Hello ladies and gentlemen, here is some movie news with some of my thoughts and opinions (which will be in BOLD print). So without further ado...
(NOTE: All of these stories come from comingsoon.net)
The internet community was collectively shocked this past Friday when it was revealed that director Edgar Wright had parted ways with Marvel Studios and would no longer be directing the big screen adaptation of Ant-Man, a film he had been attached to since 2006. In a joint statement, the pair said the split was due to "differences in their vision of the film."
The next day Latino-Review brought word that the reason for Wright's departure was the script for the film. Marvel Studios reportedly had some notes about the script and tasked the rewrite to someone other than Wright and his co-writer Joe Cornish which resulted in a script very unlike Wright's vision for the film. Now, The Hollywood Reporter is echoing this story in a new piece but also elaborates on a few other behind-the-scenes problems, including the heads of the departments for the film leaving the project a few weeks ago when it became clear there would be delays in the start of production.
The search for a new director is currently ongoing and will likely be announced in the coming weeks as Marvel Studios have already confirmed that this delay in production will not impact the previously-set July 17, 2015 release date. Set to star Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Patrick Wilson and Corey Stoll, Ant-Man follows a biochemist Dr. Hank Pym using his latest discovery, a group of subatomic particles, to create a size-altering formula. Though his first self-test goes awry, he develops an instrument that helps him communicate with and control insects. Paul Rudd will play Scott Lang/Ant-Man and Michael Douglas stars as Hank Pym.
This news makes more sense to the whole ordeal. Look I hate that Edgar Wright is gone because I was really looking forward to the film but now not so much (the new director will help me determine that.). But this does make sense, A studio won't continue to help yo uif you keep falling behind so they have to take matter into their own hands to get the film bakc on track and that's what Marvel is doing in this situation.
With production well underway on the much anticipated Jurassic World, director Colin Trevorrow spoke today with /Film in an effort to set straight some rumors about the film that have popped on online. Read on for details regarding the June 12, 2015 release. Please be aware, some spoilers follow:
"'Jurassic World' takes place in a fully functional park on Isla Nublar," Trevorrow confirms. "It sees more than 20,000 visitors every day. You arrive by ferry from Costa Rica. It has elements of a biological preserve, a safari, a zoo, and a theme park. There is a luxury resort with hotels, restaurants, nightlife and a golf course. And there are dinosaurs. Real ones. You can get closer to them than you ever imagined possible. It’s the realization of John Hammond’s dream, and I think you’ll want to go there."
Trevorrow goes on to reiterate that the story takes place 22 years after the events of Jurassic Park and explains that the script came about while trying to incorporate two important themes: economic greed and mankind's relationship with modern technology. "[O]ur relationship with technology has become so woven into our daily lives," he explains. "We’ve become numb to the scientific miracles around us. We take so much for granted... What if, despite previous disasters, they built a new biological preserve where you could see dinosaurs walk the earth…and what if people were already kind of over it? We imagined a teenager texting his girlfriend with his back to a T-Rex behind protective glass. For us, that image captured the way much of the audience feels about the movies themselves. 'We’ve seen CG dinosaurs. What else you got?' Next year, you’ll see our answer."
Trevorrow goes on to correct a recent internet rumor that suggested that we'll see "good" dinosaurs in Jurassic World. "There’s no such thing as good or bad dinosaurs," he says. "There are predators and prey. The T-Rex in Jurassic Park took human lives, and saved them. No one interpreted her as good or bad. This film is about our relationship with animals, how we react to the threat they pose to our dominance on earth as a species. We hunt them, we cage them in zoos, we admire them from afar and we try to assert control over them. Chris Pratt’s character is doing behavioral research on the raptors. They aren’t trained, they can’t do tricks. He’s just trying to figure out the limits of the relationship between these highly intelligent creatures and human beings."
He also confirms that the film will feature a brand new species. "[T]here will be one new dinosaur created by the park’s geneticists," he says. "The gaps in her sequence were filled with DNA from other species, much like the genome in the first film was completed with frog DNA. This creation exists to fulfill a corporate mandate—they want something bigger, louder, with more teeth. And that’s what they get."
It's finally good to hear some Jurassic World news. The way Trevorrow describes the film makes it feel like we're going back to the sci-fi the the franchise has lacked since the first film and to also include worldly themes in today's society to make the film feel realistic. Look I'm excited to hear this and I can't wait for Jurassic World.
