Sullivan Stapleton Leading the Greeks in 300 Prequel

There have been several would-be successors to the throne in the years since, but there can be only one 300.

Warner Brothers and Legendary Pictures are banking on that with their long-planned prequel 300: The Battle of Artemisia. After a game of casting musical chairs that included Joel Edgerton, Variety reports the studios have settled on Sullivan Stapleton (ironically Edgerton's Animal Kingdom co-star) for the follow-up, which according to the trades is no longer going by its Battle of Artemisia title nor will be a prequel or sequel per say adding the filmmakers are "still figuring out its positioning."

Stapleton will play Themistocles, the general who fought off the Persians with his Greek army in 480 BCE. Meanwhile, "TOLDJA" adds Rodrigo Santoro will return as Xerxes (Earlier indication suggested the filmmakers were going to recast). No word on if Eva Green will, in fact, join the cast as Artemisia as first reported by Heat Vision.

Noam Murro (Smart People) will direct.

Arnold & Stallone Recreate Scene From "Rocky 2"

It does suck getting old, but when you are two world reknowned action stars, you don't sit in front of the television watching Matlock reruns when it happens. In a Tweet from Arnold Schwarzenegger himself, the actor turned governor and now actor again, reveals himself and Stallone side by side in hospital beds. In what can only be described as a scene from the opening of Rocky 2, the two aging actors laugh as they share their bucket lists as their bodies get a tune up.

After all the action, stunts & physical abuse shooting The Expendables 2 and The Last Stand, it was time for a little tune up on my shoulder. Look who was coincidentally waiting in line behind me for his shoulder surgery. Now we're ready for another round of great times and action when we shoot The Tomb. #greattobeback

New Snow White & The Huntsman Images

The first image below of Kristen Stewart getting her Warrior Princess on popped up on Facebook today. The rest of the pics featuring Chris Hemsworth looking like the most manly sword and sorcery badass since Aragorn come via This German site.

The Bourne Legacy Poster!

Earlier Jamie posted the trailer for the movie, which is looking surprisingly better than I anticipated, and now there is a poster via Comingsoon.Net

Denzel Washington to Outact Another Thirtysomething White Guy

Mark Wahlberg may have been powerful enough to stop 9/11, but tough enough to bring down Denzel Washington in the acting deparment?! I think not!

Washington, who from some reason opting for co-starring with white-bread thirtysomething actors as of late, is in talks to join 2 Guns for Universal, courtesy of Coming Soon:

"'2 Guns' is a pulp story about cops and thieves and the men that are something in between. In the graphic novel, Trench has targeted a local bank to rob, and asked Steadman in on the job. Trench figures it's a great way to score – considering it's a cover for mob money. They'll be thieves ripping off thieves. But what Steadman doesn't know is that Trench is a DEA agent. And what Trench doesn't know is that Steadman's got his own secret and isn't who he appears to be."

Baltasar Kormakur (fresh off working with his royal Markiness in Contraband) will direct.

Vince Vaughn & Owen Wilson ARE Interns

Wow it has been seven years since Wedding Crashers, hasn't it?

Wouldn't have believed it myself if it wasn’t for doing quick math and looking in the mirror to see those extra rolls under my eyes and fat on my ass. I was getting ready for University that came out and turned into one of the smash hits of 2005, back during that magical summer where you had to talk your friends into seeing Batman Begins, we were all proclaiming how Revenge of the Sith was the best Star Wars since Empire (How silly were we!) and Tom Cruise was just starting to creep everyone out with his religion.

Per Vulture, 20^th Century wants Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson to reunite (Surprising to think there hasn't been a Wedding Crashers reunion yet!) in the comedy Interns for helmer Shawn Levy:

"Vaughn and Wilson will play forty-ish company guys who both get laid off in a downsizing. Convinced they’ve gone about managing their careers entirely wrong, they resolve to become interns at a Google-like dotcom and start anew. Suddenly, the two old chums are competing against wily, fresh-faced 22 year olds for advancement."

It's funny...and topical too! Not the biggest Levy fan in the world (I might have been of the few Internet movie-nerds who didn't like Real Steel) and Vaughn and Owen are two comedians whose shtick has gotten old over the course of those seven years and a slew of bad comedies. Right after Wedding Crashers, I'd be all for Interns. These days, I'm weary.

There's a Jetsons Movie Someone Is Writing...

Warner Brothers isn't giving up on that live-action Jetsons movie.

