General Movie News

[Imrahil]

Wow, then I want to get him in a room with Chevy Chase just to see what happens.

Sweet lovin' is what happens.

Butt lovin'.

[Johnny Unusual]

Wow, then I want to get him in a room with Chevy Chase just to see what happens.

Sweet lovin' is what happens.

Butt lovin'.

In that they are both assholes who are in love with themselves.

[Darth Geek]

Shane Black working on Doc Savage:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/shane-black-is-moving-from-iron-man-3-to-doc-savag,97470/

Now that all your money belongs to Iron Man 3, Shane Black won’t be waiting eight years between projects again. Though Black was also prepping an adaptation of the Death Note manga, it looks like his other screenwriting project, Doc Savage, will be the first to move forward, as he’s now officially set to direct from the script he co-wrote with Anthony Bagarozzi and Charles Mondry over at Sony. The classic 1930s and ’40s pulp character is a scientist, physician, adventurer, inventor, explorer, and researcher, trained by scientists from birth for superhuman abilities—basically Indiana Jones amped up to 11, though Doc Savage obviously predates that character by decades. Presumably in Black’s version, Doc Savage also has a witty, parenthetical voiceover narration that comments on his adventures, which surely involve a kidnapping of some sort.

Think a more serious version of Buckaroo Banzai.  But I don't imagine it will be too serious.

I would like to see him try Death Note.  Manga is pretty hard to adapt for a mainstream western audience, but I think Death Note could work very well.

Considering that the biggest problem with Iron Man 3 was the writing, I'm going to hold off excitement on that one for a while.

[Mrs. Dick Courier]

Jeremy Piven, ugggghhhh....why does that guy keep getting work?

[Imrahil]

Jeremy Piven, ugggghhhh....why does that guy keep getting work?

Because women love bald, angry, sarcastic men.

[Darth Geek]

http://www.chud.com/135610/the-toxic-avenger-might-get-rebooted/
So they are going to make a big budget hollywood remake of The Toxic Avenger?! The hell? I've never been a fan of Troma movies, even the original Toxic Avenger, but even I can tell that this very idea completely misses the point.

Also of note is that apparently Arnold Schwarzennegger will star. I was actually kind of interested in this at first, because I thought it would be brave of him this late in his career to do a role where he is mostly covered in makeup. That, and if they used the same Captain America style CGI to make him the skinny Melvin before the transformation. But no. Apparently he is not going to be Toxie. Unless that means he is going to be a villain, which would be interesting.

[Pak-Man]

I was a fan of The Toxic Crusaders cartoon spinoff. It was one of those awesomely subversive cartoons that the '90s did so well. Then I saw Toxic Avenger and it kind of left a bad taste in my mouth. Too mean-spirited or something. I'm not sure if a big budget and hollywood sensibilities would improve it or just ruin it for the people who dug those films..

[Darth Geek]

I was a fan of The Toxic Crusaders cartoon spinoff. It was one of those awesomely subversive cartoons that the '90s did so well. Then I saw Toxic Crusader and it kind of left a bad taste in my mouth. Too mean-spirited or something. I'm not sure if a big budget and hollywood sensibilities would improve it or just ruin it for the people who dug those films..

Considering how ball to the wall violent and bloody (and crass) the original was, and they are apparently intending for a PG-13, I don't see how the remake COULDN'T be a pale imitation of the original.
Even though I don't really like the original. I agree with you, too mean spirited. The gang at the beginning casually running over someone and squishing a strangers' head under their tires, coupled with the treatment of Melvin, simply doesn't mesh with the fun the movie wants us to have later on.

[Darth Geek]

http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/66653/asylum%E2%80%99s-atlantic-rim-trailer-goes-big-giant-robots-battling-giant-monsters

The trailer for The Asylum's mockbuster Atlantic Rim actually looks pretty cool:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/TVpQmZmKNmo" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/TVpQmZmKNmo</a>

They probably are showing us most of the fight footage in the trailer, though.

[Johnny Unusual]

It's funny, recently there was a movie podcast (Battleship Pretension) where they had regular Asylum director Rachel Lee Goldberg (Sunday School Musical, Sherlock Holmes) and they brought up this exact ripoff.  They asked if asylum was working on one, but she had no idea.

I highly recommend it (and she is fully aware of how bad these films are, though it sounds like they are surprisingly fun to work on)

[Darth Geek]

Oh HELL yeah! Even Brad Bird seriously considering a sequel to The Incredibles is great news:

http://www.chud.com/135868/brad-bird-genuinely-suggests-incredibles-2-is-a-possibility/

By far the best Pixar movie. And the one that lends itself to sequels anyway.

I also really hope they rerelease The Incredibles to theaters in 3D.

[Henry88]

Marvel's Phase Three: 'Doctor Strange,' 'Iron Man 4,' 'Hulk,' 'Inhumans' or 'Runaways' on horizon? -- EW EXCLUSIVE

Right now the only definite project being planned for Phase Three is Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man, which has been in development since 2006 but will finally come to the screen in November 2015 — just a few months after Avengers 2.

“I’d say 99 percent of our time right now is purely spent on Phase Two,” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige told EW. “It’s five colossally giant motion pictures that we have to produce. So that’s taking up the time. But within the next year or so we’ll start the advanced planning for post-Avengers 2.”

Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk

The third time is the charm. For the Hulk, that moment came with The Avengers. It may lead to a place in Phase Three.

“People were like, ‘You’ve already had two movies. How is that going to happen?’” Feige said about pre-Avengers Hulk worries. “One of the goals that we talked about with Joss [Whedon] on Avengers was we want Hulk to be cool again.”

Ten years have also passed since Ang Lee and Eric Bana’s (in my opinion) underrated Hulk in 2003, which was rebooted with Edward Norton in the Bruce Banner role for 2008’s more action-oriented The Incredible Hulk.

Each was a modest box-office hit, with lukewarm critical reviews. Neither Hulk was particularly beloved by fans. That changed with The Avengers as Mark Ruffalo stepped into the role of Banner, giving the scientist with a mean, green streak some much needed warmth and humor.

Part of Ruffalo’s charm was making the character of Banner/Hulk more like a lovable kid who is prone to uncontrollable tantrums. It worked. Fans wanted more — a lot more.

In December, Ruffalo told EW he’s up for returning as the character, but worried that if they don’t do a Hulk movie with him relatively soon after Avengers 2, he’ll age out of the role. “You don’t want to be a 55-year-old Hulk,” the 45-year-old actor said.

“If anyone could be a great 55-year-old Hulk, it’s Mark so I’m not worried about that,” Feige told EW.

Rumors that a live-action version of the Planet Hulk comics series, in which the green monster is banished to an alien world, are completely false, Marvel execs insist. “What we’re excited about exploring and expanding is Mark — and Banner’s not in Planet Hulk at all,” Feige says. “The fun of the Hulk is his interaction with humans.”

There’s no script for a solo Hulk movie in the works just yet, but Feige says: “Mark could stand in his own movie. … We’re talking about it. We’re excited to sit down and go, ‘What is a stand-alone Hulk movie?’”

Most Marvel fans would agree: Phase Three could use a heaping helping of green.

[Johnny Unusual]

I love Runaways, but I would much rather have it as a TV series in the Marvel U a la Agents of SHIELD.  Interesting that Ruffalo was aware that he's already starting to age out of the role.

[Darth Geek]

I'm really hoping they do another Hulk movie. And please don't just try to do a soft reboot or something, don't ignore The Incredible Hulk, that was a really fun movie! Please bring Tim Blake Nelson back, he'd be great as The Leader!