We here at GeekTyrant feel there are many unsung heroes in the world of movies and television. So today we decided to throw some love at just one of those unsung heroes, the narrators. Narrators are especially important in commercials. Half the time you have no idea what they're advertising until the announcer comes on. In film and television, narrators help bring the story to life or take you inside a character's heads. In some cases, narration absolutely MAKES the show what it is (e.g. The Wonder Years, Pushing Daisies).

It's the show's stars who usually get impersonated. So if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, narrators aren't getting flattered enough. In this video we shine some light, and poke some fun at a few of our favorite masters of the microphone.

Check out the video and enjoy. Who's your favorite TV Show or movie narrator?

Impressions in order:

Geico Commercial

Rodney Saulsberry - Twix, Zatarain's Commercials

Jim Dale - Pushing Daisies

Daniel Stern - The Wonder Years

Harry Potter Trailer Voice

Morgan Freeman - March of The Penguins 

Jason Statham - Crank

Billy Crudup - Mastercard Commercials

Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange

Some more info has leaked out regarding Marvel's Thor: The Dark World. The movie is gearing up to start shooting later this summer in London, and according to Bleeding Cool several scenes in the movie will be shot underground, here's what they had to report...

Some long tunnels in London will be used for the filming of scenes that, as yet, we haven’t been able to confirm as taking place on Earth, on Asgard or elsewhere. A long tunnel is a long tunnel, though, and when it’s dressed it could be anywhere. But a good long shot, down a real, long tunnel can’t be easily faked on a soundstage.

Last week a rumor hit the net that the Dark Elves would most likely be playing a villainous role in the story, and if this is true, then it makes sense that they would be shooting in underground tunnels and caverns, because that's where the elves reside. It also makes sense that a film titled The Dark World would take place in dark places. 

There's obviously a lot of darkness going on in the Thor sequel, and I'm excited to see what exactly Marvel and director Alan Taylor have in store for us! We've got a long way to go, but before you know it will be completed, and we'll be watching it!

What do you think about the underground tunnel shoots, and how they relate to the Dark Elves?

On the site The Composites, Brian Joseph Davis has been utilizing police sketch software to make graphic renderings of famous fictional characters. The latest of Davis' composite sketches is of none other than Bram Stoker's Dracula. Most of us think of the Lugosi interpretation of the character; pale face with slick backed black hair, eyes that could melt butter and cheek bones that could slice through a watermelon. 

The composite sketch below looks more like a character from King of The Hill than the legendary creature of the night, but read the original description of the character and you'll see how true the sketch is to how Bram Stoker described the character:

"A tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache...His face was a strong, a very strong, aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils, with lofty domed forehead...His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking...For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed. The chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin...The blue eyes transformed with fury."

A handlebar mustache and a unibrow don't make him as menacing a creature as you have imagined all these years. But picture that guy riding a Merry-Go-Round by himself, and he'll still be pretty creepy.

Here's a funny video mashup of The Matrix and Office space that features Neo trying to hide from Lumberg. The video was created by YouTuber AkselDog, and it turned out great! Check it out!

Warner Bros. has released a couple of new photos from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey featuring before and after special effects pics of Andy Serkis as Gollum. 

This is not only one of my anticipated movies of the year, but it's one of my most anticipated films of all time! I read The Hobbit multiple time when I was growing up, and I've always wanted to see it turned into an epic live action film. It's happening! I couldn't be more excited! What's even more amazing is we aren't only getting one film, we're getting two with the strong possibility of a third!! How awesome is that! Check out the pictures.

What one of your most anticipated films off all time?

Thanks to E!Online for the photos. Here's the trailer.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, is set for release on December 14th. The second film, called The Hobbit: There An Back Again, is set to hit theaters on Dec. 13th, 2013. I imagine that the third film would be released in December of 2014.

Check out the synopsis below:

The adventure follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakenshield. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers.

Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever…Gollum.

Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum’s “precious” ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities … A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to know.

