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Tintin movie gets Frost and Pegged
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
After breaking out as best buddies* in the romantic comedy/horror film Shaun of the Dead, and then pairing up again as a pair of coppers in Hot Fuzz, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost will reunite again on the big screen in the forthcoming Tintin movies. The deal has been confirmed by Variety via Pegg’s agent after first breaking online on Ain’t It Cool News.
The duo will be playing the Thompson Twins. No, for those of us that grew up in the ’80s that doesn’t mean they will be singing “Doctor Doctor”; as fans of the Tintin comics know the characters in question are two nearly identical gentlemen named Thompson and Thomson and the only way to tell the difference between them is by the subtle difference of their mustaches. Continue reading…
Posted at 11:29AM by Patrick
Old Boy movie not based on Korean film
Friday, November 21, 2008
Will Smith told the folks over at Film School Rejects that the Old Boy movie he and Steven Spielberg have been developing is not a remake of the Korean film by Chan-wook Park, but based on the original Japanese manga of the same name.
Smith said:
We’re looking at that right now. Not the film though, it’s the original source material. There’s the original comics of ‘Oldboy’ that they made the first film from. And that’s what we’re working from, not an adaptation of the film…
Sounds like some spin from Smith as a lot of the chatter about the news of a remake has been negative. If we’re hearing about it this much then it will definitely happen.
By the way, I’m still calling it a remake.
Sorry Will.
Posted at 9:31AM by Mike
Old Boy remake to Dreamworks
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
According to THR Mandate has bought the rights to popular Korean cult hit Old Boy co-written and directed by Park Chan-wook from Universal, who had acquired the rights in 2004 with Vertigo Entertainment. And round and round we go.
Old Boy is “the story of Dae-Su who is locked in a hotel room for 15 years without knowing his captor’s motives. When he is finally released, Dae Su finds himself still trapped in a web of conspiracy and strangeness. His own quest for vengeance becomes tied in with romance when he falls for an attractive sushi chef.” [wikipedia]
All of the usual ingredients are falling into place to make Old Boy another big budget, cookie cutter offering from Hollywood:
- The rights to a successful foreign film ripe for remaking, with a built in fan base, have been procured
- Dreamworks is involved
- Mark Protosevich who wrote I am Legend, Poseidon and The Cell is in talks to write the screenplay
- Steven Spielberg and Will Smith are developing the project
It is a formula that works. Doesn’t mean a great film. Financially successful? Yep.
Continue reading…
Posted at 8:49AM by Mike
Don’t worry, Steven Spielberg says he’s still directing the first Tintin movie
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
This bit of news either shows you one of two things: the weight that Steven Spielberg name carries whenever it’s bandied about with a future film project or how slow the last week of August is for hard movie news. I’m leaning towards the second explanation.
Yesterday The Hollywood Reporter published a short piece about how things supposedly changed for the live-action Tintin movies that Spielberg and Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson are putting together. The duo want to make a trilogy of Tintin flicks. So what’s the big deal, right? Well, up until the Reporter piece ran it was assumed that Spielberg would direct #1, Jackson #2 and a to-be-named person would call the shots for #3. Reporter said that there had been a shake-up and Jackson would now be directing the first Tintin film. This threw the movie website world for a loop and overnight a couple of dozen stories were published about the news, with some more opinionated webmasters speculating whether this meant Spielberg had changed his mind about the project.
This forced the hand of Spielberg who then had to correct the Reporter mistake and revocalize his commitment to directing Tintin movie #1 (Jackson is still slated to direct #2 after he finishes up working on The Lovely Bones.) In other words it was a non-story. Now the film blogosphere are running companion pieces saying that it was all a false alarm.
Like I said, this thing either shows you how heavy a guy like Spielberg is to film or how utterly banal the breaking news is coming out of Hollywood right now. And here I was wondering if it would be silly to do a fluffy top 10 list about who were the hottest female characters from the summer of ‘08…
Posted at 5:25PM by admin