Although his Sam Wilson may have been repeatedly outpaced by Steve Rogers in the recent Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Anthony Mackie is now looking to play a runner that no one is going to bet against. Deadline reports that Mackie plans on playing Jesse Owens in a still-untitled biopic scripted by George Olson. Mackie will also produce alongside Jason Spire and screenwriter Jamie Linden.
Owens famously took home four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, striking a major moral blow to Adolf Hitler's supremacist philosophy while, at the same time, becoming a powerful symbol for America's own struggles with racial inequality.
This Mackie-led project is just one of several Owens biopics in the works and it remains to be seen which one will make it to the finish line first.
If this is true then my goodness is this good casting. Anthony Mackie is one of the more underrated actors working today. Plus he's he no stranger to being in bio-pics as he play the late Tupac Shakur in 2009's Notorious. Also the story of Jesse Owens is an incredible one and I'm finally glad to see his story be told on the big-screen.
Speaking of bio-pics, The Wolverine helmer James Mangold is in talks to helm Fox 2000's big screen biopic of NFL quarterback Joe Namath, according to a story today at The Hollywood Reporter. Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, who worked with Mangold on 3:10 to Yuma, are providing the screenplay.
While other quarterbacks racked up bigger lifetime stats, Namath became the first football player to achieve rock-star status. The film will tell the story of how the golden-armed kid from Beaver Falls, Pa., became "Broadway Joe," the New York Jets quarterback and '60s cultural figure.
Really? Look I'm not huge fan of Namath (eventhough he did play at Alabama way before my time but he played for the Jets) and I honestly don't think we need a bio-pic on him. I just think that there are more interesting people to do bio-pics on such as Einstein, Da Vinci or Beethoven. Honestly I'm not excited for the film but I guess I'll give it a shot.
Universal Pictures has released the new trailer for director Tate Taylor's Get on Up, the August 1 James Brown biopic starring Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Nelsan Ellis, Lennie James, Jill Scott and Dan Aykroyd.
In his follow-up to the four-time Academy Award-nominated The Help, Taylor directs 42's Boseman as Brown. Based on the incredible life story of the Godfather of Soul, the film will give a fearless look inside the music, moves and moods of Brown, taking audiences on the journey from his impoverished childhood to his evolution into one of the most influential figures of the 20th century.
(NOTE: All of these stories come from comingsoon.net)
The internet community was collectively shocked this past Friday when it was revealed that director Edgar Wright had parted ways with Marvel Studios and would no longer be directing the big screen adaptation of Ant-Man, a film he had been attached to since 2006. In a joint statement, the pair said the split was due to "differences in their vision of the film."
The next day Latino-Review brought word that the reason for Wright's departure was the script for the film. Marvel Studios reportedly had some notes about the script and tasked the rewrite to someone other than Wright and his co-writer Joe Cornish which resulted in a script very unlike Wright's vision for the film. Now, The Hollywood Reporter is echoing this story in a new piece but also elaborates on a few other behind-the-scenes problems, including the heads of the departments for the film leaving the project a few weeks ago when it became clear there would be delays in the start of production.
The search for a new director is currently ongoing and will likely be announced in the coming weeks as Marvel Studios have already confirmed that this delay in production will not impact the previously-set July 17, 2015 release date. Set to star Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Patrick Wilson and Corey Stoll, Ant-Man follows a biochemist Dr. Hank Pym using his latest discovery, a group of subatomic particles, to create a size-altering formula. Though his first self-test goes awry, he develops an instrument that helps him communicate with and control insects. Paul Rudd will play Scott Lang/Ant-Man and Michael Douglas stars as Hank Pym.
This news makes more sense to the whole ordeal. Look I hate that Edgar Wright is gone because I was really looking forward to the film but now not so much (the new director will help me determine that.). But this does make sense, A studio won't continue to help yo uif you keep falling behind so they have to take matter into their own hands to get the film bakc on track and that's what Marvel is doing in this situation.
With production well underway on the much anticipated Jurassic World, director Colin Trevorrow spoke today with /Film in an effort to set straight some rumors about the film that have popped on online. Read on for details regarding the June 12, 2015 release. Please be aware, some spoilers follow:
"'Jurassic World' takes place in a fully functional park on Isla Nublar," Trevorrow confirms. "It sees more than 20,000 visitors every day. You arrive by ferry from Costa Rica. It has elements of a biological preserve, a safari, a zoo, and a theme park. There is a luxury resort with hotels, restaurants, nightlife and a golf course. And there are dinosaurs. Real ones. You can get closer to them than you ever imagined possible. It’s the realization of John Hammond’s dream, and I think you’ll want to go there."
