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Red Band Legion trailer

Liam — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:09:16 +0000

The first trailer for Legion is now online thanks to Myspace. I didn’t know about this film until last month when we got the poster, and we were told that it was “angels with machine guns”. Having watched the trailer numerous times Legion has sky rocketed onto my “must see” list. The trailer is age-restricted as it contains blood and violence. It also shows an elderly lady telling everyone they are all going to f***ing die before taking a chunk out a man’s neck and scaling the walls (that’s after she tells a pregnant lady her unborn baby is going to f***ing burn).

It’s 5 minutes long, so get comfortable before you watch it!

Legion stars Paul Bettany, Tyrese Gibson, Doug Jones, Kevin Durand and Dennis Quaid, and will be released January 22nd in the US and March 5th in the UK.

Priest poster

Liam — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:01:54 +0000

It was only last week that we saw a poster for Legion, which had Paul Bettany spreading his wings as an angel, and now we have another poster featuring Paul Bettany however this time he is a vampire hunting priest.

In a world ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampire, a warrior priest turns against the church to track down a murderous band of vampires who have kidnapped his niece.

Priest is an adaptation of the TokyoPop comic book and is scheduled to open on August 13, 2010.

Paul Bettany spreads his wings on the Legion poster

Liam — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:50:55 +0000

Below we have our first look at Legion in the form of a poster. Director Scott Stewart has described the film as “angels with machine guns”, and thankfully the poster clearly demonstrates that concept to us. As well as Paul Bettany the film stars Tyrese Gibson, Doug Jones, Kevin Durand and Dennis Quaid.

After a terrifying biblical apocalypse descends upon the world, a group of strangers stranded in a remote truck stop diner in the Southwest unwittingly become humanity’s last line of defense when they discover the diner’s young waitress is pregnant with the messiah.

Paul Bettany always seems to land roles in religiously themed movies. He played an albino monk in The Da Vinci Code and will next be seen as Charles Darwin in Creation. From the looks of things he is a badass angel in Legion, and he will play a priest who disobeys church law to track down vampires in Priest. At least he has a break from it all when he gets to voice Tony Stark’s house in Iron Man 2.

Paul Bettany returning for Iron Man 2

Liam — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:14:18 +0000

Despite the lack of visual presence, Paul Bettany was in Iron Man…well his vocal cords were anyway, and now Bettany has revealed that he will be returning as Jarvis in Iron Man 2. Jarvis is the computer voice in Tony Stark’s (Robert Downey Jr.) house, lab and suit. From Scifiwire.com:

“Oh, yeah, I am,” Bettany said. The actor said that he barely remembered recording his dialogue for the first film. “That was a very peculiar experience, because I know Jon Favreau,” Bettany said.
“He said, ‘Do you want to do this thing?’” Bettany recalled. “I said, ‘Yeah.’ He was in L.A., and I turned up at a recording studio in New York City, and all I remember doing is laughing for about two hours and eating some croissants and then going home.”
Bettany said that by the time the film was actually released, he had forgotten he worked on it. “Somebody said to me about six months later, ‘Are you the voice in Iron Man?’ And I said no,” he said. “They went, ‘Really?’ And I went, ‘Oh, no, I am! I am.’ So it was sort of done for fun.”

I think they should let Bettany have a cameo in Iron Man 2, if he is going to have the Iron Man franchise in his CV it would be good to have some visual proof.

Paul Bettany And Jennifer Connelly Join Darwin Film

Liam — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:21:37 +0000

Real life couple Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly have joined Creation, a Jon Amiel project about the life of Charles Darwin. Bettany will play the father of evolutionary theory, and Connelly will play his wife (and cousin) Emma Wedgwood.

From THR:

“John Collee’s compelling script tells the remarkable story behind Darwin’s revolutionary theory and the foundation of a book that changed the world,” said Oscar-winning producer Jeremy Thomas, the force behind the project. “We think of Darwin as an old man with a gray beard. The reality of our story is very different.”

The film will focus on Darwin’s struggles between his deeply religious wife and his own growing belief in a world where God has no place. Two of Darwin’s children died before they reached their teenage years, which drove him to question religion and he eventually proposed that all species of life have evolved over time through the process of natural selection.

Evolution is a hot topic in society today, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this film causes a stir of the The Da Vinci Code kind. Filming starts at the end of September on location in England.

The Secret Life of Bees Poster

Liam — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:30:02 +0000

The poster for The Secret Life of Bees is now online. The movie stars Paul Bettany, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Dakota Fanning, Alicia Keys and Sophee Okonedo.

Set in South Carolina in 1964, the film is the moving tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother’s past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters, Lily finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping, honey and the Black Madonna.