While there are two Snow White movies due this year, Snow White & The Huntsman is the one that looks like it’s going to be the big one, with the visuals we’ve had so far being absolutely gorgeous. Now a preview of the new trailer has arrived (the full promo should be online soon), along with three short featurettes looking at The Queen (as played by Charlize Theron), Setting The Scene and the Costumes. The revisionist take on the classic story sees Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman who’s told to take Snow White to the woods and kill her, but who ends up teaching her how to survive. The featurettes are full of info and some great footage. The film certainly looks like it’s going to be gorgeous to look at when it arrives on June 1st.
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Tom Felton May Feel An Attachment For Director Tony Kaye
Since the end of Harry Potter, the smart money for the young actors who are going to have long, successful careers has been on Daniel Radcliffe and Draco Malfoy himself, Tom Felton. Despite having spent most of his youth playing a villain, Felton has a large fanbase and has already seen some success with Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, as well as having various other roles lined up in the likes of The Apparition and Therese Raquin.
Now it appears he may be getting seduced by Sharon Stone in Tony Kaye’s upcoming thriller, Attachment. The director himself revealed the news while talking to ComingSoon. Stone will play a married teacher who has a one-night stand with a student, who Kaye says will be played by Felton. Her infidelity comes back to haunt her when the young man starts dating the teacher’s daughter, and stalks the whole family. It certainly doesn’t sound like Tom’s escaping his villainous stereotyping!
American History X helmer Kaye hopes to start shooting Attachment in the next couple of months.
Paul Rudd May Take Admission Opposite Tina Fey
A few days ago we reported that Owen Wilson was eying a role in Admission, opposite Tin Fey, with both of them going in a less overtly comic direction for the film than we tend to associate with them. Now the LA Times suggests Wilson has decided against the movie and Paul Rudd is interested in taking his place, with early talks taking place between the actor and filmmakers.
Based on Jean Hanff Korelitz’s novel, Fey will play an Ivy League admissions officer named Portia Nathan whose relationship with a 17-year-old recruitment prospect threatens to unravel her personal, romantic, and professional lives. Rudd would play a teacher at an alternative high school who falls for Fey.
Fey has now committed to the movie, although Rudd is currently less certain. Director Paul Weitz hopes to shoot the movie in June, once Fey has finished the current season of 30 Rock.
New Writers Set For Y: The Last Man Adaptation
For years now Hollywood has been trying to get an adaption of Brian K. Vaughan’s graphic novel, Y: The Last Man, onto the big screen, but it’s never come together. However they’re not about to give up, as THR reports New Line is starting over and has signed deals with writers Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia to come up with a completely new script based on Y.
The comics follow Yorick, an escape artist who is the last survivor of a mysterious plague that has killed every male mammal in the world. With his pet monkey, he sets out to find what might have wiped out the world’s male chromosomes (making him the last person with a Y chromosome, hence the title). He spends most of the story on the run from a tribe of self-styled Amazons bent on eliminating the last vestige of patriarchy.
The writing duo is best known for their work on television shows Human Target and Warehouse 13, so can hopefully come up with something workable here. David S. Goyer, J.C. Spink and Chris Bender are producing.
The project has already been through many hands, with DJ Caruso set to direct and Shia Labeouf attached to star at one point, before they both left and it went into Louis Leterrier’s hands. However the project is currently both director and star-less.
Chloe Moretz & Rupert Grint Join The Drummer
The biopic of Dennis Wilson, The Drummer, gets a little closer to the screen, with Variety reporting that Chloe Moretz and Rupert Grint have signed up to star alongside the already cast Aaron Eckhart and Vera Farmiga.
Eckhart will play The Beach Boys drummer Wilson, with the film focusing on the last six years of his life. Dennis is generally seen as the dark horse of the Beach Boys, but the last few years of his life saw him stepping into the limelight and releasing a solo album, Pacific Ocean Blue, in 1977 (Eckhart will apparently record his own versions of songs from that record, and classically trained pianist Farmiga is set to make her own music as well, as Fleetwood Mac singer Christine McVie, who was romantically involved with Dennis).
However he was also battling with drug and alcohol problems and eventually drowned whilst swimming drunk. Chloe Moretz will play Brian Wilson’s daughter, Jennifer, while Rupert Grint is playing Stan Shapiro, a mail room intern at William Morris who befriends Dennis Wilson.
