Well it’s hard to see this film as anything but an Alien prequel now.
Directed by Alien’s Ridley Scott and starring Charlize Theron, Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender, it opens next year, and it will be awesome, I’m sure.
See the comparison, and notes describing the similarities between the 1979 Alien teaser and this first Prometheus one, right here.
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The Hobbit, and The Dark Knight Rises trailers
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Time for some more trailers of some of next year’s most anticipated films.
First up is The Dark Knight Rises, which as we know features back breaker Bane and is set 8 years after the last film.
Here’s the German version of The Avengers trailer, with some new footage. The German dubbing makes it seem at times way cooler than English. It’s true.
Yay! Mario! In beads!
Finally, here’s the sequel to Clash of the Titans. It has bigger monsters this time around, which I guess will make it another guilty pleasure. The use of Marilyn Manson on the soundtrack here is just laughable though.
The President’s daughter. A space station prison. Guy Pearce in a rare action role. This veers dangerously close to cheesy, but it is French, and I love a good French action film (such as Brotherhood of the Wolf, the 2 District 13 films) so will give it a go when it opens in April. It’s also produced and co-written by Luc Besson who knows how to make entertaining movies (Taken, Transporter).
Now this is impressive, and much better than that embarrassing new Battleship/Transformers wannabe(even down to the music!) trailer.
Goliath is a concept trailer created by Alex Popov. There’s nothing else to say really – just watch.
Oh, and Popov has also made an Alien vs Predator film too.
project “GOLIATH”
concept trailerfilm by Alex Popov
produced by Jim Wedaa
represented by “Gersh” agency
agents: Abram Nalibotsky and Sean BarclayConcept trailer for the Sci-Fi Action “Goliath” shot in 3 days in Alaska and 3 days in San Diego. Total budget: $150 This project was a one man effort, meaning i had to do it all: concept, props, DP, camera op, directing, editing, post VFX, sound design and so on.
However i used a few seconds of b-roll to put VFX on top of it and there is one 1 sec. shot at the end is taken from “the day after tomorrow” guess which one…..
an amazing soundtracks from Inception, Sunshine and 28 days later helped me to bring my idea to life.Synopsis:
A signal from space ignites a worldwide race to decode it. The Russians decipher it first and learn that a warring alien race is on its way to attack earth. The message, from a second, friendly alien race intent on helping mankind, supplies the Russians with blueprints for a mechanical-human hybrid army of biodroids to defeat our mutual enemy. When the alien armada arrives, however, they wrest control of the newly built biodroid army and it is revealed that there never was a friendly alien race. We have been duped into building that army that destroys us. With the planet in shambles it is up to a group of American soldiers to free the enslaved Russian hybrid army and together defeat the alien invaders.
Inspired by Mark Waid and Howard Porter’s excellent Tower of Babel storyline from the Justice League comics in the ’90s that had Batman unwittingly defeating his teammates, is this next animated film From DC Comics and Warner Bros. The only new info we have is the release date of February 28, and the box art below. Judging by the previously released trailer, it does seem a loose adaptation though, with Cyborg now in the team, and the immortal Vandal Savage as the main villain. It is the last screenplay written by the late, great Dwayne McDuffie though, so it should be entertaining.
The film features the voices of primetime stars Nathan Fillion (Castle), Tim Daly (Private Practice) and Michael Rosenbaum (Smallville) in addition to a cavalcade of voiceover alums from the Justice League and Justice League Unlimited animated television series.
Looks like 2012 is going to be a good year for fans of 1980s cartoon and toy franchises.
First up is next year’s Transformers: Fall of Cybertron videogame, with a nice surprise at the end.
G.I. Joe: Retaliation gets rid of a few characters from the first film and introduces a few more. It still looks quite ridiculous though, but not as much as the first film.
Men in Black 3 is set 10 years after the last film, which was indeed released a decade ago. There’s not much to excite me about this, but maybe a later trailer will show more humour and action.
Yes, it’ll be years before we ever see a Justice League of America film, but this fan made poster, starring the already seen versions of Superman, Batman and Green Lantern makes it seem tantalisingly real. Doug Jones (Abe Sapien in the 2 Hellboy films), and Justin Hartley (who played Green Arrow in Smallville, and the Atlantean king in a failed TV pilot) is a good choice. Bradley Cooper (The A-Team, Limitless) could be OK as The Flash, and apparently Bridget Regan is in TV’s Legend of the Seeker, which I’ve never watched.
See more form the artist, Daniel de Almeida e Silva here.
Understandably, with the success of Harry Potter, and Twilight, there are a lot of young adult books getting adapted into film these days. I’m not familiar with the Hunger Games books by Suzanne Collins, but this March releasing film looks OK. It stars Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique in X-Men: First Class) and Liam Hemsworth (younger brother of Thor’s Chris) and does remind me of the Japanese film, Battle Royale. There’s also a nice list here of similar games to the death tales in comics and films.
Spotlighting 8 characters for the May 4 releasing Avengers film are these new banners. Below are (from L to R) Captain America (in his new modern duds), Bruce Banner/Hulk, Iron Man and Thor, followed by Nick Fury, baddie Loki, Hawkeye and Black Widow.
I didn’t get a chance to talk about some recent horror flicks I’ve seen on this week’s podcast, so here goes.
Scream 4. I remember being genuinely shocked at the first Scream film in 1996 and even the 2 sequels (in 1997, and 2000) weren’t bad at all. There was the feeling that no-one was safe and they were, and still are, smart slasher films. I can see the point of attempting a fourth film, as Hollywood loves a good film that can rely on nostalgia and a known series. This just didn’t do it for me though. It still felt like a ’90s film, and wasn’t as shocking, seeing as horror films have given us Saw and Hostel levels of gore in the intervening years. If they killed Neve Campbell, then I’d be shocked. The, “New Decade. New Rules” premise/tagline is a good one, but the story doesn’t live up to that potential. Oh, and Courtney Cox’s facelift just seems wrong.
The Last Exorcism was a nice surprise. A found footage film released last year it follows a disillusioned evangelical preacher/exorcist who visits a farmer’s family and meets his match. It’s a slow build, but a good one.
For other similarly scary fake doco films, check out Rec (remade in America as Quarantine), Interview with the Assassin, or one of the scariest films I’ve ever seen, Aussie film Lake Mungo.
The Ward should be avoided. Amber Heard plays a woman in a mental asylum in the ’60s and meets a few fellow inmates, who aren’t that interesting, just like the rest of this predictable film directed by John Carpenter (The Thing, Halloween). It tries to be a suspenseful horror film with a twist, but it’s really none of those things.
Opening in December is the 4th entry in the Mission Impossible film series based on the classic TV show. Below is the latest trailer, with a quick intro from director Brad Bird (The Incredibles) featuring his unusual pronunciation of Yahoo.
This looks like even better than the last two MI films.
Using the same found footage concept of Cloverfield and Quarantine, although this film doesn’t really look like it, is Chroncile. Written by Max Landis, it opens in February 2012 and follows 3 mates as they use their new super powers and not heroically. Effectively creepy trailer below.
“I’m worried about Andrew.” Indeed.
Two years ago director Guy Ritchie surprised us all by making a madly enjoyable action film starring the world’s greatest detective (sorry Batman!). The sequel is being released in December with the same duo of Holmes (Robert Downey Jr) and Dr. Watson (Jude Law), with Holme’s greatest adversary Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris) and Sim (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’s Noomi Rapace) joining them.
It looks more like a (very) old school Bond film now in it’s more epic nature than the first one.
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