Posted January 24, 200718 yr Shadows looking for news on films in the works... Robert De Niro may reunite with Martin Scorsese for a sequel to THE DEPARTED, based on the second chapter in the Chinese Infernal Affairs trilogy, which like the second Godfather film was both a sequel and a prequel. Samuel L Jackson and Kerry Washington will star in LAKEVIEW TERRACE, about a black Los Angeles cop who takes exception to the interracial couple living next door. Will Smith is producing. Jennifer Garner, Ellen Page and Michael Cera will star in the coming-of-age comedy JUNO, about a woman hoping to adopt the child of a pregnant teen. Director Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking) starts filming next month. Laurence Fishburne and Kevin Spacey will team up for the thriller 21, based on the true story of a group of university students who used their analytical skills to win millions in Las Vegas casinos. Robert Luketic is directing. Faye Dunaway is currently in Wales filming the low-budget horror movie FLICK, in which she plays a one-armed police officer investigating a young boy's murder in the 1950s. Leslie Phillips and Liz Smith costar. Wes Bentley and Joe Mantegna will star in the dark comedy HANK AND MIKE, about two shopping mall Easter bunnies who can't find new jobs after they get sacked. The script is by Thomas Michael and Paolo Mancini, who will also play the title roles. Bryan Brown has landed a supporting role in AUSTRALIA, Bazz Luhrmann's Outback epic starring Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Jack Thompson and David Wenham. Topher Grace will star in the SOURCE CODE, a top-secret project that's only being described as a sci-fi thriller. The script is by Ben Ripley, who wrote Species III and IV. Paul Greengrass (United 93) will write and direct IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY, based on a book about the work to set up a new government in post-invasion Iraq. And Rob Zombie is merrily casting horror movie veterans in his remake of the 1970s classic HALLOWEEN. Already on board: Dee Wallace Stone (Cujo), Brad Dourif (Child's Play), Danny Trejo (From Dusk Till Dawn) and Adrienne Barbeau (The Fog). Gwyneth Paltrow has joined Robert Downey Jr and Terrence Howard in IRON MAN, based on the comic about an armoured superhero who's actually a billionaire industrialist. Filming begins in March, with Jon Favreau directing. It looks like Rachel Weisz has landed the role that was originally designated for Angelina Jolie in Robert Rodriguez's SIN CITY 2. Schedule conflicts are apparently to blame, even though filming isn't due to start for another year. Sigourney Weaver may reunite with her Aliens director James Cameron for his new sci-fi action movie film AVATAR. This has, of course, sparked even more rumours that they might also collaborate on another ALIEN movie. Ewan McGregor is reportedly Courtney Love's first choice to play her late husband Kurt Cobain in the biopic she's setting up, based on Charles Cross' biography HEAVIER THAN HEAVEN. Meanwhile, Scarlett Johansson is blue-movie actress Jenna Jameson's first choice to play herself in a film about her life, based on the book HOW TO MAKE LOVE LIKE A PORN STAR. Matthew McConaughey is the latest actor linked to the title role in the MAGNUM P.I. movie that's being directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (Dodgeball). Apparently, William H Macy, Tyrese Gibson and Steve Zahn are the favourites for Higgins, TC and Rick. Forest Whitaker may join Guy Pearce and Kate Beckinsale in the drama WINGED CREATURES, about a group of people who survive a shootout. Rowan Woods (Little Fish) is writing and directing. Michael Peña will join Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep and Robert Redford in LIONS FOR LAMBS, a multi-strand political war drama. He'll play a platoon leader in Afghanistan. Redford is also directing the film. Pierce Brosnan will produce and star in THE BIG BIAZARRO, based on the Leonard Wise novel about an elusive card shark who trains a young protégé in the business. Vondie Curtis-Hall (Waist Deep) is writing and directing. And Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Terrence Stamp will join Steve Carrell and Anne Hathaway in the movie version of the 1960s classic TV spy spoof GET SMART. Peter Segal (50 First Dates) is directing.
January 24, 200718 yr Faye Dunaway is currently in Wales filming the low-budget horror movie FLICK, in which she plays a one-armed police officer investigating a young boy's murder in the 1950s. Leslie Phillips and Liz Smith costar. oh GOD the poor thing! :lol: Anyway, such trite c**p in that list... university students use math tricks to make it big in Vegas? A racist cop in LA? A new Get Smart? A new Magnum PI? SUCH NOVEL IDEAS!!! Doesn't look too promising for some of those A listers... Let's hope the steady flow of East Asian and latin American talent can fill the void for good films that all this junk will fail to do
January 26, 200718 yr Let's hope the steady flow of East Asian and latin American talent can fill the void for good films that all this junk will fail to do Amen to that Brother...
January 27, 200718 yr i cant wait for the remake of halloween with rob zombie Can't believe Brad Dourif's in it.
