February 16, 2006
Last Stand is Last X-Men?
Fans hoping for another X-Men movie to follow Brett Ratner's The Last Stand will be disappointed by the director's words in a recent interview, where he claims the series has become a trilogy:
Well, it seems to be the last of the series. We wanted to make sure the audiences knew that this was a trilogy. Even though they weren't made together like 'Lord of the Rings,' this is really closure for the X-Men series. ... This is the last stand for sure.
It sounds to me like Ratner's just being cocky. He doesn't really know it will be the last, he just thinks it should be since he feels he finished it off so well. I always think the same thing when I've "finished" with a girl, but that's never the case. She'll invariably tell me, "Finished what? We didn't have sex," and I'll smile back, hoping she'll at least describe what it's like.
I think the article also includes some new pictures in a slideshow, but who can tell anymore?
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More Bourne Coming?
While preparations are being made for the third chapter of the Jason Bourne saga, The Bourne Ultimatum, producer Frank Marshall revealed that the series may continue even further:
"It's kinda up to Matt [Damon]," series producer Frank Marshall recently said of how far "Bourne" will go. "Maybe to five [films] ... At some point, he's gotta find out who he is."
Some good news for fans of the series. Let's just hope Bourne doesn't "find out who he is" the way I did: with a half-bottle of vodka, two issues of Hustler, a hand mirror, and a lot of crying.
First Image From Power of the Dark Crystal
The first image from Genndy Tartakovsky's Power of the Dark Crystal has made its way online, showing an elderly Kira from the original film. The sequel is set hundreds of years after the first film, showing that the Gelflings age at a different rate than us, and do not, in their age, insist on wearing stretch pants and sequined shirts, like my grandma has.
Giamatti Joins Tender Interface
Paul Giamatti and Clemence Poesy have signed on to star in Hungarian filmmaker Ildiko Enyedi's upcoming sci-fi movie, Tender Interface.
The English language sci-fi film, scheduled to shoot in the first half of the year, is about a young girl playing video games who gets dragged back in time to 1939 New York City where the H-bomb is being devised by Hungarian scientists.
Okay, let's pretend for a moment that time travel is somehow possible-- I'll give them that one. So we've got this girl in 1939 who's good at video games. How is she getting involved in the Manhattan Project? I assumed there were security clearances and scientific qualifications necessary to work on the H-bomb. Apparently, being a 10-year-old girl from the future meets those needs. Are we so desperate for a sequel to A Kid in King Arthur's Court that we'll just accept any time traveling kid in any situation?
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that they must find some way that this plot is in any way feasible, but the moment she starts steering an H-bomb with a joystick I'm walking out of the theatre.
Heat Vision and Jack Update
In an interview with UGO, Rob Schrab, creator of Channel 101, Scud, and writer of the upcoming Monster House, discussed the future of Heat Vision and Jack. Schrab co-wrote the comedy, featuring a Knight Rider style story about a man and his talking motorcycle, over five years ago, but it was never picked-up. Jack Black starred as Jack, with Ben Stiller directing and Owen Wilson providing the voice of Heat Vision. Schrab says he and Dan Harmon are currently penning the script, which he assures will not be a simple origin story, with Stiller and Black ready to participate.
Anyone who's seen Heat Vision and Jack knows what great news this is. If you haven't seen the pilot, do yourself a favor and seek it out. Also, if you haven't seen a regular pilot, like for airplanes, you should seek one out. Ask him if he thinks it's possible to parallel park a plane, or if that's still a few years away. I'm just wondering.
Stay Alive Poster
The new horror-thriller Stay Alive released its poster with the catchy slogan, "You die in the game - You die for real." As it implies, the plot follows a group of teenagers who discover their in-game deaths cause their actual death, and for whatever reason they have to keep playing. Is this really the kind of film we're producing nowadays? I've seen more imaginative episodes of Tales from the Crypt. At the end of the film, I hope Frankie Muniz wakes up to find it was only a dream. Or was it? There's a video game controller in bed next to him!
