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Universal remaking The Host
Gore Verbinski’s producing the creature feature
BY James White Nov 19th 2008 // 11:11AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
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Universal Pictures has signed newcomer Fredrik Bond to direct and Pirates helmer Gore Verbinski to produce a remake of 2006 Korean thriller The Host.
Fredrik, who has worked on music videos and adverts, will take the helm for the movie, which will follow roughly the same plot of a squid-alike beast terrorising a small town.
Smart People writer Mark Poirier is at work on a script that will find a dysfunctional family banding together to rescue a snatched young girl.
Spike Jonze talks Where The Wild Things Are
The director confirms the movie’s still on
BY James White Nov 19th 2008 // 10:10AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
Spike Jonze has finally started to talk about his long-gestating adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are.
For a while now, we’ve been hearing rumours of trouble on the film, of studio worries and interference. Now Ain’t It Cool has tracked down Jonze for a sprawling, info-packed horse’s mouth chat.
And the good news is, it sounds like the movie’s progressing nicely.
Fox planning young X-Men spin-off
Josh Schwartz is writing First Class
BY James White Nov 19th 2008 // 10:10AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
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20th Century Fox is ramping up development on younger X-Men tale First Class, commissioning OC creator Josh Schwartz to write the script.
Variety has no exact word on what the plot will be, but it’ll focus on the younger characters from the series, which means wiping out the hefty fees from more established stars such as Hugh Jackman.
And it’s not like the studio is dragging this idea out of nowhere – Marvel launched the First Class comic in 2006, featuring such X-typed as Rogue, Angel, Colossus and Shadowcat.
Nothing But The Truth trailer online
The first promo for the Kate Beckinsale drama
BY James White Nov 19th 2008 // 11:11AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
The first trailer for Rod Lurie’s latest, Nothing But The Truth, has arrived, and you can watch it below.
The based-on truth drama stars Kate Beckinsale, Alan Alda, Vera Farmiga and Matt Dillon.
Lurie’s drama finds a journalist (Beckinsale) facing jail after outing the identity of a CIA agent.
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The plot is based on the real-life Valerie Plame affair, which saw the agent exposed in the media by the outgoing US administration after her husband wrote an unflattering piece about it in the New York Times.
Seth Gordon directing Suicide Squad
King Of Kong helmer tackling heist drama
BY James White Nov 19th 2008 // 1:01AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
King Of Kong director Seth Gordon is attached to Suicide Squad for Working Title.
Now that he’s finished working on Vince Vaughn comedy Four Christmases, Gordon plans to start developing the heist film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Suicide Squad finds a desperate con man out on his latest parole who forms a gang of amateur criminals to rip off the Kentucky Derby.
New Star Trek trailer is live!
Buckle up...
BY James White Nov 18th 2008 // 10:10AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
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The new trailer for JJ Abrams’ take on Star Trek is finally here. Literally:
Yes, after all the talk of footage screenings and the picture releases, not to mention the shipbuilding teaser, the first full trailer for Star Trek has arrived.
Now we can all get a proper look at moving footage of the new Enterprise crew – including Chris Pine as James Tiberius Kirk, Zachary Quinto as Spock, Karl Urban as McCoy and Simon Pegg as Scotty.
New pics of Sam Rockwell in Moon
Life’s rough when you’re a stranded astronaut
BY James White Nov 18th 2008 // 11:11AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
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Fresh new images have arrived of Sam Rockwell in space drama Moon.
The film finds Rockwell as an American space explorer slowly going astro-nuts (sorry) as he’s trapped for years on an isolated lunar outpost.
His only real companion is a robot, voiced by Kevin Spacey.
Duncan Jones directing
You can see some of the images – which make the movie look haunting and cool - in our gallery to the right, and more are at Bloody Disgusting.
TMNT helmer making War Monkeys
Kevin Monroe will direct the horror
BY James White Nov 18th 2008 // 2:02AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
He’s still best known for making Turtle ‘toon TMNT in 2007, but director Kevin Munroe is planning to direct horror pic War Monkeys.
While he’s about to be busy helming graphic novel-based pic Dead Of Night, he’s deep into negotiations to take on Monkeys, based on a script by Chris Nettles.
"It's kind of like if Quentin Tarantino did Gremlins, Nettles first told me.
Danny Boyle on The Walking Dead
"We just stole from the same people!"
BY Sam Ashurst Nov 17th 2008 // 12:12PM FILED UNDER: Movie News
Before any comic-book fans start to get excited that they've just read the words 'The Walking Dead' on a film website, there are still no plans to adapt Robert Kirkman's sublime zombie epic into the ultimate undead flick.
However, Danny Boyle has been discussing it.
Ain't It Cool News confronted the director over the perceived similarities between issue one's opening scene, and the first ten minutes of 28 Days Later.
Aaron Eckhart signs for Battle: Los Angeles
Can he save the city?
BY James White Nov 17th 2008 // 16:16PM FILED UNDER: Movie News
Fresh from his tortured, villainous turn in The Dark Knight, Aaron Eckhart is returning to the side of good for Battle: Los Angeles.
Eckhart has signed on to play the leader of a Marine platoon who fight an evil alien army trying to destroy Hollywood, Santa Monica, and, we’ll say, ice cream?
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning’s director Jonathan Liebesman is at the helm, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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