News from the Movie World
Posted by Sinatra The Tank | Posted in Addams Family, Jamie Foxx, Kane and Lynch, Lord of the Rings, Tim Burton | Posted on 6:36 PM
So much news in the last day or so...
Via JoBlo
Tim Burton just wrapped the wildly successful (at least on a commercial level) ALICE IN WONDERLAND for Disney and now he's moving on to another animation studio. Don't get too excited, he's not making a film with Pixar but he's heading over to Chris Meladandri's Illumination Entertainment where he'll direct a stop-motion animated film based on THE ADDAMS FAMILY.
I know most of you are probably rolling your eyes around in your head in disbelief but if it's any consolation, Burton's vision will apparently not be based on either the 1960s TV series or the 1990s movies from Paramount. Instead the project will take its inspiration from the many Charles Addams drawings that appeared in the New Yorker.
The project is currently set up at Universal where Illumination has a first-look deal (their DESPICABLE ME hits theaters this summer). Meladandri will produce the project with Burton directing from an as-yet-to-be hired writer. As you can expect, Burton will use the Addams drawings as a launching point but the visuals will be all his own.
No word on when filming might begin but it's possible the film might not see release until 2012 at the earliest. Illumination is already working on HOP for 2011 and has WHERE'S WALDO, THE LORAX and FLANIMALS currently in the production timeline. Filming on this project isn't expected to impact Burton's other Disney film, the feature length adaptation of FRANKENWEENIE but what does it mean for other live-action pursuits remains unclear.
-I have a soft spot in my heart for the original Addams Family and even enjoy the sequel to a certain degree but seeing as how Burton is going the stop motion path and its based on the original comic strip and not the television shows or films I'm OK with this just please make Frankenweenie first Mr. Burton...you promised!
Jamie Foxx joins Kane and Lynch
Via Variety
Jamie Foxx in play for 'Kane & Lynch'Actor wraps up deal to join videogame adaptation
By MARC GRASER
Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx is finalizing a deal to get locked and loaded to play the schizophrenic killer James Lynch in Lionsgate and Millennium Films' bigscreen adaptation of the Eidos videogame "Kane & Lynch: Dead Men."
Bruce Willis has long been attached to play Kane in the actioner, first joniing to portray the mercenary Adam "Kane" Marcus, in 2008.
Production is expected to start in August, with Simon Crane, a second-unit director and stunt coordinator, making his feature directing debut on the pic.
In the pic, Kane must pair up with the rage-prone Lynch and has 72-hours to recover a doomsday device before his kidnapped wife and daughter are killed by the criminals who broke him out of prison.
Project is penned by Kyle Ward, who also adapted Sony's videogame "Uncharted" as a feature for the studio.
Adrian Askarieh and Daniel Alter will produce with David Willis and Millennium.
Askarieh and Alter were also producers on Eidos' adaptation of "Hitman," which grossed $100 million for 20th Century Fox. A sequel is in the works, with Ward scripting. The producers are also developing "Jonny Quest" at Warner Bros.
Foxx most recently co-starred in "Valentine's Day" and "Law Abiding Citizen."
IO Interactive is putting the finishing touches on "Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days," that Eidos will release in August.
-Never played th game but I remember the trailer giving off a real Collateral vibe and it seems like a cool enough story. I will say based on photos from the game and what not Willis at least looks the part, it seems that with casting Foxx in the role that his character will become a different race...odd choice.
The Hobbit starts filming in July
Via Comingsoon
Ian McKellen's site was quietly updated on Wednesday, March 17th to now say that filming will start in July, one month later.
The director Guillermo Del Toro is now living in Wellington, close to the Jacksons' and the studio in Miramar.
Ian McKellen, who is returning as Gandalf in the two films based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, has confirmed a report from earlier this year about the start of filming on his official website. The site says:
THE HOBBIT's, two films, start shooting in New Zealand in June. Filming will take over a year. Casting in Los Angeles, New York City and London has started. The script too proceeds. The first draft is crammed with old and new friends, again on a quest in Middle Earth.
-Nothing really to say here other then the expected excitement over this movie. I just hope they get someone good for Bilbo.
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