via Sci Fi Wire: New Spidey will be ultimate, angsty, smaller and unknown
Now that the improbably named director Marc Webb has been hired to reboot the Spider-Man film franchise, we’re getting new details on what he plans for his proposed trilogy: namely, basing them on a rebooted Marvel comic series, Ultimate Spider-Man.
We’re also learning that Sony is making a smaller movie ($80 million, compared with an estimated $260 million for Spider-Man 3) with an unknown actor to star (no Robert Pattinson or Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and James Vanderbilt (Zodiac) writing the script.
Here’s how The Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Business blog reported it:
The touchstone for the new movie will not be the 1960s comics, which were the inspiration behind the movies by [previous director Sam] Raimi, who grew on up on them, but rather this past decade’s “Ultimate Spider-Man” comics by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley where the villain-fighting took a back seat to the high school angst.
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From Mike Bracken at Horror Squad: Watch This: ‘The Last Lovecraft: The Relic of Cthulhu’ Trailer
One of the best parts of this whole “writing about horror movies” gig is that it means I get to spend an obscene amount of time poking around the internet looking for information on horror films. I couldn’t venture to guess the number of hours I spend watching trailers, reading gossip, perusing press releases, and scouring YouTube in the standard year, but it’s almost assuredly more hours than I’d spend at a real job. Yet, even with the staggering number of hours I spend researching all these films, I still miss out on titles here and there. Case in point: Henry Saine’s The Last Lovecraft: The Relic of Cthulhu.
The Last Lovecraft: The Relic of Cthulhu is set to make it’s Slamdance debut on January 24th. There will be an encore showing on January 26th). Here’s to hoping the full feature is as much fun as the trailer.
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by Brendon Connelly at Slash Films: Peter Dinklage in Talks For Knights of Badassdom, Synopsis Revealed
Peter Dinklage is reportedly in talks to take a role in Joe Lynch’s horror/comedy/adventure The Knights of Badassdom. The film was produced and co-written (with Kevin Dreyfuss) by Matt Wall, producer of Dinklage’s upcoming St. John of Las Vegas so there’s clearly a relationship there and I can imagine anybody lucky enough to get Dinklage in one of their films would try and get him back over and over again.
So, from Bloody Disgusting, who broke the Dinklage news, comes a slightly more detailed description of the film’s basic plotline, apparently being used in the casting process:
A huge group of dedicated, costumed LARP-ers (Live Action Role-Players) , dressed like knights, elves & various characters, give up their cell phones and take to the woods for the Central New Jersey Knights of Badassdom Adventure Society, where they are set to re-enact a dungeons and dragons scenario right out of the mythical Middle Ages.
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By Meredith Woerner at io9: First Look At Dreamworks’ Supervillain Epic, Megamind
We got an early look at footage of Dreamworks’ supervillain epic Megamind. With Will Ferrell as the lead, and Tina Fey as the scrappy reporter, we had high expectations. So was it funny, or a flop? Spoilers ahead…
First off, we find out that Megamind wasn’t always evil. At least his childhood concept design doesn’t look that way. We see a picture of our anti-hero with short legs, a cherub face and a big blue noggin. Megamind director Tom McGrath explains that the little blue boy came from an advanced civilization in a distant galaxy. He was sent away by pod as his planet was being destroyed, but instead of winding up in the arms of a lovable farming couple in Smallville, he landed in a prison. Thus he grew up with a criminal mind.
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via Heat Vision Blog: D.J. Caruso directing James Frey book ‘I Am Number Four’
D.J. Caruso is on board to direct “I Am Number Four,” DreamWorks’ adaptation of the upcoming young-adult science fiction book by James Frey and Jobie Hughes.
“Four” revolves around a group of nine aliens who escaped their home planet just before it was annihilated by a rival species. Hiding out on Earth, the title character disguises himself as a human high schooler, only to discover he is being hunted still by his planet’s enemy.
HarperCollins Children’s Books is publishing the book, which would be the first in a series of six, this fall.
DreamWorks picked up film rights in June, with Michael Bay attached to produce and possibly direct. Bay remains on board as a producer along with Benderspink.
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I’m not interested in another Spiderman movie, whatever it’s about. And I wouldn’t mind seeing the Cthulhu movie, even if the effects do look a little hokey (it is independent). And Megamind looks funny, its like a parellel universe Superman.
What do you think of the movies coming up?