January 27, 200718 yr A sequel to the Departed sounds brilliant, especially with De Niro on board. Shame Jack Nicholson's charachter died in the film, I have always wanted De Niro and Nicholson to be in a film together. :(
January 27, 200718 yr A sequel to the Departed sounds brilliant, especially with De Niro on board. Shame Jack Nicholson's charachter died in the film, I have always wanted De Niro and Nicholson to be in a film together. :( If it follows the story arc of the original HK films, it'll be a Prequel as opposed to a sequel.... God knows how they'll do the third one, the main 'bad cop' character got shot in the end, in "Infernal Affairs" it was ever so slightly important that he actually survived in order for the third one to actually happen.... If you've never seen the "Infernal Affairs" trilogy, I suggest you do... Brilliant film-making, simply brilliant..
January 27, 200718 yr I read they're remaking Hellraiser. For fukk's sake...WHY????????????? :angry: :angry: :angry: As if the endless bloody, sh!tty 'Straight to DVD' sequels weren't bad enough, they have to go and mess around with Barker's excellent original film..... Can they honestly say that it will be an improvement..? Will the, no doubt, CGI 'effects' actually be better than the excellent make-up and model-work FX from the orginal film....? I rather think 'no' on both counts....
January 27, 200718 yr For fukk's sake...WHY????????????? :angry: :angry: :angry: As if the endless bloody, sh!tty 'Straight to DVD' sequels weren't bad enough, they have to go and mess around with Barker's excellent original film..... Can they honestly say that it will be an improvement..? Will the, no doubt, CGI 'effects' actually be better than the excellent make-up and model-work FX from the orginal film....? I rather think 'no' on both counts.... I think it's Barker who's writing it. I really hope they don't use CGI. I'm quite interested in seeing the Halloween remake, but only because Rob Zombie's doing it so it might be ok.
January 27, 200718 yr I think it's Barker who's writing it. I really hope they don't use CGI. I'm quite interested in seeing the Halloween remake, but only because Rob Zombie's doing it so it might be ok. He's kinda already written it. Twice in fact... :lol: :lol: I cant really see what else he needs to do with it tbh... I dunno, Barker being involved is no cast-iron guarantee that it'll be that great, as anyone who's ever sat through "Lord of Illusions" will tell you.... :lol: If it's gonna be one of these 'Batman Begins'-style 'back-to-basics' approaches, then maybe it'll be cool, otherwise.... There was a really pretty excellent "Hellraiser" graphic novel series in the late 80s/early 90s, done by people like John Bolton, Dave McKean, Neil Gaiman, etc... Great stuff.. If only the sequels had had a tenth of the ideas and startling imagery employed in the graphic novels, they may have been pretty okay.... If a Hellraiser film came out written by Neil Gaiman and directed by Dave McKean, it would absolutely fukkin' ROCK!!!! And, yes, McKean has done films, he did that excellent, very under-rated fantasy film "Mirror Mask", some incredible imagery in that film.... Just try and close your ears to the pretty annoying Jazz score... :lol: "Halloween" as interpreted by Rob Zombie, I think will be a very good film indeed... I reckon that this will be full-on, back-to-basics extreme Horror.... Zombie is pretty much the best Horror film director out there at the moment....
January 27, 200718 yr For fukk's sake...WHY????????????? :angry: :angry: :angry: As if the endless bloody, sh!tty 'Straight to DVD' sequels weren't bad enough, they have to go and mess around with Barker's excellent original film..... Can they honestly say that it will be an improvement..? Will the, no doubt, CGI 'effects' actually be better than the excellent make-up and model-work FX from the orginal film....? I rather think 'no' on both counts.... i dissagree. hellraiser 8 was the best out of all of them. and so was 5. there not making a remake, barkers writing a send off for pinhead. one last film in which hell die
January 27, 200718 yr i dissagree. hellraiser 8 was the best out of all of them. and so was 5. there not making a remake, barkers writing a send off for pinhead. one last film in which hell die Number 2's best.
January 27, 200718 yr have you seen it??? Yeah, I've got it. You haven't seen 8 though, whats all that about??
January 27, 200718 yr i dissagree. hellraiser 8 was the best out of all of them. and so was 5. there not making a remake, barkers writing a send off for pinhead. one last film in which hell die The fifth one is utter bollox mate.... I gave up after seeing the sixth one, another tedious pile of sh!te.... Yeah, these "sequels" (numbers 4-8 mainly..) are ALL so real good mate, that's why not a single ONE of them ever saw the inside of a proper Cinema...... :lol: :lol: "Hellbound" has its moments, but is totally incoherent plot-wise and all over the place, "Hell On Earth" was more like a comedy film than a Horror... The first, the original, will ALWAYS remain the best....
January 28, 200718 yr no.1 was boring That's a rather typical reaction of teenager brought up on nothing but dreck like "Scream", "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and all the other sh!te coming out of America that passes for horror films these days..... <_< The original "Hellraiser" is a fantastic slice of Contemporary Gothic Horror, if you'd actually read Barker's original book, "The Hellbound Heart", you'd maybe actually get it.... "Inferno" is utter rubbish, I wouldn't sit through any of the others after this one if you paid me....
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