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You'll see why this creepy sci-fi short is gonna be a feature film | Blastr

Seriously, one look at this eight-minute short from British filmmaker Matt Westrup and you'll understand why it's getting promoted into a feature film: The Gate features genetic malfeasance, robotic power armor, swell CG beasts and a couple of terrific scares.

The Gate opens with a seemingly routine inquest, with a bunch of stuffy suits sitting around a table, dryly relating a horrific sequence of events that hint at a larger world, one that Westrup will develop for the full-length feature that U.K. company Wayfare will produce.

One look and you'll see why they think there's potential:
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I couldn't help but think that, perhaps, a British accent is the cheapest, most unheralded special effect in show business: No matter how stiff the dialogue, how clunky the exposition, a velvety accent just makes it all go down so smoothly you don't even care.
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Mortensen may save that long-delayed 'Alien'-esque Dracula pic | Blastr

After nearly a decade in development hell, the Dracula period piece The Last Voyage of the Demeter is finally starting to move again—and Viggo Mortensen (Lord of the Rings, The Road) could be the guy to bring it all together.

Bloody Disgusting reports that Mortensen has been offered the lead role as captain of the Demeter, which ferried Dracula's coffin from Transylvania to England. Everyone from Ben Kingsley (Shutter Island) to Noomi Rapace (Prometheus) is rumored to be attached, but no one knows for sure who else will be on tap once this thing comes around.

Lowell Cauffiel has written the most recent draft of the film, and it's reportedly taking on a claustrophobic Alien vibe, with the crew being picked off slowly by a creature on the ship.
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‘Monsters’ Director’s New Sci-Fi Project Titled ‘Forever,’ Scripted by Dante Harper | /Film

The low-fi indie Monsters gave director Gareth Edwards a big-screen career virtually overnight, and in addition to working on the new incarnation of Godzilla for Legendary Pictures he has been developing another follow-up project in relative quiet. Late last summer we got a few details on the movie, which was then untitled.

We learned that the film is about “a young human child (probably around 5 years old) and a robot who travel across the galaxy in search of mankind’s origin in a world void of humanity and filled with robots.” The report was that Edwards was pitching the project as “a robot Star Wars.” (And hopefully not now “a robot Prometheus.”)

Now we’ve learned that the film may be called Forever, and in an interview with one producer, Timur Bekmambetov, a few other minor details have been revealed...
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I have said it before...that era of Caan...was all that is man!!!! Just so much swagger. And Moonpie...awwwww poor Moonpie. They simply do not make movies like this anymore.
 
jerseydevil said:
The real trick would be finding one that LIKED their adaptations...
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Chuck Palanhiuk loved the film version of "Fight Club" and I think J.K. Rowling has not had anything bad to say about the Harry Potter movie series. FWIW, I thought "The Shining" movie was miles better than the book, which in my opinion was utter crap. King is a talented writer, but a lot of what he writes is garbage. And anything written by Ann Rice, well, hard to make it worse than it already was.
 
jerseydevil said:
Sigourney Weaver says all 3 Avatar sequels will film at once | Blastr
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Really? They're gonna make THREE sequels? I enjoyed Avatar a lot but every time I see it again or even spend some time thinking about it my enjoyment of it goes down. It's simply not holding up all that well and they're gonna make three more movies? Good lord. How good can they really be if they film them all at once? How about they just do one sequel and work on it really hard instead.
 
The first sequel will lift the plot from Waterworld, the second will borrow the storyline of The Postman, and the last one will be based on 3000 Miles To Graceland.
 
Don't worry...the way Cameron works the chances are that we will all perish from a giant meteor before he even starts.
 
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