Posted on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 by Angie Han
What do Bridesmaids and The Devil Inside have in common? Not a lot, except that both performed even better than expected at the box office, and execs are now eager to get going on terrible-sounding sequels. After the jump:
- Melissa McCarthy refuses to do Bridesmaids 2 without Kristen Wiig
- Mark Wahlberg reports that The Fighter 2 is looking for a new director
- Joe Carnahan discusses the (non) possibility of an A-Team 2, and more interestingly, the possibility of a Narc 2
- The Devil Inside exec producer Steven Schneider says he’d “love” to do a sequel
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The teaser trailer for The Grey, Joe Carnahan‘s man vs. wolf survival action story starring Liam Neeson, concluded with an epic showdown featuring Neeson getting ready to fight a wolf with broken mini-bar booze bottles taped to his hands. Basically, it was amazing. This brand-new theatrical trailer ends the exact same way but, before it gets there, we’re given a much better sense of the scope of the story and fear that the characters played by Dallas Roberts, James Badge Dale, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo, Nonso Anozie, and Joe Anderson must face. It open January 27, 2012 and you can watch this full theatrical trailer after the jump. Read More »
The first teaser trailer for Joe Carnahan‘s The Grey got us pretty pumped to see the movie, because it featured Liam Neeson taping broken bottles to his hands in preparation to fight a wolf. With that image in mind it’s pretty easy to forget that the rest of the first teaser trailer is a really moody, low-key thing that depicts Neeson as one of several guys lost in the wilderness after a plane crash.
Now here’s a sizzle reel for the movie (this isn’t a final trailer, though we might see a trailer that looks a lot like this one) that really promotes the idea of The Grey as a brooding adventure story. At least until the wolves attack, at least, at which point all bets are off. Check out the reel below. Read More »
Joe Carnahan and Liam Neeson reunited after The A-Team to make The Grey, an adventure film set in Alaska in which Neeson and a gang of oil-rig workers survive a plane crash, but face the forbidding weather and Alaskan wilderness, not to mention a pack of wolves, as they try to make it to safety.
The first trailer has just hit, and I think all you need to know is in the still above. It shows Neeson with broken mini booze bottles (aren’t those usually plastic?) taped to his knuckles for use in punching a wolf. Did you see that movement out of the corner of your eye? That was Jackie Chan, swelling with pride. That image is all I need to see — I’m watching this one. Read More »
A group of oil-rig workers crash and find themselves stranded on the Alaskan tundra in the presence of a group of deadly wolves. That’s the plot of Joe Carnahan‘s The Grey starring Liam Neeson, James Badge Dale and Dermot Mulroney, among others, and it’s just been announced that we’ll get a chance to check it out on January 27, 2012. A January release date generally puts a film out of 2011 Oscar contention but, rumor has it, Open Road Films could do an Oscar qualifying run based solely on the strength of Neeson’s performance. Read the full press release after the jump. Read More »
As director Joe Carnahan thought about his next movie after the balls-to-the-wall action adaptation The A-Team, he decided to go into a deep freeze. His follow-up frozen film is called The Grey and it stars Liam Neeson, Dallas Roberts, James Badge Dale, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo, Nonso Anozie, and Joe Anderson as a group of oil-rig workers who crash and find themselves stranded on the Alaskan tundra in the presence of a group of deadly wolves. Think Frozen and Jaws sprinkled with Armageddon.
Last we heard, The Grey had gotten a green light and now we’ve got our first glimpse at the film. Check it out after the jump. Read More »
Movie blogs like this one run so many stories about gossip, rumor and early attachments, it’s nice to finally write one about that all important green light. A “green light” is the term for when financiers and filmmakers agree on a budget, script, cast and finally give the go-ahead to begin production. And in the realm of movies we report on, it doesn’t always happen.
We’re happy to report that though it took about a year, and we reported on it in the casting phase, The Grey, co-written and directed by Joe Carnahan, starring Liam Neeson, Dallas Roberts, James Badge Dale, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo, Nonso Anozie, and Joe Anderson, has just gotten that all important green light. It’s about a group of oil-rig workers who crash and find themselves stranded on the Alaskan tundra in the presence of a group of deadly wolves. Sounds kind of like Armageddon meets Frozen. Read more about it after the jump. Read More »
I can’t help but feel a certain sympathy for Joe Carnahan. After coming out of the gate early with the very good Narc, he struggled to make appropriate follow-ups like Killing Pablo in between stumbling with Smokin’ Aces and The A-Team.
Mr. Carnahan is working now on The Grey, with Liam Neeson, but he’s also just signed to rewrite and direct a thriller called Umbra. Read More »
