The bigger they are, the harder they fall. That's a concept that relates directly to Jack the Giant Slayer, in more ways than one. Bryan Singer's film, delayed from 2012 to 2013 for effects tinkering and (hopefully) a better release opportunity, opened to shrugs from audiences. Now the film is looking like it'll be a…
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Dave, Devindra, and DC Pierson discuss the awesomeness of The Americans, praise the polarizing Stoker, try to get you to watch Enlightened, and get confused about Channing Tatum's involvement with our FilmAid fundraiser. Check out DC Pierson's new book, Crap Kingdom. Be sure to check out DC's newest stand-up set. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and…
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In Jack the Giant Slayer, Bryan Singer engages in the time-honored tradition of taking a classic fairy tale and reshaping it to fit the times. Current trends being what they are, that means turning the film gritty and (relatively) realistic, with plenty of Lord of the Rings-style action. Screenwriters David Dobkin and Darren Lemke take…
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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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Wearing all-white might seem intimidating, but it's easier to pull off than you think.
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Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Slayer has been done for so long, the director is already hard at work on pre-production on his next film. Something with "X" in the title. But while the fairy tale film, a heroic spin on Jack and the Beanstalk, has had release date shifts and its title changed, it…
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2012 saw a couple of high-profile fairy tale releases, but the trend is really just getting started. 2013 has a couple such titles due out in just the first three months, including Tommy Wirkola's Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters in January and Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Slayer in March. Of course, that's not to say there aren't…
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The big argument against Peter Jackson's use of high frame rate technology for The Hobbit, when previewed months ago, was that the result didn't look like "cinema." Rather, it looks real, which, ironically, means it looks fake. The increased detail presented in the HFR projection made costumes and sets look like mere costumes and sets,…
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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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