Zombies, and Mutants, and Monsters...Oh My!
The Goon
How awesome is this footage?
The Goon is a slapstick-comedy based on a Dark Horse comic, set in a time filled with Zombies, nice cars, and Tommy Guns.
The trailer doesn't show much or reveal many plot details, as it's more of a teaser for the panel being held at the SDCC in just a few days time. MTV Splashpage are promising to reveal more footage after the panel has been held, so I'll keep you all updated on that one.
This film/animation/thing looks awesome.
X-Men Rumours
How thoroughly disturbing would it be if those rumours were true that Bryan Singer wanted this guy to play a young Wolverine in X-Men: First Class?
Prepare yourself:
"I wanted Taylor to do it, I really did...We talked about it a lot, he is a friend, and I really wanted to make it work. It just doesn't look like it's possible to do it."
That's right kids...Singer is a member of Team Jacob. Thankfully, he won't be appearing as a young Logan in X-Men: First Class.
As JoBlo rightfully points out, Logan was a full grown man when he first met Xavier (some people have calculated his age to be around 250 at that point), so it wouldn't make sense for a 'young' Wolverine to be running around...especially with his shirt off.
Michael Bay's Hansel & Gretel
From the Press Release:
“Hansel and Gretel in 3D” is an action packed visual FX filled version of the classic Grimm Brothers’ fairytale.
Honestly...how does Bay do it? As a commentor on the Empire article so perfectly puts it, "How do you blow shit up in a forest? It's just trees!"
Bay himself won't be directing the film, by the sounds of it, with no word on who will, but they have hired Avatar designer Joseph C. Pepe to do the monsters for the film. There weren't too many monsters in the original story, from what I remember, but they're going to be based on monsters from German Mythology.
Another Grimm Fairytale getting a modern remake, and from Michael Bay to...I expect explosions, getting out just in time, and probably a Werewolf Hunter of somekind (don't ask why, I just feel it).
Tim Burton's Monsterpocalypse
Monsterpocalypse is a boardgame published by Privateer Press, if you were wondering.
Producer Roy Lee broke the news of Tim Burton's adaptation to Slashfilm yesterday.
“I can confirm that Tim Burton is developing it to direct, he’s working closely with John August on the story. And this is the first time that Ken Ralston was brought in this early to do conceptual drawings and the visuals for the movie itself.”
Ken Ralston has worked on many films of note, including Back To The Future, and Tim urton's Alice In Wonderland, to name just a couple.
The storyline focuses on an attack on Earth by giant monster-aliens. Humanity fights back and thinks they finished them off, but it's soon discovered that they actually went underground and sent a signal into space for backup. The humans build giant robots to defend themselves, and so the giant battles begin.
It sounds...cheesy, if you ask me, but cheesy can sometimes be good. So I'll keep my eye out for this.
Sam Raimi's Wyatt Earp
Since leaving Spider-Man, Raimi has had his name attached to many rumours for future projects.
World Of Warcraft is, as far as I'm aware, still in negotiations and dealings over where exactly it can go. So we won't hear from that for a while.
Earlier in the year we heard of Raimi directing Oz, The Great And The Powerful, a semi-prequel to The Wizard Of Oz being made by Disney, a film that he'll be focusing on for the next few months.
But it would appear that Raimi has attached himself to another property for after Oz.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Raimi has "signed on the dotted line" to take on a Sci-Fi ComicBook adaptation of the Wyatt Earp story.
Wyatt Earp is a sort of Western Hero, famous for a gun battle at O.K. Corral. The adaptation puts Earp into a dystopian future, where he's hunting down outlaws in a world where Las Vegas is the only city left that is truly booming.
It sounds like it could be interesting...a mild mixture of Judge Dredd, Fallout: Las Vegas, and Mad Max.
Another film to keep your eye on.
That's all the news for today guys, hope to see you again tomorrow!
That Monsterpocalypse sounds wicked. Humans fighting giant alien space monsters and then building giant robots to fight off the reinforcements? I look forward to a movie based on that.
ReplyDeleteI am SO glad they decided not to get Taylor Lautner in the X-movie... I'm hoping this new x-movie is actually going to be good, the first three and the Wolverine movies were all rather bad.
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