Cinema Spy has started a new rumor claiming that Chris Pine (who played James T Kirk in JJ Abrams Star Trek) is the front runner to play Captain America in Joe Johnson’s The First Avenger: Captain America. Wow, what short attention spans we all must have. It was only a week ago when the director revealed at The Wolfman junket press conference that he is planning to cast an unknown in the role, and surround him with some bigger name stars.
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Posted on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 by David Chen
In this week’s /Filmcast, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley praise The Inside Man, wonder why America can’t handle miniseries, celebrate the joys of Glee, and explain the similarities between Where the Wild Things Are and Children of Men. Special guest Stephen Tobolowsky joins us for this episode. You can currently see Stephen on Glee, which airs on FOX, Wednesdays at 9 PM EST.
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I suppose we should have seen this coming. Over the last few months we’ve reported quite a bit on the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan film series — a franchise that has been all but dead since The Sum of All Fears failed to make a big dent in the box office. We know that Paramount has been planning to revive it, however, and thanks to films like The Hunt For Red October and Patriot Games (and their respective portrayals of the character by Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford) there’s quite a bit of interest in seeing the character continue. We’ve also known that Paramount wanted to skew the character younger. That being the case, of course they’re turning to the man who had a lot to do with reinventing another Paramount character for a younger generation: Chris ‘Captain Kirk’ Pine. Read More »
Chris Pine’s pre-Star Trek film Carriers may have been dumped into a few theatres post-Star Trek, but hopefully his real post-Trek stuff will be more interesting and fare better with studio marketing departments. He’s already got Unstoppable in production, and now he’s part of a deal to fast-track a counterfeiting film called The Art of Making Money at Paramount. Read More »
Rosario Dawson has signed on to star alongside Denzel Washington and Chris Pine in Tony Scott’s action drama Unstoppable. No mention of what character Dawson would play, but one would assume that she’s the romantic interest or wife of either Washington or Pine.
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A couple of weeks ago, when we covered the possibility that Fox would kill Tony Scott’s upcoming Unstoppable, starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine, Brendon speculated that we might see a final version of the film go into production that had stars attached but a slashed budget. Now it’s looking like we’ll see it, if at all, with a slashed budget and at least one star gone. Variety reports that Denzel Washington has backed away from the film. Read More »
Could a new collaboration between Tony Scott and Denzel Washington be about to get Moneyballed? According to The Hollywood Reporter, there’s every chance that Unstoppable will be in fact stopped, and dead in its tracks. The issue, of course, is financial. Let’s not pretend for one second that a Tony Scott/Denzel Washington picture would run into studio problems on any kind of artistic basis. Apparently, neither Scott nor Washington’s contracts are signed yet, nor is that of second-fiddle star Chris Pine.
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Star Trek stars Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine made an appearance during Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update to respond to the harsh criticism and annoyance of hard-core Trekkies. Watch the clip after the jump.
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Here’s the third and final part of /Film’s Star Trek press conference coverage from Smoky Old Londinium. As I sat listening to JJ Abrams and his lead cast chew over just how to hype the film to the assembled Brits, outside stalked Jack the Ripper through a real pea souper off in search of jellied eels. Or maybe not. Maybe London’s not like that at all and its all mods and miniskirts. I forget now.
Why not read part one or part two, or both parts, of my conference transcript in preparation for this epic finale? Reading is good for you.
After the break, the last marathon run of questions and answers. This is where you’ll get to read the inevitable discussions of the next Trek film and plenty more besides.
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On the afternoon of the UK Star Trek premiere, Paramount laid on a press conference in the Mirror room of Claridges to pit JJ Abrams and lead cast against (as conference referee Mark Dolan had it) “the members of Her Majesty’s Press.” We have already started coverage of the event (read part one here), but here is the next juicy installment. Particularly fun: this is the bit where /Film’s question is put forward (and, for the record, it received the two most animated responses of the afternoon).
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