December 19, 2005
Watchmen is on again
Warner Brothers has picked up the rights to a film adaption of Alan Moore's The Watchmen after Paramount dropped the ball and let one of the finest comic book properties ever slip by them.
Warner Bros. has picked up vigilante action project "The Watchmen" out of turnaround from Paramount. Project, produced by Larry Gordon and Lloyd Levin, has been without a home since spring. Paramount had been aiming for a summer shoot in London with Brit director Paul Greengrass attached but budgetary concerns stopped "The Watchmen" from moving into production. "The Watchmen" was previously set up at Universal, where David HayterDavid Hayter signed a seven-figure deal in 2001 to adapt with an eye toward directing. Warner's is seeking a new writer and director for "The Watchmen." Once those slots are set, Paramount will have the option to co-finance the project.
Maybe Paramount didn't realize what they were sitting on, or maybe they just hate making money. I hear their next move will be to replace their Faberge eggs with regular ones that they found on a farm in Kentucky. Good move, Paramount. Very well thought out.
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The New World might be child porn
Filmmakers of The New World have apparently re-shot scenes where Colin Farrell makes out with a 14-year old Q'Orianka Kilcher because it's making lawyers nervous that they might be making child porn.
"Farrell was told to get romantic and sensual but knew there was a certain amount of kissing involved," a source told the British mag The People. "He played the scene brilliantly and he really put Q'Orianka at her ease. But when the lawyers saw the finished product with Colin and Q'Orianka rolling around on the ground kissing they just flipped out." The lawyers were concerned about child-pornography laws, and a tamer version of the scene was reportedly re-shot.
"This is the first time I've heard of this," a New Line spokesman told The Scoop. "To my knowledge, there is no scene of this nature in the picture."
Either somebody is lying about their age, or Q'Orianka Kilcher is the oldest looking 14-year old I've ever seen. I've seen the trailer for The New World and I could have sworn that Pocahontas looked no younger than 19 or 20. So either something really fishy is going on, or I've completely lost my ability to tell age, in which case I need to make some phone calls to some lawyers. Because, uh, I like to talk to lawyers. Not for anything sick or perverted.
Poseidon Trailer
I'm going to tell you right now why Poseidon is going to suck monkey balls and make zero money at the box office: because nobody cares about it and nobody wants to see it. I'm sure the idea of remaking The Poseidon Adventure with a big budget and lots of special effects sounded like a good idea in the exec meeting, but honestly nobody cares about these kinds of movies anymore. They already gave us an amusingly bad made-for-TV remake on NBC and unless this one is able to physically spit money at us as we watch I don't see it being much better. Ooh a big wave. Ooh, stuff falling over. Ooh, semi-famous people climbing around an upside down ship. Maybe Hollywood should just give up and let Charlie Kaufman write all of their scripts.
The DaVinci Code Trailer
I'm going to go ahead and admit I've never read the book so maybe I've got a skewed perspective, but the new trailer for The DaVinci Code looks absolutely boring. I understand that Ron Howard and Tom Hanks are involved so it'll be difficult for it to suck, but I have almost zero interest in watching it after seeing this trailer. But maybe that's because it's been put through the Hollywood machine and all they could churn out was a three minute thriller about a mystery that will "change mankind forever" as opposed to actually suggesting what the story is about or why it'll blow my socks off. I'm really hoping this will turn out like Gattaca where the movie is 10 million times better than the trailer.
Lady in the Water poster
The new Lady in the Water poster has been released, and it looks absolutely splendid. Considering M. Night Shyamalan seems incapable of making a bad movie, it's a pretty safe bet to say I'm looking forward to this. I personally don't like to ruin movies for myself by reading all about them, so I don't really know what the movie is about. But judging from the trailer and the poster and the fact that M. Night Shyamalan makes good movies, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to wander in on this one. Though if you're desperate for a synopsis I copy/pasted the one provided by IMDB. I didn't actually read it so I might have accidentally gotten the one off Braveheart, but it's all good.
Synopsis: In "Lady in the Water," a story originally conceived by Shyamalan for his children, a modest building manager named Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti) rescues a mysterious young woman (Bryce Dallas Howard) from danger and discovers she is actually a narf, a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the treacherous journey from our world back to hers. Cleveland and his fellow tenants start to realize that they are also characters in this bedtime story. As Cleveland falls deeper and deeper in love with the woman, he works together with the tenants to protect his new fragile friend from the deadly creatures that reside in this fable and are determined to prevent her from returning home.
Blade TV Show Pictures
Comics Continuum has gotten the first few pics of the upcoming "Blade" TV series. The series started shooting on November 14th in Vancouver and they have about one more week left of shooting there. The series will air in June on Spike TV, though it looks pretty lame without Wesley Snipes. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised and it'll be totally badass. More pics after the jump.
