7 posts tagged “incoming”
I have this blog, and I've got this lack of time, but when news of Harry Potter actors acting in movies where they're not doing spells crosses your path, your first line of duty is to drop that syringe and log into Vox like a good boy. Cinematical, via MTV, has our first look at Rupert Grint in Cherrybomb, which is a British film about two dudes, a girl, and lawlessness. They have more at MTV, butI just want to say that I saw Grint's film Driving Lessons, and it was not bad at all.
I'm kind of lazy. I'm working on so muc at once, that my pet project (this) gets neglected, since it's only a pet, and shits in a box and licks itself clean, I think it doesn't ever really need me, but it does. Movie things.
The aforementioned Kick-Ass, based on the comic series, picks up more cast, as, according to Cinematical:
[...] they've cast the lead: it'll be 18 year-old Aaron Johnson, whom you may remember as little Ed Norton in The Illusionist. Joining him will be Nicolas Cage and TV vet Lyndsy Fonseca. Fonseca will play the love interest, while Cage will play the father of Elizabeth Rappe's future daughter, "a vicious, foul-mouthed 11-year-old who chops down criminals with a katana." Apparently he's trained her to do that as part of his quest to take down a druglord.
I've seen Matthew Vaughn's (the director's) Layer Cake, and it wasn't bad--it was stylish, and I hope he can make a half-decent superhero movie that isn't living in the Dark Knight's shadow. This is a pretty low-profile character, so he should be aight.Next!
Another movie that I have on notice (I'll drizzle in info on some more of them as time goes on) is Inglorious Bastards. In the last few weeks, casting rumors have had actors coming and going--at one point Simon Pegg, soon to be of Star Trek fame, was attached, but he's apparently out. Here's what IMDB is offically saying the cast looks like, as of today:
Cast
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Brad Pitt | ... | Aldo Raine |
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Mike Myers | ... | General Ed Fenech |
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Eli Roth | ... | Sgt. Donnie Donowitz |
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B.J. Novak | ... | PFC Utivich |
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Samm Levine | ||
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Nastassja Kinski | ... | Bridget Von Hammersmark (rumored) |
Gotta love that 'rumored'. Why even include it? Also, the character names don't matter as much as the fact that someone is agreeing to be a part of it, which is the good news.
Finally--Harry Potter has been moved back to too far to be worried about right now, but here's a link to some pictures from the film/set, like it helps or something.
Shit yeah!...These eleven months are fuckin flying by, bro!
Lastly (more definite than 'finally'), people have seen Guy Ritchie's Rocknrolla, and they don't hate it, so that's a positive.
Hard Candy basically sucked anyway, amiright?
Kick-Ass is a movie based on an ongoing comic series published by Marvel. It's about a high school kid who tries to become a superhero though he has no powers or that good of a reason. Matthew Vaughn, who directed Layer Cake, and who was going to dirct X3 but decided not to, is going to direct this (he used to prouduce movies for Guy Ritchie. It's not filmed yet, but the kid who played McLovin, from Superbad, is supposed to play one of the villians, so maybe it will be worth watching.
When seeing Pineapple Express (review forthcoming), I saw a bunch of previews, most of which stuck out as comedies I didn't even know were being released. One, however, stuck out because it looked poised to suck all kinds of balls. It is called Lakeview Terrace, and it is starring Samuel L Jackson, while being co-scribed by one of the guys who brought you Money Train, and one of the guys who brought us all something called Search & Destroy.
Anyway, the trailer was 3min long for some reason, which is long enough to make you realize that the movie plans on being dumb as fuck (think a neighbor vs neighbor episode of your favorite sitcome, only thriller-y), and so the film may've been better serviced not with an explain-everything trailer, but with one of those slowly-rising-tension type of trailers where there's no dialogue, just lost of shocked people, and running, and people getting shocked by something sudden that won't be revealed til you pay to see it, and Sam Jackson looking badass, followed by an explosion, a slowly opening door, Sam Jackson laughing and saying, "I guess things didn't turn out the way you planned," to which the male protagonist would say, "Guess not," followed by a shot of the female protagonist screaming, and the words 'Lakeview Terrace, Coming this Fall' slowly appearing on the screen. Better luck next time, Overbrook Entertainment.
It farts into multiplexes this September.
Certain tags involving speedos have been getting fuller these days, and with the Beijing games still going strong, that is not likely to abate any of these coming days. So I'll come up with stupid reasons to include humans with ovaries in suggestive/idolizing/exploitative settings, because there's not already enough of that everywhere else on Earth. There's always room for that, brother.
Does this count? Whatever--incoming: top 5 live-action comic book female depictions!
I never caught Guy Ritchie's Revolver, but apparently I'm not supposed to, because it's officially not awesome. Which is fine, because this is pre-divorce-scandal Guy Ritchie, and what we're after is a something-to-prove attitude, and so he's got RocknRolla, which is basically just a heist movie, and, what with the British accents, it's not gonna seem that much different from anything else he's done, but people will probably still want to see it, probably. Next, though, he will be working with Iron Man. Oh, Variety:
In what will be his first job since the blockbuster "Iron Man," Robert Downey Jr. is set to star in "Sherlock Holmes," the drama that Guy Ritchie will direct for Warner Bros.
Downey committed to the pic, which begins shooting in October, after Ritchie turned in a polish of the latest version of the script, written by Anthony Peckham.
Yeah, those links don't work, but you know what most of that stuff is anyway, so you should be good. The point is, the man is working, and Sherlock Holmes will probably be good, even though Will Farrell is making a comedy version starting right now as well.
It's all in the full article.
So, ok, I'm pretty much a big Tarantino fan blahblah. I mean, I've even sat through Jackie Brown several times and honestly think it's underrated and good and funny. I think the script is pretty entertaining. When I was trying to find my style as a writer of prose, as I still am, reading this guy's stuff was a lot of help. The Pulp Fiction script is great. I even like Death Proof (kind of a lot, but not too much, as to not start arguments, which has happened). Whatever, when a writer, or director, or singer, is focused on something they care about, and don't sell themselves short, or pander, even when they're keeping the audience in mind (which they should do, arguably), then what they come up with will at least be interesting. Look at Led Zepellin: They started second guessing themselves around the time of Presence, and the quality of product suffered (although 60% of that record is awsome).
Anyway, Tarantino is into this Inglorious Bastards thing, and is apparently filming this October, according to comingsoon.net. The Weistein Company will co-finance along with whatever studio is willing to co-pony up, and he wants Brad Pitt to be in it. Pitt was in True Romance, which QT wrote, so whatever. He wants this shit to be in Cannes by fucking May, though. If you say so, big guy.
