Michael Bay Gives Transformers 4 Details
Director and explosion fanatic Michael Bay has confirmed that Transformers 4 will be set appropriately 4 years after the climactic events of the last film Transformers Dark Of The Moon. We already know that the human cast are being entirely replaced with a sweaty Shia LaBeouf making way for Mark Wahlberg looking typically confused and/or angry.
“The movie will continue four years from the attack on Chicago, which is in the last movie. So it’s going to still have the same lineage. And it’s going a full new direction and feels very natural how it’s going in that direction. There is no way you’re going to ever find out what the story is. You don’t have to dig through my trash… I shredded my trash.”
So Michael Bay is promising that the new Transformers film will be going in a vaguely ‘new direction’ despite the fact it’s quickly evolved from a welcome franchise reboot with a new director to a straightforward sequel directed by himself.
It remains to be seen whether or not this ‘new direction’ for the unavoidably popular fighting robot franchise will involve less lingerie models making their acting debuts between an endless series of explosions. Transformers 4 will arrive in UK cinemas on 27 June 2014.
Guillermo Del Toro Plans DC Comics Movie
Guillermo Del Toro has confirmed that he is in talks for Heaven Sent, a super-hero team up movie for DC Comic that would unite popular supernatural heroes like John Constantine and Swamp Thing.
“When somebody asked me about Justice League…I’m not involved in Justice League. I am discussing… I’ve been discussing with the fans and I’ve been very, very open about how much Swamp Thing was key when I was a kid. Comics in Mexico came on the first two days of the week. Around Tuesday and Wednesday I would go to the newsstand on my bicycle and I would get Swamp Thing every time it was available and I loved Jack Kirby’s Demon. I love Constantine and all that. You know, I’ve been pursuing doing something with them for many, many years. Hopefully it’ll come to pass. But we are still just discussing.”
In another recent interview Del Toro also confirmed that he’s already working on Pacific Rim sequel ideas with screenwriter Travis Beacham.
“We certainly started tossing ideas for possibilities of a sequel and Travis Beacham and I are writing a proposal of ideas, but at the same time I know I don’t want to do that next. I want to do something else, I want to do something in a different genre that’s not so big. So I don’t know yet what it’s gonna be, but I know that next year I’m delivering Pacific Rim in July and then I’m doing – God willing – the voice shooting for Pinocchio and then the pilot for The Strain for FX.”
Warm Bodies Zombie Romance Trailer
Here’s the first trailer for Zombie romantic comedy Warm Bodies. About A Boy and X-Men star Nicholas Hoult plays a mostly dead Zombie who yearns for a little human companionship. When he meets a pretty girl Julie (Teresa Palmer) it changes something deep inside of him, replacing his usual insatiable appetite for human flesh with a new found yearning or love.
Directed by Jonathan Levine and co-starring Dave Franco & John Malkovich, Warm Bodies is out in the UK on 8 February 2013.
Matthew Vaughn X-Men Departure Explained
Kick Ass comicbook creator Mark Millar has explained the reasons behind Matthew Vaughn abruptly abandoning directing duties on X-Men sequel Days of Future Past. Recent rumours were that he was clearing his schedule to allow him to take on directing the new Star Wars Trilogy for Disney. However Mark Millar has now confirmed that the real reason behind scaling back Vaughn’s involvement in the X-Men and Kick Ass sequels was a sense of urgency about their other new project Secret Service.
“What we’re doing is that Kick Ass 2 is filming now, and next year we’ll start production on Secret Service which I did with Dave Gibbons “Matthew and I have been talking about that for years. We thought Matthew was going to do X-Men first, but we found out there were actually a few imitators of Secret Service in the works… People are always trying to rip you off. Somebody will start to work on a spec screenplay about your idea.”
“There are three other projects I know of now about a James Bond kind of guy taking a street kid and turning him into a spy. Three screenplays were already going through Hollywood about this! So Matthew and I said, ‘Fuck this. We’re not letting anyone steal our ideas.’”
Fighting talk from the feisty author as Secret Service rushes into production. X -Men Days of Future Past will now be directed by Bryan Singer and is set for release 18 July 2014.
World War Z New Trailer
Check Out the first trailer below for much anticipated Zombie blockbuster World War Z, directed by Marc Forster and starring Brad Pitt. The film is based on the popular book by Max Brooks about a global pandemic that plunges the world into a nightmarish total Zombie apocalypse.
The trailer suggests that long list of screenwriters who’ve been involved in the project have shifted the focus firmly onto the zombie fighting mayhem, turning the original slow burning novel into more of a traditional action film.
After a troubled production and worrying reports of extensive re-shoots the final results will arrive in cinemas in search of brains and enthusiastic audiences on 21st June 2013.
