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There's only a couple months left for Twentieth Century Fox to start shooting their Daredevil reboot, which took a step back when director David Slade dropped out last month due to his commitment to helming the pilot for the upcoming NBC series Hannibal. Fox has until October to put a movie into place or the rights will revert back to Marvel Studios and parent company Disney, but it looks like Fox may have a plan that could keep the blind superhero at the studio.
What will Fox have to give up to keep Daredevil? >> Posted 08.07.12 by Ryan -
Russell Crowe seems to be up for every role available lately. Already set to play Inspector Javert in The King's Speech director Tom Hooper's musical version of Les Miserables starting this month, Crowe was recently cast in Winter's Tale, which will serve as the directorial debut for Academy Award–winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind). Crowe could add yet another project that would team the actor with Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky.
According to Deadline, Aronofsky wants Crowe for the title role in Noah, the director's take on the Biblical story that he has described as a "big event film." Crowe is not officially in the role, though Aronofsky is reportedly interested in the Australian actor for the lead. Aronofsky initially courted The Dark Knight actor Christian Bale for the role, but apparently scheduling issues have kept Bale from accepting the part. The director is also interested in Liam Neeson for an unspecified role as well.
what about Death Wish and RoboCop? >> Posted 02.04.12 by Ryan -
Director Joe Carnahan's previous movie, the 2010 remake of The A-Team, suffered from lousy reviews and poor box office that essentially killed any talk of a sequel, but Carnahan is riding high after his latest movie, the survivalist action movie The Grey, opened at number one at the box office. Following The Grey's success, Carnahan has already lined up his next project, a remake of Michael Winner's 1974 crime thriller Death Wish.
more about Death Wish >> Posted 01.31.12 by Ryan -
Irish actor Liam Neeson has made a habit of making action thrillers lately— 2009's Taken and 2010's Unknown, for example — but the upcoming The Grey has looked like one of Neeson's most difficult challenges yet. The movie follows a team of oil drillers who crash-land in the Alaskan wilderness, and Neeson's attempt to keep them all alive in the midst of freezing temperatures and a hungry pack of wolves.
Based on the short story "Ghost Walkers" by Ian Jeffers, The Grey reunites Neeson with his The A-Team director Joe Carnahan, who also co-wrote the script with Jeffers. A new red band trailer for the movie shows the brutality of the initial airplane crash, the wolves' attacks as well as the freezing conditions that Neeson revealed in a conversation with Collider that made him think that The Grey would be "impossible to shoot."
read neeson's comments and watch the trailer >> Posted 01.24.12 by Ryan -
Two new preview clips from The Grey, director Joe Carnahan's (The A-Team) new action thriller starring his go-to guy, Academy Award-nominated actor Liam Neeson (Schindler's List), have been released online. Based on the short story "Ghost Walkers" by Ian Jeffers — who also co-wrote the screenplay adaptation with Carnahan — the movie follows a team of oil drillers who crash-land in the Alaskan wilderness. Though fortunate to walk away from the plane crash, Ottway (Neeson) and his cohorts have to fight to stay alive, as bitter temperatures, lack of food, and a pack of ravenous wolves threaten to finish them off.
watch the new clips >> Posted 01.12.12 by BrentJS -
Rugged Irish actor Liam Neeson has become the go-to guy for writer-director Joe Carnahan. Carnahan chose Neeson to play Hannibal, the leader of the group of wrongly-convicted war heroes in his modern adaptation of the classic TV show The A-Team, and also the "oil-rig roughneck" at the center of his latest movie, The Grey, which opens later this month.
Though Carnahan recently admitted that he doesn't think he will be re-teaming with Neeson on a sequel to The A-Team — "I don’t want to get tied up in that whole world of sequels and franchises." — he's not done with the Academy Award-nominated actor just yet. In an interview with Collider in support of The Grey, Carnahan said that Neeson would be "fantastic" as the hero cop in Nemesis, the planned live-action adaptation of Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar's comic book about a white-clad supervillain with the money and skills of Batman in a world without superheroes.
what did carnahan say? >> Posted 01.11.12 by BrentJS -
It appears as if director Martin Campbell is committed to saving the earth from alien menaces. Campbell last directed the superhero movie Green Lantern, in which Ryan Reynolds donned a green ring to help save the planet from the threat of the fear-parasite Parallax, and now Campbell will attempt to thwart aliens from breeding with humans as the director of Umbra. According to Deadline, Campbell will be taking the helm away from outgoing director Joe Carnahan (The A-Team), who has left the project "for personal reasons."
more about Umbra >> Posted 01.09.12 by BrentJS -
While most moviegoers living in the Northern United States are seeing (snow) white right about now, Open Road Films is hoping they'll see grey, as in The Grey, director Joe Carnahan's (The A-Team) new action thriller opening next month. Open Road debuted both a new trailer and an extended TV spot for the movie earlier this month, and now a behind-the-scenes featurette has been released online.
Titled "Into the Fray," the featurette primarily focuses on the star of the movie, Academy Award-nominated actor Liam Neeson (Schindler's List), and how he "went whole hog" for the role of an "oil-rig roughneck" who is forced to fend off the elements and ravenous wolves after his plane crashes in the Alaskan wilderness. Though Neeson admits in the featurette that he wasn't sure if he could "physically" handle the role — which required him to shoot on location in British Columbia, Canada, during the dead of winter — Carnahan credited his "stunning performance" with elevating the performances of the rest of the actors in the movie.
watch the featurette >> Posted 12.29.11 by BrentJS -
The first trailer for the upcoming The Grey made it almost seem like Liam Neeson was going to be alone as he fights off the elements and a pack of wolves after being stranded in the Alaskan wild after a plane crash. The second trailer offered more of Neeson's fellow survivors, including Frank Grillo (Warrior), Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend's Wedding), Dallas Roberts (3:10 To Yuma), Joe Anderson (The Crazies), James Badge Dale (the upcoming World War Z, HBO’s The Pacific), and Nonso Anozie (Conan The Barbarian).
The Grey debuted at Ain't It Cool News' Butt-Numb-a-Thon earlier this month, and, after the strong response, The Grey director Joe Carnahan (The A-Team) sent them an extended, Twitter TV spot, which includes footage mostly pulled from the second trailer along with reviews and responses sent over Twitter about the movie.
watch the spot >> Posted 12.23.11 by Ryan -
Liam Neeson may be pushing 60, but he's showing no signs of slowing down. Despite his age, the Academy Award-nominated actor and former boxer proved that he was still a bankable action hero with the surprise hit Taken (2008) and is currently filming Taken's untitled sequel.
But, before he squares off on the big screen against kidnappers in Istanbul, Neeson will be fighting the frigid, sub-arctic tundra and a pack of ravenous wolves as an "oil-rig roughneck" whose plane crashes in the remote Alaskan wilderness in The Grey. The first trailer for the movie dropped back in September, and now a second, longer trailer has been released that ups the action with more death-defying thrills, spills, and chills (brrr), including more of Neeson doing an impersonation of Wolverine that is so impressive it makes Hugh Jackman look like a choir boy.
watch the new trailer >> Posted 12.04.11 by BrentJS