Source: IMDB, ReportThreats.org
Directed by Jonathan Liebesman and set for release on March 11, 2011, ‘BATTLE: LOS ANGELES’ (internationally known as ‘WORLD INVASION: BATTLE LA’) stars; Aaron Eckhart (THE DARK KNIGHT, ANY GIVEN SUNDAY), Michelle Rodriguez (MACHETE, AVATAR), Bridget Moynahan, and Michael Peña (THE SHIELD).
Plot: A Marine platoon faces off against an alien invasion in Los Angeles.
Paramount Pictures has set a June 10, 2011 release date for J.J. Abrams’ secretive Super 8, starring Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning, Ron Eldard, Noah Emmerich, Joel Courtney, Riley Griffiths, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills, Gabriel Basso and AJ Michalka.
Directed by Colin and Greg Strause (ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM) and set for release on November 12, 2010, ‘SKYLINE’ stars; Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson, Donald Faison, David Zayas and Crystal Reed.
Plot summary: After a late night party, a group of friends are awoken in the dead of the night by an eerie light beaming through the window. Like moths to a flame, the light source is drawing people outside before they suddenly vanish into the air. They soon discover an otherwordly force is swallowing the entire human population off the face of the earth. Now our band of survivors must fight for their lives as the world unravels around them.
Then again, we all saw the mediocre after-the-fact 3D conversion of the CLASH OF THE TITANS remake. Lucasfilm seems aware of the potential for a let down:
“Getting good results on a stereo conversion is a matter of taking the time and getting it right,” said John Knoll, Visual Effects Supervisor for Industrial Light & Magic. “It takes a critical and artistic eye along with an incredible attention to detail to be successful. It is not something that you can rush if you want to expect good results. For Star Wars we will take our time, applying everything we know both aesthetically and technically to bring audiences a fantastic new Star Wars experience.”
Reminds THRALL WORLD of the origin of Marvel’s Incredible HULK or perhaps The Blob – which would be fine all around from where we’re sitting. JJ ABRAMS has already indicated it has nothing to do with his previous top secret project; ‘CLOVERFIELD’ – but we’re not ready to rule anything out at this point…
Source: IMDB, ShockTillYouDrop.com
Another ID4-esque alien invasion story coming out in November. The “particles” floating around are actually humans being sucked into the giant space machine – which actually looks kind of humorous.. unless of course it’s you being sucked up.. Which doesn’t quite sound right typed.. but hey – it doesn’t quite look right in the trailer either… With any luck the story will be strong enough to lend that visual some credibility.
Directed by Colin and Greg Strause (ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM) and set for release on November 12, 2010, ‘SKYLINE’ stars; Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson, Donald Faison, David Zayas and Crystal Reed.
Plot summary: After a late night party, a group of friends are awoken in the dead of the night by an eerie light beaming through the window. Like moths to a flame, the light source is drawing people outside before they suddenly vanish into the air. They soon discover an otherwordly force is swallowing the entire human population off the face of the earth. Now our band of survivors must fight for their lives as the world unravels around them.
As seen this past weekend at the opening weekend of ‘IRON MAN 2’. In the theater it reminded THRALL WORLD of the origin of Marvel’s Incredible HULK or perhaps The Blob – which would be fine all around from where we’re sitting. JJ ABRAMS has already indicated it has nothing to do with his previous top secret project; ‘CLOVERFIELD’ – but we’re not ready to rule anything out at this point…
Source: IGN.com
Not too big of a stretch considering the AVATAR 3D experience was so successful financially. No specifics on when as of yet.
“George [Lucas] has publicly expressed an interest in doing Star Wars 3D. Right now there are a number of different technologies, there’s some criticism out there about some of the movies that have quickly changed to 3D, so you have to pick the right technology, you have to get it to a cost that makes sense, and you have to have the time of the director and producer — George — to actually go in there, because you can’t push a button and stuff goes in one end and comes out 3D…
“Saying all that, George remains very interested in doing the Star Wars movies, all six, in 3D, and I hope it will happen someday in the not too distant future.”
It looks like Paramount Pictures has decided at least on a tentative release date for J. J. Abrams’ anticipated Untitled Star Trek Sequel as it stakes claim to the coveted pre-4th of July weekend of June 29, 2012.
Source: FORA.tv THRALL WORLD stumbled across this interesting interview with LOST HIGHWAY and MULHOLLAND DRIVE director DAVID LYNCH who chats about a date he had with Star Wars creator GEORGE LUCAS sometime before the third and final installment of the hugely popular Star Wars franchise; RETURN OF THE JEDI was filmed. The purpose of the get-together? Lucas offering Lynch chance to direct the aformentioned and iconic movie.
Couple of quick notes – this offer came before Lynch was to inevitably direct the much criticized DUNE science fiction movie (which THRALL WORLD loved).
Also, in the interview Lynch mentions how Lucas showed him some pre-production artwork for “wookies”. This may have been wookie art or it may have actually been ewok art – we may never find out for sure – but if it was in fact ewok art then we can see how Lynch might have passed on the opportunity.
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We all know by now that the ewoks weakened the Jedi movie by about a billion-fold. They clearly made the stormtroopers look much less dangerous and when Emperer Palpatine says “An entire legion of my BEST troops” is supposedly guarding the shield that is enveloping the presumed unfinished Death Star you really have to wonder what the heck was up with those clones!? For 20 years the ewoks would end up being an unfortunate testament to Lucas’s claim that the Star Wars movies were in fact geared more towards children as opposed to teens or adults.
But all does end well – eventually Lucas would make up for his error and we would all end up seeing the missing REVENGE OF THE WOOKIES scenes in the brilliant ‘REVENGE OF THE SITH’ installment. And with that in mind, if you go back and try to re-imagine that the ewoks are in fact wookies and not the other way around then you can reclaim a bit of that danger needed to give JEDI the weight it needed to be a fantastic overcoming-overwhelming-odds final act in one of the greatest stories ever told.
Check out the interview portion that deals with Star Wars below and the entire interview HERE.
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