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I don't want to let myself get too excited about this, but Journey to the West may be made into a new movie with Neil Gaiman writing, Del Toro directing, and James Cameron advising... maybe on FX?
Journey to the West is the iconic Chinese story of the monkey king, Son Wukong, and his many adventures. Most of us are at least familiar with the story through its adaptation into the original Dragonball.
I fell in love with the story when a Korean friend of mine introduced me to it when I was in middle school. My friends and I used to sit around and listen to him recounting the story.
Should this movie happen, YAY, if not, it is only a matter of time until someone makes it.
(via Blastr)
Image via WikipediaYates' name has been mentioned on industry insider tracking boards as the top choice to take the reins from Guillermo del Toro
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Release Date: June 4th 2010
Listed as: Fantasy, Family
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Tom Dey
Produced by: John Davis, Tom Dey
Written by: Vince Di Meglio, Tim Rasmussen
Stars: Owen Wilson, George Lopez, Fergie, Kiefer Sutherland
The Plot / Story: Based on the comic strip of the same name by Brad Anderson. The Winslow family moves from the country to Orange County, California and has to adjust to the new environment. This is particularly difficult for the lovable yet awkwardly large Marmaduke, who tends to wreak havoc in his own oblivious way.(Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
It has a good cast. The trailer made me laugh at times.
I have concerns that it may be more kidsey then a family movie. All of the early promotion materials gave me the impression this movie is more fluff.
Release Date: June 4th 2010
Listed as: Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller
Studio: Dark Castle Entertainment via Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Produced by: Steve Hoban, Guillermo Del Toro
Written by: Vincenzo Natali, Doug Taylor, Antoinette Terry Bryant
Stars: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chanéac
The Plot / Story: Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named “Dren”, the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators – only to have that bond turn deadly. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
Guillermo Del Toro. Premiered at Sitges Film Festival winning Best Special Effects and Best film. Also had a showing at Sundance and was then fought over by several studios in a bidding war to get distribution rights. The trailer looks very interesting. and Guillermo Del Toro.
Release Date: June 11
Listed as: Action, Adventure
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Joe Carnahan
Produced by: Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Jules Daly, Stephen J. Cannell
Written by: Joe Carnahan, Brian Bloom, Skip Woods, Michael Brandt, Derek Haas
Stars: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Quinton Jackson, Sharlto Copley, Jessica Biel, Patrick Wilson, Brian Bloom
The Plot / Story: (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
The casting looks the part. Trailer impressed me, it looked good and has a very A-Team feel to it. Derek Haas did a good job with wanted so hopefully he brings some of those elements to this project.
Initially I thought a movie of this was a bad idea but after watching the trailer that has changed. The Loosers was so disappointing that it has left great concerns for the A-Team which is a similar style of movie.
Release Date: June 11
Listed as: Action, Drama, Family
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Harald Zwart
Produced by: Jerry Weintraub, Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Lassiter, Ken Stovitz
Written by: Christopher Murphey
Stars: Jackie Chan, Jaden Smith, Taraji P. Henson
The Plot / Story: This is a remake of The original Karate Kid
Loved the original film.
Concerns over how they will keep some of the spirit of the original film due to some of the fundamental changes.
Release Date: June 18th
Listed as: Fantasy, Family
Studio: Pixar Animation Studios
Director: Lee Unkricha
Produced by: Darla K. Anderson, John Lasseter
Written by: Michael Arndt
Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, John Ratzenberger, Don Rickles, Estelle Harris, Wallace Shawn, Blake Clark, Jodi Benson, Michael Keaton, Ned Beatty, John Morris
The Plot / Story: Andy is now heading off to college and plans to put the toys into storage in the attic but his mom accidentally donates them to the Sunnyside Daycare. Woody, Buzz and the whole gang meet new toys at the daycare for better and worse. Learning of Andy's sadness over their loss they must fight to find their way back to Andy's house before he leaves for college.(Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
Really enjoyed the previous 2 Toy Story Movies. The cast is stellar. Trailer looks good.
