I remember when this was announced about a year ago I thought it sounded like a potentially intriguing espionage thriller. Comingsoon.net now has the trailer and synopsis via iTunes, and while it looks decent, the trailer seems to give virtually the whole film away.
On a personal note, as a Castle fan it's disappointing to see Stana Katic's role appears to be a small one.
Directed by Michael Brandt and written by Derek Haas and Brandt (the duo behind Wanted, 3:10 to Yuma and 2 Fast 2 Furious), the film stars Richard Gere, Topher Grace, Stana Katic, Stephen Moyer, Martin Sheen and Odette Annable.
In The Double, opening in theaters on September 23, the mysterious murder of a US senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary Soviet assassin "Cassius" forces Paul Shepherdson (Gere), a retired CIA operative, to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary (Grace), to solve the crime. Having spent his career chasing Cassius, Shepherdson is convinced his nemesis is long dead, but is pushed to take on the case by his former supervisor, Tom Highland (Sheen). Meanwhile, Agent Geary, who wrote his Master's thesis on Shepherdson's pursuit of the Soviet killer, is certain that Cassius has resurfaced. As Shepherdson and Geary work their way through crimes both past and present, they discover that Cassius may not be the person they always thought him to be, forcing both to re-examine everything and everyone around them.
This morning came some distant shots of Henry Cavill on set of The Man of Steel decked out in his Superman suit, minus the red cape.
But as this evening comes to a close, there's suddenly a storm of real meaty up-close pictures of Cavill giving a better look at the \S/ symbol and the texture of his entirely blue suit. Looks good.
These two quite cool looking pics come courtesy of poster wascots (here and here) of the Super Hero Hype! forum.
You know, we as a whole on the Internet movie-news sites (the big-dogs and schmucks like us) have all ragged on George Lucas over his obsession with tweaking (and re-tweaking...and re-re-tweaking) the original Star Wars trilogy over the years.
I can remember back around 1996 when word was making the rounds on AICN, Corona Coming Attractions and Dark Horizons (back when it was literally just Harry, Patrick and Garth covering the beat) of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi getting theatrically re-released and, with brand-new visual effects and scenes, being inserted into them! We gasped at seeing pictures of that Jabba the Hutt scene no longer with Declan Mulholland sporting that furry-coat but a CG version of that fat, slug we saw in ROTJ.
Maybe I'm recalling it all wrong (Entirely possible since I would have been around 13-14 years old at the time). But I seem to remember the reaction to the changes to the original were positive. Overall. The exception, I think, was losing the Ewok song that closed ROTJ and replaced it with a new John Williams score. Confession time: Always loved the Yub Nub song, but...I actually preferred the updated version.
Cut to seven years later, and the trilogy is given even more changes for the 2004 DVD release. Among the noticeable changes was another rendered version of Jabba for Star Wars (Notice, I didn't call it Episode IV or A New Hope!), no more splicing together Elaine Baker, Clive Revill and chimp eyes for The Emperor in Empire Strikes Back and instead we got Ian McDiarmid in frankly awful-looking old-age makeup. Not to mention, new dialogue blabbing away one of cinema's greatest third-act twists.
And then there's Hayden Christensen standing where Sebastian Shaw used to be next to old Ben Kenobi and Yoda smiling at Luke in the closing moments of Return of the Jedi. That had to have been what broke the camel's back, right?
But, as you can guess, with the Blu-Ray release of the entire Star Wars saga hitting in a few weeks, there will be more changes to those three films you watched hundreds of times on your own shitty VHS tapes.
Badass Digest has confirmation of, at least, two new changes being made with the video provided below my ramblings:
Every time he's asked about all the changes over the trilogy, Lucas' go-to answer is that it's his right as an artist.
No, it's not a popular opinion. But the man's correct. Those six films are his property and he can continue doing whatever he pleases with them until he leaves this mortal soil. For that, yeah I'll admit I respect him for sticking to his convictions. Again not a popular opinion.
What I will take umbrage with is his refusal to give fans what they've been begging for years – state of the art, top-dollar transfers of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi as we, at least us older farts, know and love them from 1977, 1980 and 1983. Make those readily available for home-video formats and I can speak for most when I say that will be enough.
But...he won't. That is an asshole thing to do in my never-so-humble opinion. It's not a big deal to see the deleted scenes because you know they're going to end up on YouTube in no time. So why blow over $100 for versions of Star Wars you know are just going to piss you off?
If you want to send a message, then don't buy the damn Blu-Rays. Search for VHS or laserdisc copies off eBay. Thank God I have my VHS copies of the originals still kicking.
It won't be too much longer till The Man of Steel moves production to Vancouver. Where upon we'll still see quick snaps of Zack Snyder, Henry Cavill & Co. walking around, but the amount of them leaked online will be noticeably less compared to the current filming up in Plano, Illinois subbing for Smallville, Kansas.
So enjoy these latest pictures of Cavill between takes in costume (and further reminding us this Superman doesn't wear no sticking red underwear) while you can. Once they start filming entirely on sound-stages, it will be dependent on when Warner Brothers releases official production stills.
