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A new trailer for the polished up version of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes back by Adywan has been released. The trailer is similar to the first one but with a few new surprises:
The adaption of Stephen King’s Magnum Opus The Dark Tower might be in a little trouble according to Variety:
Sources tell Variety that in the past few days, the project, based on Stephen King’s sweeping seven-book-and-counting series, has run into budgetary complications that have caused Universal execs to rethink original plans. Insiders expect U brass to meet in coming days to decide whether to put the project into turnaround, whereby producer Imagine Entertainment could shop it to another studio, either to partner with Universal or take over entirely.
[...] With a project of this size and scope, it wouldn’t be unusual for any studio to weigh its risk-sharing options — or pulling out — at this stage of development. And “Dark Tower” isn’t the only major project that Universal has recently reconsidered. “At the Mountains of Madness,” which had Guillermo del Toro set to direct and Tom Cruise circling to star, was scrapped on the brink of lensing after U calculated that it would struggle to make money with its $150 million budget and R rating.
The mention of the recently cancelled H.P. Lovecraft adaption reminds me how easy awesome projects like Mountains of Madness can get tossed aside no matter how creatively intersting they might become. Seeing that the project Dark Tower as laid out by Ron Howard is wildly ambitious it is not very surprising that problems like this might occure – I just hope they prevail and that events like this will be told similar to the success stories of Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and Avatar (very troubled production, so ambitious, almost cancelled but prevailed in the end).
Well there will be water if god wills it…
Wow, damn… so we are now really entering the phase where the news become real news and not some speculations about “Robin’s hideout”, “CGI-Joker” and stuff like that. The shooting starts in India for May 6th and 7th with actor Christian Bale.
They will film in Jodhpur and use the Mehrangarh Fort as a background – I am very curious what this will turn into…
With Thor being the critical darling and having the advantage of being the first superheroblockbuster this year Green Lantern seems to have twice as much work to do to impress.
With Green Lantern being one of my favorite superheroes I was really looking forward to this movie (and still am) but so far it just looks average/o.k.
Let’s hope the movie can pull a Thor and profit from our low expectations.
Thanks to admin for pointing out the annual Star Wars day (shame to my geek credibility), so let’s again be happy about how awesome Star Wars is!
So much for empty promises!
The story of the Dark Tower is finished and for a time I thought Stephen King would only revisit the world of his gunslinger via other books*, most notably the third installment in the collaboration with Peter Straub that started with The Talisman.
But apparently his mind has returned to Mid-World. There were hints when a poll appeared if the next Stephen King novel should be a sequel to the Shinning or a novel set in Mid-World.
Well… it is not just set in Mid-World:
In 2012 Old long tall and ugly will return in the novel The Wind through the Keyhole – official announcement here.
The novel will be set between Dark Tower IV and V since in the fifth part there is an obvious timegap signalling the second big story-segment – also narratively the tone shifts since V, V and VII were written in one massive etappe contrary to the previous books that were finished and released without the sequels being planned out.
Many fans hate that about the last three books, but the reason was clearly that after King’s almost fatal accident he did not want to die and leave the story untold so he went to finish his life-work after escaping death so very closely.
That being said I am of course thrilled to return to the Ka-tet of Roland and find out what they did. King writes himself:
It won’t tell you much that’s new about Roland and his friends, but there’s a lot none of us knew about Mid-World, both past and present. The novel is shorter than DT 2-7, but quite a bit longer than the first volume—call this one DT-4.5. It’s not going to change anybody’s life, but God, I had fun.
I hope we will have fun too!
Now I saw this video a while back, but with the Tron Blu Rays hitting the american market (release in Germany/Austria/Swiss: June 1st) and Tron: Legacy finally reaching the 400 million dollars mark I found it a nice time to repost that video.
Apparantly there is more of this on the DVD/Blu Ray/Monster 5-Disc-identitiy-disc-set which I think makes for a nice addition to round the package.
The message “Flynn lives” stems from the viral marketing game of the same name. I only read a few things about the marketing, but searching for the teaser above I found this very nice video that sums up how much happened to promote this movie in a viral way:
I haven’t found time to complete a full Tron Legacy review since I like this movie, but it is very flawed, so for the time being here’s (a little late) the moviequation for Tron: Legacy
