Fox Filmed Entertainment Chairmen Jim Gianopulos and Tom Rothman announced today that Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron has agreed to make Avatar 2 and 3 as his next films.
Cameron, who had always viewed “Avatar” as the creation of a new world and mythology, will begin work on the scripts early next year with an eye towards commencing production later in 2011. Cameron will decide if he will shoot the films back-to-back after he completes the scripts, but the release of the first, as yet untitled sequel, is targeted for December 2014, with the third film contemplated for a December 2015 release.
[SIR RIDLEY SCOTT will produce] a new 4-hour miniseries based on Dick’s The Man In The High Castle for the BBC.
Dick’s novel is a science fiction alternate history, depicting a world in which the Axis powers — Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany — triumphed over the Allies in the Second World War.
“The film will be really tough, really nasty,” [RIDLEY SCOTT] notes. “It’s the dark side of the moon. We are talking about gods and engineers. Engineers of space. And were the aliens designed as a form of biological warfare? Or biology that would go in and clean up a planet?”
20th Century Fox has set a September 3 release date for Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis’ Machete, starring Danny Trejo, Jessica Alba, Robert De Niro, Michelle Rodriguez, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, Jeff Fahey, Don Johnson and Steven Seagal. Labor Day falls on Monday, Sept. 6, which gives the movie a four-day opening weekend.
The feature version of the trailer finds Machete (Trejo) a renegade former Mexican Federale, roaming the streets of Texas after a shakedown from drug lord Torrez (Seagal). Reluctantly, Machete takes an offer from spin doctor Benz (Fahey) to assassinate McLaughlin (De Niro) a corrupt Senator. Double crossed and on the run Machete braves the odds with the help of Luz (Rodriguez), a saucy taco slinger, Padre (Marin) his “holy” brother, and April (Lohan) a socialite with a penchant for guns. All while being tracked by Sartana (Alba), a sexy ICE agent with a special interest in the blade slinger.
The cast to date includes; Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne (THE MATRIX Trilogy), Topher Grace, Alice Braga (I AM LEGEND), Mahershalalhashbaz Ali (THE 4400), Walt Goggins (THE SHIELD), Danny Trejo (HALLOWEEN, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, HEAT) and UFC fighter Oleg Taktarov.
The basic premise is that a batch of human “predators” (in their own right) are yanked from Earth and dropped on the Predator planet to provide some predator challenge.
Source: ComingSoon.net
JAMES CAMERON on the focus of an ‘AVATAR’ sequel:
“Part of my focus in the second film is in creating a different environment – a different setting within Pandora. And I’m going to be focusing on the ocean on Pandora, which will be equally rich and diverse and crazy and imaginative…”
Source: ComingSoon.net THRALL WORLD could not think of a better weekend to roll out the the little trailer that could as it graduates from the “Wouldn’t it be cool..” list to the big screen..
20th Century Fox has set a September 3 release date for Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis’ Machete, starring Danny Trejo, Jessica Alba, Robert De Niro, Michelle Rodriguez, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, Jeff Fahey, Don Johnson and Steven Seagal. Labor Day falls on Monday, Sept. 6, which gives the movie a four-day opening weekend.
The feature version of the trailer finds Machete (Trejo) a renegade former Mexican Federale, roaming the streets of Texas after a shakedown from drug lord Torrez (Seagal). Reluctantly, Machete takes an offer from spin doctor Benz (Fahey) to assassinate McLaughlin (De Niro) a corrupt Senator. Double crossed and on the run Machete braves the odds with the help of Luz (Rodriguez), a saucy taco slinger, Padre (Marin) his “holy” brother, and April (Lohan) a socialite with a penchant for guns. All while being tracked by Sartana (Alba), a sexy ICE agent with a special interest in the blade slinger.
Source: IGN.com
The cast to date includes; Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne (THE MATRIX Trilogy), Topher Grace, Alice Braga (I AM LEGEND), Mahershalalhashbaz Ali (THE 4400), Walt Goggins (THE SHIELD), Danny Trejo (HALLOWEEN, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, HEAT) and UFC fighter Oleg Taktarov.
The basic premise is that a batch of human “predators” (in their own right) are yanked from Earth and dropped on the Predator planet to provide some predator challenge.
Release date: July, 7th 2010.
ROBERT RODRIGUEZ posing with friends on the set of 'PREDATORS' due in theaters 07.07.10
ADRIEN BRODY (left) stars in 'PREDATORS' due in theaters on 07.07.10
Source: ComingSoon.net
Cool interview with ROBERT RODRIGUEZ in which they touch base on the status of SIN CITY 2:
“We still talk about doing that as early as later next year. I haven’t gotten to that yet.”
On the chances of it actually happening and if there is a script from FRANK MILLER?
“I can’t say no, because I don’t know it’s no. I know Frank wants to do it. I know I want to do it. It’s always sort of a ‘time permitting’ kind of thing. But it’s not like I can tell you definitely we’re starting . It’s not my next picture, I know that. It doesn’t mean that it’s not the picture right after ’cause that’s still a possibility. There has been a script since 2007.”
Laurence Fishburne [THE MATRIX Trilogy] has joined the cast of Predators, now lensing in Texas under the direction of Nimrod Antal. Robert Rodriguez is producing.
The cast to date includes; Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga (I AM LEGEND), Mahershalalhashbaz Ali (THE 4400), Walt Goggins (THE SHIELD), Danny Trejo (HALLOWEEN, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, HEAT) and UFC fighter Oleg Taktarov.
The basic premise is that a batch of human “predators” (in their own right) are yanked from Earth and dropped on the Predator planet to provide some predator challenge.
