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Following hot on the heels of the news that Legendary Pictures has pulled the plug on director Alex Proyas' (I, Robot) planned adaptation of John Milton's 17-century poem about the Fall of Man, Paradise Lost, that would have seen Bradley Cooper play the devil, two more movie adaptations have bitten the dust. According to THR, Columbia Pictures has dumped director Adam McKay's (Anchorman, The Other Guys) live-action adaptation of the violent anti-superhero comic book The Boys that has been in development for nearly four years, and Screen Gems has dropped Scott Charles Stewart's (Priest) adaptation of Cassandra Clare's young adult fantasty series The Mortal Instruments.
what happened to the movie adaptations? >> Posted 02.12.12 by BrentJS -
The first preview clip from director Scott Stewart's (Legion) new movie, Priest, has been released and it finally gives fans of butt-kicking actress Maggie Q (Live Free or Die Hard, Deception) something they can really sink their teeth into (vampire pun thoroughly intended). In the movie, which is loosely based on the Korean comic book of the same name by Min-Woo Hyung, Q plays Priestess, a vampire hunter with Jedi-like powers in a post-apocalyptic world where humans live in walled cities dominated by the authority of the Church following the devastating Vampire War. When Priest (Paul Bettany) goes against Church law by leaving the city to hunt down the coven of vampires led by Black Hat (Karl Urban) who kidnapped his niece (Lily Collins), Priestess is one of the warriors sent by the Church to bring him in dead or alive.
Watch Maggie Q in action >> Posted 04.23.11 by BrentJS -
Just prior to the opening of writer-director Zack Snyder's genre-mashed action movie, Sucker Punch, a series of animated shorts were released as prologues of sorts to several of the fantastical realms in the movie. Now, another action movie with a genre identity crisis, director Scott Stewart's (Legion) post-apocalyptic vampire movie, Priest, has got its own animated prologue, this one by acclaimed animator, director and producer Genndy Tartakovsky (The Powerpuff Girls, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Samurai Jack). Here's hoping Priest's animated prologue will help deliver better results at the box office than Sucker Punch's anemic performance.
watch the new animated prologue >> Posted 04.08.11 by BrentJS -
A new trailer for director Scott Stewart's (Legion) post-apocalyptic vampire movie, Priest, has been released on the official Facebook page for the movie. Loosely based on the Korean manhwa (comic book) of the same name by Min-Woo Hyung, Priest stars Paul Bettany as the title character, a Jedi-like warrior priest who disobeys church law to go after a coven of rogue vampires who have kidnapped his niece (Lily Collins). While much of the footage in the trailer has been seen before, it does contain a few new snippets from scenes that feature Karl Urban as the leader of the vampires, Black Hat.
watch the new trailer >> Posted 03.18.11 by BrentJS -
Universal has had directors lined up to take the helm of the adaptation Ouija, based on Hasbro's board game that supposedly allows players to talk to ghosts and spirits. According to THR, directors Pierre Morel (Taken), Sylvain White (The Losers), Scott Stewart (Legion), and John Moore (Max Payne) have all failed to land the gig, which leaves Universal to decide between two other directors who are vying for the job — McG and Breck Eisner (The Crazies). Eisner reportedly pitched his take to the studio last week before McG's Friday presentation and Universal is taking the holidays to think through their decision.
Will Ouija be scary? >> Posted 12.20.10 by Ryan -
Universal Pictures has announced their release schedule through 2013, which was highlighted by a few high-profile projects. First on the list is Larry Crowne, the comedy that Tom Hanks is directing and starring in with Julia Roberts and a strong supporting cast. Larry Crowne opens on July 1, 2011, opposite Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
Mark your calendars >> Posted 10.30.10 by Ryan -
Director Scott Stewart's adaptation of Korean author Min-Woo Hyun's comic book Priest has had a rough beginning. Originally intended for an October 2010 release, Priest has been shuffled not once, not twice, not thrice, but four times before settling into its (still holding) May 13, 2011, release date.
While both comic book movies and vampire movies are enjoying popularity at the box office lately, Priest also combines sci-fi elements by placing the movie in a world where priests are, according to Stewart, "like Jedi knights" who have saved humanity once before from vampires but are now treated as outcasts as the movie begins. It's up to Paul Bettany to save the day when he uncovers a vampire conspiracy.
Enough Talking, let's see this trailer >> Posted 09.10.10 by Ryan -
Director Scott Stewart's (Legion) latest movie, Priest, is a hard movie to define. Loosely based on the Korean manhwa (comic book) of the same name by Min-Woo Hyung, Priest is an alternate-reality, post-apocalyptic vampire movie with elements of superhero and horror movies mixed together with a dash of classic Westerns. As if that mixture isn’t already enough to digest, Stewart recently revealed to MTV that Star Wars and the Vietnam War are also influences on the movie.
what is the story behind Priest? >> Posted 08.28.10 by BrentJS -
Principal photography on director Scott Stewart's (Legion) latest movie, Priest, has wrapped and Canadian ET was on hand for the final day of shooting to talk to stars Paul Bettany, Cam Gigandet and Stephen Moyer. The interviews are brief and not altogether enlightening, but the clip does include a behind-the-scenes look at a creepy subterranean set and some of the wire-work action in the movie.
Based on the Korean comic book by Min-Woo Hyung, Priest takes place in a "retro-futuristic" world in which warrior priests stand in opposition to vampires and their sub-human slaves. The movie was originally slated to open in October, but the release was pushed back to January 2011 to accommodate 3-D conversion. Karl Urban and Maggie Q also star.
Posted 03.16.10 by BrentJS -
Only a week after director Scott Stewart (Legion) told MTV how excited he was that his latest movie, Priest, would be debuting in the summer, it was announced that the release date has been pushed back to the dead of winter. Initially slated for an October 2010 release, the date was switched to August 27, 2010, to take advantage of a summer weekend vacated byResident Evil: Afterlife, which moved to January 14, 2011 (and subsequently moved again to September 10, 2010), the date now given as the new release date for Priest.
Priest's release being pushed back five months may seem like a sign of trouble at first glance, but Clint Culpepper, President of Screen Gems, announced in a press release that the reason for the delay is to allow time for a 3-D conversion.
We're thrilled with the way Priest has come together, and we saw some spectacular sequences in the film that we all believed would be even more amazing in 3-D. Scott, as well as the producers, couldn't be more excited to make the film available for audiences in both 2D and 3D.
Priest is based on the manhwa (Korean for "comic book" or "print cartoon") by Min-Woo Hyung and takes place in a "retro-futuristic" world populated by Jedi-like Priests in opposition to the forces of darkness personified by vampires and their sub-human slaves. Paul Bettany, Cam Gigandet, Karl Urban, and Maggie Q star.
Posted 02.06.10 by BrentJS