Heath Ledger and 'The Dark Knight' stunt team pick up SAG awards. Mike Mignola shares some candid 'Hellboy II' photos with his friends. Things are looking blue for Seth Rogen's 'Green Hornet' movie. Sam Jackson is still Fury-ous over 'Iron Man 2'. Stephen Sommers talks about 'G.I. Joe'. Throw another shrimp on the barbie 'cause this is your Comics2Film 9.1.26, mate!
More kudos for 'The Dark Knight' this week, according to a Variety posting.
Heath Ledger collected another posthumous award for his work as The Joker in the film last night. The Screen Actors Guild held their 15th annual awards ceremony.
Ledger was given the "Supporting Actor" nod over the likes of Josh Brolin ('Milk'), Robert Downey, Jr. ('Tropic Thunder'), Philip Seymour Hoffman ('Doubt') and Dev Patel ('Slumdog Millionaire').
The stunt players for the film also picked up award in the "Stunt Ensemble" category. They aced out the largely comic-based competition from films like 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army', 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull', 'Iron Man' and 'Wanted'.
HitFix.com reports that the planned and much-discussed 'Green Hornet' movie will likely crash again.
Fans recall that actor/director Stephen Chow abruptly bailed out of the project last December, just three months after he was announced as both directing and appearing as Kato in the film.
Columnist Drew McWeeny states that he's heard talk from people at the Sundance film festival that the Sony had pulled the plug on the project. Some follow up from "a source close to the film" refrained from declaring the project dead, but said it's unlikely that the movie will roll cameras this year. This means Sony won't be able to meet the announced release date of June 25, 2010.
If you're on Facebook and a friends with Mike Mignola, you'll find a dozen or so cool behind-the-scenes photos from the Budapest filming of 'Hellboy II: the golden Army'. These are candid photos taken by Mike and his family during their visit to the set.
At a recent press event, actor Samuel L. Jackson reiterated for IGN comments he previously made about the prospect of appearing in 'Iron Man 2' as S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury.
When asked if he was doing the part, Jackson said, "I'm not real sure that I'm gonna to have the opportunity to do that again because we've been having some difficulty coming to an agreement."
When asked if he wanted to do the part the actor said, "I would love to do it. I'm not sure that they would love for me to do it. It seems as though they're having money problems."
He then laughed and added, "'Iron Man' One didn't make much money so they can't afford to pay the rest of us anything."
Here's the clip:
'G.I Joe' director Stephen Sommers recently talked with EW's Hollywood Insider Blog who got right down to the critical question about the film: Did he make actress Sienna Miller (who plays the Baroness in the film) wear fake breasts and explain the decision to her by saying "I'm gonna be honest, I like girls with big boobs"? That was, at least, a story that circulated in UK papers.
Not surprisingly Sommers laughs off the rumor.
"Everybody here laughed because they know I would NEVER say that to an actress," says the filmmaker. "I guess the costume department gave her a tight fitting bra, but no one gave her rubber breasts or whatever. It is 100 percent Sienna Miller."
Miller's boobs aside, Sommers also commented on his actual inspiration for the film.
"I always loved the old Bonds," he says. "It's funny now how Bond wants to be Bourne. I loved Quantum of Solace, but it was like, man, this is a completely different movie to the Bonds I grew up with. In a very contemporary way, G.I. Joe is inspired by the memory of the kind of movies I saw when I was younger. I remember being in the theater for Thunderball and the big underwater battle at the end of that movie just blew my socks off. In G.I. Joe, there's an underwater battle under the polar icecap that's Thunderball times 10!"
I like the new direction the bond films are taking. Its a lot like with the Batman films. I believe the its called "Exagerated realism." The story is fiction, but it is also plausable that the events could happen in real life.
Im actually a little glad that green hornet is dead. seth rogen just wasn't right for the role.
Marvel took out loans to produce their films. Their pockets aren't as deep as most studios, one huge bomb and they're done. I don't blame them one iota for being a bit frugal, especially with secondary characters played by overhyped and overpaid actors. Good for them. If SLJ really wants top play Fury, bring your fee down. This guy takes any shit role offered, how about one with a ton of fans for a little less.
Green Hornet's death doesn't surprise me either. I was against this from the beginning. Doughy Rogen playing the GH with his lousy acting was the first joke. Hopefully the studio'll rethink their approach.
I don't know how to take Sommer' statement. I'm eager to see this film but I'm keeping my expectations low. The old Bond films were very cool but I think it may be too campy if you try that feel for GI Joe. We'll see.
Tired of all the TDK awards talk. I knew that they wouldn't ignore the amount of money it took, that's just par for the course. It's funny how they seem to give it all these low level awards. The film doesn't merit much IMO so that's their way of recognizing the box office total. And Ledger, please. Now they're making him out to be the "would've been the greatest thing ever" after he died.
Oh come on now, them Marvel bitches are lowballing everybody it seems and not just SLJ. Besides, SLJ already did something for the fans. You know that scene in Iron Man AFTER the credits so anyone that left and wanted to see it would have to pony up cash again thus helping Marvel's box office take.
They didn't want to pay Favreau, Howard, now SLJ and if the Rourke stuff is true then he's in the bunch. I wonder what the hell they offered Rockwell. If they don't want to pay the talents, I doubt they'll put money up for effects.
Sommers GI Joe scares the US shit out of me. You know this underwater battle is gonna be more of the same old typical CGI crap Sommers puts out. But I'm trying to be more optimistic in '09:-)
Ledger was GREAT and I think he did better in the role than alot of Maniacs thought he would. Dead or alive he still wins these awards IMO. Mike Uslan, the producer of Begins & TDK, stated in a recent interview that the 3rd Bale Bat-film will hit in 2011. Can't wait!
Flint - Pay no mind to Wiseguy, you know he's still sheds tears at night when he thinks of the whooping TDK gave IM.
This 2009 I plan on letting go of the hate but there is no escaping GI JOE will suck balls!!!
I say give Jackson the money. Sure they could find someone else, but I like continuity.
As for GI Joe, I'm still excited. Sommers scares the crap out of me, but still he might pull this off. I loved The Mummy and I love old Bond films, so . . .
$3 whore, huh? Suck Balls. Wow, I'm still feeling the hate from you guys. You guys go feel the balls. lol
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You know I had a good feeling the Green Hornet film was gonna die just like Burton's Superman Lives.The whole idea of Rogen being the Green Hornet and making it a comedy and Chow being Kato is just a slap in the face to Van Williams and Bruce Lee.I want to see the Green Hornet done right plus as much as I'm a huge fan of Batman I thought that show was far superior then the Batman tv show.I always thought George Clooney would've made a much better Green Hornet then being Batman.I know everyone says Jet Li for Kato and I'm down for that but I like Collin Chou who was Seraph in the Matrix sequels.
Marvel needs to fix their money problems don't want to see them go through bankruptcy again if their money problems are that bad.
Sommers does have a point a little bit on the Bond films today.Don't get me wrong I think the new ones are great but that's made the Bond films so great were the villains,the henchmen,the women,the gadgets,the cars and the villains lair's.So I would like to see some of that a little bit in the new Bond films especially Q you gotta have Q and Money Penny.But hopefully we'll get that teaser trailer of G.I.JOE on Super Bowl Sunday so we can get an idea on how it's gonna look style wise.Cause I'm not down on how everyone's uniform looks the same the only ones that look good to me is Snake-Eyes,Scarlett,Heavy Duty,Baroness and Storm Shadow looks alright.I also hope Cobra Commander looks good and not like crap.