Posted on Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 by Angie Han
Back in 2008, commercial filmmaker Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. signed on to make his feature directing debut on the Zack Snyder-developed Army of the Dead, a follow-up to Snyder’s 2004 zombie pic Dawn of the Dead. When the project stalled, van Heijningen went on to helm Universal’s The Thing instead, but continued to harbor hopes that Army of the Dead would take off eventually; as recently as this past fall, van Heijningen was telling outlets that Army of the Dead had could still be revived at Warner Bros.
However, the months since then have apparently worn away at van Heijningen’s optimism, because he’s now saying that the project is unlikely to happen. Read his comments after the jump.
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Briefly: Here’s some pretty late-breaking casting news for Zack Snyder‘s new Superman film, Man of Steel. While we know that Lois Lane will be the primary female lead in the film, played by Amy Adams, now we know for certain that ground is being laid to include another romantic interest for Superman alter-ego Clark Kent (Henry Cavill).
A past romantic interest, at least. Jadin Gould (Battle: Los Angeles, The Mentalist, Chuck) has been cast as a young Lana Lang, and will appear in at least one flashback to Clark Kent’s childhood in Smallville, likely opposite Dylan Sprayberry as the young Kent. Lang is traditionally the first of Kent’s ‘double-L’ entanglements, before he runs into Lois Lane and Lex Luthor. Oddly, Gould could almost pass for a young Kristin Kreuk, who played Lang on Smallville. [Superman Super Site via ComingSoon]
The first real shot of Henry Cavill as Superman in Zack Snyder‘s new film Man of Steel wasn’t quite what fans expected to see, but it did start to give us a look at the suit that Cavill will sport as the new man from Krypton.
We saw some other pics of Cavill in a stripped-down suit, which clued us in to some of the unusual alien accents that decorate the suit. Those images started a minor argument amongst fans who are concerned, to various degrees, about the fact that one traditional element of Supes’ costume, the red ‘underpants,’ have seemingly been banished.
Now here’s one more new image that shows a good old-fashioned friendly Superman. Still no underpants, though. Read More »
As Zack Snyder is hard at work once again making us believe a man can fly, rumor has it Warner Bros. is already flying towards a follow up. Man of Steel, Snyder’s Superman reboot starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon and Russell Crowe is still filming in Vancouver aimed at a June 14, 2013 release date. One site is reporting executives are so happy with the results, they’ve put together a list of writers to tackle a sequel. The list, reportedly, includes Steve Kloves, Travis Beacham and Lawrence Kasdan. Read more after the jump. Read More »
We here at /Film aim to please. So, instead of making you click on four different articles for your sequel themed updates, all you have to do is read this one. After the jump we’ve got news on the following:
- Producers Mark Canton and Gianni Nunnari update us on the latest regarding the sequel to 300, 300 Battle of Artemisia
- Shane Black had a lot to say about the actors, villains, themes and more in regards to Iron Man 3
- James Mangold got in-depth about why he took The Wolverine and his plans for it
- Two new Cabin Fever films, Cabin Fever: Patient Zero and Cabin Fever: Outbreak, will be shot back to back next year
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After shooting all across the great state of Illinois, Zack Snyder is now in Vancouver filming his new Superman film Man of Steel. Since production moved North of the border, spy photos have to hard to come by because most of the filming has been on closed sets and those sets, according to co-star Michael Shannon, are like walking onto another world. Spy photographers were able to snag a look at Russell Crowe at Jor-El as when he grabbed a smoke out in the open but that’s been about it.
A bunch of new photos have now been snapped showing the film’s star, Henry Cavill, with a look that’s decidedly unlike the Clark Kent or Superman we’re used to. What does it mean? Find out after the jump but these should definitely be considered spoilers. Read More »
Several years ago, when Zack Snyder was still making Watchmen, the director started talking about a zombie movie that he had been developing. The project was called Army of the Dead; it was written by Joby Harold and quickly attached director Matthijs van Heijningen. But the project stalled, and some time later van Heijningen went on to make The Thing for Universal.
But Army of the Dead may not yet be buried; seemingly it has a chance of going forward again at Warner Bros. That’s according to van Heijningen, who also says the film would have some pretty extreme zombie behavior. And by that, I mean zombie rape. Nasty. Read on for the details. Read More »
Superman’s daddy has been unveiled. Russell Crowe, who is playing Jor-El in Zack Snyder‘s Man of Steel, has been captured on set in his full costume and it’s, well, you should just click below and check it out. Read More »
