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Which, according to Hugh Jackman, the bloke who will be playing Wolverine, translates to “6,000 calories a day” on a diet consisting of “chicken, steak, and brown rice.” Or at least, that’s what The Rock told Jackman, who told EW that he called up the “Faster” star to ask how he gained muscle for his latest revenge flick. Hopefully, though, Jackman’s movie will have a better fate than Johnson’s “Faster”.
Hugh Jackman tells EW that director Darren Aronofsky has already asked him to gain 25 lbs of muscle — “which is more than I ever have for the role” — before filming begins next spring. “It’s not easy for me,” he says. “Because I’m actually quite long and lean.”
Jackman goes on to talk about his reunion with Aronofsky, the two having worked together on the director’s trippy “The Fountain”, a film that I loved, but most people didn’t care for:
Jackman says, “we had a meeting about three weeks ago, catching up as friends more than anything, and he just ran a few ideas by me and my eyes just lit up, because already I think this is like a whole new ballgame – just the ideas, the level of depth, and intelligence, and creativity. I think he’s been waiting so long to do a movie in this genre. When he found the script, he said this is it. It’s really exciting.”
“The Wolverine”, as the film will be known, won’t be a traditional sequel to “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”, and will instead be more of a standalone film that will take Logan aka Wolverine to Japan, where the furry Canuck will have to contend with ninjas, pretty Japanese girls, and meanie Japanese dudes with Samurai swords.
The script is by Christopher McQuarrie of “Way of the Gun” fame, and you can expect “The Wolverine” sometime in 2012.
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Spider man Reboot
Emma Stone Is A Hot Looking Gwen & Denis Leary Is Her Daddy !
Emma Stone was out and about doing what young Hollywood starlets do at nights, stuff like attending movie premieres, fancy openings, etc. You know, stuff you’ll never do in your lifetime. But the real important point is that Emma was showing off her new blonde do, which is no doubt in preparation for Marc Webb’s upcoming “Spider-Man” reboot, where Stone will be playing the blonde Gwen Stacy, previously played in “Spider-Man 3″ by the redhead Bryce Dallas Howard.
Stone co-stars with Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker aka Spider-Man in Webb’s reboot. Denis Leary will be playing her police Captain father. Look for it in 2012.
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Judge Dredd News !!!!!!!!!!!!
Kinda. Except this one stars a guy with a big ol helmet and a big ol gun running around with a psychic chick fighting guys doing “Matrix” bullet-time drugs in the future. And it’s set in a building. So essentially, “Die Hard in a Building”. With, er, Judge Dredd, played by Karl Urban, and Olivia Thirlby as psychic Judge Cassandra Anderson. And the script is by one Alex Garland, of “Sunshine” and “28 Days Later” fame. So could it really be THAT bad?
Apparently the answer is Yes.
Or at least, that’s the word from those who have read a leaked copy of the script as written by Garland. IO9 has a full rundown of all the places where a review of the script has surfaced so far, and the common thread seems to be that Garland and 2000 A.D.’s version of “Dredd” is too small and too contained, which certainly would set it apart from the big-budget Hollywood version starring Sylvester Stallone. And did I mention everyone seems to agree that the scope of the film is too small for a Judge Dredd movie?
Here’s an excerpt from I09′s review that gets to the heart of the matter:
What’s the script about? In a nutshell, to quote The Middleman, it’s “Die Hard in a building.” Judge Dredd and a novice judge with elite psi-skills but low judge aptitude scores, Cassandra Anderson, get trapped in a Mega-City block run by an evil crime lord named Ma-Ma. She’s the source of a hot new drug called Slo-Mo that — you guessed it — makes everything look like it’s happening in slow-motion. (Perfect excuse for some “bullet time” sequences from the POV of someone on the drug.) Judges Dredd and Anderson have to fight their way out of the building, with one of Ma-Ma’s henchmen whom they’ve arrested. By all accounts, it’s a very generic action movie.
Apparently a LOT of people has read the script, which makes you wonder if 2000 A.D., the people producing the reboot, purposefully leaked it to get fan reactions. Or if not, then they’re probably not very happy right now. Granted, there are a couple of positive reviews, but they’re in the minority, with most reviews ranging from negative to downright angry.
Just to balance things out, here’s a positive review:
It’s very much in the ‘high-octane’, action set-piece mold. If you’ve heard comments to the effect that it’s like Die Hard, I would say that’s pretty accurate. Dredd remains, as you would expect, emotionless, hard as fudge and badass all the way through with Anderson providing the ‘in’ for the audience. Yes, she’s a Judge but it’s her first night on the job and it’s all a bit overwhelming and exciting… Just to be clear; this script is a winner. If the director is good, this film will be fantastic.
The director in question is one Pete Travis, who has directed action/thrillers “Vantage Point” and “Endgame”, so Dredd’s reboot certainly isn’t coming to you under the direction of a novice, so that should help.
NOTE: The link to IO9 above also features a couple of MAJOR SPOILERS from the script/movie, most involving Judge Anderson (played by Thirlby, below) so I would not click to read it if you wish to know nothing beyond the general plot outline (“Die Hard in a Building”, etc.). You have been warned.
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The Wachowskis Placing Robin Hood in the Hood
Apparently realizing they can’t actually make a living doing films that no one besides Arianna Huffington’s readership will be seeing (aka their gay Iraq War movie “Cobalt Neural 9″ aka “CN-9″), the Wachowski siblings, Andy and Lana (formerly Larry), have set up a modern, urban take on the Robin Hood myth to be called “Hood” over at Warner Bros. The siblings wrote the script, and plan to direct.
Since the setting will be, literally, the hood, the Wachowskis have begun reaching out to black A-list stars to front the film, with Will Smith’s name coming up as one of the candidates. Which leaves, um, who else? Denzel Washington? And then, um, who else?
Anyways, aside from that brief plot (a modern take on the Robin Hood myth), not much else is known about the film. This, as you might have guessed, is meant to keep the film secret and thus wet your appetite to really, really see it. It’s, you know, a Hollywood ego thing. Just humor them.
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