The News Roundup [Aug 15]
So I realize I’m a day late. Well I could give you all sorts of excuses, but that would amount to basically nothing, so let’s get on with the show. Lots of news to cover this week and we can start out with…
Phillip Seymour Hoffman to direct. He is one of the best character actors in recent days, and he won the Oscar for his role in Truman Capote in the film Capote. He has been working in the theatre apparently, where he starred in “Jack Goes Boating”. The play is about two stoners who are in love. I don’t know much other than that, but I am a believer in the PSH, love his acting and can easily see him as being a great drama/dark comedy director. Definitely looking forward to seeing more information in the future about this project.
Steve Carell and Tina Fey in “Date Night”. These two comedy giants are going to playing the lead roles in the new Shawn Levy directed film [“Date Night”]. The film is about a married couple who go out on a date one night attempting to keep things exciting in the relationship, and they end up somewhere they obviously did not as they end up on a unexpected adventure. This can go either way. As I’ve said before, not a big fan of a lot of Steve Carell’s movies, and Tina Fey I adore. Will wait to pass judgement on this one until we hear some more about this project.
Punisher: War Zone will not be PG-13 [Rumour squashed]. The reboot of the Punisher franchise which is due for release December 5 of this year was rumoured to be cut down to a PG-13 version, after the huge success of “The Dark Knight” which was able to show us a dark tale and still remain PG-13. Personally, I’m looking at this movie right now as a guilty pleasure. I’m a big MARVEL fan, and love most of their stuff, especially a lot of their movie adaptations. But I was sold when I noticed that Dominic West [“McNulty” from “The Wire”] will be portraying the villain in the film, known as “Jigsaw”. This one seems a lot more action oriented and has more of a comic book feel to it. I definitely don’t have high expectations right now, but will be watching it anyways.
Kick-Ass begins casting. Matthew Vaughn [also directed “Layer Cake” and “Stardust”] has begun casting his newest film “Kick-Ass”. It will be based on the graphic novel by the same name created by Mark Millar [also created “Wanted”]. It has been rumoured on the internet that “Superbad” star Christopher Mintz-Plasse will be casted as the lead role in the film. I actually finished reading the first issue of this book just yesterday, and I’m hyped for this film already. I loved everything about that issue and I totally see McLovin as the lead in this film as it is about a average ignored high school student, nerd-ish, who is not athletic or anything, and he decides that he will be a superhero, with no superpowers. It is something that will make you want to feel bad for the child and wonder what drives you to try something like that, and at the same time, makes you think about the idea of real life heroes.
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