When the news broke that Robert Downey Jr. could be teaming up with Paul Thomas Anderson to make Thomas Pynchon‘s Inherent Vice, fans geeked out at the possibility of such an unpredictable pair teaming up for such a cool story. That was back in 2010. In February, things started to heat up but then news on the project went cold. Downey went and shot Sherlock Holmes 2, The Avengers and is now getting ready for Iron Man 3 while Anderson finally got the money to go ahead and make The Master, which will hopefully come out in 2012.
We finally have an update. Kind of. Downey recently sat down with MTV for an interview and said that the rumors of the team up are “probably true.” But when could he do it? We’ll show you the video and discuss after the jump. Read More »
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Can we assume that Robert Downey Jr. has become a fan of Iron Man 3 screenwriter Drew Pearce? Months before Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows opens, Pearce has been hired to write the provisional Sherlock Holmes 3 for Warner Bros. (Just as the studio hired A Game of Shadows screenwriters Kieran and Michele Mulroney to get to work on the script before Sherlock Holmes opened.) And since Pearce is writing the third Iron Man film, something Downey is likely quite involved in given his admitted disappointment with the second movie, it isn’t difficult to assume that Downey had a hand in suggesting him to pen Sherlock 3. No plot has been revealed for the potential third film at this time. [Deadline]
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As we’re already halfway through October, we’ll soon see a deluge of new marketing materials for films being released in the coveted holiday window. Kicking things off is a new trailer for Guy Ritchie‘s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. This one uses all the same light comedy and heavy speed ramping that was in the first trailer, and confirms that Rachel McAdams returns for at least a cameo. (Unless that is new co-star Noomi Rapace disguised as McAdams, which seems unlikely.) No glimpse of Stephen Fry as Mycroft Holmes, sadly, but we do get to see more of Jared Harris (Mad Men) as arch-villan Dr. Moriarty.
The trailer doesn’t show us a lot more of the interaction between Holmes and Watson (Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law) beyond what we saw in previous video, choosing instead to emphasize action. Check it out below and try to determine whether or not Ritchie and writers Kieran Mulroney and Michele Mulroney have managed to inject a little more heart into this sequel.
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This week has been packed with news about TV shows moving to the big screen, and vice versa, beginning with the news of a really and truly possible Arrested Development movie, and moving into other, less promising properties. (Does anyone really want a Mr. Ed movie?)
Now it is Perry Mason‘s turn, as Robert Downey, Jr. and his wife and producer Susan Downey are working with Warner Bros. on a revival of the beloved defense attorney character. This version of Perry Mason will actually hew closer to the original novels by Erle Stanley Gardner than the first run of the television series that starred Raymond Burr and ran from ’57 to ’66, with later TV episodes and movies following. Read More »
Hey Disney, we’re waiting. We saw what you had at the end of Captain America, we saw the D23 Expo footage and we’ve read the Entertainment Weekly cover story. Where is our first official trailer for The Avengers? There’s certainly enough footage and images out there for us to figure out what’s going on, especially with this new batch of high resolution photos that have just come online. It’s time to let Joss Whedon and his superhero team blow our minds.
Until that happens, though, check out these images – most of which are new or at least in much better quality – after the jump. We’ll also attempt to describe what’s happening in each so minor spoilers follow. Read More »
You might recall that early this year a group of Marvel’s Mightiest, the X-Men, had a run-in with that evil-doer most foul, Crappy Photoshop. Now the villain strikes again as the heroes of The Avengers make their Entertainment Weekly cover debut. Hit the jump, if you dare, to see the horror of Black Widow’s giant head and the visage of Mark Ruffalo as he is afflicted with the scourge of the middle 2000s, duckface.
Update: Three more images have arrived via EW, and have been added to the gallery below. They’re on-set shots, so they’re much better than the lousy cover. Read More »
