There's a requirement of film blogging that will be fulfilled from now until 2015. First, there must be a Batman vs. Superman casting rumor; second, there must be a Star Wars: Episode VII rumor.
Werner Herzog's next feature film seems to have difficulty getting off the ground ... or through the desert. Queen of the Desert was announced all the way back in 2011, and has since gone through a number of delays and one or two cast changes; I believe that Jude Law was once attached to play T.E. Lawrence, but that role has since fallen to Robert Pattinson. Another cast change has just developed, this time involving the central character. Naomi Watts has stepped down from the part of Gertrude Bell, to be replaced by Nicole Kidman.
Tommy Lee Jones makes a WESTERN?! Will wonders never cease? That's right, the veteran film star and all-around badass gentleman of the plains Tommy Lee Jones has decided to step behind the camera once again for a remake of John Wayne's late-career Western The Cowboys.
You can have your Benedict Cumberbatchs and your Robert Downey Jr.s; it's Ian McKellen's Sherlock Holmes that I'm excited for! That's right: not satisfied with playing two iconic roles, not to mention his long and storied stage career, McKellen now will leave his mark as the consulting detective in Bill Condon's A Slight Trick Of The Mind.
With 47 Ronin coming up before long, the cinemas are going to be chock full of Keanu Reeves. The actor's directorial debut, Man of Tai Chi, will be coming to iTunes first, and then theatres in November. Today, we have the latest trailer for the film, featuring Reeves and martial arts master Tiger Chen (who also did stunt work on The Matrix films and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon).
If you're like me, then there was nothing so disappointing as the moment when you realized that acclaimed thespian Shia LaBeouf would not be appearing in Transformers 4. Michael Bay and Co. hope that you will accept Mark Wahlberg as an adequate substitute for the Beef-man. If you're still weeping into your cornflakes over LaBeouf's absence, maybe this will make you feel better: Transformers 4 now has a proper title and a new poster, largely confirming that the Dinobots are indeed going to be featured in this fine fine work of art.
Calm down, everyone; just calm down. Remember that rumor that Bryan Cranston has been cast as Lex Luthor in Batman vs. Superman? Well, that's all just fine, but apparently Bryan Cranston himself was unaware of this little factoid.
Just when you thought the pirate subgenre was all played out, back it comes in a big way and from a rather surprising source. The Fugitive director Andrew Davis has revealed that he's working on a contemporary adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic pirate novel Treasure Island.
While it might seem a little odd to cast a well-known British actor to play a well-known Jewish-American writer, I have to admit that Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg has been winning me over via clips and trailers for Kill Your Darlings. This latest clip does not give us much to go on, but it's once more a tantalizing teaser for a film that continues to rise on my 'must-see' list.
In the relatively short list of film ideas that make me want to go screaming into the night, Fifty Shades of Grey is right there at the top. The very idea of turning a truly terrible book series into a film just seems like something that will inevitably go wrong; so very wrong. But there's nothing that you or I or anyone else can do about it, and now it appears that this terrible concept will go forward. The two leads for Fifty Shades of Grey have been cast and they are ....
