Not all that long ago, MGM made public their plans to either remake or do a sequel to Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 sci-fi actioner “Robocop”. To say that the fanboys weren’t happy is an understatement. (But then again, since when has the fanboys been happy about anything?) Then not that long ago, MGM officially introduced their “Red Dawn” remake, and there was a little tidbit buried in there about Darren Aronofsky potentially coming on board to direct the “Robocop” reboot. It now looks like MGM is dead set on getting the “Pi” and “Requiem for a Dream” director onboard their project.
This from Bloody-Disgusting:
Today we received word that MGM and Phoenix Pictures are close to pegging Darren Aronofsky to direct the latest “remake”, which we also discovered is actually a sequel! Here’s the logline: Present day Los Angeles, 20 years after the termination of the RoboCop program, the city decides to reinstate the program. If this all happens, I’d love to introduce Aronofsky to THE DARK KNIGHT, where he can see how to do it right…
Wait, Los Angeles? Present day? Wasn’t the first “Robocop” set in the “near future” in Detroit? How does that then translate into “20 years after” and “present day Los Angeles”? Eh, it’s MGM. They probably got some monkey to pound out the logline.
But Aronofsky directing a hyper violent “Robocop” sequel? I’m giggly all over just thinking about it.
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
Predators (2010)
Robert Rodriguez’s Predators remake/sequel has a director. No it’s not him. Rodriguez is still just producing and he’s produced the director of Vacancy to help it.
The word comes from Austin filmmaker HQ AICN where Robert handed them the reigns and asked them to announce his choice to the world. They did and also managed to ask him a few key questions like, why aren’t you directing this yourself? Robert’s answer to that question is pretty long, even making allowances for AICN’s abnormally large fonts but the short answer is: He’s busy.
Rodriguez also confirms that the movie will be shot in Austin at his Troublemaker Studios, and offers hints about the story. For instance he says, “like the original movie, the title does have a double meaning. Aliens was a different take on the Alien idea, and an original movie in it's own right, and that's what we want to do with this.” Best of all for those of you who threw up in your mouth the first time you sat through Alien vs. Predator he insists that Fox believes, “No one is ever going to talk about AVP again after this film, I will stake my life on it.”
For more from Rodriguez head over to AICN.
As for Antal, while it’s hard not to be a little disappointed that Robert’s not the one helming this, if they’re going with a lesser known director maybe he’s not such a bad option. His next movie Armored is getting tremendous buzz and there’s Vacancy which, despite some flaws at the least looks really, really good. Nimrod Antal may be just the guy to pull Predators off. He can’t be worse than Paul “not the good one” Anderson and if he fails we’ll all have fun using his first name in a wide variety of puny jokes about how much he sucks.
Cinema Blend
The word comes from Austin filmmaker HQ AICN where Robert handed them the reigns and asked them to announce his choice to the world. They did and also managed to ask him a few key questions like, why aren’t you directing this yourself? Robert’s answer to that question is pretty long, even making allowances for AICN’s abnormally large fonts but the short answer is: He’s busy.
Rodriguez also confirms that the movie will be shot in Austin at his Troublemaker Studios, and offers hints about the story. For instance he says, “like the original movie, the title does have a double meaning. Aliens was a different take on the Alien idea, and an original movie in it's own right, and that's what we want to do with this.” Best of all for those of you who threw up in your mouth the first time you sat through Alien vs. Predator he insists that Fox believes, “No one is ever going to talk about AVP again after this film, I will stake my life on it.”
For more from Rodriguez head over to AICN.
As for Antal, while it’s hard not to be a little disappointed that Robert’s not the one helming this, if they’re going with a lesser known director maybe he’s not such a bad option. His next movie Armored is getting tremendous buzz and there’s Vacancy which, despite some flaws at the least looks really, really good. Nimrod Antal may be just the guy to pull Predators off. He can’t be worse than Paul “not the good one” Anderson and if he fails we’ll all have fun using his first name in a wide variety of puny jokes about how much he sucks.
Cinema Blend
Highlander (2010)
revealed that Summit Entertainment is bringing Highlander back to the big screen. The 1986 sci-fi cult hit starred Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery and Clancy Brown as immortal beings who battled humans and each other. Lambert played Scottish swordsman Connor MacLeod, Connery portrayed the memorable Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez and Clancy was a barbarian known as the Kurgan. The film with the "There can be only one" tagline spawned four sequels and three television series.
