Rodriguez (Sin City, Planet Terror) literally has a dozen projects on his plate—including Sin City 2, The Jetsons and Machete—but that doesn't stop him from taking on more. It was announced this week that Rodriguez and Troublemaker Studios would be developing a series reboot called Predators.
15 years ago, the director wrote a treatment for an unproduced sequel and recently, executives at 20th Century Fox discovered they still had it. They became excited about the possibility of another franchise and jumped at the chance. Whether that treatment will be used as the basis for the new film remains to be seen, but Rodriguez said, "What I’d like to do with it is expand on ideas I dreamt up back in the original treatment, that had really expanded on the universe both the Predators and other species live in. We’d create new otherworldly characters while not taking away from the draw our main Predator has."
Rodriguez will be serving only as a producer and given a July 2010 release date but no word on a writer or director has been announced.
Could be good though, and it can't be any worse than the two AVP movies, right?
Been out for a while, but I haven't posted it.
Everyone has been eagerly awaiting news on whether or not Chris Nolan would be back for a third Batman movie, and all indications suggest that he will—but it's going to be a while. Between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, Nolan took his time making The Prestige, and this time around is no different.
Nolan's next film, Inception, is being described as 'a contemporary science-fiction action movie set in the architecture of the mind.' Leonardo Dicaprio leads the cast which is rounded out by Joseph Gordon-Leavit, Michael Caine, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard and Cillian Murphy. The rest of the details are being kept tightly under wraps, but Nolan rarely disappoints.
This will give Nolan a little bit of time to come up with a fitting end to his Batman story.
NEW TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES IN THE WORKSSpeaking of Christopher Nolan, it seems like everyone wants to cash in on the success of his Batman franchise. Legendary Pictures will be producing a new Ninja Turtles film for a 2011 release, this one showing the origin of the team. Co-creator Peter Laird is signed on as the executive producer and hinted that the film will be a mix of live action and computer animation.
It seems like everyone wants to make comic book films grittier, but this one might not work. The marketplace for the Ninja Turtles has always been relatively kid-friendly, so a drastic change might hurt the franchise more than anything.
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Halloween 2 looks pretty bad ass, I thought the first remake was good. I hope they still kill Ben Tramer's stupid drunk ass in a flaming car wreck... and thank the powers that be that gorgeous little brunette from Halloween 4 and 5 is in this one too...
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