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[6souls]

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Akiyuki Nosaka's autobiographical novel, Grave of the Fireflies, is set to get another live-action feature film adaptation. It tells a story of survival in the wake of the firebombing of Kobe in 1945. It was already adapted once as a beautiful made Japanese animated film in 1988. The must watch movie was produced by Studio Ghibli, and directed by Isao Takahata. There was also a live-action Japanese version of the story made in 2005, but this new version will be more of a mainstream type of movie.

The story centers on two orphaned children, 14 year-old Seita and his four year-old sister Setsuko, struggling to survive in the wake of the Kobe bombings during WWII. It's an incredibly sad and depressing story, if you've seen the movies or read the book then you know what I mean. At the same time it's a very humanist touching story, one that needs to be told. It also gives outsiders some insight on how those bombings affected Japan. The bombings targeted military targets including arms and munitions plants, which happened to be in the middle of crowded population centers, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead.

Nosaka wrote Grave of the Fireflies as a personal apology to his sister regarding her death and was awarded the Naoki Prize for best popular literature.

The film project is set up as Dresden Pictures, and the plan is to get it into production in 2014. I have no issues at all with this movie getting remade. It's such a powerful story, and the more people that see it the better. Hopefully it ends up being a great film. Roger Ebert considers the animated version of the film to be one of the greatest and most powerful war films ever made, and once you've seen it for yourself, it's hard to disagree.

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Iron Sky director Timo Vuorensola has released a concept promo trailer for another film project Jeremiah Harm, and it looks really freakin' cool! The film is an adaptation of the graphic novel created by Alan Grant and Keith Giffen. Here's a description...

Jeremiah - you can call him Jerry, but he'll probably rip your limbs off if you do - is a nasty guy with a bad attitude and a lever-action rifle to back that up. He's a human, but never really went to Earth. Born and raised in several intergalactic orphanaries with a bunch of aliens from all corners of the galaxy, he begun a career as a bounty hunter early, scoring his first kill before the age of 15. After that, the bodycount has been steadily rising, and by mid-30's, he has basically hunted down every imaginable race in the galaxy - but not his own kind. See, he's the only human around as far as he knows, until he is assigned to Earth, a planet claimed to be lost thousands of years ago. And of course he finds himself from New York, chasing a bunch of alien criminals and a girl they kidnapped from the Most Important Man In the Universe.

The movie is being produced by Tero Kaukomaa (Iron Sky), Arnold Rifkin (A Good Day To Die Hard) and Boom! Studios' Ross Ritchie. Timur Bekmambetov's Bazelev's outfit is also involved with the development of the film.

This is only test footage and none of it will be used in the final product, but it still gives us an awesome look at what Vuorensola is planning visually.

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Since they met at a party, ambitious high-flyer Nat (Rose Byrne) and struggling novelist Josh (Rafe Spall) have been deliriously happy despite their differences. Josh is a thinker, Nat’s a doer, he’s lasses faire and she’s quite anal… but the spark between them is undeniable.

Their wedding is a dream come true, but family, friends and even the minister who marries them aren’t convinced that they can last. Josh’s ex-girlfriend, Chloe (Anna Faris), and Nat’s handsome American client Guy (Simon Baker), could offer attractive alternatives…

With their first anniversary approaching, neither wants to be the first to give up, but will they make it?

February 8, 2013 (UK)

Jack the Giant Slayer tells the story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittinglyopens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack, into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend–and gets the chance to become a legend himself.

March 1, 2013

[6souls]

20 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo has dropped out as the director of Summit Entertainment's Highander remake. Ryan Reynolds is still attached to star in the film, but apparently the studio and the director just couldn't agree on the direction to take the movie. After a year of trying to figure out the story and style they agreed to disagree and parted ways. Justin Lin was also attached to the project at one point but left to direct Fast 6.

Summit will start looking for another director to take his place, someone that shares the same vision as they do. Fresnadillo will also go on the hunt for a new directing gig. He was previously attached to direct the Crow remake before Highlander, but dropped out of it to take it on. Maybe he'll try to jump back on board that project that hasn't made any progress since he left it.

http://geektyrant.com/news/2012/12/2...ighlander.html
http://www.deadline.com/2012/11/juan...lander-remake/

[Delirium]

Fantastic Four gets a release date of March, 6, 2015.

