Also in fanboy news, the new Trek trailer has snuck onto the web (scroll to the bottom for mirror sites), a weekend before its official web release. Cheesy taglines, and my love of the genre just doesn’t go far enough to incorporate interstellar jeep chases, but at least it looks better than the last one. Update: It’s now officially up.
Category: Cinema
Whoa.
Matrix spoilers a-plenty. Don’t read if you don’t wanna know…I mean it.
DC Down, Marvel Up.
While Superman continues to languish over at Warner Brothers, Sony gets Michael Chabon to punch up the script for The Amazing Spiderman. Since so much of Spidey’s appeal is his internal monologue, Chabon sounds like a great choice.
Hack Attack
In the ongoing Superman saga over at Warner Brothers, McG is out and Brett Ratner is in (with Anthony Hopkins as Jor-El). Can’t say that’s much of an upgrade.
Fightin’ Wuma.
You’ve probably seen these by now, but in my absence Time-Asia posted the first pics from Kill Bill, Quentin Tarantino’s next.
Hope he’s got a towel.
The long-awaited, much-delayed film version of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy gets a new scribe. Hopefully he’s more hoopy frood than Vogon poet.
Screenplay of Glass.
Today Kevin Murphy blogs the trailer for Adaptation, the new film from the Being John Malkovich team of Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman. He can’t say Nicolas Cage has been much of a draw lately, but perhaps this’ll be a comeback role for the star of Raising Arizona.
Ouch.
Not to denigrate another science fiction franchise here, but the NYT has deconstructed the next Trek film, placing it squarely among the five reusable plots in the franchise. In the unforgettable words of Homer Simpson, “It’s funny because it’s true!”
Who is your daddy, and what does he do?
Speaking of the man in question, you can hear plenty of Homer quotables, not to mention Norman Bates, Samuel L. Jackson, and The Dude, over at Ebaumsworld (Via Thad.) Probably great for prank calls, if you’re so inclined.
Fishing Expedition.
More spoiler-filled pics from The Two Towers, including the first look at Smeagol and Deagol. We’re getting closer…