Perhaps inspired by PJ’s King Kong webisodes, Terry Gilliam kicks off the official website for Tideland with the first of several behind-the-scenes videos. Let’s just hope they don’t turn into Lost in La Mancha II…
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Speed kills.
Coming right off the disappointing Blade: Trinity, David Goyer has been chosen to write, produce, and direct The Flash. The third Blade notwithstanding, Goyer is probably a good choice for this — he’s definitely an avid comic book guy, which could mean anything from the Cosmic Treadmill to Reverse-Flash
New Test Leper.
This land is your land, this land is my land…but the Land belongs to Revelstone Entertainment. Apparently, they’ve optioned The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, to be scribed by Band of Brothers writer John Orloff. I seem to remember my brother fantasy-casting John Malkovich as Covenant a decade ago…that might still work.
Farewell, Iorek.
About a Boy helmer Chris Weitz is off His Dark Materials, apparently on his own cognizance. “It will be an extraordinary film, but at this point in my life I am not the right director to bring it to pass…the technical challenges of making such an epic are more than I can undertake at this point.” If so, bully for him for realizing it…but let’s hope hack directors of the Ratner-W.S. Anderson mold are kept well away from Pullman’s trilogy.
WETA and the Wardrobe.
In honor of BNAT (Harry’s yearly film festival), AICN obtains a sneak peak of WETA’s work on The Chronicles of Narnia thus far. I particularly dig the minotaurs.
There can be only one.
Some more highly spoilerific Episode III images appear online. Between this and the official release of the RotK:EE tomorrow, it appears Saruman is having a really lousy week…
Samurai Bat.
The holiday trailer season continues today, with the first look at Spielberg’s War of the Worlds and, if you’re fast, this early copy of the spiffy new Batman Begins trailer. (If that doesn’t work, there are a number of screencaps here.)
Not-so-Incredibles.
Trouble’s still brewing at the Baxter Building…Superhero Hype gets an exclusive pic of the Fantastic Four and, man, they look goofy. What’s happened to Marvel? The difference between this and Batman Begins (whose new trailer premieres this weekend) is night and day right now.
Shadow of the Bat.
A good deal of movie and fanboy news came down the pike this weekend. First and most importantly, the new Batman Begins poster is out (and a new trailer is rumored in front of Ocean’s 12 this Friday.) As one AICN wag put it, it’s very Passion of the Bat. In other news, Harrison Ford says Indy IV is moving again, Chris Columbus is directing Sub-Mariner (uh, oh), and Kevin Spacey is seriously considering Lex Luthor. Finally, the teaser posters for Mr. & Mrs. Smith (a.k.a. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in War of the Roses meets True Lies) are now also floating around the ether, along with the new trailer. Update: The international poster for Batman Begins is now also online.
Man out of Time.
BBC One releases a very teaser-ish teaser for the Doctor Who revival. (Via AICN and Triptych Cryptic.)