It's no secret that UFC champion and burgeoning actress Ronda Rousey loves Pokemon. A couple of months ago, she explained what got her into the game and how she became obsessed with it. But if you didn't know about her love for the franchise, seeing this new SportsCenter commercial would probably be pretty damn weird. It features Rousey training in a gym while wearing a full Pikachu costume as onlookers give her strange looks. Watch for yourselves below:
A couple of months ago, Paramount set director Bruno Aveillan to helm Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters 2, a sequel to their 2013 action/horror/comedy. The original movie made more than expected overseas, so the studio figured that there was enough interest to justify a sequel; now it seems they're having second thoughts, as Deadline reports that development of the movie has come to a stop as Paramount executives rethink the franchise.
Instead of a movie, the studio is "formulating a new plan that likely will make it a cable series through Paramount TV." There's no confirmation of this yet, and Deadline's report says the studio is "still figuring it out," but "the filmmakers were all taken by surprise." Yeah, I'd imagine it'd be pretty damn surprising to be hired to direct a movie and then all of a sudden hear that the movie's not happening and a TV show might take its place. I wonder if Aveillan will stick with the project as it transitions between mediums or if he'll bail and move on to something else.
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters was ravaged by critics upon release (it currently has a 15% on Rotten Tomatoes, if you care about that sort of thing), but it seems like general audiences embraced the campy, sillier aspects of the movie and ended up enjoying it. Most of the commenters here seem to dig it, so I'm interested in what you all think about the sequel possibly being moved over to a TV show. Is that something you'd watch, especially if Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton don't come back to reprise their roles (which I don't expect they'll do)?
Screen Rant has released a new video list called "10 Wrestlers You Didn't Know Appeared In Movies." But, being the movie geeks that you are, I'm sure you already do know about some of these. There's a good chance that maybe you forgot about them, though. It's been a long time since I watched wrestling, but I used to watch it as a kid. One of the only wrestlers I ever recognized in the movies growing up was Hulk Hogan. I totally forgot about his cameo appearance in Gremlins 2: The New Batch, though, which was pointed out in this video.
The world may not agree on just how “real” professional wrestling, or “sports entertainment” may be, but when the masses love or hate one performers above the rest, mainstream fame is usually within reach. Not every pro wrestler who has pursued a Hollywood acting career has found success, but that might not be as bad as it sounds. Some of the greatest legends of wrestling found their way into Hollywood films… and still, nobody noticed. Here are Screen Rant’s 10 Wrestlers You Didn’t Know Appeared in Movies.
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Earlier this week a rumor broke that Mark Ruffalo would reprise his role as Bruce Banner/Hulk in Marvel's Thor: Ragnarok. That rumor has been confirmed to be true by several trades including Deadline. If that rumor is true, then there's a good chance that everything else we heard about the film, such as the addition of Valkyrie and The Enchantress, could be true as well.
Thor: Ragnarok will be directed by Taika Waititi, whose credits include the indie films Eagle Vs Shark and the hilarious vampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows. He will direct from a script written by Christopher Yost and Craig Kyle.
The addition of Hulk in this upcoming Thor film is sure to guarantee its success at the box office. Hulk is one of the most popular characters in the MCU, and we've only seen him show up in The Avengers and The Avengers: Age of Ultron. I'm happy that we're going to get to see him out of that element and that he will get to embark on a crazy cosmic adventure with Thor! Maybe we'll even get to see them fight again!
Marvel Studios has set a November 3rd, 2017, release date for the movie.
You may think that you know everything about George Lucas' Star Wars: A New Hope, but maybe you don't. With Star Wars: The Force Awakens coming out later this year, Mr. Sunday Movies has released a new video called "50 Weird & Unknown Star Wars: A New Hope Facts." Now there are a lot of things mentioned here that I was already familiar with, but there was a handful of information that I didn't know before. If you're a fan of the original Star Wars films, and you enjoy learning new things about them like I do, then it's worth eight minutes of your time to check this out.
The more I see of Jon Chu’s Jem and the Holograms, the worse it looks. I never watched the original series, but it looks like fans of that cartoon aren’t really excited for the movie either. I’ve got two young daughters who are crazy excited to see it, though, so that’s this film's audience. This is one of those movies that I don’t want to see, but I’m in a situation where I just can't say no to my girls.
For those of you who are looking forward to the movie, we have five clips to share with you along with a music video.
