Bryan Singer's return to the X-Men franchise is interesting, especially after First Class proved that there is a hell of a lot of life left in the screen versions of the many mutant characters. But before Singer's Days of Future Past hits, we'll see Jack the Giant Slayer. And how does that film look at…
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Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Slayer (retitled from Jack the Giant Killer) may have been delayed by quite a while, and the subject of some suspicion via a vis the efficacy of the film's visual effects. But with the film pushed to March 1, there's a lot more time to make those effects work, and…
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Briefly: With Neill Blomkamp's Elysium moving back a few months from a previously annoucned March 2013 release date, the long delayed Bryan Singer film, Jack the Giant Slayer, is jumping on the opening. Previously schedueld for release on March 22, it'll now be released March 1 and yes, the new title is "Jack the Giant Slayer," as…
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There's a lot going on at Warner Bros. right now. The studio has been looking closely at some planned tentpole films and deciding that they're not quite where execs want to put their money after all. So Akira has been put on hold, and David Dobkin's Arthur & Lancelot, which always seemed like a strange…
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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,…
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As many of us watch Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy, aka, The Beast, in X-Men First Class this weekend, the actor himself is off in London shooting his next film with Bryan Singer, X-Men's producer. Hoult is the star of Jack the Giant Killer, a 3D fantasy fairy-tale loosely inspired by Jack and the Beanstalk…
Read More[No photo] Bryan Singer hasn't made a movie since the 2008 film Valkyrie, but he's finally rolling now on Jack the Giant Killer. The film stars Nicholas Hoult (A Single Man, X-Men: First Class) as the title character, and features support from Eleanor Tomlinson as a kidnapped princess and Ewan McGregor, Eddie Marsan, Stanley Tucci,…
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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. The story sees an…
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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…
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One of the biggest films currently casting, not based on a comic book, is Bryan Singer's 3D action epic Jack the Giant Killer. We already knew that Nicholas Hoult (About A Boy) is set to star as the title character in this adult retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk and that he'll go up against…
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Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Killer has been coming together over the past couple weeks. We've heard casting for some of the supporing roles -- Bill Nighy, Stanley Tucci and John Kassir all have roles. Until today, there was no Jack. Now, just after we heard he was on a shortlist, the role has been…
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Stanley Tucci (The Devil Wears Prada, Easy A) and Bill Nighy (Deathly Hallows Part 1, Love Actually) have joined the cast of director Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Killer. The 3D fantasy/adventure project has been billed as an "adult look at the Jack and the Beanstalk legend." The plot summary is as follows: "When a…
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Most people who go to the movies take it for granted, but light is as important a facet of cinema as the budget or the script. Without light, your movie couldn't be projected up onto the big screen. And without light on set, the cameras wouldn't be able to recognize the image in front of…
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Heat Vision has gotten a hold of the short list of actors (and actresses) being considered for the lead roles in director Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Killer. he 3D fantasy/adventure project has been billed as an "adult look at the Jack and the Beanstalk legend." The plot summary is as follows: "When a princess…
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Aaron Johnson was one of a few actors revealed to be taking meetings to play the titular role in Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Killer back in May, as was Andrew Garfield. Of course, Garfield's going to be a bit busy now, what with him starring in Marc Webb's Spider-Man reboot, so that leaves only…
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While no one has been officially cast as the young farmer Jack in Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Killer, a few actors have been name-checked as having meetings for the role, including Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus/Social Network star Andrew Garfield. The film, which was originally scheduled to begin shooting…
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Academy Award-winning screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) will reteam with director Bryan Singer on a rewrite of Jack the Giant Killer. The 3D fantasy/adventure project has been billed as an "adult look at the Jack and the Beanstalk legend." The original script was written by Lost (the indie film, not the TV show) scribe…
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We've just been hearing that, in addition to directing X-Men: First Class, Fox may be interested in tapping Bryan Singer to direct a fourth X-Men movie that fits directly into that series' established continuity. There is also implication that Fox wants him for Wolverine 2. Which is all well and good, but a man only…
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I'll probably be waiting a long time to hear that Ken Loach or Joe Swanberg is looking into 3D for their next production, but it seems that stereography really has caught on with franchise-type pictures, genre films and so on. Over the last few weeks there's been explicit discussion of an 'Avatar effect', a redoubled…
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News that Bryan Singer had signed to direct X-Men: First Class created a lot of excitement, but just as many questions, in the world of comic book movie fandom. We know that Jamie Moss has been hired to write, and the director had also revealed that the film would cover "the formative years of Xavier…
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Among Bryan Singer's potential next projects, the most odd-seeming was Jack the Giant-Killer. (Which has been mistaken at certain points for Jack and the Beanstalk; they're different but similar stories.) Now, Singer looks to be making Jack his next film, and the movie is being fast-tracked. Hey, it's better than another Battlestar Galactica reboot, right?…
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A possible return to the X-Verse, an adaptation of a folk tale or another cinematic pass at... er... a folk saga. Why all of these Bryan Singer projects at once? Who knows, but I'm definitely not complaining. After some wrangling, Warner Bros. and Legendary have secured the rights to remake John Boorman's Excalibur with Singer…
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I've always been a huge fan of director D.J. Caruso, despite his recent misfire with Eagle Eye (you can hear an interview I did with him by clicking here). The man has loads of talent and has worked extensively and admirably in both the TV and film industries. His skill has won him a fruitful…
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