Here’s a project we haven’t heard about for a while — a sequel to mega-bucks sci-fi blockbuster Independence Day. Way back in 2003 director Roland Emmerich and writer Dean Devlin confirmed they were working on s script, but since then we’ve not heard much about the film.
Until now that is, with Latino Review quizzing the helmer whilst he was doing press for his latest movie 2012. Emmerich told them why the sequel has taken so long to get off the ground:
“Dean Devlin and I are still set to make a sequel because we’ve found some sort of idea and we approached [studio 20th Century] Fox and Fox has not quite figured out how to incorporate Dean’s and my deal, and Will’s [Smith] deal. Will wants to do it in some sort of a package they can live with.
“So it’s just been in negotiations now since forever, and naturally Fox says “Why don’t you do it without Will Smith?” I said Will is essential for us, for this movie and actually for the audience too. And, so, it’s in limbo and lately the studios are fighting. Like gross players, and Will is a gross player and is probably the only gross player right now who’s worth his gross. So we’ll see what happens. I would love to do it.”
Emmerich wouldn’t elaborate on the plot, but insisted: “There’s a very really great story, a very cool one.”
According to Pop Crunch (via In Touch Weekly magazine), director Michael Bay wants to kill off female lead Mikaela Banes (played by Megan Fox) in the next installment, which is slated for a summer 2011 release. Bay reportedly wants Fox’s character written “out of the series in a gory death scene in the first few frames of Transformers 3 and (replace) with another gorgeous young actress.”
The magazine’s purported source claims “‘Michael’s pretty much discovered Megan and now he’s very quietly looking for her replacement. … He hasn’t decided if he’s going to kill her off in the next movie, but he just wants to be prepared.’”
According to Digital Spy, however, Fox’s reps have called the report untrue.
Bay and Fox engaged in an infamous war of words this summer during the promotion of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, with the actress even comparing her director to Hitler at one point.
Speaking with MTV News, World of Warcraft director Sam Raimi revealed that Saving Private Ryan and The Patriot screenwriter Robert Rodat will be handling the story for the massively multiplayer movie.
Raimi chats with MTV news about being faithful to the source material and presenting characters and settings that will be familiar to World of Warcraft players, while still delivering an original story. That’s where Robert Rodat comes in.
“I think we would try and find touchstones within the game to make it accurate and true and choose one or some of the lands that are portrayed in the game with as much accuracy and authenticity as possible. But we would have our writer, Robert Rodat, really craft an original story within that world that feels like a ‘World of WarCraft’ adventure. Only obviously it’s very different ’cause it’s expanded and translated into the world of a motion picture.”
He makes sense. Rodat is known for creating compelling characters in the midst of wartime situations, and the World of Warcraft certainly has its fair share of both.
It bears noting that Saving Private Ryan is one of many pop culture references included in world of Warcraft, with a Saving Private Imarion quest located in Hellfire Peninsula, the first zone on the other side of the Dark Portal. We’ve gone full circle or something.
The official trailer for the Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus has been unveiled. This is Heath Ledger’s final motion picture, he was only able to finish part of it as Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, and Jude Law end up filling out his role.
Quentin Tarantino has reportedly confirmed his intentions to make a 3rd Kill Bill film. Except he wants the 2nd and 3rd film to be spaced apart by 10 years.. setting it up perfectly for a 2014 release date with a 44 year old Uma Thurman. IGN.com has more details on possible plotlines:
Tarantino himself has reportedly said that a sequel might revolve around Nikki Bell’s quest to avenge the death of her mom Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox) at the hands of The Bride in Vol. 1. Rumors swirled at the time of the first film’s release that Tarantino had shot additional scenes with Ambrosia Kelley, the actress who played young Nikki, because he wanted to use the character in a future sequel.
Variety has breaking news about the next Transformers sequel as well as some other big upcoming release dates… I just wish Hollywood will finally get over this comic book thing, Spider Man 4??? UGHHHH:
“Transformers” will return that summer, with Paramount dating the third installment of the franchise on July 1, 2011, with Michael Bay once again at the helm. Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox are also set to return.
Bay announced the new date on his website, saying he’s begun meeting with ILM and Hasbro, with scribe Ehren Kruger, to hash out plans for the pic with the toymaker, which serves as a producer.
With a timeframe for when the robots of “Transformers” will stomp into theaters again, the 2011 summer sesh is filling up with high-profile properties.
A fourth “Spider-Man” kicks off in May, followed by “Thor” and “The Hangover 2″ that month. June has the launch of “The Green Lantern” and a “Kung Fu Panda” sequel, while July features the second part of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” “The First Avenger: Captain America,” “Battleship” and “The Smurfs.” Disney also plans to bow “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” some time that summer.
They’re remaking Nightmare on Elm Street and Freddy Krueger will be back in our lives. It’s like 1985 all over again, except this remake might hold some merit. Especially with Jackie Earle Haley donning the Freddy Krueger mask and patented fedora. The film hits theaters next spring:
The blog ScriptShadow.com has released an unauthorized script for a film called The Social Network, which is basically a story about how Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook. Aaron Sorkin (West Wing) is penning the script which is actually said to be pretty good. Justin Timberlake has just signed on to play Napster’s Sean Parker and Jesse Eisenberg is rumored to star as well.
Here’s Gawker’s story on “The Social Network”:
The blog ScriptShadow got hold of the first draft of Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook movie. The verdict? The movie reads oddly mesmerizing, and has an unexpected hero: Sean Parker, an early investor in the social network.
As the co-founder of Napster, Parker was overshadowed by Sean Fanning, who actually wrote the wildly-popular music-sharing software. Sorkin reportedly brings Parker to the fore, giving him credit for lighting a fire under Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and accelerating the company’s growth.
ScriptShadow’s Carson Reeves:
And don’t get me started on Sean Parker – a character that can become
iconic if the film is made. The brash techy rock star revels in his own
ego, and is a key player in why Facebook is on our computers today
(Parker ended up selling his portion of the company for – I believe – a
couple hundred million dollars).
Zuckerberg, meanwhile, looks comparatively pathetic. In what Reeves calls a “heartbreaking scene,” he sits alone (“not one true friend”) in a dark room and “friends” the girl who dumped him right before he started Facebook. The movie nevertheless bops along as something of a comedy, thanks to Sorkin’s “crazy unknown voodoo screenwriting tricks” and, apparently, jokes involving Facebook use.
Pictures have surfaced from the set of the upcoming A-Team movie. The iconic van seems to be pretty much identical to what was featured in the show, something that I think is a good idea although I’m sure there will be some 21st century tech involved.
This movie has quite an interesting cast including MMA fighter Quentin Rampage Jackson as Mr. T’s B.A. Baraccus (sp?). Jessica Biel stars as well as a CIA agent attempting to track down the team.
The release date for the new Spider Man film was announced today opening in both IMAX and regular theaters. It will open 4 years after the last one and will presumably star Tobey Macguire reprising his role as Peter Parker. The 3rd movie was one of the worst comic book movie’s I’ve ever seen, so I’m certainly not sure if a 4th can be that great, but from the marketing it seems like Carnage may be involved in some way as a villain.
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