Writing by Dave on Wednesday, 6 May, 2009 at 10:47 am
Both of the “secret” endings to X-Men Origins: Wolverine will get their own films, so SPOILERS abound, let’s look at ‘em:
This scene shows Wolverine drinking shots at a bar in Japan, claiming he’s “drinking to remember” but he probably won’t be drining for long, as he’ll most likely get the shit kicked out of him by some samurai who will hopefully teach him not to be such a plot-less crazy soldier. That’s right, I want the new Wolverine film to be about Wolverine. Jackman, help me out:
Fox and Seed are in development on a sequel to “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” which topped the domestic box office over the weekend.
The Seed partners have begun planning the sequel, which they are squarely focusing on the samurai storyline originated in the comic series, and whose Japanese locale was teased after the film’s final credits. A writer has yet to be hired. Seed will produce.
Yay, Wolverine. I guess. I’m still kind of mad at film one, but I can’t bitch forever.
I’m sort of surprised that we haven’t heard more buzz about other X-Men franchise spin-offs before Star Trek comes along and steals all Fox’s Wolverine profits. We know that X-Men Origins: Magneto is in the pipeline, as well as X-Men: First Class, but now one of two “fan-favorite” character introductions in Wolverine is getting his own spin off. And it’s not Taylor Kitsch, yet…
Writing by Dave on Tuesday, 28 April, 2009 at 9:13 am
The project we’ll be discussing here is Humpty Dumpty 3D, which - by title alone - sounds like a lame, multi-dimensional version of Veggie Tales or something. Call me crazy, but as a guy who loves re-imagined fictional characters (especially in the comics form like Fables or Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentleman), I wasn’t sold on Humpty’s story being optioned.
Writing by Dave on Monday, 27 April, 2009 at 10:54 am
Damn, damn, damn.
I was all psyched for a BioShock movie, especially with all the footage from BioShock 2 (coming later this year) seeing the light of day at various video game sites around the net. Last we heard from BioShock, Gore Verbinski, the director of the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, was on board.
Now, we’re hearing an all-halt which could be signaling the first appearance of development hell’s demon…
Writing by Dave on Thursday, 23 April, 2009 at 10:58 am
Ok, I didn’t want to, but I’m going to write about it: There was a bit of a blogger feud over Deadline Hollywood Daily’s early announcement that Juan Antonio Bayona of The Orphanage was in talks with Summit Entertainment to film the third Twilight movie, Eclipse as part of the company’s interesting and probably not misguided release schedule of 3 Twilight movies in 2 years.
That blew up in DHD’s face which resulted in much mocking and much reservation when people like me want to get online and talk about who might be directing the vampire franchise that stands to get millions and millions of tween romance dollars while I watch the old Blade movies (yes, “old” as in: these are not the vampires we’re used to) and patently wait for True Blood to start airing - ‘cuz if I’m gonna watch a vampire romance, I’d like it to be where I can see boobs. Possible Evan Rachel Wood’s (CLICK HERE for more on that).
That said, we now have an official press release that has named the director of Eclipse. And it’s the same guy who did Hard Candy, the Ellen Page torture film and 30 Days Of Night, another vampire flick…
Writing by Dave on Thursday, 23 April, 2009 at 9:21 am
Some great news for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans on this, the 25th Anniversary of the characters creation. Looks like the TMNT movie that was buzzing around the internet late last summer is actually happening, as Peter Laird told us it might in September…
Writing by Dave on Wednesday, 22 April, 2009 at 3:56 pm
This tweet from Steven Fry is the news. So, what else do you want me to write about it?
That Tim Burton is doing a motion-capture/live action remake of Alice In Wonderland from Disney? Or that we’ve covered it HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and more that you can easily find using the search feature?
I understand your need for opinions and whatnot, but considering Stephen Fry is one of the highest ranking Twitterati currently, I’m kind of wondering what took you guys so long to contact me about it?
J/K, lovers.
But if you don’t know what J/K is, I might not be.