Finally after weeks of waiting, here it is! The first trailer for Thor: The Dark World is here and if you will indulge me, I would like to give one of my hardiest holy shits possible.
The trailer shows Thor returning to Earth for Jane Foster and taking her to Asgard as Malekith the Accursed and his dark elves wage a war which may claim all Thor holds dear. And in case you were wondering where Loki is at, just wait till the end and bask in the glory of Tom Hiddleston’s wondrous hair.
Want a reason to attend the midnight viewings of Iron Man 3 in IMAX besides the fact that….well, it’s Iron Man 3 in IMAX? Patrons will receive this impressive looking poster to commemorate the movie’s release drawn by comic artist Jock.
Iron Man 3 releases on May 3rd. Check and see if your local theater will be offering these posters here.
The first trailer for the new SyFy show Helix is here and it leaves something to be desired. Now I am going to fully give this show a chance when it comes out, but if we are going by first impressions alone on this teaser then it looks like the black oil from The X-Files is infecting researchers at an Arctic base….and I know I am not the only one that thought the opening words were from a Fringe episode right?
But if it is like any Ronald D. Moore show on SyFy then I will get heavily attached to it only to have them cancel it for budget reasons and have to end early on a quickly put together finale that tries to tie up years of mythos in two hours.
You gotta hand it to Empire Magazine, one of the reasons they get me to spend $10 on a magazine are the wonderful covers they have. Their June issue is no different with a Man of Steel 2-cover set. The first features Henry Cavill in a full shot in Supes attire and the second is Michael Shannon looking menacing and metallic as General Zod. The issue should be on newsstands this Thursday.
It looks like Loki will be leaving Asgard to play the avenging hero Eric Draven in Relativity Media’s reboot of The Crow. The studio has confirmed talks with the actor and Hiddleston even sent in his own makeup test for the character.
Now this is something I can get behind much more than the horrifying rumors of Bradley Cooper trying to smart ass his way through the role.
If Hiddleston takes the part, filming could begin this fall.
Are you, like me, covered with framed pictures on your wall of randomness like comic characters and The Walking Dead, making all the women you bring there instantly turn around and leave?
I’m kidding, we both know that there are no women coming there, so keep filling up that wall space! Here is a great suggestion!
Artist Laura Racero has created these prints of The Avengers with one of there quotes from the movie. Each one is availbale on her website and are reasonably priced. Check out the rest of the prints below and be sure to check out the rest of her site also (she has some really nice Fringe prints too).
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.”
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.
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.
