Avatar 2 will go underwater , but do n’t expect any trip off - world . Christopher Nolan ’s cinematographer explains why Batman is n’t go away 3D. Colin Farrell really is starring in Total Recall , but Zac Efron ’s not in Akira . Plus heaps of Doctor Who / Torchwood spoilers .
Avatar 2
Producer Jon Landau says the next picture will remain focused on Pandora , and it ’s not going all underwater either , contrary to some reports :
“ Water will be a part of the movie , but it wo n’t be all of the movie . There ’s been a lot of rumor that it ’s an underwater moving picture – it ’s not . Just like the Floating Mountains , and the Na’vi ’s interaction with the mountains , were a part of Avatar , it ’ll be the same type of thing . think the next pic will stay on Pandora . That ’d be my shot . Not all the answers are there yet , but I recollect we ’re glad with Pandora . ”
[ Empire Online ]
The Dark Knight Rises
Longtime Christopher Nolan henchman Wally Pfister says he is n’t officially on circuit card for the next Batman picture show , but he certainly assumes the problem will be his . He explained that they go for to shoot as much as the film as they can for IMAX , but budget and sound problem wo n’t allow them to film the intact movie for that data format . He deny the rumors about the moving picture shooting in New Orleans , and he says he does n’t await to see a script until early next year .
He also reaffirmed Nolan and his shared neutrality in 3-D :
“ I ’m not a big devotee of 3D. I guess one of the big problem for Chris , and I would second this , in doing a film in 3-D is it has to be shot in a video recording process , and we ’re film multitude to the end . You ’ll have to pry that pic camera out of my dead hands . The so - called digital revolution is slap-up . If you have no money and you need to shoot it on your Canon 5D — marvelous . If that ’s the only way you could make the movie , great . But if we ’re putting motion picture up on a screen this size … we involve to deliver the best image quality there . And there ’s nothing good than motion-picture show . ”
[ The Wrap ]
Captain America
Here ’s even more exposure showing off that cool Hydra tank : [ Marvel Movie News ]
The Wolverine
Matty Libatique , who was the cinematographer on Darren Aronofsky ’s Black Swan and The Fountain , will also be the director of photography on this sequel to ten - Men Origins : Wolverine . His bad budget backcloth include Iron Man and Cowboys and Aliens . [ Hitfix ]
Star Trek 2
A bit of clarification is in order for last calendar week ’s report ( including our own ) about the hand for the Star Trek subsequence . The authorship team of Alex Kurtzman , Roberto Orci , and Damon Lindelof are reportedly not shoot for December 2010 to finish the script , but rather former 2011 , which apparently was in reality the plan all along . And for anyone worried about J.J. Abrams ’s incertain position as theatre director – he did n’t institutionalize to direct the first movie until the hand was finish , and this is reportedly the same situation . [ Trek Movie ]
Total Recall
Colin Farrell has reportedly been formally offered the role of Douglas Quaid in Len Wiseman and Kurt Rimmer ’s extremely unneeded remaking of the Paul Verhoeven / Arnold Schwarzenegger master copy . [ Variety ]
Akira
In what is sure to be a huge disappointment to the tens of people who are huge sports fan of both High School Musical and classic cyber-terrorist gum anime , Zac Efron has reportedly not been offered the lead role after all . [ Digital Spy ]
A script critique is out , and it ’s rather less than prescribed . The film has been Americanized , with the scene shifted to a nuked out Manhattan . The story is roughly faithful to parts of the original film , but a new character has been added : Ray Arcman , the harebrained scientist who created Akira through psychic experiment on children . The Colonel ’s quality is weakened in this , and the referee doubts Morgan Freeman would be a right paroxysm for the part as written . The end is also frail , and seems more concerned in hinting at a subsequence than concluding the movie in a hearty direction . There ’s more details at the connection . [ Screenrant ]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
A bunch of newfangled photos are out : [ Multiple Verses ]
break dawning
Here ’s some stab from the cinematography of Edward and Bella ’s honeymoon on Brazil ’s Isla Esme : [ Gente ]
Scheol 4
Kate Beckinsale ’s return to the actually aphrodisiacal vampire dealership has found its director(s ): Swedes Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein , whose sole English words film is the thriller tax shelter . [ The Hollywood newsman ]
Transformers : The Dark of the Moon
The movie filmed in the General Assembly of the UN construction in New York this retiring Saturday . The aspect is potential to do with either the Autobots getting outlawed early in the movie , or being grant amnesty at the end . There are also some rather unlikely reports that Judi Dench was seen there , although take that with a very big grain of salt for now . [ On Location Vacations ]
Youngblood
Two of the great inexplicable success stories , Rob Liefeld and Brett Ratner , are still hard at work on a film adaption of Liefeld ’s hardly veil X - Men knockoff . Ratner explains the long postponement since the announcement of the labor is mostly to do with complicated legal issues :
“ There were some rights issues . We actually waited for over a year for the rights to these comic books that were made by autonomous comic Christian Bible . There was a sight of owner of these comic books and a lot of the great unwashed were claiming they had the right . It ’s taken a long metre but I think we ’ve at long last cleared the legal part of it . ”