There are those of us who think reboots of properties like Highlander, Flash Gordon and Poltergeist are completely unwanted and unnecessary. Yet there are others. The type of Joe's who couldn't get enough of Sci-Fi Channel's Highlander: The Source last year. This is the spoiler page for those Joe's.
While, admittedly, there aren't many actual "spoilers" ahead - stay tuned for updates as Highlander: The Remake inches closer to production in the coming weeks.
Confirmed:
* The remake was officially announced on May 20, 2008.
* The script will be written by the writers of Iron Man (Art Marcum and Matt Holloway).
* One source tells Entertainment Weekly that Highlander doesn't preclude Marcum and Holloway from working on an Iron Man sequel, but no deal is in place yet for that project for the writers and looks unlikely now that Justin Theroux has been announced for that gig. (EW.com)
* No director is yet attached.
* Peter Davis, one of the original producers, says the new Highlander will not just be a remake. It will incorporate more backstory elements and prequel aspects that will be fleshed out to expand the storyline in a way that is inventive yet faithful to the original story, he says. (Reuters)
* Davis has been quoted as saying: "I would hate to think that people viewed Highlander as a sword fighting movie because it's much more than that. The issues of an immortal falling in love with a woman and knowing she's going to grow old and die in your arms, those are very romantic issues to deal with." (Reuters)
* The project's new producers are promising a more "romantic" Highlander film. (The Hollywood Reporter)
* The screenplay will involve a sub-plot dealing with Connor MacLeod's love for a non-immortal woman. (The Hollywood Reporter)
* The producers have previously mentioned they would include medieval Scotland in their version of the story. (The Hollywood Reporter)
* Director Alex Proyas, who is not involved with the production, has been quoted raving about the studio behind the Highlander reboot and this year's TWILIGHT adaptation: "Summit, who I think are going to be a highly regarded genre studio, because they really respect genre movies and they have given me an immense freedom and at the same time an extraordinary support, so that has really reignited my belief in that there are good guys out there that you can actually work with as a filmmaker. " (Highlander Remake Boards)
Kevin McKidd
* Scottish actor Kevin McKidd (HBO's "Rome," "Journeyman," "Made of Honor") confirmed in a Dublin radio interview that he's been approached about starring in the Highlander remake. (JoBlo)
* Unfortunately, no word yet on a cameo from the original Highlander, Christopher Lambert.
Rumored:
* McKidd was reportedly a favorite to play THOR before director Matthew Vaughn exited the project. (JoBlo)
* The character of Methos is well known and rumors have circulated that the new movie may focus more on that character and less about Connor or Duncan MacLeod. (Highlander Remake Boards)
Got any others? Add it to the comments section below. Think these spoilers suck? Sound off and share your thoughts. Updates will be added to this page as more information becomes known. HIGHLANDER is scheduled for release in 2010.
UGO
There are those of us who think reboots of properties like Highlander, Flash Gordon and Poltergeist are completely unwanted and unnecessary. Yet there are others. The type of Joe's who couldn't get enough of Sci-Fi Channel's Highlander: The Source last year. This is the spoiler page for those Joe's.
While, admittedly, there aren't many actual "spoilers" ahead - stay tuned for updates as Highlander: The Remake inches closer to production in the coming weeks.
Confirmed:
* The remake was officially announced on May 20, 2008.
* The script will be written by the writers of Iron Man (Art Marcum and Matt Holloway).
* One source tells Entertainment Weekly that Highlander doesn't preclude Marcum and Holloway from working on an Iron Man sequel, but no deal is in place yet for that project for the writers and looks unlikely now that Justin Theroux has been announced for that gig. (EW.com)
* No director is yet attached.
