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Guillermo Del Toro has revealed that he’s interested in making a third film in the Hellboy franchise, after being inspired by Ron Perlman’s recent in-character visit to the Make A Wish Foundation.
Perlman recently attended a function held by the charity for two young Hellboy fans, donning the full costume in order to make their dreams of meeting the comic-book character come true. Guillermo del Toro was reportedly moved by the love for the character that still exists among the younger fanbase, and is now keen to get a third film up and running.
“I can say publicly that now we are together in trying [ to do Hellboy 3]” said Del Toro to Entertainment Weekly . “We’re going to make an effort to do it. I hope it happens.”
Unsurprisingly, Perlman is already keen to reprise his role as Big Red. “The [ first ] two movies were really set up to have this unbelievable resolve,” Perlman told EW . “Everything that was done in both movies was leading up to this destiny, written in stone, of what Hellboy has been summoned to Earth to do.”
“To not do it, particularly in light of the scope that Guillermo is thinking of for the resolve, would be in my mind a little bit of a shame.” Whether the studio will see it in quite such emotive terms is doubtful, but it does at least sound like the enthusiasm is there from the creative team. Watch this space…
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Man Of Steel , Zack Snyder’s new take on Superman, was one of the big guns at this year’s Comic-Con , and it brought with it a first poster.
It’s a moody affair, with the focus aimed squarely at Supes’ considerable chest. Henry Cavill’s face is in there, but the shadow-play that’s going on makes it hard to identify him, and it gives him one glowing white eye.
In close up, the suit has a chainmail vibe, possessing more texture than most superhero threads.
And, purely in terms of lighting, this is a darker take on DC’s golden boy. Being a teaser poster, we’d imagine this reflects the approach of the new film.
Check out the poster in full below:
And those of you desperate for a first glimpse at Man Of Steel footage will only have to wait until 20 July 2012, as Snyder confirmed that a teaser will premiere with The Dark Knight Rises . We’re guessing that quite a few of you will be going to see that one anyway. Just a hunch.
Man Of Steel opens on 14 June 2013.
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]]>That didn’t work out, and so far, all we’ve had was Smith’s word on the issue.
“I came really close, it was one of the most amazing screenplays I had ever ever seen,” Smith said.
“I was in the middle of Men In Black 3 and [ Tarantino ] was ready to go, and I just couldn’t sit with him and get through the issues, so I didn’t want to hold him up. That thing’s going to be ridiculous. It is a genius screenplay.”
But when Quentin Tarantino was asked if he could respond to Internet rumours about Smith’s involvement, he had this to say:
“Much more has been made out of that than is the case. When I wrote Django , I did not write it for anybody. I had no idea who was going to play it and it was kind of a little bit like, gosh, who is going to play this guy? And so I met with six different actors.
“[ Will Smith ] was one of the people that I met with. And then I met with Jamie [ Foxx ] and he came over to my house and I was going to put him through the ringer. It was going to be like a three-tier meeting with everybody and kind of really test it out and this and that and let’s do some scenes together. And at the end of this long process, I would make my decision.
“And, frankly, Jamie was the last one that I got together with and after I got together with him, I called the other guys up and I go, ‘Look, I found my Django. And no disrespect and everything and we could have taken it further and I know…’
“But you just know when you meet the guy and I met the guy. And one of the things about him, aside from everything else about Jamie, just when it comes to this movie, he just got it. He just understood.
“He understood what I was writing, he understood what needed to be there and he understood what needed to be on screen and he understood how people should take it.
“But then, also, just to cut to the chase, he was the cowboy. I met six guys, six magnificent actors, but he was the cowboy and I was looking for the cowboy.”
Django Unchained is released in UK cinemas 18 January 2013.
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]]>2000 AD aficionados can rest easy – Judge Dredd’s latest cinematic outing is brutally true to its comic book source and a vast improvement on Sylvester Stallone’s universally loathed 1995 interpretation .
Last night, fans at San Diego’s Comic Con were treated to a preview screening of the Alex Garland-scripted, Pete Travis-directed Dredd and breathed a collective sigh of relief as a lean, mean Dredd laid violent waste to scum in a gritty, grubby Mega-City One. And kept his helmet on throughout.
