Today’s Action In Action — Friday, May 1st
Keanu Hooked on Drugs
Keanu Reeves may be heading to Colombia soon, according to Production Weekly, as he is in negotiations to star in Cartanega, a pic about Colombian drug cartels. He will play an undercover agent attempting to infiltrate the cartels. To prepare for the role, Keanu has hired a foreign-language tutor, who reports that the whip-smart actor is already fluent at saying, “Woah, dude!” in Spanish.
French G.I. Joe Trailer Makes Landfall
The French G.I. Joe trailer hit the Internet today, and fortunately it is a bit different than our already accessible Super Bowl spot. The trailer gives fans a bit more knowledge about the plot of the upcoming G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and knowing is half the battle.
District 9 Trailer Dissapoints
Apple was nice enough to provide a high-res District 9 trailer today, and reactions have been mixed at best. For a show about aliens, there sure was a lot of talking and not a whole lot of action. Is it possible for a TV show to jump the shark before it’s even aired?
Hot Tub Fills Up
The Hollywood Reporter fleshed out some more of the cast of the upcoming comedy Hot Tub Time Machine. The cast now includes Lizzy Caplan, John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Crispin Glover, and Sebastian Stan. That is one full Hot Tub. The world hasn’t seen such a crazy cast of tub-related time travelers since the Clock-Suckers.
Robin Hood Being Rewritten … Again!
Tom Stoppard has been taking a pass at the boringly titled Ridley Scott film Robin Hood, according to Showbiz 411. How much more rewriting does this story really need? It’s been done 7,000 times! Just put a copy of Robin Hood: Men in Tights into the projector and we won’t even know the difference!
Italian Website Reveals Ninja Poster
The Italian website Screen Week has a poster image of the new movie Ninja Assasin, appropriately enough about a ninja assassin. The poster shows the bloodied protagonist wielding a kusarigama, a traditional Japanese chain sickle, as well as the ninja sword known as a ninjato. Never mind that the back-lit rainstorm and the protagonist’s dreamy hairstyle make him look like he’s in a music video and is just about to break out into a moving ballad about slicing people to pieces in the name of honor and tradition. Check out the poster and see if it doesn’t make you want to run to the theater right now!
Iron Man 2 First Look
USA Today got a first look at Iron Man 2 this morning, along with some intriguing pictures. The filmmakers are looking at exploring the themes of “superheroes without a secret identity,” something that has come up fairly regularly in the recent Marvel: Civil War timeline. These are bad times for “Hey, I Am Really a Superhero” Man.
Warner Bros. Signs Death Note
Warners recently acquired the rights to adapt the Japanese anime/manga Death Note into a live action movie, which is good because the live action movie of Death Note that the Japanese produced was a piece of trash. The story is about a young student who acquires a notebook that can cause people to die as long as he knows their face and writes their name. Fans are still waiting to see if Warner Bros. representatives will kick the bucket after signing the Death Note contract. Read the whole story at Variety.
Newell to Direct Many Films
Mike Newell will helm the upcoming Lone Ranger reboot and the upcoming adaptation of Prince of Persia, although some of us wish he would just combine the two and make a movie about a masked cowboy with time-travel powers. Read about Newell’s plans at Comingsoon.net.
First Screens of Clash of the Titans
Spanish website Loque Pasa En Tenerife posted some of the first set photos of the new Clash of the Titans remake today. This has been the biggest international photo leak since an Itallian website dropped a poster of Ninja Assassin, which happened a couple minutes ago.
Documentary Becomes Fictional, Street Dancing to Blame
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Planet B-Boy, a break-dancing documentary, is now being adapted into a fictional narrative. Benson Lee, creator of the documentary, said that he’s making this movie because there’s a lack of real street-dancing movies on the big screen. It’s odd that his solution to this problem involves making his documentary less real.
Wolverine Going to Japan
MTV got a chance to sit down with Hugh Jackman the other day to talk about possible sequels to X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Jackman himself seemed interested in the comics in which Wolverine goes to Japan, which would seem to make that country a possible setting for a sequel, were it not so damned difficult to hold chopsticks with pointy metal claws.
Marcus Nispel in Talks to Join Demeter
Variety reported that Marcus Nispel may just sign on to direct The Last Voyage of Demeter, a pic about Dracula taking a boat to England. Great … Dracula is sailing now. Where are the good new vampire ideas? Has Twilight really turned our brains to teenybopper mush?
David Slade Is Hot for Cold
Firstshowing.net reported that David Slade will direct Cold Skin, a movie about giant humanoid killer amphibians terrorizing researchers in the Antarctic … please see our previous Twilight comment about good ideas and brain mush.
Spike Lee Wants to Capture the Art of the Court
In an interview with Yahoo News, Spike Lee said that the biggest and most rewarding challenge of his upcoming Kobe Bryant documentary was showing the art and “unscripted beauty” of basketball. I wonder if all the criminal charges players end up facing off the court are part of this unscripted beauty?
Christian Bale Still Embarrassed Over Rant
Hollywood.com notes that Christian Bale continues to be embarrassed about his infamous on-set rant that has been screaming around the Internet. Bale publicly apologized, saying that there was no excuse for his behavior, and he hopes that fans won’t hold it against him once Terminator: Salvation hits theaters. His deepest and most heartfelt plea is for fans to simply move on, to forget the rant, and to not beat a dead horse. That having been said, here is the rant! You should watch it, and tell your friends about it, and maybe even talk about it in a really loud voice while waiting on line to see the new Terminator movie — then text all your friends about it from your seat once the new film is rolling!
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