Ooh. I like the look of that. Hope it gets a decent release over here.

Yeah, me too, it does look rather good indeed. Sheen's a bloody chameleon, isn't he?

They showed this on Soccer AM a week or so ago and were all rather excited by the whole thing.

Stephen Graham as Billy Bremner is an interesting prospect.

GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra Teaser

Finally, Destro speaks with a Scots accent.

Why didn't it play the Cobra song?

*Crashing through the sky, comes a fearful cry*
COBRA! (Cobra!)
COBRA! (Cobra!)
*Armies of the night, evil taking flight!*
COBRA! (Cobra!)
COBRA! (Cobra!)
*Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, panic spreading far and wide! Who can turn the tide?*
GI JOE! (A Real American Hero, GI Joe will dare!)
GI JOE! (A Real American Hero, GI is there!)
*Fighting for freedom whereever there's trouble over land and see and air, GI Joe is there!*

And so on.

Like this, you mean?

Because Cobra doesn't exist yet?

They could change the words...

Is Cobra Commander in it?

You don't need to link me that video, it's one of the best intros to a movie ever. Better than the entire rest of the movie, in fact. Apart from when Commander turns into a snake.


Just imagine if the teaser had been this opening remade shot-for-shot in live action? I'd have paid money just for the trailer if it were.

I'm inexplicably excited by this.

Ohh. Snake Eyes. I remember him.


That's his name, right?

Yeah, what a dude. He's being played by Ray 'please don't open your mouth, just do kung-fu and look cool' Park.

Really it's the perfect character for Ray Park- a badass mute ninja.

He will be, it's about how he becomes Cobra Commander

Nothing good can come of this.

Quite. Isn't teasing cobras, like, dangerously stupid?

You'd think so, but they've such low self-esteem that they just go off and cry.

So, more of a coblah, then.

I dunno, it looked like a lot of really silly fun to me. Which Sommers is capable of. (He's also capable of unmitigated crap, of course, so it could go either way.)

If Adewale doesn't say "BODY MASSAGE!" at some point, of course, I'll be a tiny bit disappointed.

I just had a look at his imdb profile to see what the ratio was and it seems to lean more towards the latter, though the wild-card sub-category of ''pretty dull literary adaptations'' does kind of throw the balance somewhat since it's difficult to say which side of the fence they would fall on.

Speaking of which, I noticed that he has signed on to direct the film adaptation of Terry Brooks' Magic Kingdom For Sale. I really liked the book when I was 9 so it could be interesting to see what happens with the film. I kind of hope that it's successful so that they could do The Black Unicorn, which I remember being really funny and infuriating.

That reminds me, I'll happily admit to being very pleased when I heard he was off of "John Carter of Mars" and Andrew Stanton was on. I can't see that hurting the film in the least tiny bit.

Very interesting. I find it odd that John Carter of Mars is being touted as Pixar's first live-action film; I thought that Brad Bird's 1906 would come out first. I guess that film must have been delayed or isn't being made by Pixar.

Surely someone has posted the X-Men Origins: Wolverine trailer!

In other comic book news....in the new Total Film (a Comic-Book movie special), as well aslearning of loads of adaptations in the pipe-line I knew nothing about, two nuggets of info particularly caught my eye..

The Captain America flm The First Avenger: Captain America will be an origin story set in WWII. And directed by Joe Johnston who has already proved himself with retro comic-book hero films with the excellent Rocketeer.

and

Guy Ritchie is lined up for Sgt Rock. Ritchie says he has "an actor in mind". Dare I dream? Could it be him?


Oh, and Sam Mendes doing Preacher. Interesting.

Aye.






I'm not 100% sold on Johnston. The Rocketeer is a good film, but I'd have to see how The Wolf Man turns out before getting all that excited about his take on Cap.

I've made my distrust of Mendes and my lack of faith in the ability of anyone to do the story in a single film known before, so I won't retread that ground.

Ths raises so many questions about the logistics planning of both G.I.Joe and Cobra.

Agreed. Although I'll add that the fact it was thisclose to the green light for an HBO series rubs a load of salt in the wounds.

I share your fervent wishes Sostie. It would 'rock' harder than Springsteen on viagra.

It raises something, alright...

It seems the Serge Gainsbourg biopic, Serge Gainsbourg, vie héroïque, is in production.


Gainsbourg and Birkin look like they could be quite convincing


http://www.voir.ca/blogs/kevin_laforest/Se...%20héroïque.JPG

I just googled the gal playing France Gall, she looks pretty good too.

Wachowskis linked with Superman trilogy.

Hmm . . .

Wow - they look perfect! If pressed, they could always get my sister and her fella! Actually they are more like Stefanie and Stefan from 'Science of Sleep'.

Laetitia Casta plays Brigette Bardot. She certainly has all the requirements.

I'm actually rather looking forward to this.

It should be a good 'un considering the life/career of the great man. I wonder who'll play Whitney Houston?

All I need now are films about Bert Trautman, The KLF and Klaus Kinski and that would be all my dream bipoics filmed

Imagine them all in a film together - with STATH!

I've messed myself.

An appropriate reaction.

Excellent. I had no idea there was a biopic in the planning. I shall look forward to that.

Not sure about this, they don't seem to fit some how, and I'm probably the only person who is more Wachowski fan than Supes fan.

I'm not sure either. I'm even less sure about a Plastic Man driven movie. I love the character, but I'm not sure he's that well known outside of comics.

Inglourious Basterds Trailer

Looks like a whole heap of Nazi Killing Fun.

PLastic man is....an awful choice.

EDIT:

I am cautiously optimistic about this. It looks fun and I like the concept and idea of it. My only issue is I've read theres a 30+ minute card game scene all spoken in German, it's not that it's just dialogue or in a foreign language that bothers me, it's the awful nature of the dialogue from Deathproof that worries me. Sure it may have been "realistic" but by fuck it was boring to watch and listen to, if the dialogue is witty and engaging and funny I won't mind but by christ I hope it doesn't bore me to tears like Deathproof did.

Could be worse. It could be the Elongated Man.

I quite liked Superman Returns, but I think it is a shame that Fuller tried to continue on from the end of Superman II rather than tell his own story.

I can't say I'm unhappy about the idea of a re-boot, as I have no wish to watch a film with Superman Jr. in it, but at the same time I'm really not convinced the Wachowski brothers are the right people to entrust the franchise to.

Does anyone know if Fuller will be going back to the X-Men again now? (I'm guessing the answer is no, but you can always hope . . .).

If they want to keep a Superman connection, they could always have Jimmy Olsen re-discover his old Elastic Lad alias.

I would imagine Singer probably won't. I'd be surprised if they made any X-Men movies for a while.

You can always hope though . . .

(I'm having a good day for getting the wrong name, aren't I?!).

(I didn;t like to point it out. And I knew what you meant, in any case. )

The reservations I have about this are grave. Grave, I tell you.

I dunno, I always felt that Elongated Man was a stronger character. I just feel that "great detective who just so happens to have the ability to stretch" works better than "reformed crimninal and ADHD suffering idiot who can stretch".

I like the look of this. But then, I find any early Tarantino trailer a little exciting. Wonder what music or composer he'll use.


In other news Regan & Carter in the Sweeney movie has changed from Ray Winstone and Jason Statham to Ray Winstone and Michael Fassbender. This is of course still all rumour

The imdb shots for that remind me that I have a tankard, and I should drink out of it more often.
It also has my initials engraved on it cos I am awesome.

I am going to try hard to see this film.

Shitty remake of Pelham 123 Gives away one of the twists too.