Ian McKellen returns as Gandalf the Grey, the character he played in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and Martin Freeman in the central role of Bilbo Baggins. Also reprising their roles from The Lord of the Rings movies are: Cate Blanchett as Galadriel; Ian Holm as the elder Bilbo; Christopher Lee as Saruman; Hugo Weaving as Elrond; Elijah Wood as Frodo; Orlando Bloom as Legolas; and Andy Serkis as Gollum.

The ensemble cast also includes (in alphabetical order) Richard Armitage, John Bell, Jed Brophy, Adam Brown, John Callen,Luke Evans, Stephen Fry, Ryan Gage, Mark Hadlow, Peter Hambleton, Barry Humphries, Stephen Hunter, William Kircher,Evangeline Lilly, Sylvester McCoy, Bret McKenzie, Graham McTavish, Mike Mizrahi, James Nesbitt, Dean O’Gorman, Lee Pace,Mikael Persbrandt, Conan Stevens, Ken Stott, Jeffrey Thomas, and Aidan Turner.

The screenplays for both The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There and Back Again are by Fran Walsh,Philippa Boyens, Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson. Jackson is also producing the films, together with Fran Walsh andCarolynne Cunningham. The executive producers are Alan Horn, Ken Kamins, Toby Emmerich and Zane Weiner, with Boyens serving as co-producer.

Here's a collection of twenty great photos from Andy and Lana Wachowski (the Matrix trilogy) and Tom Tykwer's (Run Lola Run) feature film adaptation of David Mitchell‘s novel Cloud Atlas. Earlier today Entertainment Weekly gave us our first look at Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, and Ben Whishaw in the film, but now we've got a lot more for you to check out! The movie also stars Hugh Grant, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Susan Sarandon, Bae Doona and James D'Arcy.

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.

In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us. 

As we previously reported, Each of the cast members take on multiple roles in the movie. There are six stories in the movie that the characters will appear in that cross through different genres and takes place of over the course of a thousand years. The stories are thematically related, and they are linked by the intersections of various characters throughout the film. 

This looks like it's going to be an incredibly epic film! It hit theaters on October 26th, and I'm very excited about it. Especially after seeing these photos! Hopefully we get a trailer soon! After you look through the photos tell us what you think about the Wachowski's latest film!

Here's a breakdown of each story told in the novel:

The novel consists of six nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the nineteenth century to a distant, post-apocalyptic future. Each tale is revealed to be a story that is read (or observed) by the main character in the next. All stories but the last are interrupted at some moment, and after the sixth story concludes at the center of the book, the novel "goes back" in time, "closing" each story as the book progresses in terms of pages but regresses in terms of the historical period in which the action takes place. Eventually, readers end where they started, with Adam Ewing in the Pacific Ocean, circa 1850.

The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing

Pacific Ocean, circa 1850. Adam Ewing, an American notary's account of a voyage home from the remote Chatham Islands, east of New Zealand. The next character discovers this story as a diary on his patron's bookshelf.

Letters from Zedelghem

Zedelgem, Belgium, 1931. Robert Frobisher, a penniless young English musician, finds work as an amanuensis to a composer living in Belgium. This story is saved in the form of letters to his friend (and implied lover) Rufus Sixsmith, which the next character discovers after meeting Sixsmith.

Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery.

Buenas Yerbas, California, 1975. Luisa Rey, a journalist, investigates reports of corruption and murder at a nuclear power plant. The next character is sent this story in the mail, in the form of a manuscript for a novel.

The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish

United Kingdom, early 21st century. Timothy Cavendish, a vanity press publisher, flees the brothers of his gangster client. He gets confined against his will in a nursing home from which he cannot escape. The next character watches a movie dramatisation of this story.

An Orison of Sonmi~451

Nea So Copros (Korea), dystopian near future. Sonmi~451, a genetically-engineered fabricant (clone) server at Papa Song's diner (a proxy for large fast-dining chains), is interviewed before her execution after she rebels against the capitalist totalitarian society that created and exploited her kind. The next character watches Sonmi's story projected holographically in an "orison," a futuristic recording device.

Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After

Hawaii, post-apocalyptic distant future. Zachry, a tribesman living a primitive life after most of humanity dies during "the Fall," is visited by Meronym, a member of the last remnants of technologically-advanced civilization. This story is told when the protagonist is an old man, to seemingly random strangers around a camp-fire.

"I'm back"..."You've been back enough!"

Lionsgate has released a new action-packed TV spot for The Expendables 2 featuring a good amount of awesome new footage from the film, mixed in with some explosions. I have no doubt this movie is going to be a lot of fun. As much as I enjoyed the first film, this one looks like it's going to be even better. 

Synopsis:

The Expendables are back and this time it’s personal… Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Yin Yang (Jet Li), Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren),Toll Road (Randy Couture) and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) — with newest members Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) and Maggie (Yu Nan) aboard — are reunited when Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) enlists the Expendables to take on a seemingly simple job. The task looks like an easy paycheck for Barney and his band of old-school mercenaries. But when things go wrong and one of their own is viciously killed, the Expendables are compelled to seek revenge in hostile territory where the odds are stacked against them. Hell-bent on payback, the crew cuts a swath of destruction through opposing forces, wreaking havoc and shutting down an unexpected threat in the nick of time — six pounds of weapons-grade plutonium; enough to change the balance of power in the world. But that’s nothing compared to the justice they serve against the villainous adversary who savagely murdered their brother. That is done the Expendables way…

The movie is scheduled for release on August 17th, 2012. Are you planning on seeing it in theaters? 

Source: YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b5TCjqwp7Y)

Check out this awesome video highlighting the evolution of the bat symbol done by Antupainamku! I guess I never realized how many different logos there have been! My brain always defaults to the animated series logo but that's just me I guess. If I had to pick a favorite I have to go with the Batman Beyond though as it is class for sure. Disagree? Share your favorite below.

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Source: Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSgpu0aGKG8)

Lionsgate has sent us over some creepy new photo's from the Sam Raimi-produced horror film The Possession. This is a horror film that I'm looking forward to! It's based on a true story about a haunted  antique wooden box. No joke, the story behind this dibbuk box is pretty terrifying, and it looks like it will make for a great movie. 

For those of you who want more information on the true story you can read all about it in an article that was published in the L.A. Times. This is how it starts out...

A small wooden cabinet went up for auction on EBay. Inside were two locks of hair, one granite slab, one dried rosebud, one goblet, two wheat pennies, one candlestick and, allegedly, one "dibbuk," a kind of spirit popular in Yiddish folklore.

The seller, a Missouri college student named Iosif Nietzke, described the container as a "haunted Jewish wine cabinet box" that had plagued several owners with rotten luck and a spate of bizarre paranormal stunts.

Here's a photo of the actual box from the e-bay listing...

The movie was directed by Ole Bornedal (Nightwatch) and stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen), Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer), Natasha Calis (The Firm) and Matisyahu (The Hasidic Reggae Superstar).

Here's the Synopsis for the film:

Clyde (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Stephanie Brenek (Kyra Sedgwick) see little cause for alarm when their youngest daughter Em becomes oddly obsessed with an antique wooden box she purchased at a yard sale. But as Em’s behavior becomes increasingly erratic, the couple fears the presence of a malevolent force in their midst, only to discover that the box was built to contain a dibbuk, a dislocated spirit that inhabits and ultimately devours its human host.

The movie hits theaters everywhere on August 31, 2012, and I'm excited about seeing the film! What are your thoughts on the film?

Batman: Dark Knightfall is seriously one of the coolest fan-made Batman films I think I've seen! It's a stop-motion animated short that was created with a collection of Hot Toys Batman action figures. The animation is done extremely well, it's action-packed, and I love that The Joker is in it! 

The film was created by Derek Kwok and Henri Wong of Parabucks co., and the full version of the film will be coming out soon! Watch what they've released so far, and let us know if you like it!

