The UK arm of 20th Century Fox has released a new trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus which reveals more footage than any of the trailers thus far. Charlize Theron’s character has a larger presence in this one, and it’s made clear she’s running the show. We also get to see some of the life forms the team encounter on their mission, and they aren’t friendly.

Watch the trailer below:

Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the genre he helped define, creating an original science fiction epic set in the most dangerous corners of the universe. The film takes a team of scientists and explorers on a thrilling journey that will test their physical and mental limits and strand them on a distant world, where they will discover the answers to our most profound questions and to life’s ultimate mystery.

Prometheus stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Logan Marshall-Green, and Idris Elba, and 20th Century Fox will release the film on June 8th 2012.

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Fox’s viral campaign for this summer’s Prometheus seems to be in full swing right now and this awesome promo is the latest to come from that. David is an 8th generation Wayland type robot, powered by Verizon apparently and you can see the clip right after the break.

Now this is what I call great viral marketing, a clip that’s made to look like any commercial you see today on TV, only this is for a robot, one that you can only find in the film Prometheus unfortunately. I mean who doesn’t want a real David around the house? I know I do, my garden needs work and he would be the perfect candidate for that unethical job. Also, after Shame, I’m sure there are loads of women out there (and even guys) that would buy a Michael Fassbender the second he becomes available, probably for stuff that’s more NC-17 if you know what I mean.

Joke aside, Prometheus is a prequel to the 1979 original Alien, directed by the same Ridley Scott and starring Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, and Patrick Wilson among others.

Prometheus opens June 1st in the UK and June 8th in North America.

So would you buy a David/Michael Fassbender if this promo was real?

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Filming starts in about a month on The Counselor, director Ridley Scott’s follow-up to Prometheus. It’s a project that’s pretty far removed from the sci-fi action flick; written by Cormac McCarthy, this one is about a lawyer who gets involved in the drug trade in the American Southwest, only to get in over his head. There have been some big names dancing around this movie for a long time, and now one of the biggest has her eye on a tiny part. Vulture reports Angelina Jolie is looking to fit a small role into her busy schedule.

Jolie would essentially have a cameo role, starring opposite Michael Fassbender and potentially either Javier Bardem, Jeremy Renner, or even her longtime lover Brad Pitt. No word on what specific part she’ll play, but she’s not one of the most famous actresses in the world for no reason; the woman’s got talent to spare, and even if she’s only got one scene in the movie, it’ll be notable for her to work with Ridley Scott for the first time.

The actress starts filming Maleficent in June or July, so there would barely be enough time in there for her to squeeze in The Counselor before cameras roll on Robert Stromberg’s Disney film. Maleficent just got a March 14, 2014 release date, so we’ll be seeing the actress donning those iconic horns in the not too distant future.

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We’ve already seen new IMAX and US trailers for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus over recent days, and now we have a new UK trailer to feast on. It’s less intense than the domestic trailer, but explains more of the story and contains new scenes. Great choice of music in this one.

Watch below:

Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the genre he helped define, creating an original science fiction epic set in the most dangerous corners of the universe. The film takes a team of scientists and explorers on a thrilling journey that will test their physical and mental limits and strand them on a distant world, where they will discover the answers to our most profound questions and to life’s ultimate mystery.

Prometheus stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Logan Marshall-Green, and Idris Elba, and 20th Century Fox will release the film on June 8th 2012.

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A new full length trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is expected online any day now, but in the meantime we have an IMAX teaser trailer to keep us occupied. There’s lots of exciting new footage in this one, and it’s quite clear why Prometheus is one of our most anticipated sci-fi movies of 2012.

Watch the teaser below:

Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the genre he helped define, creating an original science fiction epic set in the most dangerous corners of the universe. The film takes a team of scientists and explorers on a thrilling journey that will test their physical and mental limits and strand them on a distant world, where they will discover the answers to our most profound questions and to life’s ultimate mystery.

Prometheus stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Logan Marshall-Green, and Idris Elba, and 20th Century Fox will release the film on June 8th 2012.

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Michael Fassbender is gearing up to climb a mountain for 20th Century Fox. Variety reports that the star of Shame, X-Men: First Class, and Prometheus is in talks to join a movie called The Mountain Between Us, a romantic drama about two plane crash survivors. Read on for more.

The film “follows two strangers who survive a plane crash in the Colorado woods and are forced to rely on one another for survival, eventually falling in love.” Fassbender would play a doctor and skilled climber who has to aid a wounded female writer down a mountain. The movie will draw obvious comparisons to Liam Neeson’s The Grey, another survival film that came out earlier this year. Miss Bala director Gerardo Naranjo will be sitting in the director’s chair on this one, so it’ll be interesting to see how he handles a studio film with a bigger budget. What do you think?

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The Counselor has the potential to be one of the best movies of 2013. Director Ridley Scott is reteaming with his Prometheus star, the increasingly awesome Michael Fassbender, for the first spec script written by the legendary Cormac McCarthy. Deadline has a list of actors being considered for the villain role, so read on to find out who they are.

Action superstar Jeremy Renner (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, The Bourne Legacy), Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men), and Brad Pitt are all mentioned in the report, and though nothing is close to official, it’s still interesting to picture each of these guys taking on Fassbender in the drama. All of these actors are very busy, so it’ll be interesting to see which one can squeeze this one into his schedule; the film is set to start shooting this May.

The Counselor follows an admired lawyer (Fassbender) who is tempted by the drug business and ends up getting in over his head. No word yet on what the villainous role will be, but who would you like to see star opposite Fassbender here?

