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Friday, April 25, 2014

First Photo on the Set of the Warcraft Movie


I admit, this photo is not that exciting. Actually not at all. But it is extremely important. At one point I and many others thought that the movie is not even happening, that it was stuck in development and it is never coming out of there, but this photo confirms that we will see this movie.

I am not a World of Warcraft player, so I am really not informed with the story, races, classes and all of this stuff. But I have always been interested and excited for the Warcraft movie. Whatever my friends have told me about the game and its story sounded interesting to get me excited about this flick.


The photo is of the director Duncan Jones watching his actors at work. The movie will star Ben Foster, Paula Patton, Travis Fimmel, Toby Kebbell, Dominic Cooper, Rob Kazinsky, Daniel Wu and Clancy Brosn. It will be in 3D and 2D. It is set to be released on March 11th, 2016.


Wednesday, April 23, 2014

The Fantastic Four Reboot is a "Coming of Age Story" and "More Real and Gritty"


Recently there is a trend amongst comic books filmmakers that is to make their movies serious, dark, dramatic, and I blame Christopher Nolan for that. This kind of strategy worked for Nolan’s Batman and kind of worked for Man of Steel, but it is not supposed to be applied to every single superhero movie. Now the Fantastic Four reboot are doing it.

There were rumors that the script and production of the new Fantastic Four has been scrapped, totally destroyed to start a new project. Either this did not happen, or the new project is even worse. There are unfortunately no confirmations of changing cast, so we expect to see the old bunch of retards that have nothing in common with the Fantastic Four. And they will be taking part in a “coming of age story”, as Simon Kinberg, the producer stated in an interview with IGN.

The movie will be “an origin story”, which is pretty self-explanatory since we are dealing with a freaking reboot. It follows them before they “really know what a superhero is”, which is cool, again like pretty much any origin story. The characters will be “older than high school, but they are not quite grown into the world”, which means we are probably dealing with college student. So are we expecting keg parties and frats? A new Project X movie with superheroes? Probably not. Kinberg does not say that they are getting their powers from space, but they are getting their powers from “from some sort of scientific travel”. What the fuck? What does this mean? Probably involves inter dimensional portals like in some of the comic books. Scientific travel… bullshit. Also “by the end of the movie we don’t call them the Fantastic Four”- interesting, since I thought that the movie is called the Fantastic Four. “They’re not celebrity superheroes, the tone is much more grounded, real and gritty. More in the direction of Chronicle”- Chronicle was not that good. It did OK, but just OK. Do you want your movie to be just OK? Anyway, Victor von Doom is set to be in that movie, and please do not mess him up, he is one of the most amazing Marvel villains ever.

So from what I’ve learned from the interview, expect a hipster Fantastic Four reboot. You have most certainly caught my angry tone here, but I can’t help it. The whole idea of the movie sounds ridiculous. Anyway, as I said the cast has not changed, which is ridiculous. So we have Miles Teller as Reed Richards which is stupid, Kate Mara as Sue Storm which I actually find OK, Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm which I have no idea how is that going to work, and Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm, the Thing, which is really stupid.


The movie is set to be released June 19th 2015, and I am telling you, I will watch it, but I do not promise I will watch it in cinemas. I am not happy with the current development, but I hope something changes or however stupid I find this script, that it actually works out and that I am very wrong. Fingers crossed.


J. Jonah. Jameson to Appear in Future Spider-Man, J.K. Simmons Could Return for the Role


One cult Spider-Man character we have not seen in the Spider-Man reboot is the editor-in-chief of The Daily Bugle and employer of Peter Parker- J. Jonah Jameson. He is the one guy who truly hates Spider-Man probably as much as Spidey’s enemies, without actually being a villain himself, but being more of a comic relief and a pain in the ass for Peter Parker.

It is confusing why he did not make any appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man movies. Jameson did have memorable appearance in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, and it was hilarious. We so indeed get some Easter eggs in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 about Peter Working for J. Jonah Jameson, but no appearance. So we know Peter is working for him, but we do want to see him. The Easter egg itself made me laugh like a retard, so imagine seeing this lunatic for real.

What made the role of J. Jonah Jameson amazing, however, was the acting of J.K. Simmons in Sam Raimi’s movies. J.K. Simmons was made for this role. He looks like Jameson, he talks like Jameson, he was born to be Jameson. I seriously cannot imagine any other man on this planet who can play this role. Only Simmons can. And Marc Webb agrees to that as well.


Marc Webb, the director of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has stated in a Google+ Question and Answer session that he would like him to appear in the next movie, and that “It was more easy to accept a new Spider-Man than someone who could outdo J.K. Simmons. He is iconic”. Is this a confirmation? Are we going to see J.K. Simmons come back to play his sort of legendary role as Peter’s pain in the ass? Well, Webb did say “I think you can expect him in the future”. That is close enough!