Something new here; every Friday I will review the major news in the entertainment biz and gather what I think is worthy of your attention, along with maybe some cynical comments because I’m not a journalist, just some consumer of entertainment.
Like you.
Item 1: Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams will team up to produce Mission Impossible 4.
Pretty good news as far as I’m concerned. I thought MI:3 was the weakest of the bunch but it was still very entertaining and grossed 340+ million dollars at the box office so why not another one? Note that the duo will produce the flick and nothing has yet been said about Cruise reprising his role of Ethan Hunt or of Abrams directing.
I say make Ethan Hunt the leader for a team of new and younger agents that include Zach Quinto as Ethan’s son and make the film closer to the original TV series.
Item 2: Transformers 2 : Revenge of The Fallen premieres in Japan and London to mixed reviews. They say the film is about thirty minutes too long and is made up of more of what we saw in the first one. And this is bad in what way exactly? More robots beating the bolts out of each other can’t be a bad thing in my book. Then again, in my book there was no way The Phantom Menace could be bad…
Also, Director Michael Bay said he would not direct a third instalment.
Item 3: Red Dawn is being remade and Tony Gilroy is writing it. Gilroy wrote, among others, Michael Clayton and all three Bourne films. The first Red Dawn told the tale of a small band of teenagers who adopt the name “Wolverines” and take it upon themselves to liberate the United States from the invading Soviet and Cuban Armies. It starred Patrick Swayze, Lea Thompson and Charlie Sheen.
The new invaders are apparently Russia and China but this is subject to change.
Item 4: During a promo interview for Transformers 2, Shia LeBoeuf mentioned that a sript for Indiana Jones 5 was being worked on by Steven Spielberg, or at least that the project was in the works. Apparently people are making too much of this news since Spielberg, having at least Tintin and the Secret of the Unicorn and Lincoln in the works, may have only mentioned that Indy 5 was a possibility.
No matter what the details of this news piece are, you can bet that whatever awesomeness could be in Spielberg’s script, it will be washed out when Lucas gets a hold of it and ask his kids what they think Indy should be doing now, besides sitting on the couch smoking a pipe and doing crossword puzzles like their daddy...
Item 5: The Stretch Armstrong movie, being produced by Brian Grazer, could be directed by Ron Howard. The Apollo 13 and Willow helmsman has apparently signed on for this “project”, which is on a list of toy products being made into movies and that so far include Monopoly and Candy land.
You read this right. A monopoly movie; directed by Ridley Scott. I shit you not.
That’s it for this week. There’s lots more depressing things to read on the nets, Like Megan Fox’s thumbs and her anxiety over finding a new boyfriend and many, many more remakes and reboots coming our way from Hollywood in a near future.
Happy father’s day!
Sources: IMDB, Dark Horizons and Rotten Tomatoes
Friday, June 19, 2009
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