'Silent Hill 2,' Cage Talks 'Hornet,' 'Lovely Bones' Book Art and More
'Kick-Ass' sequel talk, 'Red Dawn' set pics and then even more!
Photo: Ain't It Cool News
To begin with, we have the above teaser pic from three images Ain't It Cool News acquired from the set of the Red Dawn remake filming in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Get the rest right here.
One of the strangest things in the movie blogosphere is the trend to write articles about things that are not going to happen. Actress XYZ will not star in movie ABC. Director DEF will not be directing movie GHI. The latest topic of conversation is that DC Entertainment's Diane Nelson told MTV the newly formed company doesn't "have any current plans for Superman." The only reason this is news is because it simply means the B.S. rumors that have been swirling since Bryan Singer's 2006 effort have all been a waste of time. Big surprise.
However, that doesn't mean other sequels aren't getting underway. How about Silent Hill 2, which The Hollywood Reporter says just got the greenlight at Columbia Pictures with Roger Avary and Samuel Hadida of Davis Films ready to pick up where they left off on the 2006 video game adaptation with an expectation to shoot the movie next year after Resident Evil 4, which it's now prepping.
Still on the sequel front a bit of non-news comes in the form of word Spider-Man 4 will hit IMAX theaters on May 5, 2011. How some people turned that bit of news into seven paragraph articles is beyond me.
To the right is video footage of the TechCrunch50 presentation for AnyClip, a movie clip search engine company that has just gone beta and is attempting to set up a system allowing users to use the simplest of search terms to find any movie clip (up to 4 minutes in length) based on that search term. Of course, the rights issues with something like this are going to be difficult for the company to sort through, but should it work it could become a valuable online source, especially for a movie website such as RopeofSilicon.com and the rest of our peer group. You can request an invitation to the site's beta testing here. (thanks to Slash Film for the heads up on this one)
Michael Moore alludes to the fact Capitalism: A Love Story may be his last documentary ever in an interview with The Huffington Post saying, "I am tired of feeling like I’m doing this alone. All through the eight years of Bush, you Google 'Bush' and 'nemesis' and I'm the first name up. And there aren’t a whole lot of other names… It doesn't work with Michael Moore and Sean Penn and Ted Kennedy and a few others. The people have got to get involved in their democracy." Meanwhile, The Hollywood Reporter has him saying his next doc may be focused on Obama depending on how things play out saying, "A year from now, the next movie may be about him."
Photo: Lionsgate
Mark Millar recently told MTV a sequel to the April 16, 2010 release of Kick-Ass based on his comic series is "definitely" going to happen and it already has a premise. "There's a basic plot," Millar told MTV News. "The series ends on a teaser for the next one, and the movie ends on that teaser, too." I recently added a trio of stills from the upcoming film, which you can browse right here.
With the recent news Inglourious Basterds star Christoph Waltz has replaced Nicolas Cage and will play Chudnofsky, the villain in Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet, Cage talked to The Canadian Press about his decision to turn down the role and said:
"[I] wasn't interested in just being just a straight-up bad guy who was killing people willy-nilly."
"The Green Hornet was something that I wanted to do, I think Michel Gondry is very talented and I had hoped it would work but I think Seth Rogen and Michel had a different take on the character… I had to have some humanity and to try to give it something where you could understand why the character was the way he was but I don't think there was enough time to develop it."
If you've seen George Romero's Night of the Living Dead and are like me, you only hope the news Zebediah de Soto is set to direct a re-imagining of the classic will spur folks on to see the original, which is an absolutely fantastic film. The new film will be titled Night of the Living Dead: Origins.
Photo: Liberty Films / The Quiet Earth
Above is concept art for Duncan Jones's Moon follow-up titled Mute and concept art for Andrew Niccol's The Cross. The Mute art comes from Liberty Films and the art from The Cross comes from The Quiet Earth where they have 10 additional photos on top of the one teased above.
Slate has a couple of interesting features related to this week's release of Dan Brown's latest Robert Langdon novel "The Lost Symbol," and both are worth a look. The first is "Can You Really Be a Professor of Symbology?" and the second is a little sillier titled "The Dan Brown Sequel Generator".
Finally, I leave you with what could be considered new art for Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones as the cover for the new trade paperback has found it's way online featuring Saorise Ronan as Susie Salmon meeting Stanley Tucci as George Harvey for the first time… creepy eh?
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