Source: YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4nUxXL8txA&feature=player_embedded)

Here are Limited Edition Batman and Bane watches from Diesel. The designers at Diesel did a good job of being very subtle in how they incorporated the designs of Chris Nolan's Batman and Bane costumes from The Dark Knight Rises into the time pieces. But it's almost so subtle that it doesn't justify the $325 dollar price tag. Yeah, it's not as tacky as a digital watch with Batman's face on it, but I feel like you could stick different logos on these and you'd have no idea that it was supposed to be a Batman-themed watch. Separate pieces of "armor" over a mesh weave for the strap? Would that have been too hard? They nailed the top of Bane's mask with the grommets on the strap, but Bane's mouth piece is what should have been implemented. As cool as these are, I'd rather spend that money on Hot Toys versions of these characters.

The watches will hit the market in November, but are available now for preorder at Watchismo.

This SBA (Super Bad Ass) style features a blackened stainless steel case with hidden under-bezel LED lamps that light the dial in a powerful glow.  Industrial designed rubber strap emulates the Batsuit.

Source: via: Geekologie (http://www.geekologie.com/2012/08/limited-edition-batman-and-bane-diesel-w.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+geekologie%2FiShm+%28Geekologie+-+Gadgets%2C+Gizmos%2C+and+Awesome%29)

Pixar fan Mike Senna has spent the last two years of his life building a life size Wall-E robot that actually works! He built the whole thing out for scratch from the ground up, and it turned out awesome! 

Senna is a computer programmer that lives in Orange County, CA. Before Wall-E, in 2003, he built a life size working R2-D2. This was before the time everyone was building them. And he took it around showing it off to kids in hospitals. He enjoyed the reaction of the kids so much, that he wanted to build something a little more personable. He spent 25 hours a week after his day job for two years building Wall-E, and it looks like it was worth it! The Pixar robot turned out perfect, and he did it without any blueprints. Well done Mike! 

I hope you enjoy the video below!

Source: Big Screen Toons (https://twitter.com/bigscreentoons/status/230845510238498816)

In this week's episode, Tyler and Ben are joined by Free and Eli Reyes (from GeekTyrant.com) to discuss Paul M. Glaser's 1996 film Kazaam and Kenneth Johnson's 1997 film Steel.

A third trailer has been released for Jennifer Lawrence's horror thriller House at the End of the Street. I wasn't impressed with the first two trailers, and this new one really doesn't do anything for me either. In fact, it gives the whole story away so now I don't even have to see the movie!

Look, I love a good horror film. Hell, I even enjoy the bad ones every now and then. But this one falls somewhere in the middle, and I just can't get excited about it. 

Synopsis:

Seeking a fresh start, newly divorced Sarah (Oscar®-nominee Elisabeth Shue; Leaving Las Vegas, Piranha 3D) and her daughter Elissa (Oscar®-nominee Jennifer Lawrence; The Hunger Games, X-Men: First Class) find the house of their dreams in a small, upscale, rural town. But when startling and unexplainable events begin to happen, Sarah and Elissa learn the town is in the shadows of a chilling secret. Years earlier, in the house next door, a daughter killed her parents in their beds, and disappeared – leaving only a brother, Ryan (Max Thieriot, My Soul to Take), as the sole survivor.  Against Sarah’s wishes, Elissa begins a relationship with the reclusive Ryan – and the closer they get, the deeper they’re all pulled into a mystery more dangerous than they ever imagined.

The movie was directed by Mark Tonderai, and also stars Elisabeth Shue and Max Thieriot. It opens in theaters on September 21st, 2012. Do any of you think this movie looks good? 

Warner Bros. is getting ready to make a decision on if they are going to move forward with Ron Howard's master plan to bring Stephen King's epic supernatural western novel series The Dark Tower to the big and small screens.  

Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman is about to turn in his script to the studio for the first installment of the film series. According to Deadline the Warner Bros. will make a decision in two weeks on whether or not they are going to move forward with the first phase of the ambitious plan. 

