Feb 9 2010Plan Out Your Next Nakatomi Plaza Remembrance Visit
I don't know where this originated, but here it is: a neon-coded floor-by-floor breakdown of where each bad guy is killed/incapacitated in Die Hard. Now I know where to place the memorial wreath for the guy I always thought was Huey Lewis. Rest in peace, "Eddie."
(Thanks for sharing, Colm.)
Feb 9 2010You'll See Tim Robbins in That 'Green Lantern'
Because you demanded it: Tim Robbins is now in Green Lantern. The Heat Vision blog has revealed the outspoken liberal actor will play "Senator Hammond, the disapproving father of the movie's villain, Dr. Hector Hammond (Peter Sarsgaard), who becomes infused with psychic powers." Robbins fan can look for his name in both the opening and closing credits, and should expect to see him shake his head solemnly and deliver some scripted dialogue between the two.
The article also notes that Robbins has previously been seen in a comic book film, appearing in 1986's adaptation of Marvel's Howard the Duck. That early role really has no relevance to Green Lantern, but let's take a minute to remember how Tim Robbins was in Howard the Duck.
Feb 9 2010My Prediction For Worst Movie of 2012
Stretch Armstrong, starring the muscley one from Twilight (his second toy-based role in three months!). From Heat Vision:
Taylor Lautner has signed on to star in “Stretch Armstrong,” Universal’s movie based on the Hasbro toy.The studio is also making the movie in 3D, which will push back the release date of the movie from May 15, 2011 to some time in 2012.
The story developed for the movie, being produced by Imagine and Hasbro, sees an uptight spy who stumbles across a stretching formula, which he takes and must now adjust to in everyday life and when fighting crime.
I have nothing personal against Taylor Lautner. I find it odd that the only emotions I've seen him portray in photos are elated and dumbfounded, but I don't fault him for being a part of the Twilight thing. You gotta make a living taking your shirt off somewhere. Still though, I want to say right now that this will be the worst movie of 2012, mainly because I can't imagine what a positive review for such an ill-conceived idea could even sound like. "Graciously spares us the terrible Jackie Chan or Eddie Murphy wacky-action spy film you'd expect of the Stretch Armstrong concept by instead giving us a terrible Taylor Lautner wacky-action spy film, which, if nothing else, is at least a blander awful thing"? That's the best I can figure.
Feb 9 2010Garry Shandling in Movie Posters
Don't ask why; ask only, "more?"
Yes, there are more.
(Thanks, Kelvin.)
Feb 9 2010Christopher Nolan Becomes Leader of Superman Mentorship Program
Ever since Bryan Singer's Superman Returns didn't create the kind of Superman-as-a-2006-Halloween-costume buzz they wanted it to, Warner Bros. has been sitting on their hands not knowing what to do with the franchise. Let Bryan Singer make a mediocre sequel? Start it over again? Just let it sit in the closet with your cargo pants and rock tumbler?
At last, they've come to a decision: pass it off on someone else and ask, "Hey, can you maybe do something with this?"
Deadline Hollywood is reporting Christopher Nolan, the man who rescued Batman from the Pee Wee's Playhouse-level camp, has been asked to join the project in a "godfather" role. What does that mean, aside from Nolan probably doing at least one Brando impression? I have no idea. But at least now no one can claim Warner Bros. isn't doing anything with one of their most valuable characters. They're totally moving forward! Look, they just created a fictional "godfather" position and assigned someone to that! A finished film can't be far behind.
Feb 8 2010New 'Clash of the Titans' Poster: That's Your Kraken
First rule of poster design: if at first you don't succeed, just keep adding lens flares, motion blur, and teeth. It probably won't help anything, but hey, check out all those sweet teeth!
Feb 8 2010Captain America Items of Interest
1. This shirtless guy could maybe be Captain America.
In a discussion with "Captain Awesome" from Chuck (Ryan McPartlin), Moviehole discovered that the actor has read for the part of the patriotic superhero. "Reading" for a part is basically just like getting an interview for a job, though, so McPartlin shouldn't start figuring out how to use his Captain America employee discount just yet.
2. Red Skull will be the villain.
You know that comic book character whose head is a red skull rather than a human head? Well, that's Red Skull, and he's going to be the guy Captain America fights.
3. The film takes place primarily around WWII.
Captain America will remain a member of THE GREATEST GENERATION. Director Joe Johnston said:
Virtually the entire story except the bookends are in World War II because we all recognize we have one chance to tell the origin story of how he became Captain America, you can't tell a modern story and then go back and tell the origin story.
So, presumably the film ends the same way the 1992 Mel Gibson film Forever Young begins.
4. The Invaders will have a large presence.
The superhero group whose members have included Namor, Union Jack, a Human Torch who looks exactly like the Fantastic Four Human Torch but is an android, and other little-known characters will dominate much of the latter half of the film, and there will be six of them. Good thing comic book movies aren't known for becoming clusterfucks of characters, or this could become a clusterfuck of characters!
5. Captain America has a really awesome shield.
Seriously, it's probably the best shield I can think of.
(Thanks to: Kevin, our greatest examiner of comics.)
Feb 8 2010Films That Gave Us 'Bennifer (II)' and 'Brangelina' Getting Rebooted
That's right, Hollywood is going to take another stab at Daredevil and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the films with such sexually arousing flirt-fighting that the actors were helpless to resist becoming actual celebrity couples.
Deadline Hollywood has the story on Daredevil, explaining that the rights to the character will revert back to Marvel unless Fox cranks out another shit film every few years. Thus, the studio has hired on the writer of The Day the Earth Stood Still (Keanu Edition) to craft a script that will attempt to wash the flavor of Mark Steven Johnson's 2003 effort from our braintongues.
Meanwhile, a Mr. and Mrs. Smith reboot with all-new Mr. and Mrs. is also reportedly happening. Not exactly a remake, the new film would "serve as an origin story about a similar but differently named couple, showing how a pair of twentysomething spies are set up as a fake married couple when they graduate agency training." All the natural Leap Year comedy of a pretending-to-be-married odd-couple scenario plus sexy action! And of course, to make it a proper reboot, I assume producers are already at work figuring out a way for the new cast to somehow bring another drawn-out public misery to Jennifer Aniston.
Should be interesting to find out if these gambles will pay off: will audiences of 2011 be able to digest the archaic, bygone concepts of 2003 to 2005?