[Delirium]

David S. Goyer To Tackle Live-Action HELLSING

For many American anime fans, after a likely introduction to the genre from series such as Dragon Ball Z, Bleach, Naruto and/or Sailor Moon, you stumble across the darker and more adult titles such as Hellsing. Hirano's 1997 manga series is ultra-violent and definitely not for the faint of heart. Probably best described as a mixture of Hellboy and Blade to unfamiliar genre enthusiasts, writer & director David S. Goyer (Man of Steel, Batman Begins, Godzilla) will be helming the independent adaptation which features a script from Asim Ahmad (rumored to be playing Michael Morbius in The Amazing Spider-Man sequel) who will also be portraying Alucard. Jake Sharp (All My Children) will be portraying Father Anderson, Daniel Bernhardt (Bloodsport 2, The Matrix Reloaded) will be portraying Walter and Swedish singer Ana Johnsson will be portraying Integra Hellsing. Expect some recognizable names from the action genre to cameo.

Filming will begin in early 2013 in London. A soundtrack will also accompany the film featuring music from Valhalla, Amerakin Overdose, Icarus Witch, and Microwaved with more musical acts currently in the process of signing. Ahmad, Sharp and Stefanie Levina are serving as co-producers on the feature.

You can follow on Twitter @Hellsing_Movie to keep track of the production

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Asim Ahmad wrote the feature and will also star as Alucard.
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Jake Sharp will portray Alucard antagonist, Father Anderson.
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Swedish singer Ana Johnsson will portray Van Helsing descendant, Integra Hellsing.
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[Cantih]

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In what would be a major casting coup for NBC, the network is in talks with former House star Hugh Laurie to topline new action-adventure series Crossbones, from Luther creator Neil Cross and feature producers Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald. Unlike House, where Brit Laurie played an American, he would be able to use his normal British accent in Crossbones as he would play the notorious English pirate Blackbeard.

The 10-episode Crossbones is set in 1715 on the Bahamian island of New Providence, the first functioning democracy in the Americas, where the diabolical pirate Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard, reigns over a rogue nation of thieves, outlaws and miscreant sailors. Part shantytown, part marauder’s paradise, this is a place like no other on earth — and a mounting threat to international commerce.

yespls

[Salodin]

I came just reading that synopsis.

[Buffy]

Oh god can I have this now?

[Cichy]

Guillermo del Toro Confirms He Is Working On A Supernatural DC Comics Movie ‘Dark Universe’ With Swamp Thing And Others
Hell yes! A while back we reported that del Toro was involved with some kind of supernatural DC flick, and he confirmed suspicions and listed some characters that would be involved in the production. The project is tentatively titles Dark Universe.

In the interview with <redacted>, del Toro says, “Swamp Thing, for me is a rock star. The Demon, Etrigan, is amazing. And then you go to Constantine, who I thought is an amazing creation — and I want to do the Constantine of the comics. Deadman is really a lot of work, but a lot of fun. [The Spectre is in,] yes…”

Still not much is known about the film. There is currently no script written and the film is not greenlit, so who knows when/if this will take off. Regardless, color me stoked.

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[Cichy]

Guillermo Del Toro Trying Once More For A Tom Cruise Infused ‘At The Mountains Of Madness’
Your daily grain of salt here, please take me before reading this article. Guillermo del Toro, the man of a million projects (wisely) in development, has made overtures about giving his H.P. Lovecraft adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness another shot.

The project died at Universal back in 2011 due to budget issues, and recently del Toro seemed leery of reviving it due to perceived similarities with Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Well, he saw Prometheus and he doesn’t think it’s such a stumbling blaock after all.

Speaking to the Playlist he said, “I’m going to try it one more time. Once more into the dark abyss… We’re gonna do a big presentation of the project again at the start of the year and see if any [studio's] interested… Tom [Cruise] is still attached. I think it would be so fantastic to make it with him. He’s been such a great ally of the project.” As for Prometheus he says, “Not really, I saw it finally and.. yes, there are things in common, but, you know, screw it. Lovecraft was there first!”

The would-be H.P. Lovecraft adaptation “tells the story of geologist William Dyer, a professor from Miskatonic University. He writes to disclose hitherto unknown and closely kept secrets in the hope that he can deter a planned and much publicized scientific expedition to Antarctica. On a previous expedition there, a party of scholars from Miskatonic University, led by Dyer, discovered fantastic and horrific ruins (including strange fossils of unheard-of creatures and carved stones tens of millions of years old) and a dangerous secret of the City of the Old Ones that lay beyond a range of mountains taller than the Himalayas.”

You’ll be able to see GDT’s directing chops back in action when Pacific Rim opens on July 12th.

