“Hugh Jackman plays a former boxer who can therefore no longer do the only thing he was ever good at and has to make his way in this new world,” Levy said in an exclusive interview. “It’s faithful to the story in that that story was very much about a down-on-his-luck, slightly desperate journeyman who works in this robot boxing sport and who is desperately needing redemption and one last shot. The movie is more Rocky than Transformers.”
Levy has not cast the main character’s son yet but has a good idea about the robots. “They are most definitely not Transformers, not Terminators, definitely not WALL-Es, either,” Levy said. “Unlike a lot of these others, these are human-built, human-scale fighting machines. They are built for human spectacle. People in this movie have gotten bored with human carnage and human violence. So in the quest for more, more, more, this sport has evolved to this.”
According to Levy Steven Spielberg offered him the movie and after directing a bunch of comedies he wanted to do something different, so he accepted. I would gladly see the movie just based on the plot. The last time I saw robots boxing was in an episode of Futurama, and I wanted more!
The trailer for Date Night, which stars Tina Fey and Steve Carell, is now online. The pair play a boring couple who are in need of some excitement, so they go on a date. Steve Carell becomes a little spontaneous and takes up a reservation that wasn’t his. Common then turns up and wants to kill them. How’s that for excitement?
We also see a few small appearances from Mark Wahlberg, James Franco and Mila Junis.
Date Night is directed by Shawn Levy (Night of the Museum) and will be released next April.
In preparation for the awards season Warner Bros. have released the original screenplay for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. We don’t usually get the chance to read scripts as they are kept under tight security during production, and then when the film is released we don’t really need it because we have the completed form for our viewing pleasure. I think I’ll read this one over the weekend just out of interest. According to SnichSeeker there are a few scenes that didn’t make it into the film, and some dialogue changes.
You can download the PDF file by clicking here. You can also check out the ‘For your consideration’ page for Half-Blood princehere.
Aaron Johnston plays Dave Lizewski, a lonely teen who decides to become a real-life superhero after being inspired by the heroes of comic-books. He soon encounters a mysterious vigilante called Big-Daddy (Nicolas Cage), and his daughter Hit Girl (Chloë Moretz), who are working to bring down the drug baron, Frank D’Amico.
A while back it was announced that Ridley Scott was interested in directing a movie version of Monopoly. This raised a few questions. Firstly, why would the director of Alien and Blade Runner be interested in a board game movie? And secondly, what the hell would it be about? Well producer Frank Beddor recently revealed details of the story he pitched that got Ridley Scott interested.
I created a comedic, lovable loser who lives in Manhattan and works at a real estate company and he’s not very good at his job but he’s great at playing Monopoly. And the world record for playing is 70 straight days – over 1,600 hours – and he wanted to try to convince his friends to help him break that world record. They think he is crazy. They kid him about this girl and they’re playing the game and there’s this big fight. And he’s holding a Chance card and after they’ve left he says, ‘Damn, I wanted to use that Chance card,’ and he throws it down. He falls asleep and then he wakes up in the morning and he’s holding the Chance card, and he thinks, ‘That’s odd.’”
“He’s all groggy and he goes down to buy some coffee and he reaches into his pocket and all he has is Monopoly money. All this Monopoly money pours out. He’s confused and embarrassed and the girl reaches across the counter and says, ‘That’s OK.’ And she gives him change in Monopoly money. He walks outside and he’s in this very vibrant place, Monopoly City, and he’s just come out of a Chance Shop. As it goes on, he takes on the evil Parker Brothers in the game of Monolopy.”
He continues to say that he came up with this story a years ago and it may be different now as Pamela Pettner is currently working on her version of script, which i’m happy about. ‘Waking up in Monopoly land’ isn’t very creative at all. I hope he didn’t get paid for it as the dog board piece could probably have come up with something better.
Another Alice in Wonderland poster has been revealed on The Disloyal Subjects of the Mad Hatter Facebook page. This one shows Alice herself, played by Mia Wasikowska, and the White Rabbit who will be voiced by Michael Sheen.
You can check out the poster we got a few days ago here! And we will most likely be getting a third poster before the end of the week.
While on the rounds promoting the DVD for Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
The trailer for Date Night, which stars Tina Fey and Steve Carell, is now online. The pair play a boring couple who are in need of some excitement, so they go on a date. Steve Carell becomes a little spontaneous and takes up a reservation that wasn’t his. Common then turns up and wants to kill them. How’s that for excitement?
In preparation for the awards season Warner Bros. have released the original screenplay for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. We don’t usually get the chance to read scripts as they are kept under tight security during production, and then when the film is released we don’t really need it because we have the completed form for our viewing pleasure. I think I’ll read this one over the weekend just out of interest. According to 
A while back it was announced that Ridley Scott was interested in directing a movie version of Monopoly. This raised a few questions. Firstly, why would the director of Alien and Blade Runner be interested in a board game movie? And secondly, what the hell would it be about? Well producer Frank Beddor recently revealed details of the story he pitched that got Ridley Scott interested.
