Source: hollywoodnews

CASTING FOR STEPHENIE MEYERS THE HOST

Auditions are being held for a feature-film adaptation of “The Host,” a novel by “Twilight” scribe Stephenie Meyer.

As Hollywood tries to keep up with the runaway train that is the “Twilight” saga, Chockstone Pictures and Nick Wechsler Productions have snapped up the right to “Host” and have hired Andrew Niccol to direct. The Oscar-nominated screenwriter of “The Truman Show” also helmed “Gattaca” and “Lord of War.” He’s aiming to have “Host” in theaters in 2011.

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Source: io9

RIDLEY SCOTT PLANS TWO ALIEN PREQUELS

Ridley Scott won’t have enough room in just oneAlien prequel to would solve the mystery behind the infamous Space Jockey and chill us all over again. He’s decided there should be two prequels, both of them in 3-D.

While director Scott has been doing his interview rounds for Robin Hood, tons of Alien prequel items have been spilling out of him.

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Source: collider

JON FAVREAU INTERVIEW ON SET OF IRON MAN 2

Interview:

Jon Favreau: [In regards to the set]  Have you seen it?  Or just through the screen?

Question:  Just through the screen.  We’ve heard about the floor though.

Favreau: We’ll let you see the floor.  You can’t really walk on it.  Well, you can, but it’s not set up.  But [Tony Starks] environment in this one, remember how we had… you saw Iron Man right?

Yeah [Laughing].

Favreau: We were playing at the very end… we were shooting at the very end, it was in the middle or the beginning of the movie where he was doing some work with interactive holograms.  Holographs?  What do ya call it?  Holographs I guess.  But that was just something we did as an afterthought that we animated into it, it was pretty cool.  And as a matter of fact, we were contacted by, where’s Jeremy [looking for one of the guys on set]… Jeremy?  What happened with the holographs, that we were doing the holograph manipulations and we got contacted by a military contractor?

Jeremy:  Oh yeah, a company out of Austin, that has the DARPA contract called us, and they were like, ‘We would like to license the images from the movie for our presentation, because we’ve been working on this technology for seven years…’ [Laughing], ‘We can’t make it look that cool, but we want to show the Government what we want to do…’.  So we licensed them the images and they use them in their presentation now.

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