Despite rumours of rifts during production, Garland and Travis have created a horribly gorgeous vision of dystopian future where monolithic housing towers are run by criminal gangs – and policing is undertaken by judge/jury/execution officers, Judges. Cue Dredd (Karl Urban) a no-nonsense hardass who’s got a psychic rookie, Anderson (Olivia Thirlby), tagging along for his shift.
Called out to tower block Peach Trees to investigate some splattered body parts, Dredd and Anderson find themselves trapped in a Raid -esque running battle, fighting their way up – one run-down filthy floor at a time – to gang leader Ma-Ma (Lena Headey).
Urban certainly has the downturned mouth and super-cool, gravelly delivery to pull off Dredd’s nonchalance but he’s aided by Garland’s smart, fast script, a relentless flow of Rorschach Test blood sprays from bone-shattering brutality, eye-poppingly beautiful 3D visuals and peppy banter with Thirlby.
The body count is high, the humour grim and the violence stylishly graphic and reminiscent of Sin City (scenes involving a drug called Slo-Mo are visually intoxicating).
And that famous headgear stays resolutely on. Perhaps ready for Dredd 2 ? According to Garland there are two other Dredd adventures he’s ready to write – based on this fast and hard outing, audiences may well be wanting more of the law…
Dredd opens in the UK on 7 September 2012.
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The Comic: Beautifully eccentric religio-pastiche from Garth Ennis in which preacher Jesse Custer acquires supernatural powers and hits the road with his vampire sidekick and ex-girlfriend Tulip.
The Movie Version: D.J. Caruso ( I Am Number Four ) talked about dumbing down the religious aspects for his failed movie version, but a movie adap really needs to embrace those controversial religious themes and take them to the max. It should be, in a word, fearless.
Perfect Cast: James Marsden, Juno Temple, James McAvoy
Dream Director: William Friedkin
100 Bullets
The Comic: A pulp noir series that ran for 100 issues (naturally), Bullets boasts an array of deeply flawed characters, not least the inscrutable Agent Graves, who offers wronged people a chance at revenge with some untraceable bullets.
The Movie Version: Remember Richard Kelly’s The Box ? Yeah, like that, only good. Kelly’s got an eye for memorable visuals, but he’s been let down by his original scripts – let’s give him this to adapt and get him back on track.
Perfect Cast: Lance Henriksen, Jake Gyllenhaal, Frank Langella
Dream Director: Richard Kelly
Calvin And Hobbes
The Comic: A daily newspaper strip that was created by cartoonist Bill Watterson, and ran between 1985 and 1995. The strip followed an adventurous six year old and his stuffed tiger.
The Movie Version: A stop-motion animation in which tiger Hobbes and six-year-old Calvin get into all manner of scrapes. A touching B-plot has Calvin struggling in school…
Perfect Cast: Unknown voice actors
Dream Director: Tim Burton
Nemesis
The Comic: “What if Batman was The Joker?” Mark Millar asked himself before penning this uber-cool comic in which unstoppable supervillain Nemesis targets Chief Inspector Blake Morrow.
The Movie Version: The movie adap has long been in the works, with Joe Carnahan apparently now in the director’s chair (replacing Tony Scott). We want hyper-violence and an intricately-plotted adap that stays true to the claret-soaked comic.
Perfect Cast: Zachary Quinto, Liam Neeson
Dream Director: Joe Carnahan
The Boys
The Comic: One of the naughtiest, most violent comics you’ll ever read (creator Garth Ennis wanted it to “out- Preacher Preacher ”), as CIA squad ‘The Boys’ monitor out-of-control, fame-hungry superheroes.
The Movie Version: Adam McKay tried to make a movie adap in 2010, but what we really want is a bloody superhero twist on Reservoir Dogs – which makes Tarantino the guy for the gig. Of course, Simon Pegg has to play Hughie…
Perfect Cast: Simon Pegg, Ellen Wong, Jason Statham, Patrick Wilson, Traci Lords
Dream Director: Quentin Tarantino
Creature Commandos
The Comic: Writer Timothy Truman revived the Creature Commandos in 2000, introducing Cyborg Gunner to the team, which also includes Bogman, Aten the Mummy, vampire Velcoro and werewolf Wolfpack.
