Warner Bros. is currently in the process of acquiring the rights to Christian Gossett’s fantasy comic series The Red Star thanks to a turnaround from Universal.
The Red Star, which burst onto the scene in 1999, features an alternate USSR and Afghanistan in which a USSR soldier and his wife must stop the evils of a former ruler.
This week on Episode 15, Steven, Simon, Kieran and Max discuss the onslaught of recent movie trailers including The Dark Knight Rises teaser and then discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 as well as the franchise on the whole.
No way that The Dark Knight Rises gets to have all the fun. Sony Pictures has just released its own teaser trailer for next summer’s The Amazing Spider-Man, and they’ve even one-upped
Christopher Nolan’s film by keeping things distinctly less cryptic. Get ready to revisit Spidey’s origins, friends.
Could it have been
anything else? Our featured trailer this week is of course the now officially
released teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan’s mammothly anticipated follow-up
to his billion dollar smash. The fun doesn’t stop there, however, as we also
have Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of the beloved novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, simply called Hugo, and the latest from Aardman Animation, creators of the
“Wallace and Gromit” films, The Pirates!
Band of Misfits. Finally we’ll touch on two other big releases with the
star-studded Contagion and the remake
of the John Carpenter classic The Thing
which my fellow writers Julian and Steven have chatted about here and here
respectively. There is only one thing you need to know right now: you’re
reading Trailer Tracker.
Helena Bonham Carter, James Badge Dale, Barry Pepper, and country singer-turned-actor Dwight Yoakam are among the newest names linked to Disney’s adaptation of Lone Ranger from original “Pirates of the Caribbean” director Gore Verbinski.
Considering the timely environmental message of the series with action to boot, it’s a shock that it took this long. Don Murphy, who produced the film version of our previous childhood favorite series, Transformers, and Cartoon Network are aiming to — with their powers combined — bring the green-haired eco-friendly hero to the big screen.
For all intents and purposes, Superman might be invincible, but the script for Man of Steel is apparently not. Kurt Johnstad, who co-wrote 300 with Man of Steel director Zack Snyder, has been brought on to help rewrite David S. Goyer’s (The Dark Knight) screenplay.
A source close to the project told Moviehole that some rewriting was necessary, but Goyer is too busy working on his draft of the new “Godzilla” movie
(also for Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros.) to make the changes
himself, so Snyder has turned to his go-to writer, which would be
Johnstad. Apparently Johnstad’s not the first to make changes, as
producer Christopher Nolan’s brother Jonah has also done some work on
the screenplay.
