March 16, 2006
Benicio Del Toro to Play Wolf Man
To further the continuing chain of unnecessary Hollywood remakes, Universal has decided to update the Lon Chaney horror classic The Wolf Man, with Benicio Del Toro playing the title role.
Seven scribe Andrew Kevin Walker has begun writing the script. Scott Stuber, Rick Yorn, Mary Parent and Del Toro will produce. Like the 1941 original that starred Lon Chaney Jr., new pic will be set in Victorian England. Del Toro will play a man who returns from America to his ancestral homeland, gets bitten by a werewolf and begins a hairy moonlight existence.
To prepare himself for the role, Del Toro will continue looking like a creepy wolf man.
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Penelope Gives Christina Ricci Pig Face
JustJared posted some pictures of Christina Ricci on the set of Penelope. In the new movie, Christina Ricci suffers a curse that gives her the face of a pig. Also, in real life.
Ghost Rider Production Artwork
Superhero Hype has posted some new painted artwork from Mark Steven Johnson's sure-to-be-awful Ghost Rider. The paintings aren't labeled as specific scenes, but they may give us a peek into what awaits in the film. Such as standard Ghost Rider having a land race with Zorro Ghost Rider. And I think we all know who wins that battle. The American public.
More after the jump.
Bond Girls Looking Good
I'm getting sick of shots of new Bond Daniel Craig holding guns and looking stupid. Luckily there's finally one of him looking stupid with Bond girls Eva Green and Caterina Murino playing Vesper Lynd and Solonge, respectively. Regardless of how bad Casino Royale might be, at least the girls look good here. Even if the pre-humanoid in the center is using them as clubs.
Lucasfilm Update: Star Wars on TV, Indy 4, Red Tails
Speaking last night at the Sony Ericsson Empire Awards (which mean absolutely nothing), producer Rick McCallum provided an update of the current Lucasfilm projects. Speaking about a Star Wars television series, McCallum claims the show will provide the dark, character-based drama fans were looking for in the prequels:
That's not going to happen probably for another year and a half while we develop scripts and everything else. But it's fantastic; we've got some incredible writers. It's going to be much darker, much more character-based, and I think it's going to be everything the fans always wanted the prequels to be. They'll be one-hour episode. It takes place between Episodes III and IV. It's going to be all-new characters, maybe a few bounty hunters in there to start the series off.
The subject then turned to George Lucas's WWII fight film Red Tails and Indiana Jones 4, to which McCallum says there is now a finished script:
We're working on Red Tails right now. George is writing the script as we speak. He's just finished the Indiana Jones script, and Steven's having that rewritten and a few things done. And then we start hopefully in October or November looking for another writer for Red Tails when George puts together his ideas of what he wants it to be. Then hopefully next year we'll start on that.
Interesting to hear a concrete update on Indiana Jones, but what really interests me are the details of the Star Wars television series. If it's everything he claims, it could bring back some respect to the saga that was lost in the prequels. Then again, it doesn't involve guessing how much money is in a suitcase with Howie Mandel, so how good could it really be?
Angelina Jolie Wanted for Sin City 2
While it's been rumored for a while that Angelina Jolie was being sought after for a role in the next Sin City film, Rosario Dawson has now confirmed that director Robert Rodriguez is looking to cast the actress as the lead, saying:
The film's been kind of postponed because Robert has been interested in Angelina Jolie for the lead. But she's very pregnant right now. So that's putting an understandable hold on the film.
This seems like the most obvious casting possible. With her full lips and curves, she already looks more like a Frank Miller babe than anyone in the previous cast. While Rodriguez will use the pregnancy down-time to further prepare for shooting, Jolie will use the break to adopt four more kids and ruin another marriage.
