Nov 10 2009 'Spider-Man 4': Rachel McAdams Up for Black Cat??? Unknown Male Up for Male Villain???
With Batman sequel rumors calming momentarily, let's take some time to concentrate on different superhero movie casting speculation that probably won't end up being true. Like, did you hear how Rachel McAdams (and a guy) might be in Spider-Man 4???
Rachel McAdams has met with the producers of the film for a major role. McAdams (of 'Wedding Crashers' and 'Sherlock Holmes' fame) is said to be a top contender for the role of Felicia Hardy, known to comic fans as The Black Cat.Fans recall that when Spidey first encounters the Black Cat, she's a cat burgler looking to free her ailing father from prison. She becomes smitten with the web-slinger, to the point of a stalker-level obsession. Later stories had Peter reciprocating her affection and her becoming a lover, a friend and ally (the perfect thing to allow Sony to create a Spidey spin-off).
And it looks like it'll be a two-villain movie. Our source also says they are casting for a male villain, but had few details. However, this would seem to discount the idea that Lizard is the primary, since the role of Dr. Conners has been cast since movie #2.
I guess Sam Raimi is hoping Spider-Man plots are like odometers, where if you stack on enough romantic conflicts and superfluous villains, eventually they'll roll over into a reasonable number again.
Nov 6 2009 New 'Sherlock Holmes' Trailer Really Wants You To Say 'Bromance'
If you thought the last Sherlock Holmes trailer was "wtf sherlock homes is not a cage fighter gay," wait until you see this one! You should have roughly he same reaction.
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Oct 20 2009 New 'Sherlock Holmes' Trailer, Dudes!
Dude! Last night, during the ball game, when you went to pick up more Milwaukee's Best Old BrewDog Lites, you fuckin' missed this new Sherlock Holmes trailer! You gotta see this shit! Iron Man is all like BOOSH punchin' these goddammers! S'all good, though; I internet taped it for you:
Jun 15 2009 Sci-Fi for Fools: 'The Time Traveler's Wife' Trailer
Have we learned nothing from the Keanu Reeves/Sandra Bullock romance The Lake House? Time travel and love never works out! But that's not going to stop Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana from trying in: The Time Traveler's Wife! Bana plays the oft-dissolving time traveler, who apparently time travels about willy-nilly, randomly reappearing at various times to date and eventually marry his titlular bride. It's really romantic if you disregard corny dialogue and obvious paradoxes.
Don't trust this type, ladies. You know these smooth, time traveling dogs have time traveler's wives all across their given timelines:
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May 19 2009 'Sherlock Holmes' Trailer: It's a Fun One
I try not to ever say a movie "looks like a fun one." That's how my grandparents used to describe movies, and I hoped to never devolve to such a simplistic level of critique that judges all films as "fun ones," "renters," or head shakes and disgusted sighs. But I see no other way to describe Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes. It genuinely looks like a "fun one." And not like a Transformers fun one, where enjoying the scant moments of fun means pushing aside all the aggravating, brain-hurting, often nonsensical events that led you there. A genuine fun one. Non-Crystal Skull Indiana Jones type fun.
The trailer:
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Dec 24 2008 'State of Play' Sure is a Political Thriller!
Just in time for your Yuletide celebrations, here's the trailer for State of Play. Can you and your guests catch all the political thrills? You might have to watch more than once to get them all. There are thirty-two.
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Dec 17 2008 Harrison Ford and Rachel McAdams are the New Regis and Regis's Hot Up-and-Coming Producer
Harrison Ford is going to prove he can still do more than make a less enjoyable Indiana Jones movie. The actor is in talks to star alongside Rachel McAdams in Morning Glory, a comedy about a veteran anchor joining a morning talk show:
[Ford] has been cast as one of the personalities of "Morning Glory," a Paramount comedy that takes place in and around a morning talk show. Rachel McAdams is in final negotiations to join the cast as well.Roger Michell ("Venus") is attached to direct, and J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk are producing through their Bad Robot banner. Sherryl Clark and Guy Riedel will executive produce.
Aline Brosh McKenna ("The Devil Wears Prada") wrote the script about a grizzled old-school anchor in the Ted Koppel mold (Ford) who quits in disgust with the gossip-heavy direction of the evening newscast. He is then recruited by a hot up-and-coming producer (McAdams) to help revive a morning talk show, only to be paired with his rival.
Could the rival he's paired with be... Diane Keaton, a fellow respected anchor that Ford just can't get along with until their heated arguments rage into fire in the bedroom? God, I hope not. Probably a decent bet though.
Feb 7 2008 'Married Life' Trailer Critiques 1940s Wife Murder
Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson, and Rachel McAdams (playing, apparently, Gwen Stefani) star in Married Life, a film that takes the '40s/'50s social critique of Far from Heaven and presents it like a long, schlocky play.
The hardest part to understand is that they're marketing this as a straight-up drama, though the trailer paints it as a satire mixed with a comedy of "who's cheating with who?!" We're not supposed to think it's funny how he's planning to replace his wife's medicine with poison? That's such a ridiculous murder cliché, how is it not meant to be funny? He might as well drop an anvil on her. Then again, maybe it's just the Django Reinhardt(-inspired?) soundtrack making me assume Woody Allen is going to pop out from behind a bannister, or that the title already makes it sound like a seldom-watched CBS sitcom.
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