Garth at Dark Horizons has an update on Return of the King with some good news for those miffed at the early end of TTT (Mild spoilers.): “ROTK is supposed to run in the 3.5-4 hour range, [and] P.J. can use as much time as he needs to finish the story.” Booyah…
Category: Cinema
Trailer Day.
A veritable plethora of fanboy/girl trailers have hit the web in the past few days. For one, “The Second Renaissance,” the first episode of the Animatrix, has been posted. It’s probably better than almost all of T3. Also, AICN points the way to an extended Hulk trailer and our first look at The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (The site’s down a lot, but you might get lucky…I did.) The latter looks a bit disappointing, but my hopes for LXG are at Daredevil levels right now anyway (although DD is actually getting surprisingly good reviews.) Update: The LXG trailer is now available here.
Crack of Doom.
TORN.Net has the first spy report about what might be included in the 4-minute ROTK preview which will presumably be added to TTT at the end of March. MASSIVE spoilers for non-trilogy readers (I’m not sure I want to see the last scene mentioned until I see the full movie.) Also, if you don’t like the casting in the first two films, here’s some wallpapers to indulge you.
Superman Lives!
Great Caesar’s Ghost! Has Kal-El defeated the hacks? Apparently, both Brett Ratner and Michael Bay have now passed on the next Supes flick. And Chris Nolan of Memento is now tackling Batman. Perhaps DC might still throw off the Curse of Schumacher. (Yeah, right.) Update: Agh, Kryptonite! Ratner’s still on.
Welcome Back, Mr. Anderson.
During a 48-21 Tampa Bay blowout which never really got off the ground in terms of excitement, The Matrix sequels delivered the goods with this great new trailer. With the possible exception of Terry Tate, Office Linebacker (and I liked the Yao-Yo bit too), it was the highlight of the evening.
Green Machine.
AICN gets an early look at the Hulk Superbowl trailer. I think the link is broken now (I managed to download it to my desktop before it went under, but I don’t feel like crashing this site by posting it online.), but you can see a few screen-caps of what the gamma-ray freak in question looks like. A bit more cartoony than I expected, but that seems a stylistic choice more than a lapse in the FX. It looks better than Daredevil, at any rate. Update: The trailer is now available here.
Forever Young.
Looks like Bob Dylan’s film career is taking off. Aside from Masked and Anonymous (blogged the other day), Zimmy’s also given his blessing to the Todd Haynes biopic project.
Merely a Flesh Wound.
The Village Voice checks in with Terry Gilliam after the demise of Don Quixote.
Book V.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix finally gets a release date – June 21, 2003 – and it’s even longer than Goblet, weighing in at 768 pages. Bet the bean-counters at AOL-TW are salivating…that means two more movies.
Pat Garrett II: Lily, Rosemary, and Jack Fate of Hearts.
Sundance premieres Masked and Anonymous, Bob Dylan’s return to the big screen. I’d heard about this project awhile back, but I hadn’t realized it was actually filmed and in the can. I’m very curious…it’s got a stellar cast, and Zimmy, of course. I could see this being really interesting or really embarrassing, but if nothing else comes out of it than introducing me to that Italian hip-hop version of “Like a Rolling Stone” on the first clip (found on Google/Kazaa as “Come una pietra scalciata” by Articolo 31), it’s been worth it.