MOvie News (spiderman and Predator reboot included)

[Brandon]

I have been doing research on youtube and the net ingeneral and came up with some intersting reviews and also some otehrs who have doen alot more research on movies....apparently the new spider man new movie will be mostly in 3D as avatar was....and they are going wtih the ultimate spiderman storyline not the classic..from everytrhingi i read and watched.....

here is one review.....it features some information

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/W9I1RhOdeJU&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/W9I1RhOdeJU&rel=1</a>

more information on the predator reboot as well

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/6E3uM2-OS0I&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/6E3uM2-OS0I&rel=1</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/vBypOawrLwg&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/vBypOawrLwg&rel=1</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/18HBP55sPmk&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/18HBP55sPmk&rel=1</a>

[Brandon]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/E5LcHUYQ_3w&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/E5LcHUYQ_3w&rel=1</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/uDhq_AjQsaQ&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/uDhq_AjQsaQ&rel=1</a>

[Christian]

The Spider-Man movie franchise has been met with so many problems from the mid-80's to even now. If the SPider-Man movies now follow a rough Ultimate Spider-Man feel that plays in nicely to Marvel's new movie franchises with Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America and the Avengers. The ultimate books plots are there in those movies already.

As for Preadators.... I heard stories about an Aliens like script wirtten for years at the end of high school but I always thought that was just that with all the eclipsed stories about Aliens vs. Predator which started in the late 90's and was perpetuated by the released of a Aliens vs. Predator card game in 1996 mixing screen shots of Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Predator not to mention some CGI shots for good measure. Anyone remember when the Harrisson Ford rumor of him supposed being in a nAvP movie back in 1999?

However no one ever said it was a script from Robert Rodriguiz! Shit! This film is in good hands! And being written 15-18 years ago... wow! I can only hope that stuff I've sold now will one day get opted 15 years from now?

[Brandon]

yep, and the screen shots look great, i was against a remake of predator but seeing the screeen shots make me almost excited about it, not sure about robert never heard of him til now, but i hope htis news is useful to you all

[Brandon]

here comes yet another reboot people......PLANET OF THE APES

[Brandon]

That's right, the dreaded R-word is back, and this time it's aimed at a certain simian planet. A little over a year ago, there were rumblings that Fox was looking to reboot the Planet of The Apes franchise after the disastrous 2001 film by Tim Burton. But, before you could say 'damn you all to Hell,' the project was seemingly dead in the water. Well, it looks like we may have spoken too soon, because according to an exclusive  in NY Magazine, the flick is alive and well at Fox. According to them, not only if Fox still keen on getting the film into production, they have handed the reigns to Peter Chernin (a former Fox News Corp head, who has made the leap to producer) in hopes of getting the flick into high gear.

Most of us had assumed that the project was headed for the scrap heap when Scott Frank (Minority Report) walked away from the production, but Vulture's sources are claiming that Fox has, "hired writer Jamie Moss (Street Kings) to rework Frank's version, and the original writers, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (The Relic, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle), were recently brought back to polish the dialog." According to Vulture, Frank walked away from the film when his original vision for a prequel on just how those apes got so crafty in the first place, was rejected by the studio. Frank's script centered on the genetic experiments that create a 'super-ape' by the name of Cesar who led his hairy brethren to rise up against their human captors, but now that some new writers are on the scene, I expect we'll see a few changes in Frank's original vision.

[Brandon]

So, just what can we expect from this new tale?

planet_limited_packaging__small_.jpg“Frank’s Apes script, code-named Caesar, showed how genetic experiments on apes led to their evolutionary eclipse of humans. “Caesar” refers to the genetically altered leader of the simian rebellion, so dubbed because the ape was capable of grand strategic thinking on par with Julius Caesar (whose own surname means “hairy” in Latin). The “Caesar” code name also foreshadowed the script’s plot: Just as the actual Julius Caesar set Rome on the path to the Roman Empire, the experimental ape’s escape sets in motion his fellow hirsute hominids’ (wait for it … ) guerrilla war and subsequent dominance.”

While the original film started with a planet populated by Apes out of the gate, it will be interesting to see how this origin film plays out.  However, if anyone can make it happen it’s certainly Chernin.  The producer has been championing a reboot since 1992 when he paid Oliver Stone a million dollars to produce a Return of the Apes film.  In fact, Fox is so confident in Chernin, and the script they have, it is likely a director will be hired immediately.

While Tim Burton’s 2001 remake left us with a somewhat enigmatic ending, Planet of the Apes is certainly a franchise worth investing in.  Sure, a lot of jokes have been made at the film’s expense but there’s a noteworthy story to be told.  Having watched all the films back-to-back, I found myself taken in by the unsung complexity of the story.  I know, that’s something you may not hear often regarding Planet of the Apes, but I personally have no doubt that in the right hands this could be a blockbuster series.