Ryan Reynolds Joins Highlander Reboot
After the disappointments of Wolverine & Green Lantern, Ryan Reynolds has officially joined Lionsgate’s Highlander reboot, hoping it’s the franchise that will finally make him the A-list superstar that his likeable wit and chiselled six pack probably deserves.
Reynolds will be taking the lead role of immortal Scottish warrior Connor MacLeod. The original has remained a popular cult classic thanks to a memorable Queen soundtrack and implausibly accented star turns from Christopher Lambert & Sean Connery. 28 Days Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo will be taking helming the new Highlander re-imagining, with more casting news and plot details expected soon.
It’s a promising time for Reynolds who has ghostly police action flick R.I.P.D. out later this year, while his long planned Deadpool movie for Marvel Studios is still officially happening. Having botched the introduction of the popular anti-hero in X Men Origins: Wolverine the new Deadpool movie will also likely be a fresh start for the character. But one way or another Ryan Reynolds will get to play with swords!
Here Comes The Boom Trailer
Here’s the new international trailer for Here Comes The Boom the latest slapstick comedy adventure for cuddly King of Queens funnyman Kevin James. Sticking close to an increasingly familiar formula, the new film once again sees him playing an underachiever in a mundane job doing something amusingly ludicrous to save the day and romance an unjustifiably attractive woman. This time he’s playing a high school teacher who sets out to become a Mixed Martial Arts Cage Fighter in order to raise much needed money for his students. Salma Hayek plays the implausibly beautiful woman being gradually charmed by his willingness to be repeatedly punched in the face.
Check out the trailer below if that sounds in any way appealing:
Epic Trailer for new Josh Hutcherson film
Here’s the first trailer for Epic, the new CGI animated adventure from 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky the studio behind Rio and the Ice Age franchise. The film boasts an all-star voice cast with Amanda Seyfried & The Hunger Games Josh Hutcherson taking lead roles; with the eclectic support of Colin Farrell, Beyonce Knowles, Jason Sudeikis, Aziz Ansari, Pitbull & Steven Tyler.
Borrowing liberally from FernGully the Last Rainforest the basic plot sees a young girl discovering a friendly race of tiny woodland warriors & their pet talking slugs, after she finds herself inadvertently shrunk to miniature size.
Screenwriter Nora Ephron Dies Aged 71
Nora Ephron the beloved screenwriter responsible for award winning films that included Silkwood, Sleepless In Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, When Harry Met Sally and most recently Julia & Julia has died today aged 71.
Prolifically successful, Ephron will perhaps be best remembered for crafting many of the most memorable and iconic romantic comedies. Her films were bright, witty and joyously celebrated love in all its wonderful forms.
Writing elegantly on the subject of mortality in her 2012 book ‘I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflection’ Ephron wrote:
”You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can’t put things off thinking you’ll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will. So I’m very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.”
Ephron is survived by her husband, screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi and her two sons, Jacob and Max Bernstein. A memorial has been planned for Thursday, June 28, in New York.
Ashton Kutcher’s Steve Jobs Film Gets Cast & New Name
In April it was announced that Ashton Kutcher was the unlikely casting choice to star as visionary genius Steve Jobs in one of the two upcoming biopics based on the Apple co-founder. Kutcher’s effort is based on a screenplay by Matt Whiteley and directed by Swing Vote’s Joshua Micael Stern. It’s not to be confused with the Sony Pictures project based on Walter Isaacson’s international bestseller Steve Jobs.
Ashton Kutcher has now officially been joined by cast members James Woods, Ron Eldard, John Getz and Lesley Ann Warren. The film has also picked up a new name, abandoning Jobs: Get Inspired! in favour of jOBS. Clearly hoping that sceptical audiences will appreciate vague iPod references more than someone shouting at them to get inspired!
jOBS will apparently focus on Steve Jobs transformation from awkward young hippie to corporate technology guru. James Woods is playing Job’s dean of students at Reed College, Getz & Warren are playing his adoptive parents, while Ron Eldard lands the part of Apple designer Rod Holt.
Production is expected to start in May as soon as Kutcher takes a break from hearing people complain they miss Charlie Sheen on the set of Two And A Half Men.