Alfonso Cuaron has at last make two big stars for his astronaut heroic poem . The bombardment of Doctor Who spoilers stay , and Edgar Wright discusses peradventure work on the show . Seth Green talks Robot Chicken and his super - secret Star Wars cartoon . Spoilerama !
Gravity
last , at long last , Alfonso Cuaron has his two big virtuoso for his astronaut movie . Warner Bros. has confirmed that George Clooney is play the movie ’s male supporting persona , one of two astronauts who survive a monumental explosion that kills the rest of the gang and leaves them with precious trivial time to hand the safety of the International Space Station . Robert Downey , Jr. was earlier localise to play the part , but he had to stoop out due to programming problems when it took far longer than expected to find the movie ’s run ma’am , a theatrical role offered to and call on down by Angelina Jolie and Natalie Portman before Sandra Bullock signed on . So , it ’s Sandra Bullock and George Clooney … or at least it is , until the next marvellous debacle erupts . [ Deadline ]
Tron Legacy
Director Joseph Kosinski explicate what drew him to the project in the first place :
It was , first of all , Jeff Bridges , continuing that story and get him on board , shooting a true 3D film shot with three-D cameras and finished in true 3D , none of this conversion . And this was two years before Avatar came out , so this is n’t something like … This is something that was conceived to be 3D from the very beginning .
And once we lead off talking story , this musical theme of CLU was fascinating , and this idea of being able to tell a story that no one had told before . And this relationship between a character and a rendering of himself at 35 was , to me , a new case of story and feel like a enceinte reason to kind of be ambitious in terms of the technology and attempt to push it further than it had been advertize before .
[ First Showing ]
Olivia Wilde explains what she and theater director Joe Kosinski wanted to accomplish with Quorra , and why they did n’t want her to be a femme fatale :
The flavour – yes , it was a true collaborationism to create Quorra . And when we originally started putting together ideas for it was really kind of up for grabs because Quorra , of course was not in the original film . And Joe Kosinski was very interested in making her a unequalled and unusual femme – not even femme fatale , a distaff heroine , if this case of film that was unlike any other . And so we turn very firmly to make her very intelligent and brawny but at the same time childlike and nuanced so that she would not just be there as a kind of foil for the men , not just the centre candy .
She could have very well I think with a different squad , that graphic symbol could have easily plough into the siren of the Tron world . She could ’ve just been this aphrodisiacal femme fatale . With a case like that it ’s easy to fall into that I think . But because Joe was adamant that she not be that it cause I work very , very hard to create someone who is not that we were able to work together to create Quorra . We were very invigorate by Joan of Arc . I institute the concept of Joan of Arc very early on , six month before we started shooting .
[ Film School reject ]
Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter
The Seth Grahame - Smith adaptation , produced by Tim Burton and direct by Wanted ’s Timur Bekmambetov , has reportedly localise a production start date of January 24 , 2011 , when film will commence in New Orleans . [ Nola.com ]
Doctor Who
Some more tantalizing detail have been revealed for “ A Christmas Carol . ” The tale is indeed influenced by the 7th Doctor short story “ Continuity Errors ” , but there are also allusion to “ Pyramids of Mars ” and “ School Reunion . ” The Doctor does indeed patently make an on - screenland visit to the United States during the course of this adventure , which ties in with previous reports about Frank Sinatra , Albert Einstein , Santa , and Marilyn Monroe . And , perhaps most importantly , the Doctor ’s dear fez makes a cameo appearance .
As for the time of year six trailer , this paper confirm the presence of a whiskered MD and part disrobed River Song , as well as an Ood , a bunch of Nazis , a “ cock-a-hoop china doll ” , and a gray extraterrestrial . I do n’t know whether we had hear anything before about German Nazi being ask , but I ’m up for it – astonishingly , the Doctor has never actually fought the Nazis on - silver screen , although he ’s come closeonceortwice . [ doc Who spoiler ]
A call - sheet for instalment two of serial six has turned up , and it bring out some of the scenes in Steven Moffat ’s American two - parter . you may chatter the link for the full equipment failure , but here are the highlights : the monsters of this story are confirmed as “ The Silents ” , people dressed as spaceman are involved , and Mark Sheppard gets a bunch of scenes as Canton , including some with just Amy . These scenes were all from the filming at Troy House , which double for an American orphanhood called Greystark Hall . [ Doctor Who Spoilers ; thanks to bluehinter for the bakshis ! ]
Toby Whithouse , who wrote last series ’s “ The Vampires of Venice ” and the early David Tennant story “ School Reunion ” , is write an episode this serial publication , agree to executive manufacturer Piers Wenger . There ’s some thought that it will be installment ten , thought that part is unconfirmed . [ Crave OnlineviaDoctor Who Spoilers ]
Looking further afield , Edgar Wright revealed that he would like to do a Doctor Who instalment ( ill-defined what that entail – presumptively unmediated , although the initial question is vague enough that he might mean compose and lineal , which would jolly much make my head burst forth from all the awe-inspiring ) . He say that Steven Moffat has given him an open invitation to get involve . It ’s all just dead chatter now , but frequent Wright collaborators Simon Pegg and Jessica Hymes have already had some pretty major involvement with the show , and Steven Moffat has already managed to bring in out-of-door luminaries like Richard Curtis and Neil Gaiman , so it ’s hardly unacceptable that Edgar Wright might get involved eventually . Here ’s the video , in which Wright also reveals the geekiest character reference in all of Scott Pilgrim : [ Digital Spy ]
The Cape
Show creator Tom Wheeler revealed a bunch of small details about the show , as well as tackling larger questions about what he wants to do with the show . He revealed that King Kong and Downfall doer Thomas Kretschmann will play a supervillain who has a prior connection to hero Vince Faraday ’s superpowered ness , and he will attempt to take back what he feels is his . He described Summer Glau ’s character Orwell as being both glamorous and “ very military . ” He confirmed Mena Suvari ’s fibre Dice is a supervillain . He cite an upcoming episode features a poisoned beer bottle , and Vince Faraday has to fight Vinnie Jones ’s villain scale on a train . There ’s a plenty more at the link . [ SpoilerTV ]
Robot Chicken : Star Wars Episode III
Seth Green explained how the storytelling structure has evolved over the three special , and what ’s in store for this last one :
The first one we made included every put-on that every nerd has been thinking for the last 25 years , and we put them on TV in sketch format . With the second one we experiment with the idea of telling specific tale , centre around the same characters and catch up with them in sequence , like following the bounty hunters Darth Vader hires in Empire and showing how they all get under one’s skin that problem . Then Matt had the mind of telling the entire serial of Star Wars in one episode through the eyes of a few primal characters – namely , the Emperor , Darth Vader , Boba Fett , and Gary the Stormtrooper – and that ’s what this is .
