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'Zap2it' also talked to producer Charles Roven about the movie. Roven
revealed that filming in Iceland was hampered recently by 75 m.p.h winds,
and the crew are moving to London for shooting there.
Roven: "As soon as we set down in Iceland two weeks ago, we were hit with
the most crazy weather - sunny one minute and two hours later a rain storm.
The storms have not delayed production."
"The new Batmobile jumps and flies and turns on a dime! It's a fantastic
piece of equipment, and there is no CGI [computer generated imagery] for
that. It's a cross between Lamborghini and a Humvee - not like any of the
Batmobiles you've seen before."
CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
Well, Tim Burton may have ordered a rewrite because it wasn't to his darker
tastes, but John August's script for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory has
received a glowing review from a spy at 'Ain't It Cool News'!
Not, strictly speaking, a piece of movie news, but I thought people may like
to know that actor Christopher Ecclestone (Shallow Grave, 28 Days Later) has
been cast as Doctor Who.
The new 13-part BBC TV series will start in 2005, with Russell T. Davies
(who wrote TV's The Second Coming, also starring Ecclestone) executive
producing and writing the majority of the episodes.
Interestingly, the 'BBC' are currently caught up in a legal issue over the
rights to use the show's famous robot villains The Daleks.
THE GREEN HORNET
Writer-director Kevin Smith (Jersey Girl) has met with actor Jake Gyllenhaal
(Donnie Darko) about taking the lead role in his upcoming screen adaptation
of The Green Horner comic-book.
'About.com' also interviewed Smith, who revealed the potential villain for
the movie, saying: "I've got to create one for [The Green Hornet]. I've got
to give him a villain, at least in this one, because having him go after gyp
artists doesn't really make for a big action movie."
"If you listen to the old radio shows, that's what he's always doing is
going after mobsters, racketeers and gyp artists. There was one radio show I
listened to where he's going after an insurance scam racket, and it's like
why do you have to put on a mask to do that?"
"... there's nothing really from the run of the comics that I read that I
was real fond of. It's just something I've got to create, come up with for
the purpose of the movie."
BLADE TRINITY
WWE wrestler Triple H is starring in the second Blade sequel, and to prove
it - here is his first publicity shot from the movie (right)
HOUSE OF WAX
Jared Padalecki (Flight Of The Phoenix) has joined the cast of House of Wax
for director Jaume Collet-Serra. The film starts shooting in May in
Australia.
Padalecki joins Elisha Cuthbert (The Girl Next Door), Chad Michael Murray
and Paris Hilton (TV's The Simple Life) in the remake of the 1953 classic
horror film that starred Vincent Price.
JINX
Comic-book writer Brian Michael Bendis announced at the 'Wizard World'
convention in Los Angeles that Oscar winner Charlize Theron (Monster) will
star in and produce the big screen adaptation of his graphic novel Jinx.
The crime series, published by 'Image Comics', features a bounty hunter, two
grifters, and a treasure hunt.
JOHN WOO
'The Australian Associated Press' reported that director John Woo wants Hugh
Jackman to star in a new action-musical about an American gangster with
great dance moves.
Woo: "I want to do an action-musical. I have dreamed about doing it for
seven years. It's an American gangster movie and is about a gangster who is
also a good dancer. It is not a singing movie, but there is dancing and
action. We are working on the script and it's almost done."
KILL BILL VOLUME II
David Carradine (right) told the 'Los Angeles Daily News' that Kill Bill Volume II,
opening April 16 in the U.S, is "very different" from the first film.
Carradine: "The content, even the style, are very different. It's not the
juggernaut of fighting that the first one was, although there's a lot of hot
action in it. Everyone talks a lot - what people are used to with Quentin
[Tarantino]."
"The heart of the movie is the stuff between me and Uma - wonderful stuff. I
just saw the finished picture, and it's beyond my expectations. The second
one is, I think, a better picture than the first."
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3
'Ain't-It-Cool-News' has reported that writer-director Frank Darabont (The
Green Mile) has been hired to write Mission Impossible III. Darabont will
take over the task from Dean Georgaris (Paycheck), who was previously
announced as the writer involved.
Darabont co-wrote the upcoming Cruise action-thriller Collateral for
'DreamWorks'. 'Paramount Pictures' is confident of a 6 May 2005 release date
for M:I-3, to be directed by Joe Carnahan (Narc).
Darabont recently turned in a draft for Indiana Jones 4 to 'Paramount' which
got Steven Spielberg's approval but not from George Lucas...
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
'MTV' talked to actress Minnie Driver (Grosse Point Blank) about her singing
in the upcoming big screen adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera.
Driver: "With no disrespect to Renée Zellweger, who has a nice voice, Chicag
can be transposed to a place that is much more contemporary. Andrew Lloyd
Webber is ripping off actual operas — Mozart, Wagner — and you're singing in
that style. You have to be such an accomplished singer. I could only fake it
to a point. I could sing the low stuff. But the high stuff? Forget about it.
There's only like sixty women in England who could sing one particular part.
It was like glass breaking and dogs start howling when you are singing up
there. There was no way."
SUPERMAN
Creature effects designer Patrick Tatopoulos (Independence Day) has told
'Moviehole' that the Superman production is gearing up again.
Tatopoulos: "My best friend called me two days ago and said Superman is on.
It's starting up again. He's the concept illustrator, the designer worked on
The Matrix, he's Australian, from Sydney. I can't tell you much more than
that, but yeah, it's going to be filming in Australia soon."
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