Bryan Singer’s ‘Jack the Giant Killer’ Trailer

Posted on Thursday, December 15th, 2011 by Peter Sciretta

Warner Bros has released the first movie trailer for Bryan Singer‘s Jack the Giant Killer (which you can see in theaters attached to Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows in theaters this week). The film is an adult look at the Jack and the Beanstalk legend, starring Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, Bill Nighy and Ewan McGregor. The trailer is a bit underwhelming, and the effects look very early, at best. I’m still excited about what this film could be, as the dark fairytale genre is very promising. Watch the trailer now embedded after the jump. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below.

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Ian McShane Cast in Bryan Singer’s ‘Jack the Giant Killer’

Posted on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 by Russ Fischer

Bryan Singer is pulling the final pieces into place for his ‘adult fairy tale’ Jack the Giant Killer. He’s got Nicholas Hoult playing the title character and Eleanor Tomlinson as the princess Jack hopes to rescue. And now Ian McShane is in the cast as a king in the human realm. Read More »

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Bryan Singer’s ‘Jack The Giant Killer’ Lands Its Princess: Eleanor Tomlinson

Posted on Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 by Germain Lussier

If you’re going to make a movie about a young man fighting giants, he’s got to have a pretty good reason to do so. Enter Eleanor Tomlinson. She’s just been cast as Isabella, the princess that Nicholas Hoult‘s Jack will fight for in Bryan Singer‘s upcoming big budget, 3D re-imagining of Jack and the Beanstalk called Jack the Giant Killer. This will be Tomlinson’s biggest role to date, though in the past she’s played small parts in The Illusionist and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. Read more after the break. Read More »

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Christopher Lee, Danny Elfman and Eleanor Tomlinson Go To Burton’s Wonderland

Posted on Sunday, October 26th, 2008 by Peter Sciretta

Christopher Lee (Count Dooku in Star Wars, Saruman in Lord of the Rings) has been cast in Tim Burton‘s 3D adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. Lee’s role has not been  disclosed, but I would guess that he is either The Caterpillar, King of Hearts, or The White Knight. Lee has worked with Burton several times: Sleepy Hallow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Corpse Bride. Lee was originally scheduled to be in Burton’s Sweeney Todd, but the sequence his character was part of was cut out during preproduction. [christopherleeweb]

Eleanor Tomlinson (Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging), a 16-year-old Beverly teenager, has been cast in a part created specifically for Burton’s adaptation. Eleanor will play Alice’s peer, the spiteful Fiona Chataway, who appears at the beginning of the film before Alice falls down the rabbit hole. [thisishullandeastriding]

Danny Elfman recently confirmed that he is involved in the music for the film. This should come as no surprise as Elfman has worked with Burton on many of his films. You can watch a video of Elfman making the announcement on YouTube.

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