IGN have debuted a heap of new posters from Disney to promote Jonathan Mostow’s new sci-fi action thriller Surrogates.
Surrogates, based on the Top Shelf Comix graphic novel by Robert Venditti, tells the story of a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and only interact in the real world using robot versions of their ideal or perfect selves known as ‘Surrogates’. It follows FBI agents Greer (Bruce Willis) and Peters (Radha Mitchell) who are forced to interact with the real world in person as they investigate a string of surrogate murders.
These ads are meant to be sex and creepy to illustrate the duality of the surrogates and, given that, these ads certainly work – especially the creepy part.
It’s been almost a year since it was first reported that Marvel had struck a deal with Japanese anime giant Madhouse to adapt four of its comic series into anime for the Japanese market.
The four series are Wolverine, Iron Man, X-Men, and Blade.
On July 24 at the San Diego Comic-Con Madhouse co-founder Masao Maruyama gave fans a first look at what is being produced.
Teaser trailers to their adaptations of Wolverine and Iron Man were shown.
Reactions were mixed but as a general assessment most hated the anime version of Wolverine and most liked what they saw of Iron Man. It is perhaps fortunate that the adaptations aren’t being made for the western market.
Both teasers are now available online. You can watch them below:
At the San Diego Comic-Con on Friday July 24 Warner Bros. hosted a 2 1/2 hour panel that included a segment for Richard Kelly’s upcoming sci-fi film The Box.
The Box tells the story of Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) and their young child who receive a simple wooden box (with a button) as a gift from a mysterious stranger (Frank Langella). The stranger tells them that the box will magically bestow them $1 million dollars if they press the button, but that the consequences of doing so will be the death of another person elsewhere whom they don’t know. The movie follows the consequences as they face and act upon their moral dilemma.
The Comic-Con segment raised a fair bit of attention for the film which, as a result of exclusive footage being shown, appears to be way more of a sci-fi film than was previously thought. The footage delivered quite a few spoilers and some of them were really quite major. I’m not going to talk about them here because, to my mind, they are a little too fundamental to the story to risk ruining it for you.
The Q&A session didn’t give away major spoilers so you’re safe to watch those:
Anthony Daniels to host the 'Star Wars' Concert Tour
US Star Wars fans wishing to attend Star Wars: In Concert will be pleased to hear that Anthony Daniels (aka C3PO) will definitely be participating as the narrator who introduces each musical segment.
The Star Wars: In Concert show is a full multi-media spectacular with live orchestral music from all six Star Wars films set to newly edited film sequences projected onto one of the largest LED screens ever taken on tour.
“People know this music, but they’ll have the wonderful opportunity to see how it’s made,” Daniels said.
Sharlto Copley as Wikus van de Merwe in 'District 9'
District 9 follows events post the arrival of a million ‘Prawns’, aliens that find themselves marooned in a spacecraft above the skies of Johannesburg, South Africa.
The story takes place 28 years after their arrival at a time when humans and aliens have been forcd to coexist in a violent, poverty stricken town-like camp referred to as District 9. Sharlto Copley plays a corporate bureacrat who heads into the camp to forcibly relocate the aliens but things go wrong and Copley’s character is forced to forge an uneasy alliance them.
The film was premiered at the San Diego Comic-Con and has since received recognition as one of the top sci-fi films to emerge in a long time and a leading candidate for sci-fi film of the year (yes, even with James Cameron’s Avatar on the horizon).
Following are two insightful video’s showing highlights from interviews with District 9 director Neill Blomkamp and star Sharlto Copley that took place at a recent LA Press Conference.
Five new images have arrived for Gerard Butler’s Gamer. Click to enlarge:
In Gamer Gerard Butler plays Kable, a death row inmate who has become the champion of an online game called ‘Slayers’. The story takes place in a future where mind-control technology has become the norm and the game ‘Slayers’ provides humans the ability to control other humans on a mass scale. To those that run the game Kable is nothing more than a human bot – a simulation. But to those who resist oppression, he is the key to overthrowing a high-tech system of slavery.
Errol Flynn in the 1935 version of 'Captain Blood'
Here’s an interesting piece of news.
Warner Bros. is remaking, or perhaps the better term is “re-imagining”, the 1935 pirate classic, Captain Blood.
The original Captain Blood starred Errol Flynn as a wrongly imprisoned British doctor named Peter Blood who escapes and joins up with a French pirate and becomes a pirate in the Caribbean.
The new Captain Blood will remain faithful to the original story with one exception – the whole thing takes place in space.
