I live in fear of the planned remake of Superman. They keep talking about actors like Nicolas Cage or, God help us, Ashton Kucher for the lead role. There was a leaked script that just pissed all over every scrap of Superman’s mythology; for one thing, it made Superman’s suit the source of his power. For another, they were going to make Lex Luthor another Kryptonian; I guess they wanted the final fight to be more fair, or something. Perhaps most disgustingly, the movie was to be rife with wire-fighting, as seen in The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
That script has since been abandoned, thank God, but what will they come up with next?
I just saw a trailer for Young Black Beauty. A F*$KING PREQUILL TO Black Beauty? What is with Disney and making sequels of movies that are already a decade old? Come up with something ORIGINAL, damnit!
The proposed spin-off for Halle Berry’s 007 character, Jinx. I thought she was the weakest part of the movie. Apart from showing up in skimpy clothing, was there a point to her? Blech.
Jennifer Aniston’s part Greek. Maybe he can be (Partly) Greek by Proxy. I’m not as bothered with him being cast as Achilles as the movie makers casting a Helen who is so young. I’d always thought that Helen would be an older beauty, not someone who was basically the same age as Paris. Eh. I like that they went with a relative unknown.
Battleship Earth 2? Talk about the ultimate vanity project.
Ah, but she’d be the perfect Penelope when somebody finally decides to do the Odyssey properly. Of a certain age yet still hot, strong character. Somebody who makes movies has to finally see that epic not just in terms of special effects but also as one of the great love stories in literature.
Sony has been threatening to make a sequel to the American "Godzilla"movie (1998) ever since the first one came out. Eventually, Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin (the “creative” team behind the first movie) publicly announced that they were not going to be involved in any sequels, but the rumor has still not been dispelled.
I think Mel Gibon’s Jesus movie, The Passion, looks like a giant nightmare. There are other threads about this, but it’s going to be entirely in Latin and Aramaic (possibly without subtitles) and it’ll very possibly be told from Gibson’s very conservative (anti-Vatican II) point-of-view, which could bring about a lot of trouble if it comes off as anti-Jewish - I think it might.
IMDb has no information for a Battlefield Earth 2.
This idea for an Indiana Jones 4 sounds pretty crap-o to me (Harrison Ford being in his early sixties).
And I’m surprised nobody’s yet had the guts to mention Star Wars: Episode III (movie #6), wherein George Lucas finally runs out of fecal material to spray onto people’s cherished cinematic memories.
Rightly so – this movie is apparantly being made by complete idiots. On the radio I heard about some talks that Kevin Smith was giving to student film makers that included some discussion on his involvement with the film. Apparantly, he had been hired to write a script (being such a comic fan and expert), but eventually was phased out of the project. He talks about the arguments he had with producer Jon Peters, who kept asking for bizarre stuff, including insisting that Superman not fly(!), that the suit be entirely changed, and that he had to have a battle with a giant spider (although they couldn’t call it a spider). Wanting more info on this, I went Googling, and found this article, which is both hilarious and deeply depressing.
Oh, and Jon Peters, the producer who insisted on the giant spider battle? Guess what else he produced – Wild Wild West!
Shadows On The Wall had it listed back in April. Here’s the quote from there that I had posted on another board and it’s in a thread around here from about the same time (4/13).
Dead or Alive, the movie of the video game will apparently be in cinemas autumn next year, according to Hotdog magazine’s June issue. Since the main appeal of the games are the bouncing breasts of its female characters, you can expect a movie with deep character development, witty dialogue and poetic cinematography. Or jiggling titties.
There are also rumours of Streetfighter II, sequel to the not-that-bad Kylie Minogue/Jean-Claude Van Damme movie-of-the-game. The new film may star the muscles from Bruscles and Aussie soap star-turned-singer Holly Valance. But I have my doubts, since no one’s bought a Streetfighter game for years.
Just to verify this, Kevin Smith told the same story, just about verbatim, in his “Evening with Kevin Smith” DVD. It’s a damn good flick to spend a couple evenings watching.
