Well, it was probably only a matter of time before it came down to this…but someone–ostensibly the Sith party–has put together their ultimate dream ticket of Vader / Tarkin for 2008. I guess the trend of having actors run for office has now extended to Star Wars characters.
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Recently, a cult director who may or may not be named Kevin Smith may or may not have seen a particular film. This film, though it hasn’t been talked about as much as some, is an adaptation of a very very popular television show from many years ago, that has had many spinoffs, and takes place in outer space.
I think you know what I’m talking about.
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Apparently, this is news to a lot of people. But given the way Hollywood works, it’s nice to get some assurance for a change. Rumors become news and get debunked almost as fast in the amorphous blob that is Hollywood culture, but as of right now, we have the strongest possible assurances that Gore Verbinski will in fact be directing the BioShock movie.
BioShock, for those of you who don’t count yourselves gamers, is the hugely popular video game originally released on Xbox 360 about an underwater city called Rapture, created and run by eccentric plutocrat Andrew Ryan. Designed to be a place where innovators of all stripes could create without fear of censorship or reprisal, it became a strange mishmash of science fiction, spare-parts gadgetry run amok, and 1950s-era culture. The problem, of course, is that outside Rapture the world has just celebrated 1960, but in many ways, Rapture is ahead of us all. Especially in the arena of genetic experimentation, giving rise to consumer goods called Plasmids, injectible serums that give their user super powers: pyrokinesis, telekinesis, and even limited mind control is just a few bucks in a vending machine away.
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Okay, I just got back not too long ago from watching the new X-Files movie. Subtitled “I Want To Believe”, it turned out fairly well, but nowhere near as well as it could have. What separated this movie from greatness, you ask? Simple.
They forgot their canon.
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Got a real treat this time around for you, folks, in the form of a webcomic you may not have recently heard of. One of the great themes of webcomics is geeks and their assorted paraphernalia, like movies, music, books and video games. Let’s face it, anyone who calls himself (or herself) a geek has a fascination with at least one item on that list, and probably more than one. Me, it’s all four in varying amounts. You should see my house sometime.
But anyway! This time around I’ve got JT from Between Failures talking to me in the Five Question Slot O’ Doom (I’m thinking about trademarking that. You know, like that old show Banzai and its Lady One Question or Mister Shake Hands Man) and he’s got some geektastic things to tell us about comic book conversion movies, pop culture in general, and the all-time best ever movie quote.
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The inner child in me is poinging wildly out of control, and it has absolutely nothing to do with its traditional morning breakfast of chocolate cake and maple syrup. No, this little bastard, so clearly in need of Ritalin, is resonating like an overtuned guitar string on the recent news that there will be another Robocop film.
This time helmed by Darren Aronofsky of Pi and Requiem for a Dream, the newest installment of Robocop is said to be “noirish”, and is the first new Robocop release in fifteen years, not counting series television and direct to video filmmaking. Its scheduled release date? Some time in 2010.
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All right, Star Wars fans–I happen to count myself among them on a somewhat limited basis–I’ve got horrible news for you. Apparently George Lucas hasn’t yet found enough ways to screw up the Star Wars saga, so he’s taking the whole thing one step farther into the cesspool by re-re-re-re-REreleasing the series…
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Ain’t It Cool News, always first with anonymous reviews, now has “a report from the Paris premiere of David Cronenberg and Howard Shore’s THE FLY OPERA!!!”
Apparently, this is a “long anticipated” adaptation of the film. I’ve never heard about it, much less anticipated it, but hey.
The Fly was a 1986 science fiction film starring Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis. A re-imagining of the 1958 film, which in turn was an adaptation of a novel, it is the story of an eccentric scientist who begins to turn into a fly (why not?).
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Sigourney Weaver, apparently, is very, very interested in shooting Alien 5.
“I would definitely do another if I had a director like Ridley Scott and we had a good idea,” she says of the classic sci-fi movie franchise. “Ridley is enthusiastic about it.”
Which isn’t what you’d call a huge surprise–her resume for the last ten years looks like holy hell. Packed with voiceovers and featuring titles like “Heartbreakers”, “Holes”, and M.Night Shyamalan stinkbomb “The Village”, it’s clear that Sigourney Weaver would probably happily shoot any one of us for a chance at Ripley money again. Oh, sure, it’s not a total loss–she landed the ship’s computer bit-part in Wall-E and Pixar cash is always fat, but still. Bit part.
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“I love the ‘Resident Evil’ franchise and we always try to make the best possible movie we can. If we could find a good ‘Resident Evil 4’ to make, then we would do it,” he told The MTV Movies Blog. “But I wouldn’t just do it for the sake of it, that’s for sure. I don’t even know if anything will come of it, but there’s a possibility it might happen.”
You hear that? That’s the sound of the biggest cloud of insincerity to ever be unleashed upon man. If you’re guessing where it came from, I’ll save you a lot of time and mental candlepower and let you know that it’s Paul W.S. Anderson.
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