As a small-town girl catapults from underground video sensation to global superstar, she and her three sisters begin a one-in-a-million journey of discovering that some talents are too special to keep hidden. In Universal Pictures’ JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS, four aspiring musicians will take the world by storm when they see that the key to creating your own destiny lies in finding your own voice.
The musical adventure stars Aubrey Peeples, Stefanie Scott, Aurora Perrineau, Hayley Kiyoko, Ryan Guzman, Molly Ringwald, and Juliette Lewis. It's set to be released on October 23rd.
Are you looking to geek up your bathroom with some Star Wars goodness? Well, there are two Star Wars themed showerheads for you! One is for R2-D2, the other is Darth Vader, and each has three different spray settings. The Vader version is also handheld. So now you can clean your body with the tears of villainous Sith Lord. If you want to buy either of these, click here.
A rumor hit recently that the new and possibly final trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be released on Monday, October 19th. Well, that news has been confirmed by Germain Lussier of io9, and they also offer some additional details on the timeframe.
Multiple inside sources have told them that on Sunday morning an official new poster for the film will be released. That poster will reportedly feature the official logo for the movie, which we have yet to see. If you look at the Star Wars movie posters of the past, you'll notice that each one in the original trilogy have a different logo.
The trailer will be unleashed on Monday night. According to the report, it will happen around 5pm PST and 8pm EST.
Tickets will go on sale shortly after around 5:30pm PST and 8:30pm EST. Those tickets should be available at most, if not all, ticketing sites and theaters.
I can't wait to see what the upcoming trailer has to offer. There's no doubt it's going to be loaded with new footage, but what exactly will that footage entail!? Will it offer more details on the story? Or will it just be a bunch of cool looking random clips that continue to keep us in the dark of what this next chapter is really about? it looks like we'll find out Monday!
Cinema Sins has released a new "Everything Wrong" video, and this one points out 166 issues that they found in Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron. The Avengers sequel wasn't received by fans as well as I thought it would be. A lot of them were disappointed with the outcome, but I thought Joss Whedon did a hell of a job. Of course, no movie is without its faults, and it looks like Age of Ultron had plenty of them.
I’ve got an international trailer here for a cool, adrenaline-fueled new action thriller called Collide, a.k.a. Autobahn. The movie was supposed to be released this month, but it ended up being pulled after Relativity Media fell apart financially.
The movie was helmed by Welcome to the Punch director Eran Creevy, and I liked what I saw in the trailer. There are some pretty crazy looking car chase sequences, and the cast is pretty damn impressive. It includes Nicholas Hoult, Felicity Jones, Ben Kingsley and Anthony Hopkins.
After a heist goes terribly wrong, Casey Stein (Hoult) finds himself on the run from a ruthless gang headed by mob boss Hagen (Hopkins). Now Casey has precious cargo that belongs to Hagen, who will stop at nothing to retrieve it. Left with no choice, Casey calls his former employer and drug smuggler Geran (Kingsley) to protect his long-time girlfriend Juliette (Jones) before Hagen gets his hands on her. Casey sets out on an adrenaline-fueled car chase on the German highways to save the love of his life.
I’m sure the movie will eventually get a release date here in the U.S., so stay tuned for that. Watch the trailer, and let us know if this is a movie you’d be interested in checking out.
Neill Blomkamp is deep in the process of developing his Alien 5 film, which is set to be released after Ridley Scott's Alien: Paradise Lost. Blomkamp hasn't been shy about sharing some of the stuff he's been working on for the film. Before anything was even confirmed, he was releasing cool concept art that got fans crazy excited to see his vision brought to life. He's now released a photo showing off a new upgraded Pulse Rifle that will be used in the movie.
As you know, the Pulse Rifle was introduced in James Cameron's badass sequel, Aliens. It was the main weapon used by the Colonial Marines to fight off the Xenomorph scum. It's good to know that after all these years, the military's weapons haven't really changed that much. The photo came along with the following caption:
"We all knew there would be pulse rifles. Obviously. Now with added RIS"
Sigourney Weaver and Michael Biehn are expected to reprise their roles as Ellen Ripley and Corporal Hicks. There aren't many details about the story, but the movie is said to give Ripley a proper ending.
We all knew there would be pulse rifles. Obviously. Now with added RIS
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Back in 2008, David Goyer was working on developing a film for Warner Bros. and DC called Green Arrow: Escape From Supermax. This movie seemed to have a lot of awesome potential, but it ultimately never happened, and at this point it doesn't look like it ever will.