Somebody out there will be relieved to hear (from Variety) of the hiring of Van Robichaux and Evan Susser to tackle the film version. That's the writing pair responsible for Chewie, the spec script telling the making of Star Wars from the point-of-view of Peter "Chewbecca" Mayhew, which made this year's Black List for those interested.

Robert Rodriquez was supposed to direct for awhile. A good fit when you think about it. Creatively, he hasn't matured past the age of 14 (with hype-stylized fare like Sin City or homage-centric projects like Machete and Planet Terror) and Spy Kids is kind of the perfect template visually for how to something like the old Hanna Barbara cartoon would look. But that's in the past, and there were those weird rumblings of Kanye West being involved, because the producers thought what The Jetsons really needed was a big-mouth, arrogant media-whore?

Oh, but we'll get that movie eventually, even though the 2015 segment from Back to the Future Part II is arguably the best Jetsons movie ever made.

The Bourne Legacy Teaser REALLY Wants You To Forget About Matt Damon

"There was never just one" is the tagline for The Bourne Legacy.

It would be a great way to hook us in, if it weren't for the fact we already knew there were other assassins other than Jason Bourne having sat through the Bourne trilogy the past decade. Here's the teaser trailer for the fourth installment/spin-off/whatever they're going to label it (the one without Jason Bourne) has been released:

Alright, good start building up to our new mercenary ass-kicker Jeremy Renner, I'll hand them that, and nice way to integrate series regulars Joan Allen, Albert Finney and even a bit of Ed Norton, said to be the baddie this time around. Surprisingly, no Matt Damon footage splicing from the Doug Liman/Paul Greengrass Bournes though it's clear they really want to get the image of him beating some heavy down with a magazine.

New Wrath of the Titans Posters

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A decade after his heroic defeat of the monstrous Kraken, Perseus - the demigod son of Zeus - is attempting to live a quieter life as a village fisherman and the sole parent to his 10-year old son, Helius. Meanwhile, a struggle for supremacy rages between the gods and the Titans. Dangerously weakened by humanity's lack of devotion, the gods are losing control of the imprisoned Titans and their ferocious leader, Kronos, father of the long-ruling brothers Zeus, Hades and Poseidon. The triumvirate had overthrown their powerful father long ago, leaving him to rot in the gloomy abyss of Tartarus, a dungeon that lies deep within the cavernous underworld. Perseus cannot ignore his true calling when Hades, along with Zeus' godly son, Ares, switch loyalties and make a deal with Kronos to capture Zeus. The Titans' strength grows stronger as Zeus' remaining godly powers are siphoned, and hell is unleashed on earth. Enlisting the help of the warrior Queen Andromeda, Poseidon's demigod son, Argenor, and fallen god Hephaestus, Perseus bravely embarks on a treacherous quest into the underworld to rescue Zeus, overthrow the Titans and save mankind.

"The Wolverine"? Yeah, That's Happening

     

Delayed by earthquakes and departing directors (we're looking at you, Darren Aronofsky), it started looking less and less likely that The Wolverine, the sequel to 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine was going to be happening anytime soon, especially since most of the X-Men movie news we've been getting lately has centered around a sequel to last year's X-Men: First Class.

But like everyone's favorite adamantium-clawed mutant, just when you think he's down, he comes right back for more.  As reported on SuperHeroHype earlier today, The Wolverine, which will now be directed by James Mangold, has been given an official release date of July 26, 2013. 

The sequel (prequel?) will be based around the infamous Chris Claremont/Frank Miller Japanese saga from the comics, which has Logan travelling to Japan and getting into all kinds of trouble for falling in love with the daughter of a Japanese crimelord.  It's also got the Silver Samurai and a ton of ninjas in it.  Cool.

Right now, Hugh Jackman is off in London filming the big-screen version of Les Miserables (where he will be singing a new song, according his Twitter update today), and filming for that is set to wrap up in July.  He's also got a Broadway musical about Harry Houdini that's in the works for next year, so presumably filming on The Wolverine will start just after Les Mis ends this summer.

That release date will put The Wolverine on the same opening weekend as Disney's Phineas and Ferb movie and the Dirty Dancing remake that nobody asked for and nobody wants.  So us ladies can look forward to Hugh Jackman doing his badass Wolverine thing that weekend instead of obsessing over how whoever they ultimately cast as Johnny in Dirty Dancing will never be Patrick Swayze.

Because nobody puts Wolverine in a corner.