A new trailer for the remake of Robert Wise's THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL has hit the web. Keanu's performance is about is fairly wooden, but maybe that's just because he's playing an alien...
Well, not really. But Jared over at Spill has put up a few pages of a rejected "draft" of THE DARK KNIGHT penned by Michael Bay. (Relax, it's a joke.)
Of Rachael Dawes, fake Michael Bay writes:
"We pan to a beautiful woman: platinum blonde with a huge rack. She is the hottest woman in the world, but she wears glasses because she is also the smartest woman in the world."
Another day, another DARK KNIGHT clip. It gives a nice long glimpse of Ledger doing his Joker and being appropriately menacing. Oh, and be on the lookout for a cameo by Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont at the end.
A teaser trailer for the coming THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL remake has shown up online. It's been stripped from YouTube but you can still catch it here thanks to io9.
There was some distressing talk a whole back that Gort wouldn't be in the movie and the classic phrase "Klaatu barada nikto" wouldn't even be spoken. Fear not, however. There's a small glimpse of Gort in the last moment of the trailer. Let's hope director Scott Derrickson (THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE, HELLRAISER: INFERNO) has changed things for the better.
A small but juicy bit here. The Goon, Eric Powell's comic about a bouncer who becomes an enforcer for the mob, is coming to the big screen via David Fincher (SE7EN, FIGHT CLUB). He has optioned the rights to create a CG flick with Blur Studio and Dark Horse Entertainment.
Mark Millar, the mind behind WANTED, has long expressed his interest in reviving Superman. Now, he swears, something's happening. From his message board:
I've been planning this my entire life. I've got my director and producer set up, and it'll be 2011. This is how far ahead you have to think.
...
That Superman news is interesting, isn't it? In the interests of clarity (because I'm sure this will be picked up somewhere) a very well known American action director heard about my love of Superman, approached my and asked me to team up with he and his producer to make a pitch for this. We've been talking for several weeks now and, if this is going to happen, we'll know by Christmas. He has huge pull at WB so fingers crossed. But this is nothing more than a huge US name pulling me into his fold and making me part of a package.
He also says that we will know if this is happening by this Christmas.
I'd take this with a grain of salt, however. Millar's made some claims that haven't exactly been true before. (Claiming Eminem was desperate to be in WANTED, only to have the rapper's people flat out deny the claim comes to mind.)