The movie would have revolved around a bunch of villains from the DC universe, and that's what ultimately sealed its fate. WB executives didn't think it made sense to make a movie that focused on a bunch of villains like The Joker, Lex Luthor, and The Riddler. Now look at what they are doing! They're making Suicide Squad, and fans are really freakin' excited about it.
During an interview with Den Of Geek, Goyer explained why the studio didn't move forward with the film:
"I think if that script had come over the transom a couple of years later… it was completely ahead of its time. Everything I see about Suicide Squad looks fantastic and it’s a different story. But [ours] was absolutely ahead of its time. You know, Marvel was considering doing the Sinister Six and at the time, God, I think this was eight or nine years ago that we wrote a couple of drafts, but it certainly was like this oddball project at Warner Bros at the time, they were like - even though the script was good - 'why would we make a movie about a bunch of villains? That makes no sense.'"
It obviously makes sense to them now. This just goes to show the lack of vision and imagination of some of these studio executives. Goyer went on to say that the WB executives didn't see the point in focusing on lesser-known characters, they just wanted to "make Batman and Superman movies." Years ago, Goyer talked about the story for the film:
"He's Green Arrow for the first 10 minutes of the movie, and then he's arrested and his secret identity is revealed. They shave his goatee and they take his costume and send him to prison for life, and he has to escape. It's like ‘Alcatraz,' and he has to team up with, in some cases, some of the very same villains he is responsible for incarcerating in order to get out and clear his name. Of course, tons of people try to kill him while he's in there. We've populated the prison with all sorts of B and C villains from the DC Universe. For the fans, there will be all sorts of characters the hardcore comic book junkies will know, but they're all going to be there under their human names and no one is wearing a costume, but there will be a lot of characters with powers and things like that."
I'd still love to see this movie happen, but it just doesn't seem like it would fit into everything else that WB is doing with these DC properties right now.
In Steven Spielberg's new movie Bridge of Spies (read my review here), Tom Hanks plays a Brooklyn lawyer tasked with defending a Soviet spy (Mark Rylance) caught operating on American soil. It's the height of the Cold War, and Hanks' character convinces a judge to let the spy live in case the government loses one of our own soldiers behind enemy lines; that way, they can negotiate a trade. It ends up being a prescient suggestion, as CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers gets shot down in enemy territory while taking photos in a U2 spy plane.
Up-and-coming actor Austin Stowell plays Powers in the film, and this week I spoke with him on the phone about what really happened to his character, Hollywood dramatizations, what it was like shooting an action scene for Steven freaking Spielberg, and more. This interview contains some spoilers for the film.
When you were preparing for this film, did you do research on the real Powers, or were you only interested in this script’s version of him?
Austin Stowell: I did a lot of research on the real Powers. First off, I read his book called Operation Overflight, and I got in touch with his son, Francis Gary Powers Jr., and he was kind enough to give me hours and hours of interviews that he had in his possession from when his father was writing the book. And it was basically what the author had to sift through in order to write it. It allowed me, A) to hear his voice, which, as an actor, is a present wrapped with a bow. But also to get to know him in the way he speaks about the situation and about his imprisonment and about the crash and about how he was treated when he came home — it gives you a firsthand account of how he felt about the entire ordeal. It was invaluable. It was absolutely incredible to get those tapes.
I was shooting Public Morals, Steven [Spielberg]'s show at the same time and I was walking around the streets of New York, usually with my dog, and listening to Powers, and really creating the character as I was out there walking around.
For me, one of the most interesting moments in the film is when Powers tries to convince Tom Hanks’ character [James Donovan] that he didn’t crack and give away any information when he was captured, and Hanks says, “It doesn’t matter what people think. YOU know what you did.” What do you think you would have said to Powers in that situation?
AS: I think I would have agreed with Donovan. I probably would have made sure that Powers was all right, first and foremost — physically OK, you know? "You good?" [Laughs] I probably would have played stewardess to him for a second. Got him some peanuts, some salted pretzels, probably a strong drink or two. And that is actually what they did. He and Donovan both drank on the way home.
