With Jack Reacher releasing in just a couple of weeks, that film’s writer/director Christopher McQuarrie is finally back on screens with a directing credit to follow his debut The Way of the Gun, which hit in 2000. McQuarrie is the lead choice to direct Tom Cruise (and presumably Jeremy Renner) in Mission: Impossible 5, and talked about the job recently to Graffiti Without Punctuation:
We’ve just started talking about it. He [Tom Cruise] is very busy with ‘All You Need is Kill’, JJ [Abrams] is very busy with ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’, I’m busy promoting this movie. Obviously, I love working with him [Cruise] and would love to do it, it’s daunting in that I would have to follow Brad Bird… you know, the biggest movie of the genre. At the same time that’s kinda what I like about it, I like to come from a place of lowered expectation and I have to imagine that when they find out a filmmaker like me who feels, as someone put it earlier today ‘street level’… between ‘Way of the Gun’ and ‘Reacher’ and movies like that, I have to imagine that when it becomes real that people’s expectations could not be any lower.
After the break:
- Fast and Furious 6 moves to LA for more shooting,
- Additional effects footage shows up from The Host 2,
- Rodrigo Santoro talks about the 300 prequel/sequel,
- and new international posters hit for Riddick and G.I. Joe: Retaliation.
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Posted on Tuesday, October 30th, 2012 by Angie Han
Old people begin and end today’s Sequel Bits, which include updates on Red 2 and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 2. After the jump:
- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is getting sequelized (as The Second-Best Exotic Marigold Hotel?)
- Eli Roth is interested in The Man With the Iron Fists 2
- Producer Gregg Wilson chats about the status of Bond 24
- Ian McKellen details his decision to return for The Hobbit
- Look at two more photos from The Fast and the Furious 6
- See new pics from the London-as-Moscow set of Red 2
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Posted on Friday, October 12th, 2012 by Angie Han
Is it time to look ahead to 2013 already? After the jump:
- The Hangover 3 will shoot in Orange County, CA
- Paul Walker is recovering from a Fast Six injury
- Monsters Inc.‘s Mike is Billy Crystal‘s favorite role
- Liam Neeson collected $10 million for Taken 2
- Matt Damon probably won’t play Bourne again
- Roberto Orci defends the one-second Star Trek clip
- Over-the-hill movie stars team up in Red 2 set photos
- See a new photo from Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines
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Newly announced sequels, new info on previously announced sequels and the death of others. Tons of news in today’s Sequel Bits. After the jump read about:
- Liam Neeson didn’t think Taken 3 would happen, but the screenwriter of Taken 2 says it definitely is.
- Rob Cohen would love to go back to both the xXx and Fast and Furious series.
- Tyrese Gibson tweets a semi-spoilery photo from Fast and Furious 6 and says he wants to come back for Transformers 4.
- Michael Bay says Transformers 4 will have “a different feel” and “open the franchise up.”
- Texas Chainsaw 3D will feature footage from the original film.
- Director Isaac Florentine and actor Scott Adkins are back for Ninja 2.
- Paranormal Activity 4 is coming to IMAX.
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Posted on Monday, October 1st, 2012 by Angie Han
Some of today’s tidbits involve actors claiming they probably won’t do a sequel. Imagine that. After the jump:
- 300: Rise of an Empire stars gather for a group photo
- Watch an explosive video from Fast and the Furious 6
- Liam Neeson does not think Taken 3 will ever happen
- Mike Tyson and Kendra Wilkinson join Scary Movie 5
- Benedict Cumberbatch talks about mo-cap in Hobbit
- Ethan Hawke says Before Midnight may be the end of his unexpectedly long-running series with Richard Linklater.
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This week marks not only the 75th anniversary of The Hobbit, but also the shared birthday of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins. It’s Tolkien week so we’ve got lots of Hobbit and more in today’s Sequel Bits. After the jump read about the following:
- Six new photos from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey have been revealed.
- Peter Jackson reveals a new Hobbit trailer will be released Wednesday.
- Winona Ryder is aware Beetlejuice 2 could possibly happen.
- Check out a stunt from the set of Fast and Furious 6.
- Two major stars will apparently have sex in Scary Movie 5.
- Atlas Shrugged Part II gets a new poster, which is actually better than the last.
- The Wolfpack is going to Arizona in The Hangover Part III.
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Posted on Monday, September 10th, 2012 by Angie Han
A mostly lighthearted Sequel Bits covers everything from fish- and family-friendly animated adventures to R-rated wolf pack shenanigans. After the jump:
- Andrew Stanton‘s next project is Finding Nemo 2
- The Hangover Part III is now shooting in Los Angeles
- Heather Locklear and Molly Shannon join Scary Movie 5
- David Thewlis will play The Frog in Red 2
- Olga Kurkulina is Mother Russia in Kick-Ass 2
- The Rock destroys a ceiling in new Fast Six pic
- Silent Hill: Revelation 3D has a new poster
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Filming starts on one sequel, you can help with another and much more in today’s Sequel Bits:
- Choose a scene to film, which could become part of The Empire Strikes Back Uncut.
- Scary Movie 5, starring Ashley Tisdale, starts shooting in Atlanta, GA Tuesday.
- Hayley Atwell is likely in Captain America: The Winter Solider, but won’t say for sure.
- Jim Carrey has now been confirmed for Kick-Ass 2.
- A major spoiler for the final battle of Iron Man 3 has been revealed.
- Dwayne Johnson stopped a robbery on the set of Fast and Furious 6.
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