Here is the first poster for Thor: The Dark World that should take the bad taste out of your mouth from the Red Dawn remake and Chris Hemsworth’s god-awful hair in the Ron Howard racing movie Rush. You haven’t seen it yet? Here ya go.
I guess Hemsworth is playing the Tom Cruise/Cole Trickle part and the other guy (sorry, I didn’t have the time/want to look him up) is playing the Michael Rooker/Rowdy Burns part. I have gotten off on a Days of Thunder tangent….it happens. And yes, I realize it is an F1 movie.
So the Thor poster. It’s….pretty and full of lightning. He is fighting Dark Elves by the way. The poster is vague on that. By vague I mean mentioning nothing of it.
Thor: The Dark World releases on November 8, 2013.
Joss Whedon may be Hollywood’s golden boy now, but back in the late 90’s he was a promising writer and show runner who had a cult hit show on television. Many were excited to see him get the opportunity to try his hand at the fourth Alien movie, but when Alien: Resurrection was released it…..well it sucked. Joss Whedon knows this and he still has to live with that even though the studio made a lot of changes to his initial script that he had no control over.
In an interview with Total Film, Whedon discusses what it was like to see things changed and how it feels to have his name attached to the film.
“Casting is storytelling, I wrote two characters for Alien: Resurrection and their arc was that you would not know what way they were going to go. One of them turned out to be insane – and what do they do? They call Brad Dourif. So there is no plot twist. Brad is a very good actor but he has been pigeonholed into these roles. Then they cast J.E. Freeman as a thug – and his character was also supposed to be a mystery. So there you go again – the mystery is gone. Those are just a couple of examples because there are thousands of them when it comes to Alien: Resurrection.”
Whedon gets brutally honest when asked about being involved in the Alien legacy.
“Yeah – you don’t ever get over it. When you are making a movie you are making something that is going to last forever, especially now with the internet. So there is always going to be a shitty Alien movie out there. A shitty Alien movie with my name on it.”
He also had quite the interesting name for last year’s Prometheus.
“Yes, I did see Pro-meaningless,” he joked. “In all seriousness,Alien: Resurrection was, I thought, the lowest I could ever feel. And then they cancelled Firefly. ‘Yup, there you go. That’s me feeling even lower.’ Let me quote King Lear – ‘The worst is not, so long as we can say, ”This is the worst.”
Three of the best platforming games ever are coming the the PS Vita this summer. Sony announced the Jak and Daxter Collection that was released on the PS3 last fall would make its way onto their handeheld in June. You will get Jack and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Jak II and Jak 3 for only $29.99.
Harrison Ford visited Jimmy Kimmel last night to promote his new movie, 42, and like any interview these days with the actor, the conversation switched to the new Star Wars movies. Ford was evasive, but decided to answer some audience questions as long as they were not about Star Wars. Well, things did not go according to plan especially when Jimmy tried to reunite Ford and Chewbacca, things went to hell in a handbasket quickly.
Mega64 has posted a video detailing exactly how they are coming along with the game that was funded through Kickstarter and to ask for a little more help. When I say the game is “coming along” I mean that in a “we bought a boat” sort of way.
But dammit, with our help Sakred Diamondz will become a reality! Keep donating!
That reminds me, would any of you be interested in my Kickstarter to fund a true sequel to the Judge DreddSNES game?
There are two ways this is going to go. People will either realize that we are never going to get a Zombieland 2 and accept that this show is the closest thing to it or there will be massive bitching about how the characters don’t look right and you could never replace Woody Harrelson and blah, blah, blah.
Since I think we all know which one of those will prevail I will just go ahead and say that I chuckled a few times watching the trailer. I will give the first episode a try since it is free on Amazon and if I like it, I like it.
Disney announced today at CinemaCon that they plan on releasing a Star Wars film every year beginning with Episode VII in 2015. They would alternate years with a movie in the new trilogy and one of the standalone films the next summer.
J.J. Abrams is hard at work with pre-production of Episode VII which we will just call The Phantom Nerfherder for now and screenwriters Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinburg are rumored to be working on one or more of the stand alone films which are shrouded in even more mystery than Episode VII.
Now I love me some Star Wars, but damn Disney. Every year? No matter how big the property is there is going to be a saturation point and people will stop caring. The prequels did enough damage to the legacy of Star Wars so let’s pull back the reins a bit. Star Wars movies are an event. If we get one every year for at the very least next six years beginning in 2015, people (like me) could get very tired, very quickly.
Honestly I would rather get to play 1313 and get a new trilogy.
We brought you some shots yesterday from A Link to the Past 2, but here is the official announcement video which features the first look at gameplay of the 3DS sequel.
With Fire Emblem and Luigi‘s Mansion both selling huge and Mario Party, Mario and Luigi: Dream Team, Bravely Default, Donkey Kong Country Returns and A Link to the Past 2 coming it is hard to deny that the 3DS has the best looking lineup of any system going right now.
Easiest way to describe the first trailer for R.I.P.D.? Imagine if Ryan Reynolds and Rooster Cogburn were supernatural police officers keeping the dead out of the living world.
I can easily see how some will roll their eyes and cringe at the almost Men In Black feel to it, but I got a kick out of it. Plus, Jeff Bridges doing an almost Rooster voice for two more hours is completely fine by me.
If you thought the mere fact that you would get to play a game like Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon was where your 80’s journey would stop, you were way off the mark. This live action trailer titled “The Cyber War” shows exactly how humanity’s war with the androids began. There are VHS tapes, a neon katana blade fight and the thought that you could shield yourself from a nuclear blast by hiding behind a destroyed android carcass.
God I miss the 80’s….then I get on my cell phone and start to play Angry Birds and rethink that. The video is still balls awesome.