He also teased what they ’ll be doing with Jar Jar in this one :
In Episode III , we ’ve also tried to give him a little redemption , like maybe he was n’t fox , maybe he was n’t manipulate into pass on Palpatine power . Maybe he was malevolent all along , and his way of ruin the galaxy was to act like a bumbling idiot and get in a locating of power where he could hand Hitler the keys to the universe .
There ’s a lot more from Green at the link , including why Star Wars is so perfect for comedic reinterpretation . [ EW ]
Star Wars Animated Show
As for the ignoble animated comedy he ’s developing for Lucasfilm , Green had only this to say :
I literally ca n’t tell you anything about it , but I will say this : It wo n’t look like any Star Wars you ’ve seen . It ’s a whole new aesthetic .
Make of that what you will . [ EW ]
misfit
Here ’s a synopsis , sneak peek , and some photos for episode six : [ Daemon ’s idiot box ]
The work party ’s major power have been exposed to the total worldly concern . They ’re ruddy famous celebrity top-notch bomber ! And they ’re being predict the ` Asbo Five ’ .
Why ? There ’s serious money to be made – they just need to deal their fame . settle in a luxury hotel , the newly outed hero become the target of a sinister sea wolf with the most bizarre exponent yet .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9P6XhZZcn8
And here are four fink peeks and some promo photograph for the seventh installment , the Christmas special : [ SpoilerTV ]
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Dirk Gently ’s Holistic Detective Agency
The stars of the coming BBC adaptation of Douglas Adams ’s other major original science fiction oeuvre discuss the challenges of translating Adams to the screen . Dirk Gently histrion Stephen Mangan explains how he sees his very odd character :
Dirk ’s delineate as freaky . A bit of a rebel . puzzling . I conceive he ’s unusual for a police detective . Most detectives when they explain what has happened in a case , everyone goes , “ Aah . ” But when Dirk explicate what ’s happened , everyone go , “ What ? ” He come at things from a very peculiar angle . He ’s a mystery story . He ’s sort of unknowable , really , and confusing . A scrap random .
A conman , perhaps ?
I do n’t think he think he ’s a conman at all . He needs to pay the split . I call back he ’s receive a good heart . I do n’t think he ’s a cold operator , but sometimes he finds it necessary , for people ’s good as well as his own , to bend the accuracy , slightly .
Mangan also affirm that the show will have some of the science fable elements come across in the book :
There are some of those elements in it . It is n’t simply a domestic , Earth - ricochet , world - as - we - roll in the hay it storey . It does explore those areas . And when the BBC commissions the 49 - part series , which hopefully they will , it ’ll go even further . It ’s not set in the world of the forward-looking day . There are some of those other elements to it .
Producer Chris Carey explained how they design to take material from the books ( Dirk Gently ’s Holistic Detective Agency , The Long , Dark Tea - Time of the Soul , and the unfinished The Salmon of Doubt ) if the show does get picked up for a full serial publication :
Well , I think the approach to the books that [ author ] Howard Overman make , which was not to do straight adaptations , as we ’ve said before – what the Bob Hope is , because there ’s only two - and - a - half books , is that we can cherry pick piddling bit from them over many , many instalment . Because , as fan of the Book get it on , they ’re full of rich , rich detail . And because of the path Dirk processes information , they ’ll find their mode in , regardless of how obscure they might be .
In the pilot alone , there are lots of slight fine art direction substance from the volume for people to pick up on , and hopefully , over the course of the series , we ’ll be able to take little bits , and keep doing so for a lot longer than if Dirk Gently had been accommodate straight from the book .
There ’s a ton more at the link , including the other actors excuse how their character tally together on the show and how they ’ve been changed from the book . [ Den of Geek ]
Being Erica
The meter - traveling Canadian show , which is all about a womanhood traveling through her own timeline to fix her past mistakes , is get an American remaking on ABC . I ’m not sure why it ’s necessary to make over a Canadian show for American audiences , although I can only take it ’s because of the original ’s invariant references to poutine , the Edmonton Oilers , and Brian Mulroney . Or it might be that the show is already a little too well - known in the US to import it straight to ABC . [ Variety ]
extra reportage by Katharine Trendacosta and Charlie Jane Anders .
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