* Peter Davis, one of the original producers, says the new Highlander will not just be a remake. It will incorporate more backstory elements and prequel aspects that will be fleshed out to expand the storyline in a way that is inventive yet faithful to the original story, he says. (Reuters)
* Davis has been quoted as saying: "I would hate to think that people viewed Highlander as a sword fighting movie because it's much more than that. The issues of an immortal falling in love with a woman and knowing she's going to grow old and die in your arms, those are very romantic issues to deal with." (Reuters)
* The project's new producers are promising a more "romantic" Highlander film. (The Hollywood Reporter)
* The screenplay will involve a sub-plot dealing with Connor MacLeod's love for a non-immortal woman. (The Hollywood Reporter)
* The producers have previously mentioned they would include medieval Scotland in their version of the story. (The Hollywood Reporter)
* Director Alex Proyas, who is not involved with the production, has been quoted raving about the studio behind the Highlander reboot and this year's TWILIGHT adaptation: "Summit, who I think are going to be a highly regarded genre studio, because they really respect genre movies and they have given me an immense freedom and at the same time an extraordinary support, so that has really reignited my belief in that there are good guys out there that you can actually work with as a filmmaker. " (Highlander Remake Boards)
Kevin McKidd
* Scottish actor Kevin McKidd (HBO's "Rome," "Journeyman," "Made of Honor") confirmed in a Dublin radio interview that he's been approached about starring in the Highlander remake. (JoBlo)
* Unfortunately, no word yet on a cameo from the original Highlander, Christopher Lambert.
Rumored:
* McKidd was reportedly a favorite to play THOR before director Matthew Vaughn exited the project. (JoBlo)
* The character of Methos is well known and rumors have circulated that the new movie may focus more on that character and less about Connor or Duncan MacLeod. (Highlander Remake Boards)
Got any others? Add it to the comments section below. Think these spoilers suck? Sound off and share your thoughts. Updates will be added to this page as more information becomes known. HIGHLANDER is scheduled for release in 2010.
UGO
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Alien (2011)
It's one thing to remake, redo, reboot, or whatever you want to call it a genre picture like Friday the 13th or even Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but when you start to get into the realm of the truly great films, then the question must be asked: Why even bother?
That's the subject on many horror/sci-fi fans' minds today with the word coming that Ridley Scott's classic Alien may be up for the redux treatment over at Fox. Blood Disgusting is reporting that one of their insider tipsters -- the same person who correctly predicted the Predator remake -- has told the site that an Alien remake is in the works and that "the plan is to stick with the original concept of only one alien on the ship."
Ridley Scott would produce along with Michael Costigan and Tony Scott, while commercial director Carl Rinsch is named as the director on the project.
This, of course, is all rumor at this point, and in fact BD subsequently updated its report with word from a "separate reliable source" that Fox is "possibly working on an origins story, as opposed to a straight-up remake." So it seems that at the very least something is brewing in xenomorph land over at Fox, and it isn't another Alien Vs. Predator sequel.
Next up: remakes of Citizen Kane, The Godfather, and 2001.
IGN
That's the subject on many horror/sci-fi fans' minds today with the word coming that Ridley Scott's classic Alien may be up for the redux treatment over at Fox. Blood Disgusting is reporting that one of their insider tipsters -- the same person who correctly predicted the Predator remake -- has told the site that an Alien remake is in the works and that "the plan is to stick with the original concept of only one alien on the ship."
Ridley Scott would produce along with Michael Costigan and Tony Scott, while commercial director Carl Rinsch is named as the director on the project.
This, of course, is all rumor at this point, and in fact BD subsequently updated its report with word from a "separate reliable source" that Fox is "possibly working on an origins story, as opposed to a straight-up remake." So it seems that at the very least something is brewing in xenomorph land over at Fox, and it isn't another Alien Vs. Predator sequel.
Next up: remakes of Citizen Kane, The Godfather, and 2001.
IGN
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
The Thing (2011)
Universal will add a new chapter to "The Thing," lining up another take on the paranoid horror classic most recently brought to the screen by John Carpenter in 1982.
Studio has set "Battlestar Galactica" exec producer Ron Moore to write the script and commercials director Matthijs Van Heijningen to direct the re-imagining.
New project borrows heavily from the John W. Campbell Jr. short story "Who Goes There," the basis of the Carpenter film and 1951 Howard Hawks original "The Thing From Another World."
Source: Variety
Studio has set "Battlestar Galactica" exec producer Ron Moore to write the script and commercials director Matthijs Van Heijningen to direct the re-imagining.
New project borrows heavily from the John W. Campbell Jr. short story "Who Goes There," the basis of the Carpenter film and 1951 Howard Hawks original "The Thing From Another World."
Source: Variety
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