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Apr 1, 2013 - 9:16 AM
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dragon53
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MONDAY, APRIL 1
JAMES BOND---producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson announced that JJ Abrams will direct the 24th James Bond movie after Sam Mendes (SKYFALL) declined their offer to return. Broccoli said Abrams' track record with the Star Trek and Star Wars film franchises was the crucial factor in their decision to pick Abrams. In order to tap even more into the lucrative US market, the producers and Abrams have agreed that a US actor will replace Daniel Craig as Bond. Inside sources say George Clooney is the top candidate to be the next 007. The sources said this not a precedent because John Gavin signed to play Bond in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER until Sean Connery returned, and that other prominent US actors such as Burt Reynolds came close to playing Bond. Another "Yankification" of the Bond movies involves Eon Productions signing a huge product placement deal with General Motors which will pay to have the new Chevrolet Corvette Stingray as Bond's car replacing his traditional Aston Martin.
ALIEN VS. GLADIATOR---Ridley Scott confirmed the eagerly-anticipated sequel in his ALIEN/PROMETHEUS series will combine two of his most successful movies, ALIEN and GLADIATOR. Russell Crowe is in negotiations to return as Maximus Decimus Meridius. The sequel has Maximus only being wounded by Commodus in the Coliseum gladiator scene. Maximus then is beamed aboard an Alien spacecraft which takes him to its home planet. The Aliens chose Maximus because of his superior gladiator talents and pit him against Aliens and other species in their intergalactic coliseum in which creatures from throughout the galaxy are spectators.
STAR TREK: EPISODE VII---Sir Alec Guinness said he is reuniting with Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill in the latest Star Wars movie. Guinness had signed to reprise his Oscar-winning role as Lt. Col. Nicholson in the sequel to BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI which would answer the question if Nicholson had intentionally blown up The Bridge, but Guinness left the sequel for the Star Wars movie. He explained, "A chance to win a second Oscar as Nicholson and answer the age-old question about The Bridge's destruction in the sequel to a classic movie is nothing compared to having the opportunity to work with the brilliant genius of JJ Abrams."
HAMONSTER---new Syfy tv movie stars Lorenzo Lamas and Denise Richards. The plot involves a secret underground lab in Siberia where genetic experiments on a hamster result in a 100-foot tall, blood-thirsty "Hamonster" which kills all the scientists and escapes across the Bering Strait to Alaska. Lamas plays a former Delta Force operative who lives in the remote wilds of Alaska to escape the memories of the violence he saw in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is called out of retirement to team up with his former lover played by Richards, Dr. Alexandria "Alex" Kendrick, the MIT-trained, world's leading expert on giant, mutated, Russian killer hamsters. They and their team of Special Forces soldiers must stop Hamonster before it destroys the massive Prudhoe Bay Oil Field which would wreck the US economy. They are hindered by the greedy head of the oil field who refuses to shut down the drilling and warn workers about the Mamonster because it will reduce profits.
TOM THUMB---Tom Cruise stars as tiny Tom Thumb in this remake of the 1958 movie that starred Russ Tamblyn, Peter Sellers and Terry-Thomas. Inside sources said Cruise took the role after scathing fan criticism of him playing the 6' 5" title character in JACK REACHER.
ACME---Tim Burton animated movie underway based on the popular Warner Bros. Roadrunner and Coyote cartoons. Johnny Depp will provide the voice for Wile E. Coyote, and Seth Rogen will voice the Roadrunner. Acme is the company that produces the contraptions used by Coyote to snare Roadrunner.
VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA---NBC tv series remake of the 1960s movie and ABC tv series is underway at JJ Abrams' Bad Robot Productions. Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (STAR TREK) are the showrunners. Mary McDonnell (BATTLESTAR GALACTICA) will play Admiral Harriette Nelson, and Jason O'Mara (TERRA NOVA) will play Captain Lee Crane. The plot has the submarine SEAVIEW investigating a large disturbance on the ocean floor near Hawaii. The disturbance is a time warp which sends the SEAVIEW back in time to December 6, 1941, the day before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Admiral Nelson and Captain Crane must decide if they should torpedo the Japanese fleet to prevent the attack on Pearl Harbor and change history forever or let the attack occur. Orci said the movie will include a fantastic scene in which the SEAVIEW's Flying Sub has a dogfight with Japanese Zero fighters.
THE TIME MACHINE---the second remake of the 1960 Rod Taylor movie is underway in which a government special ops assassin in the future is sent back in time to 1865 England to kill the mother of HG Wells so Wells is never born which will prevent him from writing THE TIME MACHINE which will prevent Hollywood's never-ending deluge of movies and tv series about time travel. The dilemma is the assassin is the great-great-geat-grandson of Wells, so if he prevents Wells from being born, the assassin will never be born. Cate Blanchett plays the mother of Wells, and Brad Pitt plays the assassin.
THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE: THE NEXT WAVE---second sequel underway to the Oscar-winning Irwin Allen disaster movie. The plot has Carnival Cruise Line's unsinkable flagship SS POSEIDON on its maiden voyage. Once at sea, all the passengers and crew are stricken with severe diarrhea after a disgruntled waiter spits in the soup. The extremely ill captain of the POSEIDON is faced with the seemingly impossible task of leaving the restroom long enough to go to the deserted bridge and steer the ship away from a massive tidal wave caused by a killer typhoon.
DANCES WITH WOLVES: THE SERIES---new CBS dance competition series in which the descendants of the US Cavalry and Indian tribes compete against each other for the grand prize of an all-expense paid trip to the luxurious Pechanga Resort and Casino in California which is owned by the Pechanga Tribe. The celebrity descendant for the Cavalry team is actor Larry Storch. The celebrity descendant for the Indian team is Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF---Emma Watson stars in this remake of the 1957 horror movie which starred Michael Landon. The plot has Watson playing a nerdy high school student who is constantly bullied by the school's Mean Girls. Watson's anger and frustration release long-repressed genes from her family's werewolf lineage in Victorian England, and she seeks revenge on her tormentors.
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I'm just imagining all of the outraged threads on this site if that Bond info became fact!
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