Nice. So much of this movie is about perception — especially public perception. I read that people weren’t thrilled with Powers when he got back to the U.S. They were disappointed he didn’t hit the plane’s self destruct button or kill himself —
AS: He did hit the self destruct button. A lot of what happens in the film is dramatized in order to...you've got two hours to tell a story and the story is about Donovan. Actually, it was one of the areas that Steven and I had most of our conversations about. I was very concerned that we were not going to paint Powers as a patriot in that he disobeyed orders. He absolutely did not disobey orders. There was no protocol. There was not any kind of regulation that told these men to kill themselves. There were no bylaws that said he had to carry the silver dollar [the film shows a poison-filled coin given to all the soldiers before their flights, with the instructions to kill themselves if their plane goes down so the enemy can't torture them for information]. "If you are captured, spend the dollar" is a wonderful line for Hollywood, but it's just not true for what was told to these gentlemen, to these pilots that were doing the overflights.
Interesting.
AS: That being said, what made it so difficult for people to receive Powers as the hero that he was and the patriot that he was when he came home, was that Soviet propaganda had been saying that Powers was having a wonderful time, that he was learning Russian and thinking about staying in Russia, that he thought Communism actually wasn't such a bad idea after all — which was all total malarky. Powers was a terrible linguist. He never picked up a lick of Russian, he had no inkling to stay in Russia. He wanted to get home so badly. He wrote letters, he was doing everything that he could in order to get out of the Soviet Union. This was a guy who bled red, white, and blue. He believed in his country, believed in the life that it had afforded him and his family, and he felt that it was his duty to get back. This was the last guy on the planet who would ever sell out his country and give away information. It was almost an honor to him to serve that sentence.
A lot of this movie centers on guys sitting around talking in back rooms, and the sort of wheeling and dealing that comes with political negotiations. But you were in the movie’s one big action sequence, when the plane gets shot down. What was it like shooting an action scene for the man who’s directed some of the best action scenes in the history of film?
AS: [Laughs] It was a lot of fun, to be honest with you. I got to literally be Steven Spielberg's puppet for three days. I say that because I truly was hanging from the ceiling by string. We were in Tempelhof Airport and they had set up a three way green screen area and built a hydraulic arm with a cockpit at the head of the arm, which could bring me up, down, put me sideways, backwards, it could vibrate, it could twist. And then we had huge 70 mile per hour fans pointing down from the ceiling, and so basically we were shooting everything inverted because of gravity — we had to do it all upside down. So the way it looks when we were doing it looks like I was hanging from the ceiling, but of course when you flip that upside down, it looks like I'm being dragged towards the Earth. In a combination of all of those extremely talented graphic artists and Steven's vision, we were able to put together a really intense sequence. That was...I've never been in a plane crash, and I have no desire to be in one, especially after seeing that. That only reaffirms my feelings about ever being involved in a fall from that far. That's scary stuff.
You've worked with some pretty legendary people before, but Spielberg and Tom Hanks are on a whole different level. Did you get a chance to geek out with them at all on the set?
AS: I guess I come from the school of "mouth shut, eyes open." Eyes and ears open. Of course I was able to conversate and enjoy their company, but I focused on my job as well: that I was playing a real man who made a real sacrifice and went through an extremely painful and agonizing three years, and felt it was my duty, more or less, to pay homage to Powers and keep my mind focused on that. All the while wanting nothing more to ask questions about The Money Pit and Splash and Bosom Buddies, and pick Spielberg's ear about E.T. and Jaws and Indiana Jones and Catch Me If You Can, which is one of my all-time favorite films. Jaws is my number one, but I love Catch Me If You Can. I just think it's phenomenal storytelling and he did an amazing job with cinematography on that film.
One more question for you: what was the vibe like on Spielberg's set? The way you're describing it now — and I don't know if this is just your outlook on your specific job — but it makes it seem sort of somber, like you guys are dealing with some serious stuff. Did the set have that kind of feeling, or was it a little more lighthearted?
AS: It's a very comfortable place to be, I'll say that much. But it's not fun and games. We're certainly not there for our own pleasure, so to speak. We were outside on Glienicke Bridge and it's freezing cold, the wind is whipping around, all the actors are in dress shoes. Of course you can't have scarves or anything like that for continuity, and you're sitting there in an outfit that is not at all useful for the weather, and I just get my mind focused on the struggle that Powers went through. At the end of the day, I knew I was going to go back to my hotel and have a nice hot shower and have a good hot meal, and I had nothing to complain about. But I'm also not trying to say that I wasn't looking forward to going to work every day. It's still a place of work. I think at the end of the day, that's what people have to remember: that this is still a job and it takes a lot of work and a lot of time and a lot of energy. You can have a good time doing it — I had a blast. I would gladly do it all over again, flying back and forth to Berlin and shooting Steven's show at the same time, I would do it all over. I would pay them double, do it all naked, and do it with a smile on my face. [Laughs] But it's not fun and games.