[ MTV Splash Page ]
The Thing
The prequel to John Carpenter ’s motion-picture show has lose its April 2011 release date in favor of another Universal movie . aright now , there ’s no intelligence on what new time slot in the schedule it will take . [ Los Angeles Times ]
Year 12
Commercial music director Fredrik Bond is reportedly taking on this movie , which is set twelve years after a devastating foreign invasion and follow a subaquatic atomic number 92 miner ( they have those ? ) who is recruited by the human underground to blow out up the mothership . The script is by Edward Ricourt . [ The Wrap ]
Adaline
Immortality is apparently the big new thing , because legendary actress Angela Lansbury is play Katherine Heigl ’s girl in this new film . Heigl plays a char who gets struck by lightning as she ’s dying , which create her ageless … for some reason . We then find her care for her tired of 80 - year - former daughter , act as by Lansbury . And , as you might carry , amorous complications ensue when Heigl cope with a man who might be worth grow old with . [ Deadline ]
Timeless
Philip Noyce is reportedly negotiating to send Timeless , which is about a man who inherits vast riches from his wife , who died shortly after they get married . He determine to invest that money to progress a prison term machine that will admit him to see her one last time . The script is by Enchanted writer Bill Kelly . [ ComingSoon.net ]
Scream 4
Here ’s some images to get you quick for Wes Craven ’s revival of his other iconic horror series : [ ShockTillYouDrop ]
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Another longer poke has been publish : [ The Daily Mail ]
Fringe
A brusque sum-up is out for the “ over there ” episode 7 , “ Abducted ” :
The case of a serial kidnapper in the alternate universe becomes personal for Broyles ; Olivia reconnects with cabdriver Henry ( Andre Royo ) on her secret pursuit to reelect to the other side .
[ TV Guide ]
Chuck
Here ’s the synopsis for episode 10 , “ Chuck vs. the Leftovers ” :
CHUCK FACES A HIGH - STAKES HOLIDAY WHEN UNEXPECTED guest ARRIVE FOR A THANKSGIVING “ LEFTOVERS ” DINNER – MONET MAZUR , LINDA HAMILTON AND TIMOTHY DALTON GUEST STAR – It ’s the day after Thanksgiving and Chuck ( Zachary Levi ) faces the most inapt of family reunions when mom ( client star Linda Hamilton ) comes over for dinner party - along with the dangerous Alexei Volkoff ( guest star Timothy Dalton ) . Back at the Buy More , Morgan ( Joshua Gomez ) deals with the busy shopping mean solar day of the twelvemonth as Jeff ( Scott Krinsky ) and Lester ( Vik Sahay ) concoct their tardy scheme . Yvonne Strahovski , Sarah Lancaster , Ryan McPartlin , Adam Baldwin and Mark Christopher Lawrence also star .
It ’s not clear who Monet Mazur is playing , although Greta would be the logical guess . [ ChuckTV ]
Doctor Who
The Christmas special is borrowing not just a plot from Charles Dickens , but a deed as well – its title is “ A Christmas Carol . ” Steven Moffat also offers a few tantalizing hints :
“ Oh , we ’re fail for broke with this one . It ’s all your preferent Christmas film at once , in an hour , with monstrosity . And the MD . And a honeymoon . And … oh , you ’ll see . I ’ve honestly never been so activated about write anything ! ”
A magazine from the episode will be show during next Friday ’s Children in Need solicitation , which is where the show has antecedently aired little fit like “ Time Crash . ” I guess this intend they ’re again not using my idea for an eighth Doctor comeback adumbrate , which is fundamentally just five minute of me profusely thanking an more and more uncomfortable - front Paul McGann . One of these days … [ BBC ]
Steven Moffat also confirms this serial publication really will expose the truth about River Song :
Well , you will chance out who she is and what ’s expire on and how it all wee-wee sense . And that will explicate a issue of thing . I ’m writing the sequence right now where the Doctor finds out who she is . We ’re not just hold up to endlessly tease .
And , more generally speaking , he explained why we should n’t expect any associate to getthe Adric treatmentanytime shortly :
In the old series , they did off a span of them . I ’m not saying we ’ll never do it , but it ’s not that form of a show . It ’s not gritty . It ’s kind of a lovely , life - affirming , affirmative show without a cynical ivory in its torso . It ’s almost remaining when you see it in rival with thing like Battlestar Galactica , and you imagine , Well that ’s not us at all . We ’re the story of a grand man from place who can travel in a telephony box ! But I ’m not guaranteeing I wo n’t kill someone in the hereafter !
[ New York Magazine ]
Torchwood : The New World
Russell T. Davies order the show will strive to make all three lead – Captain Jack , Gwen , and new character Rex Matheson – approachable to new TV audience :
I will love playing with that and I can see already that a svelte myth is going to build up of sort , say that Rex is our only first appearance point . When we first see Gwen , you will see what it essentially was in the series [ before ] . There are no super powers , there ’s no credit entry , no money , no special prerogative . You ’ll see an average woman whose life-time is about to take an over-the-top play . So there will be an nasty lot of new viewers where if you ’ve never seen Gwen Cooper in your life , you will see a woman with a husband , a babe , thrown into a threat and you ’ll latch onto her immediately . Even the way that Captain Jack is introduced is written so that you ’ll latch onto that as well .
