Showing posts with label Rise of the Apes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rise of the Apes. Show all posts

The apes rise again

I keep forgetting there's a new Planet of the Apes movie coming out. Maybe it's because Tim Burton's redo wasn't all that great or that the new film, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, stars James Franco. I dunno.

Below is the first teaser for Rise, due out in August. Most of the carnage in the trailer doesn't happen until towards the end of the movie. The rest is supposed to be a drama. I'm cool with that, but there's nothing in this preview that gets the blood pumping. It does, however, look slick.

I have an interest in another Apes movie like a do in another Three Musketeers movie, which is also slated for release this year. I think it's the lack of originality in Hollywood right now that is keeping us in The Basement from theatres. Try coming up with a new idea once in a while guys. Bah! I'm tired of preaching to dead air.

Watch the preview and judge for yourselves.

Sci-Fi Movie Casting News Roundup

I'm a bit behind on these casting news so I'm just rounding them up here for you. you can clink on the links to read the full story.

Tommy Lee Jones has been cast as Colonel Phillips in Captain America: The First Avenger. [Collider]

Alice Eve is in negotiations to play Emma Frost, a.k.a the White Queen on X-Men First: Class. [Heat Vision]

Rosamund Pike, who had been in the running to play Emma Frost, will instead play Moira McTaggert. [Cinema Blend]

Dominic Cooper has been confirmed as playing a young Howard Stark (Tony Stark's dad - Iron Man) in Captain America: The First Avenger. [Collider]

Andrew Serkis, who was absolutely fantastic as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, has been cast in the role of Caesar in Rise of the Apes. The role is a motion capture performance [Collider]

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