The Movie Version: It’s been a while since Paul Verhoeven made a sci-fi, but he’s perfect for this outrageous, violent story. He’d probably favour animatronics over CGI, too.
Perfect Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Colin Farrell
Dream Director: Paul Verhoeven
Locke & Key
The Comic: A mystical series from IDW set around the Locke family’s ancestral home, Keyhouse, which also houses an evil entity that wants to open a forbidden door…
The Movie Version: An adaptation of the comic’s first run, ‘Welcome To Lovecraft’, which sets up the story and has baddie Sam Lesser on the loose.
Perfect Cast: Ben Foster
Dream Director: Ti West
Queen And Country
The Comic: Inspired by 1970s TV show The Sandbaggers , Queen And Country follows SIS Operative Tara Chace.
The Movie Version: Think a female Bond, with Gemma Arterton finally getting a decent role as Chace, and Sam Mendes ensuring there’s enough gristle to go along with the grit.
Perfect Cast: Gemma Arterton
Dream Director: Sam Mendes
I Kill Giants
The Comic: An unconventional indie comic about a fifth-grader who carries a Norse war hammer in her bag for killing giants. Though is this all just a flight of fancy for the troubled youngster?
The Movie Version: This could be really good. A twisty narrative in which our young heroine’s action fantasies could just be an escape from her miserable reality. Poignancy here we come.
Perfect Cast: Chloe Moretz
Dream Director: Spike Jonze
Black Hole
The Comic: A body horrific nightmare courtesy Charles Burns, in which horny teens fall victim to a sexually transmitted disease that causes them to mutate.
The Movie Version: Though Steven Soderbergh hasn’t exactly handled something this kooky and grotesque before ( Contagion aside), we’d love to see what he made of this, especially considering his tight grip on characterisation and aesthetic.
Perfect Cast: Unknown teens for maximum impact
Dream Director: Steven Soderbergh
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Total Recall has released a new full-length trailer online, and for those of you complaining at the loss of the Martian element of the original , it does at least give us a glimpse at the three-breasted girl. Not a full glimpse, but a glimpse all the same.
Colin Farrell plays factory worker Douglas Quaid, and the new trailer shows a little more of the discontent experienced in his home-life with wife Kate Beckinsale that pushes him towards a trip to memory-altering company Rekall.
Unfortunately for Quaid, the procedure to realise his super-spy fantasy goes horribly wrong, leaving him a hunted man. And to make matters worse, the person leading the hunt is the woman he thought was his wife.
Take a look at the new trailer, below…
[brightcove]1711724439001[/brightcove]Having been slightly unimpressed by the sanitised action of the teaser trailer, this new footage certainly seems more thrilling, as Quaid bands together with a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) in order to find Bill Nighy’s leader of an underground resistance movement.
Biel and Beckinsale should whip fanboys into a frenzy with a series of physical clashes, while the reliably excellent Bryan Cranston also makes an appearance as the sinister leader of the free world, Chancellor Cohaagen.
Directed by Len Wiseman, and featuring appearances from John Cho, Bokeem Woodbine and Ethan Hawke, Total Recall will open in the UK on 29 August 2012.
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A new teaser trailer has emerged for Resident Evil: Retribution , the fifth instalment in the survival horror franchise, and initially, you could be forgiven for mistaking it for an advert for the latest Sony products.
The trailer begins with a sequence mimicking an advert for the latest raft of Sony technology, before neatly segueing into the chaotic world created by the shadowy Umbrella Corporation.
Once again, Milla Jovovich decks herself out in head to toe leather as consummate badass Alice, and as she puts it so succinctly, “This is my world.”
Check out the new trailer below…
[brightcove]1403628386001[/brightcove]The fifth film sees Umbrella’s T-Virus continue to plague the planet, with Alice representing humanity’s last chance of survival. On the hunt for those responsible for the outbreak, our heroine embarks upon a globetrotting adventure that takes her everywhere from Tokyo to Moscow.
From the looks of the trailer, it would appear that this will be Alice’s most chaotic mission to date, with all manner of flesh-eating beasties standing in her path. At least she has a few old friends on hand to back her up…
Resident Evil: Retribution opens in the UK on 14 September 2012.
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