Stax of Filmforce starts us off with a controversy over the script for Rob Zombie's updated Halloween flick.
Although casting was under way and the commencement of principal photography in California was imminent, filmmaker Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween has reportedly been delayed while the screenplay is reworked.
The brouhaha supposedly began when Ain't It Cool News panned a draft of Zombie's script, which caused Zombie to retort on his My Space blog: "I notice that so many people get crazy when someone you don't even know posts an opinion about what they think Halloween will or won't be. This is crazy. Do you really go through life influenced by the thoughts of others that easily? Anyway, things change so much in a movie, from moment to moment, from second to second that all I can say is : see it for yourself and figure out if you like it or not."
Bloody-Disgusting now reports that "what we've heard from industry buzz is that after the online fiasco, shock-rocker Rob Zombie is going back to the script and doing more re-writes, thus pushing the shoot back a bit, thus forcing the release back from its August 31st date. We've called people on all fronts and can't get a straight answer, so I guess only time will tell the truth."
The site adds that Lindy Booth (Wrong Turn) and Agnes Bruckner (The Woods) are in the running to play main character Laurie Strode... if and when filming actually happens
I have read the script review posted by Quint over at AICN, and assuming his information is correct...I gotta be honest and say that as major fan of the 1978 classic, I was disappointed by Zombie's take on the story as written and welcome the rewrite...
Actor Dylan Baker is talking about his character's return in Spider-Man 3 and the future of the superhero series to IF Magazine (report via Dark Horizons)
Hanging Out In Spider-Man 3
...Baker has played Dr. Curt Conners in the past two films, a small role but one many have been waiting to see turn into the villainous The Lizard.
Baker confirms that "I am in SPIDER-MAN 3, and my wife Becky Ann Baker is also in the movie, she plays James Cromwell's wife and Bryce Dallas Howard's mother".
Don't expect the Lizard to show up this time though - "In this one I am still in my business suit and that's all I'll say. I'm kind of the guy that Peter Parker needs to come to whenever he has those quandaries about what's going on... All I can say is we're going to see a lot more of [me] at some point if what [director Sam Raimi] says is true, and Sam is the guy who knows, so I am sticking with him."
Would he be up for playing the Lizard? "Oh yeah [I'd be up for that]. I'm friends with Alfred Molina and I just saw him the other day and he had so much fun doing Doc Ock, that for me it's a no-brainer. So, put it in [the movie] and let's go".
Speaking of the possibility more Spidey flicks...
Michael Fleming of Variety writes:
Shortly after getting their first look at "Spider-Man 3," Columbia Pictures execs have begun negotiating with David Koepp to pen the script for a fourth installment of the franchise.
Koepp, who most recently wrote the draft of a fourth "Indiana Jones" project that got George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford to reteam for Paramount, scripted the 2002 Spidey film that launched the studio's most lucrative franchise.
Alvin Sargent scripted the second and third installments; all the pics in the Marvel Comics franchise were directed by Sam Raimi.
"Spider-Man 3" bows on May 4, with Thomas Haden Church playing Sandman and Topher Grace as Venom. Laura Ziskin produces with Avi Arad and Grant Curtis.
[Columbia] is just beginning the process of development on the fourth Spidey pic -- a pricey exercise since new deals will have to be made with Tobey Maguire, Kirstin Dunst and James Franco, along with Raimi if he decides to return to direct a fourth film.
The studio would release the pic in 2009 or 2010.
The first two movies had a combined worldwide gross north of $1 billion.
Koepp got the Spidey movies off to a great start and I look forward to seeing what his talents as a writer bring us in Indiana Jones 4. If anyone can pull that script off--Koepp can. Leading me to this last blurb...
Sir Sean Connery has confirmed he is considering returning to the silver screen to reprise one of his most popular roles in Indiana Jones 4.
The actor told UK Teletext he will read the script for the fourth movie and, if he likes what he sees, will appear once more as Indiana's father, Dr Henry Jones.
Connery said: "At the moment there's nothing decided. I haven't got the script. Everything depends on the script."
"We are writing him in whether he wants to do it or not," Lucas said on an American TV show recently.
I hope Connery decides to do Indy 4--He was a huge reason that The Last Crusade worked as well as it did--and this latest chapter just wouldn't be the same without him.
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