MOVIE NEWS
BATMAN BEGINS
The first clear images of Christian Bale as Batman have been released (see
right and below) on the official site Batman Begins.com
3001
Sara Rue has joined Luke Wilson, Dax Shepard and Maya Rudolph in the
untitled Mike Judge comedy (previously titled 3001) for '20th Century Fox'.
The film centres on Joe Bowers (Wilson), an average American who is selected
for a top-secret hibernation program that finds him waking up and living
among a society a thousand years in the future, where he finds that
civilization is the most intelligent person alive.
The film was written by Judge and Ethan Cohen (Intolerable Cruelty).
INDEPENDENCE DAY 2
Director Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow) has commented on the stats
of a sequel to his 1996 blockbuster Independence Day, saying: "[Independence
Day co-writer and co-producer] Dean [Devlin] and I met two or three times to
figure out a way how to continue the story and we couldn't."
X-MEN 3
'Sci Fi Wire' caught up with X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner who gave an
update on the status of the third instalment.
She says that filming is targeted to begin in June 2005, in Vancouver, for a
May, 2006 release date. Donner: "I just had a conversation with [director]
Bryan [Singer] today. We just started to talk about what the possibilities
are. We're pretty sure Wolverine's going to come back."
Shuler Donner added that she's going to push to add Gambit and Beast this
time around. "I'm dying to put Beast in. I tried to get Beast in the first
one and the second one, but it was always too expensive. So, yeah, I'm
really dying to get Beast in, and I'd love to get Gambit in, because he's
such a cool guy. And there's some really good casting ideas for Gambit."
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