Having signed Samuel L. Jackson up for a many, many picture deal to reprise Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD across a whole range of tied-together movies, I can’t see Marvel would fail to employ him in a single one. We’ve know for a while that he’s definitely cropping up in Iron Man 2, and it was reasonable to assume he’d also show for Thor.
Perhaps, though, he won’t… At least, that’s the inference of a new interview that delivers the following quote from Jackson:
Nobody’s told me anything. I was reading the trades last week and I saw the [Thor] cast list. My name was in it, so maybe I am doing something that I don’t know about and I’ll hear about it soon.
I think he’s just being coy. Maybe these stars are told to act like this in interviews - I mean, it certainly generates a lot of discussion about the films in question. It’s hard to believe he’s as naive about the whole process as he claims to be. Or maybe I’m wrong, and he’s out, Clark Gregg representing SHIELD instead.
In other Sam Jackson comics news, the first image has been unveiled of his upcoming book Cold Space. You can see it in full after the break. I think you might find the lead character rather recognisable…
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When I think “from the director of Remember the Titans” I don’t think “supernatural action.” But Boaz Yakin is developing Sympathy for the Devil, which just attached Josh Duhamel and Samuel L. Jackson to play partnered cops in Louisiana who are entangled in “a cosmic confrontation between Heaven and Hell.”
The synopsis, and news on Jake Kasdan’s new comedy Bad Teacher, after the break. Read More »
This awesome parody of that famous scene involving Samuel L Jackson from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction takes on society and the media’s obsession with the popular microblogging website Twitter. Available from headline shirts for $24, sized small to XXXL. Check out a zoomed in version of the t-shirt design after the jump.
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The ensemble cast for The Other Guys, the latest collaboration between funnymen pals Will Ferrell and writer/director Adam McKay, is of a higher-profile than on their previous flicks, sans Anchorman. Today brings news that Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne “Tooth Fairy” Johnson will play stud “super cops” to the unfulfilled desk pigs played by Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Rob Riggle, and Craig Robinson. In addition, Brit comedy and Alan Patridge mastermind, Steve Coogan, will play the villain, automatically kicking the craziness up a notch. Last week we reported that Eva Mendes, Michael Keaton, and a Wayans have mounted up for unspecified roles.
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Before you rush out to Inglourious Basterds and/or Avatar footage, chew on a couple of quick casting bites for you at the end of this Friday.
First, Priest, the film by Scott Stewart starring Paul Bettany, has a villain, Karl Urban, and a new heroine, Maggie Q. The film follows Stewart and Bettany’s pairing on Legion (but is not related) and is scripted by Cory Goodman based on the TokyoPop comic. According to THR, Bettany is “a warrior priest and vampire fighter who teams with a sheriff (Cam Gigandet) and warrior priestess (Maggie Q) to track down a murderous band of vampires who have kidnapped his niece.” Urban is Black Hat, the vampire leader and a himself a former priest. After seeing footage from Stewart’s Legion I’m curious about this effort. Nice to see Screen Gems doing some potentially fun genre stuff that pushes beyond another Resident Evil regurgitation.
After the break, Tommy Lee Jones does another Cormac McCarthy adaptation, this time with Samuel L. Jackson. No, it’s not Blood Meridian. Read More »
FirstShowing attended the Producer Guild of America’s panel on Producing Marvel Movies where Marvel Entertainment producer Kevin Feige revealed a couple interesting bits about upcoming film projects:
- It’s a “safe bet” that Steve Roger’s sidekick Bucky is going to show up in The First Avenger: Captain America.
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Jon Favreau has posted a new Iron Man 2 set photo on his Twitter account. Not much to see, just some on location filming at a famous LA landmark called Randy’s Donuts in Inglewood. Favreau revealed on the microblogging service that he was filming “the first scene with Tony Stark and Nick Fury.” Collider received word that the scene involved a blue government car racing up to the donut store, Samuel L Jackson, in the same long black trench coat from the first film, gets out and yells up at “the donut hole on the roof” where Iron Man would likely be inserted.
Scarlett Johansson, who plays Natasha Romanoff in the sequel, also shot her first scene in the Black Widow outfit earlier in the day (most likely on a stage). Favreau tweeted that “You’ve never heard a crew get so quiet so fast.” I’m sure…
As you probably know, many films have been redubbed and reedited to be television safe for network and cable broadcast. In my opinion, the TBS version of Dumb and Dumber is almost unwatchable. /Film reader Mikey S sent over this 22-second screencapture of FX’s airing of the scene from Snakes on a Plane where Samuel L Jackson gets tired with the mother F—king Snakes on the Mother F—ing plane. Of course, FX’s version is completely ridiculous. Watch it for yourself after the jump.
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Here’s a bedtime story about, amongst other things, economies of scale.
After appearing in the post credits geek-tease on Iron Man, Sam Jackson’s Nick Fury was slated for a bigger, better showing in the next installment. Seemed like a sure thing, until Jackson himself cast the assumption into doubt. Other stories started surfacing about cost-cutting or, at the very least, an unexpected sense of budgetary pragmatism in the Marvel movie bursary (Don Cheadle in, Terrence Howard out, Mickey Rourke in, out, in, out and shake it all about). Our collective popcorn dreams of more Samuel-powered Fury seemed to be a burst bubble…
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Posted on Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 by David Chen
In this episode of the /Filmcast, Dave, Devindra, and Adam witness the self-destruction of Joaquin Phoenix, say goodbye to Laserdiscs, and discuss the status of Wolverine: X-Men Origins. Special geek/guest Elisabeth Rappe joins us from Cinematical and MTV Movies Blog.
As always feel free to send us your e-mails at slashfilmcast@gmail.com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us next Monday night at 9 PM EST / 6 PM PST as we review Alan Ball’s Towelhead (just released on DVD) with Groundhog Day actor Stephen Tobolowsky!
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