The biggest news to come out of this report is that Javier Bardem is no longer attached to the project as the main character Roland Deschain. Howard and producer Brian Grazier have instead been talking with their friend Russell Crowe about taking over the lead role. Crowe worked with them on A Beautiful Mind. As excited as I was for Bardem to play Roland I think Crowe is a better choice. He's had experience with westerns already, 3:10 To Yuma being one of my favorites. As of right now, nothing is officially set in stone, but when Warner Bros. makes their decision it will be based in part on Crowe's attachment. Hopefully Crowe officially jumps on board as it will help the movie's chances of getting made.

The plan is to tell the nine volume book series in the form of three movies and two limited run TV series. This is one of the most epically ambitious projects ever, and I hope it goes through! The studio just green lit a third Hobbit film, and I don't see why in the hell they wouldn't move forward on this Dark Tower series, this is the kind of franchise that makes history! Not since The Lord of the Rings has a movie project been this big.

In two weeks we'll know what the outcome is, and I truly hope that the studio decides to move forward with this project. It would be a bloody shame if they didn't! Warner Bros. seems like the perfect home for this project. As of right now, the TV part of the series would air on HBO.

What do you think about Crowe taking on the role of Roland in the film? Who else could you see being cast now that Bardem is out of the picture?

In the story, Roland Deschain is the last living member of a knightly order known as gunslingers and the last of the line of “Arthur Eld”, his world’s analogue of King Arthur. The world he lives in is quite different from our own, yet it bears striking similarities to it. Politically organized along the lines of a feudal society, it shares technological and social characteristics with the American Old West but is also magical. While the magical aspects are largely gone from Mid-World, some vestiges of them remain, along with the relics of a highly advanced, but long vanished, society.

Roland’s quest is to find the Dark Tower, a fabled building said to be the nexus of all universes. Roland’s world is said to have “moved on”, and indeed it appears to be coming apart at the seams as mighty nations have been torn apart by war, entire cities and regions vanish without a trace and time does not flow in an orderly fashion. Even the Sun sometimes rises in the north and sets in the east. As the series opens, Roland’s motives, goals and age are unclear, though later installments shed light on these mysteries.

Matthew McConaughey is the latest actor to join the incredible cast of Martin Scorsese's next film The Wolf of Wall Street. It's awesome to see all of the actors that Scorsese is able to pull in for this film! McConaughy joins Leonardo DiCaprio, Jon Bernthal, Jonah Hill, Jon Favreau, Rob Reiner and Kyle Chandler. 

The movie is based on the memoir by Jordan Belfort. DiCaprio plays Belfort, "who experiences a dramatic rise on Wall Street, and gets lost in the drugs and other excess of a hard partying lifestyle that comes hand in hand with all that money. His downfall is precipitous, and he spent 22 months in jail before straightening out his life." McConaughey will play a character named Mark Hanna, the early boss and mentor of Belfort. McConaughey is great in these types of roles, so he's definitely going to be in his element in this movie.

Chandler is playing FBI agent Coleman, "who built the case against Belfort and took him down." Hill will take on the role of Belfort’s close friend and business partner who’s persuaded by Belfort to quit his job in the furniture business to jump into the volatile world of stocks, and Favreau will play a securities lawyer.

There's no doubt in my mind that Scorsese is going to make another movie masterpiece with The Wolf of Wall Street. 

Here's the full description of the book:

By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited for him at home, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king and did his bidding, here, in his own inimitable words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called…

In the 1990s Jordan Belfort, former kingpin of the notorious investment firm Stratton Oakmont, became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of the canyons of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island. Now, in this astounding and hilarious tell-all autobiography, Belfort narrates a story of greed, power, and excess no one could invent.

Reputedly the prototype for the film Boiler Room, Stratton Oakmont turnedmicrocap investing into a wickedly lucrative game as Belfort’s hyped-up, coked-out brokers browbeat clients into stock buys that were guaranteed to earn obscene profits–for the house. But an insatiable appetite for debauchery, questionable tactics, and a fateful partnership with a breakout shoe designer named Steve Madden would land Belfort on both sides of the law and into a harrowing darkness all his own. 

