This is the first Arnold Schwarzenegger starring film since 2003’s Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Arnold stars in The Last Stand as a Sheriff looking to protect his California border town from a drug cartel looking to advance north from Mexico. Peter Stormare is one of the bad guys. This is gonna be awesome.
Trailer here:
Snow White and the Huntsman made enough money earlier in the fall to all but guarantee a sequel. Hell, I didn’t even dislike it. It had it’s problems, but I felt they were all entirely fixable. So then Kristen Stewart cheated on her Twilight boyfriend and resident girl-obsession Robert Pattinson (though I really don’t get the attraction people have towards him), with the DIRECTOR of Snow White, Rupert Sanders, and pictures actually surfaced, and all hell broke loose. This story blew up, but then flamed out because of the Olympics, but now it’s flamed back up again.
Turns out that now Kristen Stewart might be dropped from the sequel completely as Universal Studios is planning on shifting the story away from Snow White and spinning it off into The Huntsman’s direction. I don’t think this is really a bad idea at all. Two of the better things the film had going for it were the visual style and Hemsworth’s badassness. Rupert Sanders, really brought a strong visual style to the film, and for it being his very first feature, I am excited to see where his potential goes. His wife also forbade him allegedly from working w/ little K-Stew. Chris Hemsworth also has that rare film quality of being a guy that appeals to men and women. Hell, my girlfriend will probably watch Chris Hemsworth sit in a chair silent for 2 hours if he does it with a shirt off. His character was also pretty awesome and can easily go off and have his own adventures.
If they really forge ahead with a film series that plays as “Dark Fairy Tales” with Hemsworth as the common thread, I see them doing very well. The world they created was awesome, despite the films flaws. Grimm does ok on TV and Once Upon a Time does crazy good. It might be the right time to strike while the fairy tale iron is hot. Also K-Stew commands a big paycheck, so dumping her saves budgetary space and will get sequels made cheaper and easier.
Unfortunately, David Koepp, the writer of Snow White and the Huntsman, may also end up as collateral damage. His job was to write a straight up sequel, and if they head in somewhat of a new direction it looks like they are going to settle his contract and hire someone else.
My Advice:
Do the spinoff. Snow White’s story is pretty much over, and I see a writer of that sequel having an unenviable job. Kristen Stewart does have a legion of fans out there, but she doesn’t seem right as a Warrior Queen. Hemsworth probably comes cheaper and his character is built such that he can go off and have tons of different adventures, plus I see him being similar to like a Hugh Jackman in that everyone seems to like him and with the litany of films he has coming out in the next 2 years, the time to sign him cheap is now. While I mostly enjoyed the movie, I didn’t buy their relationship being anything more than like brother/sister. She seemed to be too young for him.
Daredevil is officially going to be shifting from 20th Century Fox, where the Ben Affleck film and Elektra spinoff was made, to Disney. It appears as though the character extension that Peter wrote about a few weeks ago, was firmly rejected by Disney, the minute 20th Century Fox was unwillingly to trade the rights of Silver Surfer and Galactus to Disney for an extension past October 10th on Daredevil. This is 90% great, and 10% kinda shitty.
90% Great: Marvel knows it characters, so I am confident that they will be able to make a better Daredevil film than any outside company ever could.
10% Kinda Shitty: Marvel probably has NO room for a Daredevil reboot on their docket. They are so preoccupied with Avenger-centric films and characters and the cosmic stuff, that a gritty character like Daredevil (who often does not overlap into Avenger-land) really does not have a place in that world cinematically. Also, it kinda sounded like Joe Carnahan’s take on Daredevil as more of a pulpy and dark 70’s styled film would be really cool.
Silver Lining: Daredevil would be perfect for a frickin TV show. So far, the only characters that Marvel licensed out that have come back are Punisher, Blade and Daredevil. They all live in NYC, have mostly darker stories, and have crossed paths numerous times. Take characters like them and put them on TV in a world that acknowledges the cinematic universe and exists within it, but deals with the seedier side of the universe. They all work as procedurals with overarching plotlines and I think it’d be cool for them to have shows that occasionally overlap like Doctor Who and Torchwood etc. Only issue is Disney doesn’t really have a brand to release darker content anymore, nor a network to do it. None of those would make sense on ABC which is family and femme-centric. Disney needs to just make a branded network similar to Disney XD, but for adult males or something.
I hope Marvel does SOMETHING with Daredevil, cause he’s too cool to have nothing come out other than that shitburger movie.
Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Tom Waits, and Woody Harrelson in a movie together. Directed by Martin McDonagh (In Bruges). This is going to be awesome.
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We need more Colin Farrell like this, and less Colin Farrell like Total Recall
Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) is stepping in joining Pierce Bronson, Imogen Poots, and Toni Collette in the upcoming adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel ‘A Long Way Down.’ Emile Hirsch was originally cast but is leaving the project because Hirsch clearly has no clue what to do with his career.
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Expendables 2 opens this weekend but talks have already started about adding the the already incredible cast. Let the jokes start about how the movie is called Expendables but they keep EVERYONE around and add even more people
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Did you ever see Mr Nanny? Yeah I still watch it all the time. Kind of like that. Or The Pacifier, etc etc etc.
I present for your reading pleasure: Knockout Nanny
Julie has been the nanny for the Henderson’s for 5 years now. She’s 29, handles 13 year old Niles and the 7 year old Amanda very well. They both love her and she them. Mr Henderson, Jeffry (played by Hank Azaria), works long hours for the government on top secret projects. Mrs Henderson, Rachel, is an alcoholic, but a lovable, competent one who has more hilarious situations than disastrous.
There are scenes of Julie chasing the kids around, getting them ready for school, Rachel is passed out at the kitchen table and Jeff is running out the door. Julie is able to drive the kids to school, go grocery shopping and keep the Henderson’s life sane. She is also a black belt in muay thai kickboxing. We see scenes of her in her gym training with her master, Jin. Continue reading
So I’m waiting for Zach to get here and we are going to go golfing. The trains are slow and I’ve decided to write a paranoid film in the style of 1408. REMEMBER 1408?! Cusack! Hotel Room! F it, this will be the reteaming of John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson. This is my most Tigs film.
10:10
The movie starts with our main character, John Cusack, on the phone with his friend, Samuel L. Jackson, one night. They are making plans to go golfing the next day as Cusack is making a pot of sleepy time tea. Samuel L. makes fun of him as Cusack slips a bit spilling the hot water on the stove. Samuel says he’ll be at John’s at 1030. John hangs up and walks away. He gets ready for bed and passes by a clock. The clock reads 10:10.
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