Bridge of Spies is in theaters now.
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Daredevil's Rosario Dawson is the latest actress to join the cast of Warner Bros.' The LEGO Batman Movie. According to THR, she will take on the role of the crime-fighting heroine Batgirl. Her true identity is Barbara Gordon, the daughter of police commissioner Jim Gordon.
She will join Will Arnett, who is reprising his role of Batman as introduced in The LEGO Movie. Michael Cera is voicing the Caped Crusader's sidekick, Robin, and Zach Galifianakis is playing the Joker.
The movie is being directed by The LEGO Movie animation supervisor Chris McKay from a script written by Seth Grahame-Smith (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Dark Shadows). The directors of the original film, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, are producing the film.
The movie is said to pay tribute to the various incarnations of the Caped Crusader that we've seen over the years. The LEGO Batman Movie will hit theaters on May 26th, 2017.
Like many of you, Ferris Bueller's Day Off is one of my favorite movies. I loved it so much that when I was in high school, I had a customized license plate that said "DAY OFF." (Tyler and I recently recorded an episode of The 5Cast in which we listed our favorite Ferris Bueller moments, and if you're wondering how obscure my knowledge of this film might be, check out my number one moment.) So when I heard Jason Reitman's Film Independent at LACMA Live Read series was planning on doing a reading of the script this month, I had to be there.
Take a look at the cast list:
Fred Savage as Ferris, originated by Matthew Broderick
Martin Starr as Cameron, originated by Alan Ruck
Clark Gregg as Rooney, originated by Jeffrey Jones
Michaela Watkins as Grace, originated by Edie McClurg
Catherine Reitman as Sloane, originated by Mia Sara
Mae Whitman as Jeanie, originated by Jennifer Gray
Richard Speight, Jr. as the Econ teacher, originated by Ben Stein
I've been on hand for a few of these Live Reads before (The Princess Bride, Reservoir Dogs, The Big Lebowski), and this was the 30th one Film Independent at LACMA has hosted. As usual, Reitman read the stage directions as stills of the locations are projected on a big screen behind him, giving the audience a sense of place and allowing us to better imagine the setting our characters are going through at any given moment. Reitman chose John Hughes' original draft of the screenplay for last night's Live Read, and while that draft isn't seismically different from the final movie everyone knows and loves, it still has enough alterations, tweaks, and added scenes that it kept everyone on their toes and made things interesting. I think the best way to do this is to talk about some of those scenes first, and then dive into the rest of it.
The original script is more concerned with death and mortality than the lighthearted final movie. On a boat ride in Chicago, Cameron asks Ferris and Sloane if they're worried about a nuclear war, and there are a few lines sprinkled throughout the script — even from Ferris — that slow the story down as he provides commentary on hippie culture, the war on Vietnam, and bashes the concept of nostalgia. Ferris talks about his mom being a former hippie who lost her touch: "when she listens to the White album, she doesn't hear music anymore," he says, "only memories. Nostalgia is her favorite drug. It'll probably be mine, too...I hope not." They also go to a strip club (!), where Cameron is mesmerized, Sloane just wants to leave, and Ferris is excited not by the strippers, but just at the fact that they were able to get into the place at all. That scene ends with everyone fading away as Ferris does a bizarre Elvis impression and sings a song. (I'm definitely glad it was cut.)
There are some jovial additions as well. In one of the scenes in which it cuts back to Ferris in his house as he's getting ready for his day off, he's watching The Road Warrior and pretending he's driving Lord Humungus' car. He also searches his house for cash to finance his adventures while Pink Floyd's "Money" plays in the background. When Cameron looks down from the Sears Tower and says, "I think I see my dad," it originally cut to his dad (Morris, who remains unseen in the final movie) standing on the street down below the building saying, "I think I see my car," just as the parking lot attendants whiz by in the Ferrari.
Other minor additions aside, let's get into how it all went down last night. Savage was excellent as Ferris, bringing the same effortless, boyish charm that Broderick oozed in the film. He really got into it, adopting a pitiful voice when he was trying to convince his parents he was sick, donning a Cubs hat during the baseball game sequence, and performing a showstopping lip sync of "Twist and Shout" during the parade scene. He got out of his chair, danced across the stage, came down into the crowd and danced with an audience member, stood on someone's chair in the second row, and led the audience in a sing-a-long during the big, rousing "Ahhh" moments of the song. (Here, for those who don't know it well.)
