If you haven’t spent a few minutes on the website for Disney/Pixar’s Monsters University, you really need to. It’s basically a college website. I spent 30 mins on it and kept finding new information. If the film is half as imaginative as the site, we are in for a good one. I do like that this will sort of be Pixar’s college film however:
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http://monstersuniversity.com/edu/index.html
Ant-Man crawls into theaters November 6th, 2015. It will be the second of two Marvel movies being released by Disney that year. Considering that Avengers 2 is the big May release in 2015, I’m guessing, we’ll get some introduction to Ant-Man around that time at least in a cameo role. Most of the Marvel characters have shown up in a smaller capacity first before getting their own film, and since Ant-Man doesn’t have as much name recognition, I’d imagine the cameo route to be the case for him as well.
What this leaves me wondering, and I know I’m getting ahead of myself, is if Ant-Man kicks off Phase Three of the Marvel movies, if it is an epilogue to Phase Two, which is purely cosmic, or if it is independent of the Avengers world’s arc completely. I for one would prefer him to cameo in a film first, and then have his own standalone film cognizant of the Avengers stuff, but unrelated, and with no origin story. That’s asking a lot, and I’ll probably like whatever Edgar Wright decides to do considering he’s brilliant, so none of what I just wrote matters. I do hope that it is still light in tone and almost comedic like Wright said he’d like to do.
It will probably be a while before we hear anything about casting, but we can assume the fanboy chants for Nathan Fillion to commence shortly.
So I haven’t made anything really senseless in a while so I wanted to make a road trip film about Food Truck purveyors and the adventure to get the prime location.
Truck U opens on John Martin’s famous Food Truck, “Food N Things.” John is played by an irish accented Alec Baldwin. He is seen as somewhat of a legend in the food truck industry. He’s been slinging all types of foods for years and all the other food trucks and carts look at him as a god. He’s got the best location in all of NYC, right in the middle of Times Square. We see in a few interviews everyone loves him, so obviously he’s about to die. He dies and this sends a ripple through the food truckers, but it also opens the opportunity for one of the other food trucks to take over his location. The way this world works, the only way you can get to work out of a dead truckers location is to compete in a cross country food truck race where you have to not only make the most profit, but also win the race. So that’s the back story.
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I need to see this movie more than anyone will ever know. The second trailer makes me feel even more like it’s the reparation-based film I’ve been waiting for my whole life!
It looks like everyone involved in this film is having the best time ever whilst filming it. Leonardo DiCaprio will probably finally get his Oscar. Maybe.
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Back in 1981 when Disney was in the “dark ages” and creatively bankrupt, they made a live-action comedy/adventure film called Condorman. It was about a cartoonist who inexplicably became a superhero. This is what it looked like:
This film was one of my least favorite movies ever growing up. It was one of the few movies for kids I would rather turn the TV off than watch. Leave it to the powers that be at the Mouse House to reboot this into a big-budget franchise.
I’ve stopped asking “Why?” It serves no purpose. We all know that studios believe that SOME recognition is better than a completely new idea, and if you already have the rights to something, hell, you’re pretty much done. Disney has aggressively been going after the young male demo for the last few years with mixed results. For every Avengers and Wreck-It Ralph, we get John Carter or Mars Needs Moms. I have a feeling whatever they do with Condorman is going to be pure ass.
Either Ruth Wilson or Emily Blunt.
Either way they decide to go on this one I’m into for Avengers 2. Carol Danvers being brought into the Cinematic Marvel Universe is nothing short of brilliant. I, like many others, feel like she’s the woman who Phil Coulson dated, so bringing her in for that reason makes sense. The fact that she is one of the better female characters in the Marvel U and they are going the cosmic route for the next set of films, this makes sense. The fact that they are pretty much only looking at English actresses, because they are better at acting also makes sense.
Emily Blunt I think is the safer choice, but slightly more expensive choice. I think she could play this role well. She was originally set to play Black Widow, but had to drop out of the role due to scheduling conflicts. She can play an american very well (see: Looper), and she’s not so recognizable that you’ll associate her with other films. She can BE Carol Danvers.
Ruth Wilson I think is the better choice. Marvel likes to hire their actors on a shoestring pay scale, but wrap them into multi-film deals, which would likely work better for Wilson than Blunt. She’s already the female lead in The Lone Ranger, another Disney film, which despite being a mess of a production, I’m going to see. She’s purely MAGNETIC in Luther. She plays the best female character on tv, this side of Homeland. She’s unusually gorgeous, and I feel like she would greatly fit the mold of awesomely strong, funny, smart female characters that Whedon writes.
I honestly don’t care which way they go, because I’m so happy Danvers/Ms. Marvel/Captain Marvel is going to brought into the fold. I hope it’s Wilson though.
I wanted to make a stupid family drama so I started with a relatively well-worn road trip father/son premise.
Mother of God
Mother of God stars Freddie Highmore as Sam, the son of a Priest and a Nun respectively played by Ewan McGregor, and Jennifer Garner.
Movie 43 is a comedy anthology film coming out this January. The trailer, gives off the impression that this was done on the shoestringiest of budgets, almost spoof-like, but with the talent attached to this film it has to be 18128182 times better than anything those Epic/Disaster Movie, Vampire’s Suck, Meet The Spartans assholes come up with.
From the trailer I saw: Anna Faris, Chris Pratt, Emma Stone, Kieran Culkin, Terrence Howard, Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Liev Schreiber, Elizabeth Banks, Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Richard Gere, Chloe Grace Moretz, Kate Bosworth, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jack McBrayer, and JB Smoove. I’m probably missing one or two, but christ that’s an impressive grouping of people who seem to have no problem being in a raunchy comedy.
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Len Wiseman has been hired to shepherd the reboot of The Mummy franchise. Apparently the studio wants to take the series in an entirely different and darker direction, so they hired Wiseman. So far, if we are keeping score at home, Len Wiseman created and directed the vastly underwhelming Underworld series, he directed the infinitely dumb Live Free or Die Hard, and he directed the remake bomb of the summer Total Recall. There are two common threads in Len Wiseman movies; Kate Beckinsale (his wife), and life-less set pieces. Maybe life-less is what a Mummy film needs? Probably not.
I am at my wits end with Hollywood. I get that monster movies will continually be revised and released etc, but why are we attaching hacks to projects that could be great. Say what you want about Stephen Sommers’ Mummy films, but at least they were fun. No they weren’t be any stretch the definitive Mummy film, but they were fun adventure films that killed time. Len Wiseman can only make lense-flare filled action scenes with his wife front and center. Nothing he has made gives me confidence this is a good idea. What I can tell you is that Wiseman is the perfect director for a studio that doesn’t want to take risks. He can make your movie on time, on a lower budget, and he wont be a problem to work with! I’m sure he’s a nice guy, but we have to stop giving this guy major franchises. He can’t do it. He can film is wife’s butt awesomely though.
I think every studio should just stop and think WWGDTD (What Would Guillermo Del Toro Do?) when thinking about starting a new sci-fi/horror franchise.