From the stormy relationship Belfort shared with his model-wife as they ran a madcap household that included two young children, a full-time staff of twenty-two, a pair of bodyguards, and hidden cameras everywhere—even as the SEC and FBI zeroed in on them—to the unbridled hedonism of his office life, here is the extraordinary story of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices at sixteen to making hundreds of millions. Until it all came crashing down…

Unfortunately, Sam Raimi is no longer directing the big screen adaptation of World of Warcraft, but Legendary Entertainment is still excited about bringing Blizzard Entertainment's epic video game to the big screen. The studio just hired The Seventh Son and Blood Diamond scribe Charles Leavitt to write a new draft of the script. 

According to Variety, Legendary loved Leavitt's take on the fantasy tale. This is getting the ball rolling again on the project and the studio is going on the hunt for a new director to take over the empty spot left by Raimi. Raimi had to drop out of the project so that he could commit himself to Disney's OZ: The Great and Powerful. Hopefully they can bring on another top notch director to take on the challenge of bringing this world to life.

Blizzard-chief Bobby Kotick had this to say in a statement, " If it's important to Blizzard it's important to me. They're very excited about having a World of Warcraft film. They've been very careful and thoughtful about the development process." He went on to praise Legendary on their approach to the property.

If everything moves forward with this movie smoothly we could see a WOW movie sometime in 2014! Who would you like to see direct the movie? 

Legendary has six big movies coming out in 2013 which includes Jack the Giant Killer, The Hangover Part III, Man of Steel, Pacific Rim, 300: Battle of Artemisia and Seventh Son. Legendary also has an adaptation of BioWare's Mass Effect in development.

Source: Vareity (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118057401.html?cmpid=RSS%7CNews%7CLatestNews)

Marvel studios has hired Chris McCoy to write the script for Guardians of the Galaxy. So who's this McCoy guy? You wouldn't recognize anything he's done because none of his scripts have been developed into a movie. But! Apparently he's a solid writer who has had three of his spec scripts land on the Black List. Those specs include Get Back in 2007, Good Looking in 2009, and Good Kids in 2011. According to THR, "his scripts have been praised for their quirky comedic bent." 

This is the second screenwriter to take a crack at the script. The first one came from Nicole Perlman, who was a part of Marvel's writing program. McCoy must have had a good idea for the story, otherwise he wouldn't have been hired. It will be fun to watch this movie go through the development process. 

The Guardians of the Galaxy comic has gone through several different phases over the years, but it was revealed at comic-con that the movie would include the following characters.... "Drax The Destroyer, a human resurrected as a green warrior with the sole purpose of killing Thanos (the villain in the Avengers final scene tease); Groot, a giant tree-man; Star-Lord, a gun-toting half-human/half-alien inter-galactic vigilante; Rocket Raccoon, a genetically engineered animal with a knack for guns and explosives; and Gamora, the last survivor of her species who was saved by Thanos to be his assassin but now battles him."

Now that you've had some time to let the fact that Marvel is making this movie sink in, how do you feel about it being adapted for the big screen?

Source: THR (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/black-list-guardians-of-the-galaxy-marvel-357868?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thr%2Ffilm+%28The+Hollywood+Reporter+-+Movies%29)

I'm incredibly excited for Andy and Lana Wachowski (the Matrix trilogy) and Tom Tykwer's (Run Lola Run) highly ambitious film project Cloud Atlas. The trailer that was recently released simply blew me away. This is such an epic tale, and it looks like they just might be able to pull it off. 

Warner Bros. has launched the official website for the film, and included in the website are photos from every single character in the film. Now remember, there are six stories in the movie that the characters will appear in that cross through different genres and take place of over the course of a thousand years. The stories are thematically related, and they are linked by the intersections of various characters throughout the film. So all the actors play different characters in different time frames of the story.

