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Gary Oldman is the latest star to join Child 44, the film adaptation of Tom Rob Smith’s novel of the same name. He will play opposite his long time colleagues Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Joel Kinnaman.
The last time Oldman and Hardy shared the screen was in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, where the two men were enemies, and not much will change in the Child 44 movie. | Full Story
Jose Padilha is out making his first major motion picture with MGM’s reboot of Robocop, and according to reports, he is bitter that the studio won’t let him do what he wants with the project.
Production is scheduled to begin shooting in September, but it hasn’t been a walk in the park for Padiha leading up to the first days of shooting. Collider has reported that Hotfix’s Drew McWheeny got his hands on a copy of the script and gave it a negative review. | Full Story
Michael K. Williams is currently in talks to join the cast of the Robocop reboot, according to reports.
The Robocop remake will show Alex Murphy return to duty in a city full of crime while he battle with haunting memories. Murphy is brought back to life as part man and part machine following his deadly injuries.
Williams will likely join the cast, which will see Joel Kinnaman play Murphy in the title role, and Hugh Laurie as the top villian. | Full Story
Abbie Cornish has become the latest actress to enter into talks for a role in Jose Padilha’s Robocop reboot. The news comes on the heels of reports indicating that Samuel L. Jackson was in negotiations to join the cast of the action film.
Deadline has reported that Cornish has been offered the role as the wife of Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman), the cop who is brought back to life and turned into a cyborg cop. | Full Story
Samuel L. Jackson is the latest actor to join Jose Padilha’s Robocop. According to sources, he’ll play Pay Novak, a powerful TV mogul and player in the Robocop world.
Jackson joins cast members Gary Oldman, who plays the scientist/creator of Robocop and Joel Kinnaman, who will play Alex Murphy, a cop that is brought back from death and turned into a cyborg cop.
Murphy returns to duty in a crime-ridden city and battles with haunting memories while he attempts to rid the streets of criminal activity. | Full Story
Gary Oldman signed on the dotted line to join Jose Padilha’s Robocop remake. Oldman will play Norton, the scientist who creates Robocop and finds himself torn between the ideals of the machine trying to rediscover its humanity and the callous requirements of a corporation.
Robocop is and adaptation of the 1987 sci-fi film set in crime-ridden Detroit. OCP is a massive company that has developed a huge crime fighting robot, that winds up developing a rather dangerous glitch. | Full Story
The new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises is finally here. This will be the epic conclusion to the comic book movie that changed the game forever.
There’s not much more to say about the film that fans don’t already know, so here’s a quick synopsis: Batman is back to defend the city from an equally skilled and intelligent enemy who is hellbent on destroying Gotham City.
This trailer gives a better look at the Batwing; Gotham’s new terrorist; Bruce Bane; and the reason why this film is titled The Dark Knight Rises. | Full Story
It’s done! The most anticipated film of 2012 was screened on Friday to top Warner Bros executives. The Dark Knight Rises doesn’t open up until July 20, so Christopher Nolan has left plenty of time to tweek the edit.
Nolan has been spending a lot of time over the past few days on the Warner Bros lot putting some finishing touches on the film. On Friday the film was presented to film chief Jeff Robinov and production president Greg Silverman. | Full Story
Oscar nominations have been made, and it appears the Academy overlooked Michael Fassbender for a nomination for best actor. For the fans that place Fassbender on the same tier as George Clooney and Brad Pitt, this was a shameful disappointment.
Steve McQueen, the director of Shame, strongly believes the British actor’s performance was ignored by the Academy because of Oscar voters’ biases about sex. The acclaimed director exclaimed:
“In America they’re too scared of sex, that’s why he wasn’t nominated, If you look at the best actor list you’re saying ‘Michael Fassbender is not on that list?’ It’s kind of crazy. | Full Story
Warner Bros. kicked off part of a great big New York Toy Fair promotion with The Dark Knight Rises Food Truck running around the city. The trucks’ decals are showing off a brand-new image of the caped crusader and his new flying vehicle “The Bat.”
WHOGOTTHEROLE.COM posted some pics and video of it in action late last year.
The trucks are serving up breakfast and lunch to Toy Fair attendees courtesy of Warner Bros. | Full Story
Movies have enriched Dan Schindel's life so much that he decided
the best way to give back was to become a critic. In addition to Who Got the
Role?, he writes for ScreenPicks, We Are Movie Geeks, Off to
See the Elephant, and several other sites. He spent a year watching and
reviewing a documentary every day for his blog, Days of Docs, so now he
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