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PARADISE LOST Production Delayed

We were just starting to get excited about Paradise Lost. Neat concept art. A solid cast in Benjamin Walker, Bradley Cooper, Casey Affleck, and Dijmon Hounsou. A great pitch from director Alex Proyas:


“It’s not just armies battling in an epic war. This is an adventure about the origins of good and evil after Lucifer’s rebellion gets him cast out of Heaven and leads to a struggle with his brother archangel over the soul of mankind, starting with Adam and Eve.”

Alas, we must wait to see the adaptation of John Milton’s classic work come to fruition. It was announced tonight that Legendary Pictures is putting plans for a January start date on hold, because all the cool elements of this project add up to too much $$$
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I am really hoping this is epic. I need this to be really good. There is no more interesting subject imo than the war of the angels and Lucifers casting out. Guess some of that Catholic school stuff stuck after all.
 
Official Blurb For Gravity, A Massive New Sci-Fi Film From The Director Of Children Of Men | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

Next up, the incredibly ambitious science fiction film, Gravity. JoBlo have somehow gotten their hands on what they’re calling an official synopsis for the film. It’s a tad spoilery, but I’m sure the trailer and maybe even poster will be too:


[Sandra] Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky [George Clooney] in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone–tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness.

The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth…and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left.

But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.
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Real nice poster

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Hmmm. Really bad cgi ruins what looks like it could be a good Jason & The Argonauts/Sinbad movie. Is it just me or does Liam Neeson's mustache look like it's threating to fly off? And Manson's Sweet Dreams being used in yet another trailer...really? Forget that it's horribly inappropriate but hasn't there been any new music in the last, what 15 years? It's another post convert job too, so skip the inflated 3d tix if you intend to see this. I thought the first one was harmless and decent we'll see if this one warrants a matinee.
 
Abigail Breslin Goes Sci-Fi With 'Ender's Game'; Harrison Ford Now Officially On Board | Filmmakers, Film Industry, Film Festivals, Awards & Movie Reviews | indieWIRE

Well, look who's all grown up! Abigail Breslin who first sauntered into our hearts as the pudgy Olive in "Little Miss Sunshine," and who recently flashed her bra in "New Year's Eve" is now ready to graduate into her first bonafide blockbuster movie.

The actress will join the ranks of "Ender's Game," the long developing big screen take on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card. Set in the future, the story finds the Earth at war with an insectoid race named the Formics, and follows Ender (Asa Butterfield), one of a group of children being trained to be military commanders. Breslin will play Valentine Wiggin, Ender's older sister, and joins an increasingly impressive cast that now also includes Hailee Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley and Harrison Ford.

Yes, that Harrison Ford. As you might recall, Indiana Jones was offered a role in the film last month and is now confirmed, taking on the part of Colonel Hyrum Graff, the Commander of Training for the International Fleet of young recruits. And over the weekend, it was revealed that up-and-comer Brendan Meyer (who kids know from the show "Mr. Young"), has also come aboard as one of the trainees under Ford, who is discovered to be a gifted strategist.
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UNDERWORLD LEGACY Trailer Catches Fans Up on Past Three Films

With the fourth installment in the Underworld series, Underworld: Awakening, set to open next month, Screen Gems is ramping up the film’s marketing campaign. Today they’ve unveiled a new trailer entitled “Underworld: Legacy” which recounts the story of Kate Beckinsale’s Seline from the past three movies; it’s basically a “Previously on Underworld” short. While I’m not a huge fan of the series, I found this trailer to be quite cool. If you, like me, are hazy on the details of the franchise, this video neatly sums up the past events and gets you primed for Awakening. It also includes an intro from Beckinsale herself.
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CLOUD ATLAS Movie Image

The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer are currently working on an adaptation of Cloud Atlas starring Halle Barry, Hugh Grant, Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Hugo Weaving, Ben Whishaw, James D’Arcy, and Jim Sturgess. As someone who has not read the David Mitchell‘s book, it sounds very exciting. Mitchell tells six stories that span multiple continents and centuries. All the actors all playing multiple roles. The Wachowskis are directing one unit, Tykwer is directing a second unit in parallel. It’s all very ambitious stuff, and I am glad the Wachowskis still have the power to get this made after Speed Racer flopped.

A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan’s California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified “dinery server” on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation — the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other’s echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.
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This sounds like it could be Donnie Darko good or Southland Tales bad, either way I am sooooo in. I don't mind if movies fail if they are trying to go outside the norm like this one appears to be. Anyone read the book?

Oh and Speed Racer kicks all kinds of ass.
 
ucsdguy1 said:
This is one of my all time favorite books. So much of it seemed to be what is going through Ender's mindl; I am consistently scared on how it could translate to the screen.
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If I am remembering correctly, the director wrote his own screenplay, so at the very least he is familiar with the source material.
 
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