Catherine Reitman (Jason's sister) was a solid Sloane, and Martin Starr was the best Cameron you could have asked for outside of Alan Ruck himself. Cameron's a great character, and part of the reason for that is his transformation from a sad sack in the beginning to eventually coming to the realization that he needs to stand up for himself. Starr brought a real sense of melancholy to the character that's essential for the role, but his deadpan delivery also added tremendously to the comedic aspects of Hughes' screenplay. Clark Gregg was a very good Rooney, radiating smugness and cowardice at all the right moments. And while Edie McClurg is one in a million, Michaela Watkins held her own as Rooney's hilarious secretary Grace, imbuing her with a zaniness that wasn't an imitation but still captured the essence of the character.
But the night's MVP was Mae Whitman, who absolutely slayed as the stuck-up Jeanie. Her delivery was impeccable and her comedic timing was spot-on. When it came time for her character to go to the police station near the end, Reitman brought out a special guest to fill Charlie Sheen's role of the burned-out teenager: James Van Der Beek. He and Whitman played off each other perfectly, and Whitman also rocked it as Simone, the student in Ferris' class who gives the "I guess it's pretty serious" speech.
The whole purpose of these Live Reads is to shine new light on classic screenplays, and I'm glad Reitman chose the original draft because it provided some insight into what Hughes was thinking about when he sat down to tell this story. It allowed there to be some surprises for the die-hard fans who can recite the movie line by line, and since we all know exactly what's in the final movie, it also taught us a few lessons about editing as well: when to tighten things up or let scenes breathe a little more. But most of all, it showed just how well-formulated this idea was from the start, and it was great to see a talented group of actors recreate an early version of the adventures of one of cinema's most iconic mischief makers.
If you're in the Los Angeles area, you should really look into becoming a member of Film Independent. They always put on great events, and they have a ton of cool Q&As with filmmakers and creative people in the industry. Find out more about them here.
Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak is in theaters now. I absolutely loved it, and it's easily one of the most beautiful gothic horror thrillers that has been made. If you're a fan of the filmmaker's previous films like Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone, then you're going to love Crimson Peak.
The director recently opened up a Twitter account and has been filling his feed with all kinds of art, comments, and recommendations. In one of his more recent tweets, he said that he would kill to adapt Stephen King's Pet Sematary for the big screen.
Book of the Day: PET SEMATARY by Stephen King. Unrelentingly dark and emotional. Compulsive reading. Would kill to make it on film.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) October 16, 2015There was already an adaptation of this horror novel back in 1989, which scared the living shit out of me! I wouldn't mind seeing del Toro take a crack at it, though. There's been talk of a Pet Semetary remake for years. During its development, both Alexander Aja and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo were attached to direct it. I'd rather see del Toro direct it than either of those guys, and I think the studio should give him a call if they still plan on remaking it. Hell, Ron Perlman could play Jud Crandal!
Garon Cockrell (of PopCultureBeast and Never Not Funny fame) returns to The 5Cast to discuss his Top 5 favorite Nightmare on Elm Street movies. The 5Cast's your boyfriend now, Nancy!
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A movie adaptation of the horror comic Hack/Slash has been in the works for more than five years now, but after a few fits and starts, it never quite made its way to the finish line. Now THR reports that the comic is going to be adapted into a TV series instead, with the aim to make "a dark and gritty show in The Walking Dead mold."
Tim Seeley's comic centers on Cassie Hack, the epitome of a horror movie "final girl" who survived a deadly attack. But rather than trying to get back to a normal life, Cassie becomes a killer of killers, hunting down "slashers" similar to Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees alongside her hulking, enigmatic partner, a knife-wielding guy named Vlad. Over the years, the characters have crossed paths with Child's Play's Chucky, the Reanimator, and Evil Dead's Ash.
Relativity Media recently declared bankruptcy, but apparently the company — or certain divisions of it, anyway — are being sold off to hedge funds, including Relativity TV, where this project landed. Skip Woods, the writer of awful movies like Hitman, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and the putrid A Good Day to Die Hard, will write the script and executive produce. It sounds like a cool concept, but with Woods involved, I have absolutely no faith in this show.
Fans of the comic: are you glad this property is coming to TV instead of being adapted into a movie? If you had your choice, who would you cast as Cassie and Vlad?