He also says the series will respect Jack ’s brokenheartedness for Ianto and not dismiss that , but at the same time the serial publication is set at least two twelvemonth afterwards and Jack has to lead off moving forrader . Davies then gave some sense of new characters Rex and Esther :
Rex certainly brings dynamism and energy and ill will towards Torchwood . He want to know who the netherworld they are and why the hell they ’re so important and they can get out of his way … at first . There ’s a great , fun , sparky , aphrodisiac variety of hostility to the whole thing . Esther is much calmer , but through the course of the write up , she lose some great , powerful , worked up stories as it goes on . In some ways , she ’s a chip of an free abroad and shortly read not to be . And that plays off Gwen ’s experience with these things . The fact that Gwen still is the most average woman in the mankind , and Jack ’s vast perspective of things , having lived for 1000 of years … Just enjoin Rex that he ca n’t die is a hilarious scene . There ’s a batch of fresh cloth there that we ’ll mine , but again the young story will always move us forward .
There ’s a ton more at the data link . [ IGN ]
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Here ’s the trailer for the fourth series last , “ Goodbye , Sarah Jane Smith ” : [ Planet Gallifrey ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1FoKz64Y0U
Supernatural
Castiel thespian portrayer Misha Collins explains why his character is up to something :
“ Cas is on his own specific mission , which is to restore order to heaven , and at time it ’s pop off to prevail counter to Sam and Dean ’s delegacy . Why are these monsters so active , what brings them about , and why is there so much monster activity ? The answer ultimately does consist with something that Cas has something to do with . I ca n’t tell you what that is , but Cas is by all odds involved , and heaven and hell are involved . ”
[ TV Squad ]
Here ’s a ready sum-up of this Friday ’s episode , “ Clap Your Hands if You Believe ” :
Dean is abducted from a crop circuit while investigating a UFO sighting . He chop-chop fall upon he is n’t dealing with extraterrestrial being but rather with fairies . surface-to-air missile search for him and stumbles upon a world interest by gremlin , gnomes and a leprechaun .
Stargate Universe
Here ’s a abstract and promo for tomorrow ’s instalment , “ Malice ” : [ Scifi Scoop ]
Simeon ready his escape from Destiny , sending Nicholas Rush on a vengeful delegacy . But Young and Greer attempt to find Simeon unharmed .
Spawn
Todd McFarlane is still play on an animated adaption of his comic series , and he excuse it wo n’t be for kids … at all :
“ Absolutely , ” McFarlane recount MTV News when asked whether or not the new series would keep up the old show ’s obscure look . “ We ’re gong to a cable internet , and that ’s their bread and butter . They want stuff that is n’t what you may find on ABC , NBC and CBS . They ’ve covered that field . We have now an surface area where we can actually do show that get a little grittier , a small darker , a slight more naughty . ”
He also say he want to keep doing what the first Spawn cartoon did , which aired from 1997 - 99 on HBO and succeed a mates Emmys with a similarly grownup whole step . [ MTV Splash Page ]
Phoebe
Here ’s a teaser for the season premiere : [ SciFi Cool ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH9l6325_8I
Smallville
Here ’s a synopsis , two preview and a bunch of promo photos for the next episode “ Patriot ” , featuring the return of Aquaman and a guest show by Michael Hogan as General Slade : [ Comic Book Resources , ComicBookMovie , andOSCK ]
snap to view
The show is reportedly casting a young villain named Morgan . That ’s all we know right now – I actually would n’t even feel comfortable guessing the type ’s gender at this point . [ SpoilerTV ]
The Cape
True Blood doer James Frain explicate how his character Peter Fleming , who is secretly the supervillain Chess , fits into the show :
“ This guy [ lawman Vince Faraday , played by ‘ ER ’s David Lyons ] is framed for a crime he did n’t commit , so he change by reversal himself into his son ’s favored comical book submarine and tries to reunify with his crime syndicate . But he ’s scotch by the big bozo [ Fleming ] who is sort of a billionaire who ’s taken over the city . I will be demand care of the baddie duty in the show . It ’s unquestionably a lot of fun . [ Sir Alexander Fleming is ] exceedingly cunning and has a general concentration of iniquity . ”
[ Fancast ]
Some more details are available for Mena Suvari ’s reference Dice :
Dice ’s apprehension of quantum purgative always keep her one step forward of the secret plan . Her father was a research physicist who worked with Chess . He germinate some kind of advanced technology , which Chess later steal – something Dice neither forgave nor forgot . And she returns to Palm City attempt retaliation .
Obviously , I have n’t seen the episode yet , but I will guarantee mighty now that quantum mechanics do n’t work that fashion . [ Zap2It ]
A couple more tidbits about episode six , reportedly called “ Cape ’s Day Off ” : the installment features a persona key Goggles , and there are links to a Cape comic book . [ Capesite.net ]
extra reporting by Chelsea Lo Pinto and Charlie Jane Anders .
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