Randall Miller (Bottle Shock) is directing with production scheduled to begin June 15th.
Michael Fassbender Takes On The Mountain Between Us
Michael Fassbender has his pick of projects at the moment, and he’s doing a good job of balancing the big paycheque, high profile roles with smaller, more interesting films. The latest movie he’s attached himself to is The Mountain Between Us for director Gerardo Naranjo (Miss Bala), according to Variety.
The romantic drama is adapted from Charles Martin’s novel, which follows two strangers who survive a plane crash and depend on each other to survive in the harsh Colorado mountains, before falling for one another. Michael Fassbender will play Ben Trace, a doctor who uses his expert climbing skills to get Ashley, an injured writer, safely down the mountain. The role of Ashley has not been cast yet.
Gerardo Naranjo will direct from a screenplay by J. Mills Goodloe (Maverick, Assassins), although it isn’t known when production might begin. With Fassbender a very busy boy, it may be a while before he can slot it in.
Colin Farrell Eyes Arthur & Lancelot
In January, Warner Bros. put their medieval adventure Arthur & Lancelot on hold, even though the cast was coming together, a March 15th, 2013 release date was set and it was preparing to shoot this spring. It was assumed that this was the end for the movie, but now Variety reports that Colin Farrell is in talks to star as one of the title characters in a revived version of the flick.
Kit Harington and Joel Kinnaman were previously attached to star, but both actors had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts once the project was put on hold (and it’s said Warner were slightly reticent about the duo’s lack of star power, which was one of the reason they put the film on hold). It isn’t known which of the title characters Colin Farrell will play.
David Dobkin is directing Arthur & Lancelot from his own screenplay. Little is known about the story, although it is said to be an action epic in the vein of Braveheart. Although the project is moving forward once again, it still isn’t known when shooting may start, or when Warner Bros. is targeting Arthur & Lancelot for release. It also isn’t known what happened to the $90-$130 million budget that Warner balked at first time around.
Gillian Anderson Opens Up About Teen Lesbian Relationships
She may have spent years flirting with David Duchovny in The X-Files, but before that actress Gillian Anderson had relationships with other girls when she was in school.
Anderson has been talking about this in an interview with Out Magazine, saying, “I was in a relationship with a girl for a long time when I was in high school.”
Having moved from England to the US when she was 11 she experienced a bit of a culture clash, and says that ended up beings voted ‘Most Bizarre’ and ‘Most Likely to Be Arrested’ in high school, noting that there was a bit of truth to both, “based on how I chose to look, dress, behave, you know—the relationships I was in at the time were freaking people out.”
However dating a girl doesn’t seem to have been a big deal for her at the time, as she says, “If I had thought I was 100% gay, would it have been a different experience for me? Would it have been a bigger deal if shame had been attached to it and all those things that become huge life-altering issues for youngsters in that situation? It’s possible that my attitude around it came, on some level, from knowing that I still liked boys.”
The entire interview is worth a read, so head over to Out to take a look.
First Dark Shadows Footage Online
As the Tim Burton & Johnny Depp collaboration Dark Shadows is due in cinemas on May 11th, you’d have thought we’d have seen more than a few images by now. However it appears Warner is planning on more of a blitz attack, hoping to penetrate the audience’s consciousness with a big campaign starting now and going on until the release. Now the first, very brief footage is online, which is part of a promo for Ellen, which we’ve embedded above. It’s incredibly short but still worth a look. It arrives ahead of the trailer, which STYD promises will be online tomorrow, March 15th. So watch out for that!
Here’s the lengthy synopsis: In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet–or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), to help with her family troubles. Also residing in the manor is Elizabeth’s ne’er-do-well brother, Roger Collins, (Jonny Lee Miller); her rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Moretz); and Roger’s precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver McGrath). The mystery extends beyond the family, to caretaker Willie Loomis, played by Jackie Earle Haley, and David’s new nanny, Victoria Winters, played by Bella Heathcote.
New Battleship Trailer
There’s little doubt that Battleship has pretty much nothing to do with the classic game and everything with trying to ape Transformers to give Hasbro yet another enormous franchise they can sell toys on the back of (although with Universal making the movie this time, rather than Paramount/Dreamworks). The more we see, the more like Transformers-At-Sea it looks, although that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Now a new trailer has arrived, with Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard and Liam Neeson running around trying to deal with a mechanical alien threat at sea. The big budget movie hits cinemas April 11th.
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