James Cameron sat down with George Stroumboulopoulos (lol?) for CBC’s The Hour. During the 14 minute interview he spoke about his upcoming sci-fi epic Avatar. I don’t recall watching him speak about it before (although he probably has done), we usually just get quotes from websites, so to actually see him talking about it is quite cool. Other movies that pop up during the interview are Aliens, Titanic and Terminator. If you are a fan of Cameron then you’ll enjoy this interview.

(The Avatar stuff starts around the 4 minute 30 seconds mark)

Taylor Kitsch recently spoke to MediaBlvd Magazine about playing Gambit in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. He didn’t reveal anything interesting, which was probably due to the huge contract he had to sign promising not to reveal anything interesting. The questions weren’t that great either. Anyhow, here’s the interview:

MediaBlvd> Who did you play in that?

Taylor> I played a character called Gambit. He’s just another comic book character that has kinetic energy. It’s a fun role. You’ll have fun watching it.

MediaBlvd> How familiar were you with Gambit before you got the part?

Taylor> I knew of him, but I didn’t know the following he had, and I’m sure I’m still going to be exposed to that. I love the character, I love the powers, and I love what they did with him. I didn’t know that much, but in my experience, it was a blessing to go in and create my take on him. I’m excited for it, to say the least.

MediaBlvd> Is it fun to play a superhero?

Taylor> Absolutely! It’s a great ride. I had so much fun in Australia.

From the leaked Comic Con trailer we saw that Gambit had a lot of card throwing and staff wielding action, which will no doubt please Gambit fans who have been waiting to see him on the big screen for years.

Our first look at David Goyer’s The Unborn has appeared online via a trailer. The film follows a young woman who fights a spirit that is slowly taking possession of her. The woman in this case is Odette Yustman, the girl who everyone had to go and save in Cloverfield. Other cast members include Gary Oldman, Cam Gigandet, Meagan Good, Carla Gugino, Jane Alexander, Idris Elba, Rhys Coiro and James Remar.

According to Latino Review, Warner Bros have an idea about who they want as Hal Jordan aka The Green Lantern. His name is Ryan Gosling, the Oscar nominated actor who has starred in The Notebook, Stay and Fracture. He was also going to play the lead in Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, however at the last minute things didn’t work out.

The actor is in the same age range as Jordan is in the latest screenplay draft, so the age is definitely spot on. He looks also looks the part. It’s a shame this is just a rumour and isn’t official.

Last week we heard that Green Lantern is being fast tracked for a Spring 2009 start date, so we will getting some casting news and official announcements over the coming months.

Batman Begins and The Dark Knight writer David Goyer recently spoke to MTV and gave his input on the recent Batman 3 talk:

“It’s all B.S.,” he said. “ALL of it.”

“Chris and I haven’t even talked about it. He quite understandably is taking a long, long vacation and wants to purge himself,” Goyer said.

So Johnny Depp will not be The Riddler, Philip Seymour Hoffman will not be the Penguin. Cher won’t be Catwoman, filming won’t begin in February next year and Christopher Nolan has not yet signed on to direct the next film.

If you read/hear/smell a Batman 3 rumour in the next few months ignore it, phone the police and get whoever wrote it arrested for rape of the mind…or something equally wrong and inhumane.

Guillermo Del Toro, for your own safety I suggest you flee to your house, lock yourself away and just write The Hobbit. Just do it. If you do not, MTV will hunt you down. They will hunt you down and interview you. Do you understand?

Within the space of 24 hours MTV have posted 3 different articles all containing interviews with Guillermo Del Toro. The topic of conversation is obviously The Hobbit, and will be for the next few years. While the interviews are cool and reveal some new info, it is a little excessive. The film doesnt come out until 2011, we don’t have to ask him all the questions now!

Interview 1: Del Toro says that the two planned movies are just one in his eyes:

“The reality is that we stopped talking the first movie and second movie, and we just started taking about the movie - the two episodes, or two parts, as if they were a single piece of narrative,” he said of scriptwriting meetings between “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson, his filmmaking team of Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, and del Toro himself.

Interview 2: Del Toro talks about the writing process involving himself, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens:

“First thing is, sometimes we get all together in the same space or we all are in video conferencing. And those are sessions that can last two, three days,” del Toro said, opening up for the first time about the nuts-and-bolts aspect of the collaboration. “But after that, it’s almost like we take turns to a degree — or we each get big, big homework to do and then we come back. And then we exchange that homework and then we have input from that.”