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Fans of X-Men: First Class received some good news last month when it was reported Matthew Vaughn would be returning to direct the sequel. Simon Kinberg, who co-wrote X-Men: The Last Stand and co-produced X-Men: First Class, was hired to begin work on the script last year, and in a new interview the writer said he wants to do “some things unexpected” with Xavier and Magneto in the sequel.

From MTV:

“I’m a huge X-Men fan. I grew up loving the comic books and it was really exciting to be able to do the origin story of Xavier and Magneto, and getting those two actors, [James] McAvoy and [Michael] Fassbender, were really amazing,” he said. “So being able to explore those characters with actors of that quality will be exciting a second time around, and doing some things unexpected with those characters, which is the plan.”

Kinberg went on to say that while they’re still in the early stages of story-planning, the second film will likely involve a lot more Magneto.

“That’s what was so cool about the first one and what we want to continue,” Kinberg said of exploring the supervillain’s tortured beginnings. “Magneto becomes the villain ultimately of the franchise but he’s a much more complicated character as a young man. He’s someone you sympathize with, you care about you root for even though might not necessarily agree with his methods, you understand his philosophy.”

At the end of X-Men: First Class Erik became Magneto (“I prefer…Magneto”), and while we can expect him to have a villainous side from now on, Kinberg said he’ll have “a sympathetic human side you’ll be able to relate but you’ll also be afraid of him”, which is one of the great things about Magneto as a villain. You can understand his motives, and he’s not your typical ‘take over the world’ type of bad guy.

With The Wolverine now set for a July 2013 release, we can probably expect the First Class sequel to hit sometime in 2014. In which case, filming should begin next year.

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So was this Steven Soderbergh’s final project for film school?  The question is posed for it seems that the stylish director (Ocean’s flicks, Traffic, Contagion, etc.) couldn’t afford a talented lead for Haywire. Plus, the sound edit, uh, sounds as if a micro-budgeted indie filmmaker made this on his Macbook. Actually, one could probably get better sound out of that computer.

Obviously, this isn’t Soderbergh’s senior project and there was some coin behind it ($25 million) as you can surmise from the talented cast that chimed in on this 93 minute flick.  And although the action, which is to say hand-to-hand combat sequences, had some intensity to them, the script suffers immensely from the storytelling execution via the femme fatale, Gina Carano.

Her dialogue delivery is bloody awful to the point that you feel sorry for her as you watch this.  Now even though the story wasn’t all that riveting to begin with, having the majority of it told through the more-or-less rookie actress was clearly too much to ask here.  She is surrounded by an accomplished supporting cast and she does have the ability to carry them in the above mention decently choreographed fight sequences.  But once those come and go, the mediocre level this flick attains drops faster than a man between Carano’s leg scissors.  And speaking of those legs, the one thing Carano did accomplish is the dethroning of Famke Janssen (Goldeneye 1995); as she can now proudly wear the title of having the sexiest choke-hold in cinematic history.

While Carano just isn’t ready to enhance this spy-betrayed-by-the-system saga outside of using her apt MMA skills – and perhaps Soderbergh realized this during filming, as there are prolonged shots of her just running around and scaling rooftops (one of the better shot sequences though), it all falls on Soderbergh and the story to keep us wired in.  Watching Soderbergh’s camera placement is always intriguing.  If he’s shooting on a rooftop, he’ll find a crevice between a fireplace and a pipe and guide the lens through as it follows the character.  When screenplay is active, he’s at his best.  And much like his Ocean’s flicks, the luring musical score has the ability to set the tone.

Most of everything stated above is realized within the first thirty minutes.  And while the direction of this piece doesn’t quite come fully together, one is hopeful the plot will eventually catch you.  Unfortunately, it just isn’t happening here.  The atmosphere is subdued despite it being a spy-thriller.  It’s not wordy or bland like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy or The American, but it doesn’t have an adrenaline rush commonly found in a Bourne movie or even Salt for that matter.  As far as originality goes, there is none.  Well, except for the fact that Carano actually looks like she can kick some ass as opposed to a 95lbs. Angelina Jolie. So basically, this is just Soderbergh’s take on a spy-thriller…that isn’t all that thrilling and has a few mechanical issues.

Overall, Haywire can never really get going.  At certain turns, you wonder if this would even make the cut to be shown in a local film festival based on the production and acting levels of Gina Carano. The pacing is fairly good when considering the short running time, yet the product as a whole feels like a rush job that people just wanted to unload.  In other words: Why bother even making this?

RATING: 2 out of 5

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The most recent update on a potential sequel to Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class came from Fox Chairman and CEO of Filmed Entertainment Tom Rothman last year who said they were “working hard” on the script and getting Vaughn back to direct was a priority.

In a brief interview with SHH Michael Fassbender joked that he had “no choice” but to play Magneto again as he’s signed for multiple films. He also said development on the sequel was at “the ground level” so it’ll probably be a while before he has to wear the helmet again.

X-Men: First Class co-writer Jane Goldman was also asked recently about the next film, and she’s on-board if Matthew Vaughn wants her (which is likely).

From MTV:

“James and Michael brought so much to them that I think it’s entirely natural to be talking about where those characters would go next,” she said. “It was inherent in their stories and their arcs. There are so many interesting places to go.”

“In terms of what’s going on with that, again from my point of view, it’s down to what Matthew [Vaughn] decides to do,” she said. “If he decides he wants to direct the next one and if he wants me on board, I’m 100 percent there.”

In November James McAvoy said Vaughn was pitching ideas to 20th Century Fox, so at this point it’s looking likely that Vaughn will be back. Simon Kinberg, who co-wrote X-Men: The Last Stand and co-produced X-Men: First Class, was hired to begin work on the script 2 months ago so we may start hearing things about the next film this year.

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