race To Witch Mountain) is in talks to direct with Bert V. Royal writing the script.
Jennifer Aniston & Jason Sudeikis Reuniting For We’re the Millers
Jennifer Aniston & Jason Sudeikis seem to like being in the same movies, even if they didn’t get a a lot of screen time together in either Horrible Bosses or The Bounty Hunter. Now they’re setting out to change that, as they’re both in talks for the lead roles in We’re the Millers, which will give them plenty of time to spar off one another.
You’d have thought Aniston would steer clear of this one, just because the plot sounds oddly like a more grown up take on last year’s Just Go With It. In We’re The Millers, Jason Sudeikis will play a pot dealer who hires a fake wife (Aniston) and two kids so that he can smuggle 1000 pounds of weed cross country in his RV. Just to add a tad more interest, Aniston’s fake wife is actually a hooker, while the two kids will be juvenile delinquents.
Rawson Marshall Thurber, best known for Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, will direct, with the shoot taking place later this year for a summer 2013 release. (Source: Deadline)
Paula Patton Joins Washington & Wahlberg in 2 Guns
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol star Paula Patton is one of those actresses who constantly seems to flit around the edge of major recognition, but never quite gets it. Now she’s adding another decent role to her belt, as Deadline reports she’s in talks to take the female lead in 2 Guns, opposite Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington.
The film will be directed by Baltasar Kormákur, who last worked with Mark Wahlberg on the action thriller Contraband, and is based on the Steven Grant graphic novel of the same name. Paula Patton will play the love interest of Denzel Washington’s character in this story of a DEA Agent and a Naval Officer ordered to investigate one other. It’s not the first time Patton and Washington have worked together, as they both starred in Deja Vu.
Shooting will begin later in the year on 2 Guns, after Mark Wahlberg completes filming Michael Bay’s comedic thriller Pain and Gain, as well as promoting the comedy Ted, which he stars in and is release this summer.
Steve Carrell In Talks For Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Steve Carell wants to add another film to his already bust roster, as Deadline reports that he’s is in talks for the upcoming live action adaptation of Judith Viorst’s popular children’s novel, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
20th Century Fox is behind the family film, which will be the first live action take on the story after a couple of animated versions. Lisa Cholodenko, best known for The Kids Are All Right, will write and direct.
Steve Carell will play the role of Ben in this story about a young boy who endures a frustrating day that begins with him waking up to find gum in his hair and ends with him threatening to move to Australia. He just can’t seem to get anything right, with his teacher moaning about his picture of an invisible castle (actually just a blank sheet of paper) and getting into trouble for punching his brother, who calls him a crybaby after he gets pushed in the mud.
It’s not certain exactly who Ben is, as the story is naturally having to be expanded missaviely from the picture heavy children’s tale. It’s not certain when the movie will shoot, but hopefully they’ve already staked out a spot in Carell’s hectic schedule.
Ben Kingsley In Talks For Villainous Iron Man 3 Role
Poor old Ben Kingsley. Once upon a time he was Gandhi, but in more recent years his main stock in trade has been in shady characters. It appears he’ll soon have one more bad guy to add to his CV, as Variety reports that Ben Kingsley is in final negotiations to take on a villainous roles in Iron Man 3 for director Shane Black.
It isn’t known which character Ben Kingsley will play, but sources are adamant that the Oscar-winning actor will not be playing fan favourite villain Mandarin (which had been the initial assumption). Whoever the character is, they’re somehow involved in nanobot technology and they’ll be working against Tony Stark in the new movie.
Robert Downey Jr. will once again portray Iron Man, and Scarlett Johansson is expected to return as The Black Widow. The plot is rumored to revolve around the use of nanobots to replicate the super serum used to turn Steve Rogers into Captain America, something that’s likely to interest Stark, as his father was intimately involved with that project. Shooting is expected to kick off next month.
Yolanthe Cabau Joins Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain
Is Michael Bay’s tendency to cast inexperienced female actresses allowing young people a chance, or pure sexism assuming that a pretty face is more important than genuine talent?
I get the feeling the latter is closer to the truth, although in the case of the upcoming Pain & Gain, we’ll have to wait and see of Yolanthe Cabau is as good an actress as she is a clothes horse (her only real acting experience is in a Dutch soap opera).
The dark comedy is based on a true story about a pair of bodybuilders in Florida, who get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong. Cabau actress will play the role of Barbara, the girlfriend of Mark Wahlberg’s character. Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson are playing the body builders.
Pain & Gain recently started shooting and will be in cinemas next year.
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