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May 6, 2014 - 11:04 AM
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fisch
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TUESDAY, MAY 6
STAR WARS: EPISODE VII---a source said Max von Sydow is the sequel's villain and the working title of the sequel, THE ANCIENT EVIL, refers to him.
THE WALKING DEAD---Seth Gilliam (TEEN WOLF, THE WIRE) joins the cast in an undisclosed role, but speculation is he will play preacher Gabriel Stokes.
24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY---the miniseries premiere drew an impressive eight million viewers. Executive producer Howard Gordon said there could be more, "In the world of 24, it's always good to take it one day at a time. So we've had a good time doing this…assuming the audience embraces it and continues to embrace it, then we ask ourselves the question: Do we have another story to tell? Another day?" Mary Lynne Rajskub added, "The scripts have been really good, so I can't imagine that there wouldn't be a little bit more now that they've gone through the trouble of bringing it back."
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN---director Marc Webb commented on the next villain, "Kraven. Kraven. I like the idea of Kraven. The Vulture. Ock. I always thought the idea of Mysterio was interesting. Maybe Scorpion. But really, Kraven I think is kind of interesting."
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY-PART 2---Michelle Forbes (STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, TRUE BLOOD) joins the sequel cast as Lt. Jackson.
JASON BOURNE---Matt Damon said he might return to the Bourne franchise, "I've always been open to it if Paul Greengrass is the director. We've just never been able to come up with a story... It felt like such a good way to end it last time. Having said that, I love that character. I'd love to see what happened to him."
MANIAC COP---remake of the 1988 slasher movie is underway with a script by Ed Brubaker (CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER). Nicolas Winding Refn is the producer.
GOTHAM---Fox ordered a full season of the series about Gotham City police detective James Gordon. Also, WGN America renewed SALEM, Netflix renewed ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK and HBO resurrected THE COMEBACK starring Lisa Kudrow. NBC pulled BELIEVE and CRISIS from the May sweeps lineup which indicates both series have been cancelled.
TUT---Spike TV six-hour miniseries underway about King Tut, Egypt's youngest pharaoh.
HALLOWEEN 3D---Scout Taylor-Compton said she's returning for the next movie which will be a sequel to the Rob Zombie movies and not a reboot.
SPRING BREAKERS: THE SECOND COMING---followup movie underway which will be an indirect sequel to SPRING BREAKERS in which characters from the original movie might return or will be alluded to.
MR. RIGHT---Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick star in this movie about a woman who finally finds Mr. right only to discover he's a former hitman with a past that's about to catch up with him.
PLAY IT AGAIN, DICK---CW Seed digital spin-off of VERONICA MARS in which Ryan Hansen plays himself as he "begs, cajoles, and pleads with his former Veronica Mars castmates and friends to help him get his character, Dick Casablancas, his own spin-off show."
OH!---untitled Paul Verhoeven (TOTAL RECALL) movie underway based on the French novel about a woman who seeks revenge on the stalker who raped her.
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Mike, the working title (if it's true) is ANCIENT EVIL, not FEAR.
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What jenkwombat said.
Never judge a book by it's cover.
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May 8, 2014 - 12:34 PM
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Ado
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Star Wars is mostly about stylistic facade layering over a throwback kitch homage to yesteryear serials. Really, it has over played that hand in my mind. It is like all the throwback nostalgic fonts we see on signage, t-shirts and brands everywhere. I see the 'antique' fonts on freshly painted signs, and I go - yeah sure, whatever.
George created this fusion of nostalgia and future before steam-punk was cool, but the brand is more than a little creaky 40 years on. Much the same is the case with Star Trek, although Star Trek could always just shoot some guys standing in some office with a backdrop window looking at some painted ships and it was still Star Trek. JJ rebranded, not totally successfully, Star Trek.
But Star Wars has always pushed the paradox further between throwback nostalgia serials / Arthurian legends and total technological idealization of the future (or past) according to the set-up of the 1977 Star Wars. It started to show the seams in the prequels, the super-saturation of effects pulled the sequels apart from the roots of what it was. If JJ is smart he would drop the bar on technology and ultra-galactic war and go back to simpler times with knights wandering through the cosmos on their horses / spaceships.
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