Want more? Check out a review of a working script HERE but heads up – MAJOR spoilers are revealed. They don’t give away the ending or who survives etc. – but they do touch on a some details that you might prefer to be suprised by while watching when the movie opens on July, 7th 2010.
Source: Sizemore.co.uk
Maybe. But don’t look for it on television. Not yet anyways. At the very least it gets the award for thee longest THRALL WORLD headline EVER…
Following in the footsteps of ‘District 9′ and ‘Paranormal Activity’ comes ‘SLINGERS’ – a sort of interstellar OCEAN’S 11 complete with the snappy dialogue and wit of say SNATCH.
Plot synopsis: Slingers is set in the year 2960 A.D., following mankind’s first interplanetary war. Humanity is now clustered into a finite, but still vast section of the universe known as Enclosed Space. Humanity won the war with an aggressive alien enemy, but at a cost. The way back to Earth is now cut off by an impassable barrier – a side effect of the blast that finally pushed the enemy back.
The show takes its name from a group of people thrown together on board an experimental spacecraft that is capable of Slinging itself to any point in space. In theory it’s the only craft capable of getting home. In reality the crew are using it to carry out a series of high tech heists and get even with those who are now exploiting their positions in the post war hierarchy.
Dominic ‘DM’ Monroe, a special ops war veteran becomes the de facto leader of this small team of thieves who rail against the decision by military command to just ‘stay where they are and make the best of it’. They’re determined to get home and if that means breaking a few rules and picking up a lot of enemies along the way then so be it.
Keep up with the latest at Sizemore’s official site HERE.
Source: AvatarMovie.com, ComingSoon.net
Caught the trailer in the theater before ‘SAW VI’. Cameron’s back is (again) against the wall with the rumored $200-300 million+ budget for the movie. But in his defense he had the same budget issues with TITANIC and then knocked it out of the ballpark with the stunning result.
The bottom line? THRALL WORLD couldn’t help but notice how incredibly REAL the aliens looked in a good portion of the trailer. It really was remarkable and will probably make or break the movies success. No SHREK or HULK cartoons here. They have upped the photo-realistic CGI to an eye-bending level and made THRALL WORLD a believer and we can’t help but wonder how much more of a difference watching it in 3D will make.
But we do hope the “going native” plot (a la DANCES WITH WOLVES, TORAL RECALL, THE LAST SAMURAI) has more behind it than the main character sympathizing with the aliens because an “evil” corporation wants a valuable gem which only seems to exist right underneath the aliens home.
Set to open in conventional 3D theaters and IMAX 3D on December 18th, 2009 and written and directed by James Cameron (TERMINATOR, TITANIC), ‘AVATAR’ stars; Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, and Giovanni Ribisi, Zoe Saldana, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Peter Mensah, Laz Alonso, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang and Matt Gerald.
Read more HERE and check out the official ‘AVATAR’ movie site HERE.
“The prequel will be a while ago. It’s very difficult to put a year on Alien, but [for example] if Alien was towards the end of this century, then the prequel story will take place thirty years prior.”
Read more HERE and watch the original ‘ALIEN’ trailer (circa 1979) below.
Adrien Brody is boarding to star in “Robert Rodriguez’s Predators,” Fox’s reboot of the sci-fi franchise being directed by Nimrod Antal. Rodriguez is producing with Elizabeth Avellan.
Topher Grace is in negotiations to join the action-adventure movie, to which Alice Braga (“I Am Legend”), Mahershalalhashbaz Ali (“The 4400″), Walt Goggins (“The Shield”), Rodriguez mainstay Danny Trejo and UFC fighter Oleg Taktarov have also been cast.
Read more on their individual roles in the movie HERE.
The basic premise is that a batch of human “predators” (in their own right) are yanked from Earth and dropped on the Predator planet to provide some predator challenge.
Want more? Check out a review of a working script HERE but heads up – MAJOR spoilers are revealed. They don’t give away the ending or who survives etc. – but they do touch on a some details that you might prefer to be suprised by while watching when the movie opens on July, 7th 2010.
Source: ComingSoon.net
Walt Goggins stole the final season of THE SHIELD in his Emmy deserving role as Detective Shane Vendrell. Good to see him back in action. Not much info on the role yet other than he’s in.
Set for release on December 18th, 2009 and written and directed by James Cameron (TERMINATOR, TITANIC), ‘AVATAR’ stars; Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, and Giovanni Ribisi.
The feature version of the trailer finds Machete (Trejo) a renegade former Mexican Federale, roaming the streets of Texas after a shakedown from drug lord Torrez (Seagal). Reluctantly, Machete takes an offer from spin doctor Benz (Fahey) to assassinate McLaughlin (De Niro) a corrupt Senator. Double crossed and on the run Machete braves the odds with the help of Luz (Rodriguez), a saucy taco slinger, Padre (Marin) his “holy” brother, and April (Lohan) a socialite with a penchant for guns. All while being tracked by Sartana (Alba), a sexy ICE agent with a special interest in the blade slinger.
Source: Variety
As mentioned in a previous THRALL WORLD Rumor Of The Week posting, ROBERT DE NIRO was rumored to have joined the cast of ‘MACHETE’ – the now in production movie based on the fake GRINDHOUSE trailer. Here’s the confirmation along with a few other casting reveals:
Production [began] this week on `Machete,’ the film that Robert Rodriguez is co-directing with protege Ethan Maniquis. Danny Trejo is playing the title character and Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Steven Seagal, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson and Jeff Fahey play supporting roles.