Trevorrow goes on to reiterate that the story takes place 22 years after the events of Jurassic Park and explains that the script came about while trying to incorporate two important themes: economic greed and mankind's relationship with modern technology. "[O]ur relationship with technology has become so woven into our daily lives," he explains. "We’ve become numb to the scientific miracles around us. We take so much for granted... What if, despite previous disasters, they built a new biological preserve where you could see dinosaurs walk the earth…and what if people were already kind of over it? We imagined a teenager texting his girlfriend with his back to a T-Rex behind protective glass. For us, that image captured the way much of the audience feels about the movies themselves. 'We’ve seen CG dinosaurs. What else you got?' Next year, you’ll see our answer."
Trevorrow goes on to correct a recent internet rumor that suggested that we'll see "good" dinosaurs in Jurassic World. "There’s no such thing as good or bad dinosaurs," he says. "There are predators and prey. The T-Rex in Jurassic Park took human lives, and saved them. No one interpreted her as good or bad. This film is about our relationship with animals, how we react to the threat they pose to our dominance on earth as a species. We hunt them, we cage them in zoos, we admire them from afar and we try to assert control over them. Chris Pratt’s character is doing behavioral research on the raptors. They aren’t trained, they can’t do tricks. He’s just trying to figure out the limits of the relationship between these highly intelligent creatures and human beings."
He also confirms that the film will feature a brand new species. "[T]here will be one new dinosaur created by the park’s geneticists," he says. "The gaps in her sequence were filled with DNA from other species, much like the genome in the first film was completed with frog DNA. This creation exists to fulfill a corporate mandate—they want something bigger, louder, with more teeth. And that’s what they get."
It's finally good to hear some Jurassic World news. The way Trevorrow describes the film makes it feel like we're going back to the sci-fi the the franchise has lacked since the first film and to also include worldly themes in today's society to make the film feel realistic. Look I'm excited to hear this and I can't wait for Jurassic World.
Although his Sam Wilson may have been repeatedly outpaced by Steve Rogers in the recent Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Anthony Mackie is now looking to play a runner that no one is going to bet against. Deadline reports that Mackie plans on playing Jesse Owens in a still-untitled biopic scripted by George Olson. Mackie will also produce alongside Jason Spire and screenwriter Jamie Linden.
Owens famously took home four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, striking a major moral blow to Adolf Hitler's supremacist philosophy while, at the same time, becoming a powerful symbol for America's own struggles with racial inequality.
This Mackie-led project is just one of several Owens biopics in the works and it remains to be seen which one will make it to the finish line first.
If this is true then my goodness is this good casting. Anthony Mackie is one of the more underrated actors working today. Plus he's he no stranger to being in bio-pics as he play the late Tupac Shakur in 2009's Notorious. Also the story of Jesse Owens is an incredible one and I'm finally glad to see his story be told on the big-screen.
Speaking of bio-pics, The Wolverine helmer James Mangold is in talks to helm Fox 2000's big screen biopic of NFL quarterback Joe Namath, according to a story today at The Hollywood Reporter. Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, who worked with Mangold on 3:10 to Yuma, are providing the screenplay.
While other quarterbacks racked up bigger lifetime stats, Namath became the first football player to achieve rock-star status. The film will tell the story of how the golden-armed kid from Beaver Falls, Pa., became "Broadway Joe," the New York Jets quarterback and '60s cultural figure.
Really? Look I'm not huge fan of Namath (eventhough he did play at Alabama way before my time but he played for the Jets) and I honestly don't think we need a bio-pic on him. I just think that there are more interesting people to do bio-pics on such as Einstein, Da Vinci or Beethoven. Honestly I'm not excited for the film but I guess I'll give it a shot.
Universal Pictures has released the new trailer for director Tate Taylor's Get on Up, the August 1 James Brown biopic starring Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Nelsan Ellis, Lennie James, Jill Scott and Dan Aykroyd.
In his follow-up to the four-time Academy Award-nominated The Help, Taylor directs 42's Boseman as Brown. Based on the incredible life story of the Godfather of Soul, the film will give a fearless look inside the music, moves and moods of Brown, taking audiences on the journey from his impoverished childhood to his evolution into one of the most influential figures of the 20th century.
This trailer looks great. Eventhough I'm not a huge James Brown fan, the film looks great and Chadwick Bose man could be turning in an Oscar nominated performance. I honestly can't wait to see this film.
So there you have it ladies and gentlemen, which of these stories peaked your interest or was there another story that interested you? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard.
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