Upcoming: Geeky movies
A few bits of upcoming movie info that pinged my radar.
- Gore Verbinski to direct Bioshock. I’m pretty average on the American Ring remake – it’s not bad, by any means, just not as good as the original. I am however impressed that he managed to make three ridiculously high grossing movies based on a Disneyland ride (The Haunted Mansion, anyone?), something that I don’t think anyone could have predicted would happen (to be fair, a lot of that credit is due to Johnny Depp). But really, if anyone can make a really good videogame movie, I imagine it would be him. He’s already proved he can work with CG and big budgets, not to mention shooting around water, after all. His films turn out pretty but shallow though, so I hope he finds a good writer.
- Timur Bekmambetov set to produce The Knights Templar. How can you make a movie about the Crusades more interesting? Add the Russian director of Night Watch and Day Watch (which I still haven’t gotten around to seeing), though his upcoming comic adaptation Wanted looks like it may be a big fistful of fail (I’ll still probably see it in some form or another, given it stars Angelina Jolie as an assassin). Also, add a vampire army and the holy grail. If done well, it’ll be beautiful. But most likely, it will be really bizarre, and probably terrible, in a hilarious way. Can’t wait.
- Guillermo del Toro to direct The Hobbit and sequel (a bit late, but I needed a third item for my list…). I’m not as hugely enamoured by Hellboy as everyone and their mother seems to be (quite literally – my mother of all people is a huge fangirl of it). Plus I never got around to seeing Pan’s Labyrinth. But I’m hugely relieved by the news that he’s taking the whole thing very seriously, with Ian McKellan and Andy Serkis returning, the Hobbiton location being reused and all that. Plus committing four years of his time to live in Wellington, that’s one hell of a sacrifice too. Everything seems to be there for it to go well, let’s hope it does.
Oh yeah, and talky bitch from Juno/pedobait from Hard Candy is going to be Jane Eyre. Bah, I don’t care.
And I want to see Speed Racer, for some reason. Somebody stop me!
Via Comingsoon.net and TheOneRing.net