CHARLIE HUNNAM SAYS HE AINT GREY, STAR TREK IN2 HORIBBLE BOSSES AND AMERICAN OLDBOY IS JUST THE COVER
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
Universal Pictures and Focus Features have recently
announced that Charlie Hunnam will no longer play Christian Grey in Fifty
Shades of Grey.
"The filmmakers of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and Charlie
Hunnam have agreed to find another male lead given Hunnam's immersive TV
schedule which is not allowing him time to adequately prepare for the role of
Christian Grey," the studio said in a statement.
It has to be noted that Hunnam wasn’t that interested in the
role initially and reluctantly signed onto the role last month.
Matt Bomer is said to be back in the running for the role,
although casting for Grey is still ongoing.
Dakota Johnson and Jennifer Ehle are still attached to star
in the August 1, 2014 release, which will directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson.
JURASSIC WORLD
A few weeks back we got confirmation that the fourth
Jurrassic Park film would be titled Jurassic World. We also got news that
Steven Spielberg would not be directing the film but would stay on as a
producer with Collin Trevorrow stepping behind the camera for the latest
installment.
Deadline is now reporting that 12-year-old actor Ty Simpkins
has landed one of the lead roles in the hotly anticipated sequel. The site also
says that New Girl star Jake Johnson is reportedly in the mix for a role in the
film, but that remains unconfirmed.
While most would know Ty as Harley in Iron Man 3, Simpkins
has been acting for eight years and has had roles in Speilberg's War of the
Worlds and both Insidious films.
Jurassic World will be shot in 3D and is planned to hit
theaters on Friday, June 12, 2015.
HORRIBLE BOSSES 2
"Star Trek" and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit star
Chris Pine has signed a deal to join Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day
and Jamie Foxx in Horrible Bosses 2.
Pine will play half of a father-son duo who steal the main
characters' idea for a new invention. Christoph Waltz was rumored to be up for
the father role last week, but he reportedly won't be available.
Coming to theaters on November 26, 2014, the New Line sequel
is directed by Sean Anders.
RAIDERS!
Back in 1982, two 11-year-old boys, Chris Strompolos and
Eric Zala, set off to make their own shot-for-shot remake of Steven Spielberg's
Raiders of the Lost Ark, spending a full seven years to complete what is now
known as Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation.
A few years ago, the film managed to receive quite a bit
attention with Spielberg himself praising it.
We now have word via Deadline that the film will be indeed
moving forward.
"Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever
Made," a 2012 book by Alan Eisenstock about the production, is set to
serve as the film's source material. At one point, Ghost World creator Daniel
Clowes was attached to provide the screenplay, but there's no word on whether
or not his script is being used for this iteration of the project.
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA
Nintendo's Eiji Aonuma recently spoke with Kotaku about the
possibility of a Zelda film and how the company would use the opportunity to
embrace audience interaction in movie theaters.
“This is something that me and Mr. Miyamoto talked about,”
Aonuma says. “If we were to make a Zelda title, if we had interest in doing
that, I think really what would be most important to us is to be able to play
with the format of a movie, make it more interactive, like you’re able to take
your 3DS into the theater and that leads you into participating in it somehow.
We wouldn’t want to make it the same as any other movie. We want to somehow
change what a movie is.”
Unfortunately there are currently no plans to develop a
Zelda film any time soon.
OLDBOY
Spike Lee’s Oldboy starring Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen
will be invading our screens on November 27th. The film is a remake
of the Chan-Wook Park’s beloved 2003 film of the same name. With that being
said there are many that have voiced their disapproval of this American remake
of Oldboy,
Writer and co-producer Mark Protosevich, and stars Michael
Imperioli and Pom Klementieff hit the stage at the New York Comic Con to
discuss the film, but the large majority of the conversation boiled down to a
single topic – how and why do you remake such an incredible film?
Protosevich insisted, "When the movie was announced, I
appreciate and certainly I know there are people out there who are skeptical
about our version." In fact, Protosevich recalled his own reaction to
first hearing about the plan to remake Park's film before he was even attached
to the project. "At one point, Justin Lin was going to direct it and I
remember seeing that in the trades and as a fan of the original, my reaction
was, 'Aw, really?' And so I understand that impulse. I get it. But in my
circumstance, I was presented with this opportunity … to work with a couple of
people [and it wasn't] a situation I was gonna turn down."
Those people were Will Smith and Steven Spielberg, but
eventually, both decided not to follow through with it. However, at that point,
Protosevich was already too immersed in the material to pull out. "I'd
written a 30-page treatment and you really start to see the movie in your head.
It really started to resonate with me and it meant a lot to me to see this
through." After locking in Spike Lee as the film's new director,
Protosevich recalled, "I came to New York and Spike and I had breakfast
and then we sat in his office at NYU and we watched the original film
together."
Read the Old Boy Manga and watch the film all you want, it's
not going to convince the diehard fanbase that this remake is necessary just
yet. Protosevich revisited one particularly distressing reaction to the
project. "A friend shared with me a comment from the Internet where the
reaction was, 'Typical Hollywood bullsh*t! They’re exploiting an existing piece
of art just to make money!' And I do take issue with that because I dare you to
show me somebody who would watch that original film and afterwards go, 'We're
gonna clean up on this!'"
Park's feature is as dark and twisted as they come, and Protosevich
proudly proclaimed, "We're just as psychologically screwed up, believe
me." He also noted, "We all came from a place of honor and respect to
the original. I love the original, and I think it's one of the great moviegoing
experiences I ever had, and all of us involved were very much inclined to treat
the material with as much honor and respect as we can."
But of course, respecting the original doesn't mean copying
the original nor should it, so Protosevich pointed out a few differences.
"I think one of the things that is different in our script and one of the
things that I most remember from the film was the period of incarceration. We
actually spend a little more time there and we shot for a week straight on this
set that was just a small little room and Josh going through various makeups
and transformations that correspond to different periods."
He also noted, "There are certain things that we felt
were iconic to the original and we were absolutely going to use them. There
were other things that I think we perhaps felt were culturally alien to what
will be a western audience." Protosevich added, "There are also I
think moments in the original film that are sort of these really unusual,
unique visual moments that I think really, in a lot of ways, belong to that
movie and to try to recreate them, that didn't feel right."
Protosevich dished out one particularly appropriate analogy
that could put this whole thing into prospective. "What Spike and I often
talked about was the idea of cover versions. Like, I love Neil Young's 'Like a
Hurricane,' but Roxy Music does a great cover of it and I'm happy that both
those things exist." On the other hand, he also noted, "If you feel
that way about it, that it shouldn't even exist, there's nothing I can say or
we can do that is going to change that opinion probably, because that's a very
sort of fundamentalist belief. I just hope that perhaps there's a part of
people who are open to the experience."
