The folks at IGN/Filmforce attended the L.A. premiere of Hollywoodland on Thursday night, and caught up with British actor Bob Hoskins. (IESB.net has the video). The assembled press took the chance to ask Hoskins about the repeated rumors that he's in the running to play the Penguin in The Dark Knight:
When asked if the rumors were true, a sincerely surprised Hoskins replied, "Where did you hear that?" Hoskins was told it was in magazines and online. IGN then asked the Long Good Friday and Mrs. Henderson Presents actor if he would accept the Penguin role if offered to which he responded, "Yeah, of course!"
When asked if he'd like to work with director Christopher Nolan, Hoskins replied simply, "Yeah, love to," before being escorted away from reporters.
Hoskins wou;d make a good choice n the role with that gravely voice of his...
In a related news story, Batman On Film had this:
...actor Heath Ledger who is cast as The Joker in The Dark Knight, spoke with the Toronto Star about the role.
"I wouldn't have thought of me, either. But it's obviously not going to be what Jack Nicholson did. It's going to be more nuanced and dark and more along the lines of A Clockwork Orange kind of feel. Which is, I think, what the comic book was after: less about his laugh and more about his eyes.
While we're on the subject of sequels:
Stax of Filmforce reports that a third Mummy flick seems likely...
Fraser Set For Mummy 3?
Series star reportedly back for sequel.
Brendan Fraser is reportedly set to reprise his role as Rick O'Connell in The Mummy 3. Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park III) has been offered the director's chair.
The script has been penned by Smallville and Shanghai Noon vets Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. Plot details for the movie were not divulged. Stephen Sommers, who wrote and directed the first two installments, is apparently not involved with this sequel. No word yet on whether Oscar winner Rachel Weisz or Oded Fehr will also return for the third film.
Universal is lining up The Mummy 3 to film early next year, according to ProductionWeekly.com.
Fraser will first shoot Inkheart for director Iain Softley. The family fantasy pic is an adaptation of Cornelia Funke's book. Inkheart is slated for a November start in the U.K.
I thought The Mummy (1999) was a fun action adventure romp...but The Mummy Returns (2001) was a real disappointment. The third one could go either way. For it to work the story had better be really really good--I hope Alfred Gough and Miles Millar are reading this!
Topping off our stew...something close to home.
From yesterday's World Entertainment News Network column:
Rocky Statue Returns to Museum of Art Steps
A larger-than-life statue of Sylvester Stallone as movie boxer Rocky Balboa is to stand proudly near the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania.
The site featured in the first Rocky film and has become a tourist attraction ever since as film fans clamber up the steps with the Rocky theme ringing in their ears and salute the heavens at the top of the flight.
Despite objections from snooty museum bosses, who insisted the statue wasn't artistic enough to stand before the building, the city's Art Commission approved a plan on Wednesday to place the bronzed Rocky there. The statue, donated to the city by Stallone in 1982, has been stored in a warehouse for years after it was removed from the museum steps - its first home. For a time it stood proudly in front of the Spectrum Sports Arena in South Philadelphia. And city officials aren't wasting time in returning the statue to its first home - a dedication ceremony [already happened last night]
For more on the story click here...
Hey Yo!
The Statue is Once Again a Work Of Art
1 comment:
This is such a joke. I'm sorry . . . yes, that statue has some meaning to the city, blah, blah, blah. It's a movie prop, for god's sake!!! Go to the Art Musuem any day of the week and you can see people running up the steps and stopping at the top arms raised -- without the statue there. Why does it need to be returned? Sometimes I really hate this town.
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