NEWS ROUNDUP Ver. 13

NEWS ROUNDUP Ver. 13

SANDMAN

     With the San Diego Comic Con in full swing now news is flowing like blood from Jason's machete, it's fitting to start with this story. Neil Gaiman who become famous worldwide with the success of Sandman, Gaiman has announced that there will be another Sandman series focusing on how the King of Dreams was captured in the very first issue of the series. I have one word about this. Sold!

STAR TREK

     Well it seems like everyone was wrong about who the villain of the next Trek movie will be. Thanks to Karl Urban the surprise was ruined when he mentioned that it wasn't Khan (KKKKKHHHHHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!) but actually Benedict Cumberbach will be playing Gary Mitchell from the original series, which I think is even cooler than Khan. For spilling the beans, every time someone asks Urban about Star Trek he has to put a piece of tape over his mouth with the word Dredd over it. See below if you don't believe me!

DREDD 3D

     Speaking of Karl Urban, Dredd 3D had it's premiere at the SDCC and word is that it's super violent, gory, and just plain bad ass. As a bonus to all that, it is said that it's fun also. Can't wait!

THOR 2

     And now some sad news. Mads Mikkelsen is out of Thor 2 due to his schedule with Hannibal. Damn.

HORNS

     Now one of the cooler stories breaking out of SDCC, Daniel Radcliffe has got the role of Ig in Alexandre Aja' adaption of the Joe Hill novel about a man who wakes one morning with horns protruding from his forehead and the power to influence people to do evil. Again Radcliffe is going in a much darker direction with his acting and taken on much darker roles and I'm on board for it.

NEWS ROUNDUP Ver 6

NEWS ROUNDUP Ver 6

EXORCIST
     In just the completely wrong category, the remake of The Exorcist has been green lit. But, it won't be in theaters. Instead it is going to be a mini-series on TV and concentrate more on the "emotional" impact of what is happening. Enough said of this one......

ROBOCOP

     In some good news in response to the previous story, Gary Oldman has joined the cast of the Robocop remake. His role will be the creator of Robocop who has a moral dilemma between helping the machine find it's lost humanity and the needs of the corporation backing the project.

THOR 2

     In some casting news for the now in production Thor 2, and movie that adds Mads Mikkelsen to it's cast automatically gets better right away. His supposed role would be for the Executioner, the constant companion to the Enchantress. For the Loki fans, he is scheduled to be in the film as well.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

     On another Marvel comic movie front, there is rumor going around for a Guardians Of The Galaxy film now. The basis for the group is they came together after two back to back wars in the reaches in space left a void that is easily filled by conquerors to keep that from happening.  I don't care what the team will be, but if they don't have Rocket Raccoon, the foul tempered, anthropomorphic, gun loving raccoon I'm not watching it!

MAD MAX

     Charlize Theron let slip in a interview recently that filming for Mad Max: Fury Road will start next month. I just have to say after this film has been in pre-production for the past five years, it's about damn time!

TOONAMI
     What looked like a nice thank you from Cartoon Network on April Fool's Day could have possibly been a test run for the return of Toonami starting tonight. Two new animes are joining the line-up as well. These are:
 DEADMAN WONDERLAND:

   A young boy in the future is convicted of slaughtering his class and is sentenced to life imprisonment in a massive theme park like prison.

 CASSHERN SINS:

   A cyborg with no memory of the past is on a quest to find out what happened to the world that has become full of poison and how the human race is almost extinct and how he might have caused it.