The teaser poster for Conan has appeared online. The movie is based on Robert E. Howard’s mythical conqueror Conan the Barbarian and will be more faithful to the source material than Arnold Schwarzenegger’s films.
Here is the poster for upcoming Tekken. The movie is based on the well known fighting game which has made millions worldwide and has spawned 6 sequels.
Tekken is due for release in 2009.
I have come to realise that most films with Peter Jackson involved have problems of some sort. There is the ‘will Jackson sort things out with New Line and direct The Hobbit’ and more recently ‘Ryan Reynolds is replaced by Mark Wahlberg days before filming of The Loverly Bones‘ and something that has been around throughout all of them was whether Halo would ever be brought onto the big screen.
A ‘n00b’ director was hired, who goes by the name of Neill Blomkamp, Jackson’s WETA started work on the project and everything was good to go…until Universal and FOX pulled out last minute. The main reason was money. If Halo was going to be as good as it deserved the budget needed to be rather high, and they were not willing to risk that amount of money on a fairly new director, even if he had Peter Jackson’s backing. So time passed, Halo 3 was released to the gaming world and made $300 million in one week. However, Neill Blomkamp recently declared the project ‘dead’ and said it had been for some time.
However, according to Peter Jackson’s representative Ken Kamins, Microsoft is currently in talks with other studio’s, and WETA are still working on the pre-production. He also commented on how the creative team will stay the same.
“Everybody is supremely confident in Neal,” Kamins said. “Part of what excited Peter and Fran was Neal’s vision. We’re very confident this film will move forward with the creative partners intact, who will take the film to production.”
I have every confidence that Peter Jackson, along with Walsh and Blomkamp, can make a great movie. They just need a movie studio that has confidence, or a bit of common sense.
With writers expected to be striking as early as Thursday, studios are frantically trying to get scripts complete before they start filming. If they do strike then there will be nobody to do re-writes during filming. It is well known that most scripts change daily while filming is in progress, whether its because things don’t seem right when the actors perform, or they may get a new idea for the ending such as Jean Grey’s sacrifice in X-Men 2.
Last week Paul Haggis delivered his script in to Columbia for Bond 22, hopefully he has given that script a title so we can stop calling it ‘Bond 22′.
Meanwhile The Hollywood Reporter has published an article with information regarding the script for X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Fox’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” which is being penned by James Vanderbilt (”Zodiac”), and “The Fast and the Furious 4″ by Chris Morgan are among dozens of scripts that are being flipped, a process that actually is uniting execs and scribes in one goal: to get a script that is filmable.
I’ve lost count how many writers Wolverine has had, but no doubt they are changing things for the better.
