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Wait, Alfonso Cuarón created a TV show and no one told me about it?! Well I’m just going to have to check this out posthaste!
Huh.
Okay, so that wasn’t terribly impressive.
There’s a girl with psychic powers and the forces of evil want her and for some reason the only one who can protect her is a death row inmate (he’s innocent, of course), and Delroy Lindo yadda yadda yadda it all looks pretty rote. | Full Story
The court of Henry VIII meets a galaxy far, far away. Latino Review has the scoop that Jonathan Rhys Meyers has been approached for a role in the upcoming Star Wars movie. Generally, such rumors are unreliable, except this guy seems to never ever be wrong about this sort of thing (he had it that Harrison Ford was coming back before anyone else, if you’ll remember).
This casting makes sense, since Meyers worked with Episode VII director J.J. | Full Story
Well, here is your Star Trek. Looks like it’s goin’ into darkness.
Seriously, just the worst title.
Anyhoo, this new trailer for the movie shows off some new stuff. For instance we now know that Benedict Khanberbatch has a giant-ass spaceship at his disposal. I assume it’s a stealth ship, because it’s painted black and made of angles and holy cow that’s so dumb I can’t even begin to articulate. | Full Story
Paramount Pictures cleared some new photos of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek: Into Darkness Monday morning and in one Hi-Res photo, a Starship is going down in a ball of flames.
The photos feature stars Chris Pine in the moment of danger and Zoe Saldana in an aggressive stance with a space gun cocked and ready to blow some bad guys to smithereens. Anton Yelchin is also in a photo with a perplexed look. Zachary Quinto can be seen steadying his assault rifle, and director J.J. | Full Story
After a goodly amount of teasing and withholding, there’s finally a full-length trailer for the new Star Trek movie. Of course, it’s still mostly teasing and withholding, but now there’s something resembling the outline of a plot in it.
It seems that Benedict Cumberbatch’s character kills a bunch of top officials, because authority figures are always useless in movie land. We can only ever trust the hotshot, doesn’t-play-by-the-rules maverick outlaw to save the day, and Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) is more than willing to be the hottest shot possible, and goes rogue to chase down the villain. | Full Story
There’s still no full trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness, even though the movie is about two months away from release. Instead, we’ve got another teaser, which has allowed a few more tiny plot details and new images to escape from J.J. Abram’s ever-tight lips.
This teaser introduces some more lightheartedness into the pervasive grimness that’s been seen in most of the promo material up until now. There’s still Benedict Cumberbatch being ominous and buildings blowing up, but there’s also Captain Kirk being wacky, Spock being dry, and Bones screaming about hating adventuring. | Full Story
There’s a lot of talk swirling about who from the original Star Wars trilogy will or won’t be returning for 2015′s Episode VII. Now, a new name has been officially tossed into the ring, although a lot of people have been expecting if not hoping for it already. John Williams is the only movie composer whom most people can name, thanks to his providing the musical scores for all of the Star Wars films, in addition to half of Steven Spielberg’s ouvre, among other famous compositions. | Full Story
It’s clear at this point that J.J. Abrams will not be satisfied until he has control of every nerdy property in existence. Yesterday, at the DICE Summit, a Las Vegas gathering of video game execs, Abrams and Gabe Newell, founder and director of revolutionary game developer Valve, announced a partnership during a joint keynote address called “Storytelling Across Platforms: Who Benefits Most, the Audience or the Player?”
Valve is best known for the Half-Life series, which changed first-person shooters as we know them, and Steam, their games network which has been at the forefront of digital distribution. | Full Story
A recent report from Empire has claimed director J.J. Abrams is in talks with Bradley Cooper about taking on the lead role in Abrams’ upcoming Lance Armstrong biopic.
As we reported last week, J.J. Abrams have acquired the screen rights for Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong, a biography about the fallen athlete by author Juliet Macur. Oddly enough, the book hasn’t even been published — but that hasn’t stopped the likes of J.J. | Full Story
Star Wars fans dust off your light-sabers and bust out your cinnamon roll hair buns, Star Wars: Episode VII has a director!
J.J. Abrams will helm the next Star Wars installment set in “a galaxy far, far away.” This will be the first new Star Wars since 2005′s Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith. Fans will have to be patient though. While Michael Ardent is busy writing the script for the new movie, it likely won’t hit theaters until 2015. | 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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