Interview 3: Del Toro says that it has been decided that he will direct everything, and Peter Jackson will not be filming anything.

“We talked about it. I normally oppose fully the idea of second unit so my first instinct is no, we will not have second unit on this film,” Del Toro said of whether or not Jackson might at some point get behind the camera. “If there is a scheduling conflict or a problem of that sort, we may consider it, but right now the idea is I shoot everything.”

And there we have it. Until tomorrow that is…

Producer of the X-Men trilogy, Lauren Shuler Donner, recently spoke to SHH about X-Men Origins: Wolverine, director Gavin Hood and her hopes for a Deadpool movie.

CS/SHH!: What’s the latest you can tell us about “Wolverine”?
Lauren Schuler Donner: May 1st, 2009! I guess it’s closer to the first “X-Men” in tone because it’s a little darker, but there’s a lot of action. It’s his origin story. It’s really good. I’ve been in the editing room the last couple of weeks and I think that it’s good and that audiences are going to like it. But it’s a little darker.

CS/SHH!: How is Hugh Jackman’s interpretation of the character different or new, compared to what we’ve seen in the “X-Men” films?
Schuler Donner: Well, you haven’t seen this side of him. It’s darker and sadder and it’s kick-ass. There’s a ton of action. It’s really kick-ass.

CS/SHH!: How was working with Gavin Hood as the director?
Schuler Donner: It was fun. It was good. I like taking someone out of the indie world and bringing someone into the action world because it grounds the movie. It gives it a reality. It gives it an emotional core, and then you can have as much fun and action in it as you want.

CS/SHH!: This was Gavin’s first time playing with really big cinematic toys. Was there a learning curve on that for him?
Schuler Donner: Yeah. He had a learning curve, but the thing basically for the director, honestly, it’s sort of like, “Here’s what I want…” and then the visual FX guys create that. Then it’s like, “No. I want it more like this or like that.” A director doesn’t have to know how to do it. They have to know about lighting and shooting someone against green screen and that sort of stuff, but in terms of actually creating it, we do that.

CS/SHH!: And Ryan Reynolds is playing Deadpool.
Schuler Donner: Yes. Ryan Reynolds is playing Deadpool… he plays Wade Wilson.

CS/SHH!: Is that in hopes of a “Deadpool” spin-off film?
Schuler Donner: I hope so. I really hope so. He’s so good at it.

She also said that Stan Lee wouldn’t be having cameo appearance in the film, mainly because they were filming in Australia. However, she said they were filming more scenes in January so he could end up make an appearance.

ComingSoon.net were given a new Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa poster. The sequel features the voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd, Alec Baldwin and Will.i.am.

The sequel of the first movie, the New York Zoo Animals, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo, still stranded on Madagascar, started to leave the island. All of a sudden, they landed in the wilderness of Africa. There, Alex soon meet the rest of his family and starting to have trouble communicating with them after much of his time at the Central Park Zoo.

Bond girl and future Prince of Persia female Gemma Arterton has revealed that she was born a ‘freak’, with 6 fingers on each hand.

From The Telegraph:

Arterton, 22, still has small lumps on the side of her hands following the childhood procedures to have the extra digits removed.

The fingers were “tied”, causing them to fall off naturally.

“It’s my little oddity that I’m really proud of,” she told Esquire magazine. “It makes me different.”

The actress, who plays Agent Fields in Quantum of Solace, James Bond’s 22nd adventure, revealed earlier this year that she was also born with a “crumpled ear” that had to be corrected with surgery.

“I was born with lots of deformities,” the Rada graduate said at the time.

Do you think she would have been cast in Quantum of Solace if she had 12 fingers? Would she have landed a part in an upcoming summer blockbuster if she had a crumpled ear? We know how Hollywood likes perfection!

300 producer Mark Canton has plans for another visual epic in the form of sci-fi superhero graphic novel Ramayan 3392 AD.

From IGN and Wikipedia:

In the third age of mankind, the world, after a nuclear third world war, is divided into two continents, Nark and Aryavarta. In Aryavarta the last kingdom of humans exists inside a city called Armagarh.

The property is based on a Hindu poem about the blue-skinned Prince Rama, who undertakes an epic quest to save his wife after she’s kidnapped by an evil demon.

John Collee, writer of Master and Commander and Happy Feet, will write the screenplay.