Later this week, you’ll be able to watch my 10 minute video interview with director Barry Sonnenfeld on the topic of his latest film, Men in Black 3. The interview took place about three weeks ago so we mainly discussed the film itself, some of the controversy behind it and more. One topic that doesn’t get breached is what Sonnenfeld is doing next and, in an interview with Comic Book Movie, he gave a very surprising answer. He said he’s been talking to Warner Bros. about directing a comic book film based on a property that hasn’t been around since the Sixties.
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Today Warner Bros. released a new poster for Christopher Nolan‘s The Dark Knight Rises, and it is an attention-getting design that helps put the original teaser poster into perspective. Here we see the same bat-logo outline established by a crumbling Gotham City, but with the addition of a fiery explosion and tense, determined Batman (Christian Bale).
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Yesterday, Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock) tweeted this vague response, igniting rumors that Johnson is in talks or cast in an upcoming DC Comics movie adaptation. Many fans responded to The Rock’s tease, but got no response. So what might The Rock have up his sleeves? Could there be a Warner Bros/DC Comics movie in the works? Or is The Rock just trying to get his fans talking (sometimes a lot of nonsensical buzz can turn into reality).
I remember back in 2007 that Johnson was attached to play Black Adam in a big screen adaptation of the Captain Marvel comic book Shazam!. Somewhere along the line, that project fell off the board. Has the project been rekindled? Or more likely, is Johnson in talks for another DC Comics property? If so which one?
With Ridley Scott starting to do real press for Prometheus, word has been bubbling up this week about Scott’s other return to sci-fi: a new Blade Runner film. We gave you a slight update earlier today, but now a press release has gone out that clarifies a couple specific details.
First up, while Scott waffled for some time about when this new film would take place with respect to the original Blade Runner, he eventually got around to saying it was most likely to be a sequel. Indeed, the official line is now that the new movie will be a sequel.
Additionally, the involvement of original Blade Runner screenwriter Hampton Fancher is confirmed. (He’s also the man who was instrumental in the optioning of Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which led to Blade Runner in the first place.) But don’t take it as a given that he’s writing the new movie; the press release carefully says that he’s on board to “develop the idea for the original screenplay” for the new movie. Someone else could end up writing.
What will the new film be about? That we don’t know, but another comment from Scott suggests that a woman will be the central character. Read More »
Until very recently, it looked like Harry Potter director David Yates and the former Hermione Granger, Emma Watson, would reunite to make a film based on the memoir Your Voice in My Head. The book tells the story of a young journalist who attempts suicide but is tethered back to life by a friendship with her psychiatrist. It was an interesting choice after Warner Bros. wooed Yates for a couple of much more obvious ‘big’ films, but also a promising one.
Now the film won’t happen in that configuration. Yates has moved on, reportedly for reasons having to do with a family health issue. Meanwhile, it seems like the show will go on. Read More »
One of the most anticipated films of 2012 has officially been delayed. Alfonso Cuaron‘s Gravity, originally set for release in November, has been moved to a not-yet-specified date in 2013. The film, which stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, recently began test screening and it’s safe to assume Cuaron and the Warner Bros. executives felt it needed a bit more time to reach its full potential. The sci-fi thriller is said to be very effects heavy.
As one Warner Bros. film goes into release limbo, another has come out. Ruben Fleischer‘s period film Gangster Squad has been slotted for September 7. Starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling, the film was moved off the schedule a few weeks back but, with a strong response to its recently released trailer, is now back on. Read More »
If Jay Roach has his way, two of the biggest, busiest movie stars in the world will be starring in a buddy comedy he’s directing called El Presidente. Roach, the director of Austin Powers as well as this summer’s The Campaign, is courting Tom Cruise and Robert Downey Jr. for the film, written by Parks and Recreation writer Dan Goor, about a Secret Service agent guarding the worst President ever. Read more after the jump. Read More »
There was the time when the release of a new Tim Burton movie seemed like a major event. And, after Alice in Wonderland made an insane amount of money thanks in part to being part of the immediate post-Avatar 3D boom, for Hollywood the release of a Burton movie remains a big deal. The director has a lot of fans still, for reasons that include his own particular blend of the weird and comic, an idiosyncratic approach to design, and his long working relationship with Johnny Depp.
Dark Shadows brings all those factors to bear, or attempts to. It is a remake/continuation/alternate look at a daytime soap opera that started in the ’60s and ran until the early ’70s. (The film is set primarily in 1972, just after the show went off the air.) Vampire Barnabas Collins (Depp) is locked away for hundreds of years by the witch Angelique (Eva Green). Freed, he returns to his old family home, where he finds a collection of characters that is almost as eccentric and downtrodden as he is.
Depp and Burton have talked about making this film for quite some time, and now that it has arrived, we want to know what you thought of it. Chime in below, where as always in posts of this sort, full spoilers are fair game. Read More »