Release Date: June 18
Listed as: Superhero, Westeren
Studio: Legendary Pictures, DC Entertainment
Director: Jimmy Hayward
Produced by: Akiva Goldsman, Andrew Lazar
Written by: Screenplay: Neveldine & Taylor Story: Neveldine & Taylor, William Farmer Characters: John Albano, Tony Dezuniga
Stars: Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox, Michael Fassbender, Will Arnett, Michael Shannon
The Plot / Story: Jonah Hex is a scarred drifter and bounty hunter of last resort, a tough and stoic gunslinger who can track down anyone... and anything. Having survived death, Jonah's violent history is steeped in myth and legend, and has left him with one foot in the natural world and one on the "other side." His only human connection is with Leila, whose life in a brothel has left her with scars of her own. But Jonah's past is about to catch up with him when the U.S. military makes him an offer he can't refuse: in exchange for his freedom from the warrants on his head, he must track down and stop the dangerous villian Quentin Turnbull. But Turnbull, who is gathering an army and preparing to unleash Hell, is also Jonah's oldest enemy and will stop at nothing until Jonah is dead.(Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
John Malkovich a plus. Superhero movie a plus. The steamPunk elements borrowed for the film it makes for a more fantasy version of the Wild West but one that I enjoy.
The trailer was not terribly exciting border lining on the boring.
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Image via Wikipedia"In light of ongoing delays in the setting of a start date for filming The Hobbit, I am faced with the hardest decision of my life," del Toro told a "Lord of the Rings" fan website.
"After nearly two years of living, breathing and designing a world as rich as Tolkien's Middle Earth, I must, with great regret, take leave from helming these wonderful pictures," he said, noting the film still hadn't been given the green light by MGM, the struggling Hollywood studio.
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We have already discussed Guillermo Del Toro’s thoughts on The Hobbit (here), Frankenstein (here) and At the Mountains of Madness (here).At what point could Hellboy III happen?
Del Toro: You know, I think that they will not green-light it or they will not talk about it until the last Euro hits the piggy bank. The fact is the movie, even though it was dually sodomized by Hancock and The Dark Knight, still did theatrically better than the first movie, internationally is doing exceedingly better than the first movie. It really is in some cases doing 300 percent more business, and, depending on the territory, globally, I think, is doing about 100 percent more business than the first one. Let's see what happens with the DVD, and the people that make the decisions do it based on the calculator function of the iPod, not on the other one (Scifi Wire).
Would they wait for you, or would you let another filmmaker do it?
Del Toro: I would beg them and amputate myself in order for them to wait for me, but I don't control it. If they say, "No, no, no, we're going to do it," I personally think this incarnation of the trilogy I would love to finish, because it's not arbitrary that we went into a different direction on the second one. I really think when and if you see the three movies, you're going to have a comedic one, a tragic one, and you're going to see three movies that are incredibly apart in registration one from another. It's really exploring Hellboy in very different ways (Scifi Wire).
Would you remain part of it producing if you didn't direct?
Del Toro: I don't know. I mean, I don't know if I can. You know, I think producing, partially producing is being able to extricate yourself from the director. If you don't do that, you are not really producing. I don't f--k around with my directors. I don't tell them what to do. ...
In producing something like Hellboy, I don't think I would be objective. I really think it's a dangerous position, so maybe in the writing I would have a better handle, but I don't know if I could be involved to that degree. ... (Scifi Wire)
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We have already discussed Guillermo Del Toro’s thoughts on The Hobbit (here) and Frankenstein (here).With regard to At the Mountains of Madness, I'd love to see you tackle H.P. Lovecraft in a way that hasn't been done.
Del Toro: Me too. Me too. ... Part of the arrangement with Universal--in being essentially there for now until 2017--part of the arrangement was they would finance research and development for Mountains of Madness. And we are doing it. There are many technical tools in creating the monsters that don't exist, and we need to develop them. The creatures, Lovecraft's creatures, the tools that exist for CG and the materials that exist for makeup effects, you need to push them to get there, and we're going to push them (Scifi Wire).
What is the effect you want to get?
Del Toro: Well, the fact that the shape-shifting implicit in the novel and implicit in the creatures, ... if you think in technical terms, digitally, that means normally you generate, for example, one model per creature. If you talk about shape-shifting to the degree that these creatures do, then you're talking about, essentially--if you're using traditional tools--you're going to need to generate 30, 40 models fully rendered per creature. That's, A, limiting and, B, incredibly expensive. So what we are trying to do is we're developing sort of a Swiss-army-knife approach to modeling. The details are going to be evolving, but it's almost like a Chinese box approach to the models, where we can encase one model on another one and make them modular. And the tools that we need for that to be fluid don't exist. We're going to need to write digital code we need to develop, the way Peter [Jackson] had to develop software for Lord of the Rings. ...
It took so many movies to develop intelligent fire software to the point where Peter could render the Balrog or to develop Massive software to do the crowds in Lord of the Rings. By the same token, we're going to need to develop a new tool that will be. We are thinking of calling it the Howard. For Lovecraft. ... (Scifi Wire)
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