Though director Zack Snyder took a hit recently with Sucker Punch, he still retains a certain status in the industry for his highly stylized and well-received film 300. A little while ago, a sequel called Xerxes was announced. Mark Canton, a producer of the film, stated that the name had been changed recently in a conversation with MTV. Here’s the direct quote: “It’s not called Xerxes anymore. We don’t know [what it’s called] yet.”
Patrick Dempsey made a name for himself in the ‘80s with films like Can’t Buy Me Love and resurfaced as an A-lister in the hit television drama Grey’s Anatomy just a few years ago. With a key role in the upcoming sequel Transformers: Dark of the Moon, he looks to venture out into the film world once again. According to The Los Angeles Times’ Hero Complex blog, the actor wants to play sorcerer Dr. Strange in the adaptation of the Marvel comic.
The hunt for the hero of Tony Gilroy’s The Bourne Legacy may be drawing to a close as Latino Review reports that Universal has extended an offer to Jeremy Renner (The Town, The Hurt Locker) for the lead role. “Legacy” will not focus on Jason Bourne (previously played by Matt Damon), but will take place in the same world Bourne walked through in the last three films.
Movies have oft-examined the extremes of dysfunctional parenting and the action-thriller Hanna presents a unique example. Hanna is a story about a CIA agent teaching his teenage daughter to be the ultimate assassin.
Hanna Heller would not be the first cinematic child trained to be an assassin: Hit-Girl was introduced to film fans last year, the 11-year-old played by Chloe Moretz who dispatches drug dealers and gangsters with violence and an incredible potty mouth.
Our featured trailer this
week is of course the sequel to one of the biggest live-action comedies of all
time with The Hangover: Part II. The
wolfpack is back with all the principle and supporting characters returning
along with some fresh faces to round out the mayhem. Rutger Hauer is a hobo
with a shotgun in the movie titled Hobo
with a Shotgun, spun-off from a fake trailer from pulp flick Grindhouse and Will Ferrell turns to
more serious comedy with Everything Must
Go. Finally, after some shaky first clips, we have the thunderous extended
trailer for one of our upcoming superhero offerings with The Green Lantern. There’s always a light at the end of the tunnel,
it’s Trailer Tracker.
There are many new releases and re-releases this week for your entertainment and it is a real mixture of genres. Fans of both “Tron” films will pleased with both coming to DVD and Blu-ray and even in a combo pack together. And the big re-release of the week has to go to the Martin Scorsese classic Taxi Driver. There are a number of Oscar winning and nominated films getting a re-release.
The biggest casting dilemma for the adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games was easily the role of Katniss Everdeen, and since Jennifer Lawrence nabbed that part instead of Abigail Breslin, Hailee Steinfeld, and a bevy of other actresses who are more age-appropriate to play that particular character, the casting of male leads Gale and Peeta has come to the forefront of “Hunger Games” talk. Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson both hit the rumor mill recently as possibilities to play the roles, but now it’s official. Deadline Hollywood brings not only the official news, but also the press release.
