December 19, 2005
X-Men 3 Updated Photos
The official X-Men 3 website has some updated photos including Juggernaut, Beast, and some other new characters. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Juggernaut needs to put on 800 lbs and Beast needs to not look like a freakish troll. If you're going to do Beast, then make him look like a beast. Not like a man painted blue with hair glued to his face.
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Apocalypto First Look
The Movie Box has a short clip of Mel Gibson's new Apocalypto. You can't really tell what's going on and they don't give you much to work with, but apparently Entertainment Tonight will be premiering the full teaser today. And if you know nothing about the movie, it takes place at the fall of the Mayan Empire and will use a dead language similar to The Passion of the Christ, to make sure that nobody will understand it. Hopefully this time the execs will be bold enough to release it without subtitles. Because if there's one thing I hate, it's understanding what people are talking about.
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.
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.
