The Hobbit Confirmed to Start Shooting in June
Good news for The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings fans out there, as Ian McKellen, aka Gandalf, has posted on his website saying that shooting will begin in New Zealand in June 2010 for the duration of one year. According to his site, the director of the two part prequel, Guillermo del Toro is [...]
Mr & Mrs Smith Off to the Reboot Factory
What made Doug Liman’s married hitman couple action comedy work was the chemistry of its stars (and the faint waft of scandal behind the scenes played its part too), the pyrotechnics of the gunplay combined nicely with the peppy dialogue and though there’s not much once the surface is scratched it was a diverting couple [...]
The Thing Prequel Has its Cast
Last month we reported on the character breakdowns for Matthijs Van Heijningen’s prequel to John Carpenter’s parasitic alien thriller The Thing, and today Heat Vision have given names to a couple of the leads.
You can see those character breakdowns in full here, but the two roles cast are:
[KATE LLOYD] In her late 20s to early [...]
Matt Damon talks The Bourne Prequel
On the red carpet for the Invictus London premiere this week Empire asked Damon for an update on the next Bourne movie and here’s the quote which lit the speculation touchpaper:
There’ll probably be a prequel of some kind with another actor and another director before we do another one,” he said, “just because I think [...]
The Thing Prequel Details Creep Out
Choosing to make a prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing runs a huge risk of alienating fans of the 1982 horror classic, and while Ridley Scott is arguably allowed to delve into the past of his parasitic monster, the proposed prequel film from the pen of Ronald D. Moore and directed by Matthijs Van Heijningen [...]
Would you Watch a District 9 Prequel?
In a recent interview with The L.A. Times Neill Blomkamp talked all things District 9, including video game adaptations, a potential TV series and the prospect of returning to the hell of District 9 for another film.
While there’s no movement on the video game front, despite Blomkamp being linked to the touted Halo movie and [...]
The Thing Prequel Shoots in March
Like the other big extraterrestrial parasitical horror of the late 70s/early 80s The Thing is currently undoing the prequel treatment and a little Production Weekly bird tweeted this morning to tell us that Universal’s movie will begin shooting in March in Toronto.
John Carpenter’s gruesome and genuinely horrific film not only stands up today as an example [...]
Alien Prequel News
Empire magazine has brought us the story of some minor news on the planned Alien prequel that Ridley Scott will be directing some time in the furture.
Ridley Scott was quoted as saying to Empire that “It’s a brand new box of tricks, We know what the road map is, and the screenplay is now being [...]