In these photos you'll see some crazy variations of actors Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae, Ben Whishaw, James D’Arcy, Xun Zhou, Keith David, David Gyasi, Susan Sarandon and Hugh Grant. It's actually kind of mind blowing going through these pictures and seeing the changes made to these actors. Some of them are almost unrecognizable. 

"Cloud Atlas" explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave dramatically through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future.

I've taken some screen shots from the website, for you to check out below! Check them out and let us know what you think about the look of the actors and characters! 

Here's the trailer:

Here's a breakdown of each story told in the novel:

The novel consists of six nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the nineteenth century to a distant, post-apocalyptic future. Each tale is revealed to be a story that is read (or observed) by the main character in the next. All stories but the last are interrupted at some moment, and after the sixth story concludes at the center of the book, the novel "goes back" in time, "closing" each story as the book progresses in terms of pages but regresses in terms of the historical period in which the action takes place. Eventually, readers end where they started, with Adam Ewing in the Pacific Ocean, circa 1850.

The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing

Pacific Ocean, circa 1850. Adam Ewing, an American notary's account of a voyage home from the remote Chatham Islands, east of New Zealand. The next character discovers this story as a diary on his patron's bookshelf.

Letters from Zedelghem

Zedelgem, Belgium, 1931. Robert Frobisher, a penniless young English musician, finds work as an amanuensis to a composer living in Belgium. This story is saved in the form of letters to his friend (and implied lover) Rufus Sixsmith, which the next character discovers after meeting Sixsmith.

Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery.

Buenas Yerbas, California, 1975. Luisa Rey, a journalist, investigates reports of corruption and murder at a nuclear power plant. The next character is sent this story in the mail, in the form of a manuscript for a novel.

The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish

United Kingdom, early 21st century. Timothy Cavendish, a vanity press publisher, flees the brothers of his gangster client. He gets confined against his will in a nursing home from which he cannot escape. The next character watches a movie dramatisation of this story.

An Orison of Sonmi~451

Nea So Copros (Korea), dystopian near future. Sonmi~451, a genetically-engineered fabricant (clone) server at Papa Song's diner (a proxy for large fast-dining chains), is interviewed before her execution after she rebels against the capitalist totalitarian society that created and exploited her kind. The next character watches Sonmi's story projected holographically in an "orison," a futuristic recording device.

Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After

Hawaii, post-apocalyptic distant future. Zachry, a tribesman living a primitive life after most of humanity dies during "the Fall," is visited by Meronym, a member of the last remnants of technologically-advanced civilization. This story is told when the protagonist is an old man, to seemingly random strangers around a camp-fire.

So it looks like that Red Dawn remake that was made a couple of years ago is actually going to make it to the big screen. I don't know if you've seen then the original 1984 film, but it was laughably bad. It featured a small town being invaded by Soviet Union forces, and a small group of high school kids that escape into the woods and fight them off. It starred Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson, Jennifer Gray and C. Thomas Howell. The new film is basically the same story but it's North Korean's invading this time around, and it also has a strong cast of actors that includes Chris Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Adrianne Palicki, Isabel Lucas, Josh Peck, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Connor Cruise. 

Today we've got our first look at the movie in the form of a promo spot that aired on Entertainment Tonight. I've also included a few images that hit the internet recently. I understand the original is kind of a cult classic, and it's fun to watch, but this remake doesn't look too bad. 

Here's the synopsis:

In Red Dawn, a city in Washington state awakens to the surreal sight of foreign paratroopers dropping from the sky – shockingly, the U.S. has been invaded and their hometown is the initial target. Quickly and without warning, the citizens find themselves prisoners and their town under enemy occupation. Determined to fight back, a group of young patriots seek refuge in the surrounding woods, training and reorganizing themselves into a guerilla group of fighters. Taking inspiration from their high school mascot, they call themselves the Wolverines, banding together to protect one another, liberate their town from its captors, and take back their freedom.

The movie should finally hit theaters on November 21st of this year. Check out the sneak peak video and let us know if you're interested in checking this movie out?