Via Movie Hole, Bruce Boxleitner, who played the title character in the original Tron from 1982 and its 2010 sequel, told a fan at the D23 convention while signing autographs of Tron 3 being a "done deal" for 2013:
I don't buy it.
Tron: Legacy didn't ignite the box-office like a match on charcoal as Disney was hoping (and many, like me, initially expected) last Christmas and if they were so confident and happy with the finished results, don't you think they wouldn't have dropped Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion (now Horizons)?
It's not like they're in a tight spot and needing to fill an open slot badly like Paramount with G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation. Both Pixar and Marvel are in their firm possession, and judging by their planned summer 2014 lineup they fully plan to utilize them, and there's also (God save us...) more Pirates of the Caribbean sequels.
So they're not exactly in a bind nor is there a hungering for more 3D light-cycles with Garrett Hedlund. I'll believe Tron 3 is happening when I see it.
A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future, where the sport of boxing has gone hi-tech, Real Steel stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) to build and train a championship contender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.
Robert Rodriquez spent his time during the press-tours of Planet Terror, Shorts, Machete and Predators telling us how financing was coming together and Sin City 2 would happen anytime now. So you'll have to excuse us for rolling our eyes when he made those claims once again at the San Diego Comic-Con last month. But low and behold, it appears he wasn't bullshitting us.
Oscar-winning scribe William Monahan (of The Departed) has been commissioned by Rodriquez and Sin City creator/producer/co-director/standing-around-the-setter Frank Miller, reports Heat Vision.
A Sin City sequel is a great idea. If we were still in 2005 when it was first released and a well-liked hit by Rodriquez. But six years on, it feels like a missed opportunity and reeks of desperation after Spy Kids: All the Time in the World tanked at the box-office.
I have to say I've got no interest in Scorsese's next movie 'Hugo' so it's good to hear his next project looks to be closer to the type of material he excels at, even if it is another remake.
He's reteaming with 'The Departed' scribe William Monahan for a remake of 1974 James Caan starrer 'The Gambler'. It will come as little surprise to anyone that Leonardo DiCaprio is being eyed for the lead.
Paramount is going all-in on The Gambler, a remake of the 1974 James Caan addiction drama.
The studio has set Martin Scorsese to direct and William Monahan to write. Irwin Winkler, who produced the original, will again act as producer of the new film. They are interested in having Leonardo DiCaprio star, but no deal is in place for the actor.
The 1974 movie, an adaptation of the short novel The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, detailed a New York English professor who inspires his students but suffers from a secret gambling addiction. The affliction causes him to extort money from his mother and convince one of his students to shave points in a basketball game.
Caan received a Golden Globe nomination for best actor for his performance in the original. Lauren Hutton and Paul Sorvino co-starred for director Karel Reisz and writer James Toback. (The project is not related to the series of Gambler TV movies that starred Kenny Rogers in the 1980s and 90s.)
The gritty New York setting of the original seems a perfect match for Scorsese, who teamed with Monahan on 2006 best picture Oscar winner The Departed.
The director has been especially active lately. He has his first family film, Hugo, slated for a Thanksgiving release, and he’s preparing to direct Silence, an adaptation of the Shusaku Endo novel. He’s also attached to The Wolf of Wall Street, an adaptation of the Jordan Belfort memoir that has attachedDiCaprio, with whom Scorsese collaborated on Shutter Island.
Scorsese is repped by WME and Rick Yorn. Monahan is repped by WME and Anonymous.
I should really get off my ass and read The Hunger Games. Had a paperback copy collecting dust (and coffee stains, taco wrappers and Lotto tickets) in my car for awhile now and been swearing that I'd give it my time. Knowing my lazy-ass I'll get around to it like I do the video games I buy, i.e. just now starting to play Super Mario Galaxy 2, which I bought when it was first released. In June of 2010.
But I digress, it was the MTV Video Music Awards last night and one of the high-lights (at least, the pre-airdate hype) was the network giving viewers a first glimpse at the Gary Ross-directed, Billy Ray-adapted and Jennifer Lawrence-starring film. Since they have shitty embeds, you can follow this link to their official-site with the footage and/or check out all one minute, fourteen seconds (with Lawrence intro!) below.
I've heard complaints from some about how all it does is tease. Well...the thing is, that's the point of a teaser trailer. It's supposed to do that. The question is did it do a good job and create a desire for you to see more?
Me personally? Not so much, if you want my honest-to-God opinion. But we have awhile to go before The Hunger Games drops next March.
We still don't know a great deal about Ridley Scott's quasi Alien prequel Prometheus, but today pics of two f the vehicles from the movie set were revealed by alienprequelnews.com.
The pics from the SDCC footage that Fox had taken down clearly showed the sets shared the DNA of Scott's Alien, and I'd say these vehicle's clearly share the DNA of the ACP and Power Loader from James Cameron's sequel Aliens.
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