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[Cichy]

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Hanna’ Writer Boards Trank’s ‘Shadow Of The Colossus’
One of director Josh Trank’s post Chronicle projects (in addition to the upcoming Fantastic Four) is Shadow Of The Colossus, a video game adaptation for Sony. And now Seth Lochhead (Hanna) has been brought onboard to rewrite a previous draft by Justin Marks.

Per THR, “ the Canadian-born scribe who co-wrote the action film Hanna, has been tapped to work on Shadow of the Colossus, Sony’s adaptation of the popular PlayStation 2 video game.”

In the game, “The protagonist is a young man who thinks his lover has died. Desperate to bring her back, he heads into a forbidden land, and summons a demon who can wake the dead. The price for bringing back his girl: slay 16 colossi that dominate this mystical place. These are skyscraper-sized giants that rise from the ground, fly through the air and come from the water. As the young man works through his quest on horseback, he begins to wonder if he is on a noble pursuit to bring back his lover, or perhaps has made a deal with the devil and is being used.”

No word yet on when this starts shooting.

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[Qalbert]

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A bit of surprising but potentially very exciting news: Zombieland, the TV series, is no longer going to air on a regular broadcast network. Instead, Amazon.com has snapped it up and is developing the series in hopes of showing it on their instant video service.

The 30-minute episodes would appear on Amazon as original programming. And as we've recently discovered through a few casting pages, the show will center around the original group of post apocalyptic survivors. We're actually fairly optimistic about Amazon producing this series — perhaps this way the creators will attempt to do fewer episodes per season, instead of laboring under a ridiculous 22-episode purchase from a major network. Plus, before Zombieland was a movie it was a TV series pitch, so hopefully there's tons of material to build on, from the movie's original writers, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick

[Qalbert]

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Life—that dull assemblage of extras smiling blandly through their day jobs as shopgirls and bartenders and would-be rappers, murmuring so as not to disrupt the foreground dialogue—finally sprang to meaningful action last night, as Warner Bros. handed a green light to a movie version of HBO’s Entourage, a decision that could only have taken place within the vacuum of Entourage, meaning that the whole world is now officially an episode of Entourage. “The audience just can’t get enough Vinnie Chase, and we’re gonna give it to them!” an anonymous Warner Bros. executive exclaimed of the No. 1 movie star in this no-longer-make-believe world, whom everyone demands to see more of, always, whether he’s Aquaman or starring in Martin Scorsese’s The Great Gatsby, or simply being himself as an actor who’s incredibly talented and in-demand, but mostly just chills out by giving money to his dumb friends.

[SamanosukeShiva]

WoW movie director signed. Same one who directed Moon and Source Code, both awesome movies.

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[Cail]

edit: nvm

[Jakson]

I don't see anything about Interstellar, Nolan's new project; no imdbpro and every site seems to have the same story:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,4636390.story

Hey, Christopher Nolan fans: You only have to wait another year and a half to see your favorite director's next venture. Co-distributors Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures announced Friday that the "The Dark Knight Rises" director's new film, "Interstellar," will debut on Nov. 7, 2014.
Written by his brother, Jonathan Nolan, "Interstellar" is a time-traveling epic based on scientific theories developed by Caltech physicist Kip Thorne, who will executive produce the movie.
Though plot details are being kept under wraps, the film appears to represent a return to Nolan's mind-bending cerebral pictures, such as 2010's "Inception" or his initial break-out hit, "Memento."
A start date and cast are yet to be announced.
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Paramount will handle domestic distribution of the movie, while Warner Bros., which has partnered with Nolan on the majority of his films, will release "Interstellar" internationally.
Nolan and wife Emma Thomas will produce the picture through their Syncopy Films, which is housed at Warner Bros.
Steven Spielberg, who was initially attached to direct the movie, is no longer involved with the project. However, producer Lynda Obst and her production company will remain on board.

[Qalbert]

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Having failed to convince Hugh Laurie to come play another guy with an attitude and a bum leg on NBC’s Crossbones, the network has landed another, arguably even bigger casting coup. John Malkovich has been confirmed to join the drama from Luther creator Neil Cross, starring as the pirate Blackbeard, who terrorized the 18th-century high seas with a fearsome mix of witheringly arch sarcasm and unusual articulation. TV Line notes that it’s the first regular U.S. series role for Malkovich—except those years he spent playing the original Becky on Roseanne, obviously.

[Delirium]

Rob Thomas and Kristen Bell have started a Kickstarter for a Veronica Mars movie.

[ArchDizzle]

^ fucking do it!

[Datonare]

890k of 2m in like 4 hours lol... movie will most definitely be happening. Finally!

[Qalbert]

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