The information age isn’t finished with us.
We are hearing about a forthcoming Science Fiction feature called Riot Girls. Jovanka Vuckovic is to direct and it is penned by Katherine Collins; after a plague kills all of the adults, a young girl sets out with her girlfriend and a boy to save her brother.
No cast or shooting schedule yet.
We have more news about alien invasion film, Extinction; a man has recurrent dreams, where his wife is assaulted, he wakes up to an alien invasion (I’m not getting the connection, you getting the connection?)
We blogged about this way back in Grunt (140). Back then they were being more forthcoming about the plot. Described as “The Sixth Sense meets Cloverfield”, the protagonist gives up 6 years of life to relive one day. (Wait a sec that does not even slightly jibe with the first description, now I really don’t get the connection).
Brad Caleb Kane, Spenser Cohen and Eric Heisserer wrote the script, they are still looking for a director and cast.
We blogged Colossal back in… wait, we haven’t covered it…
Reviews are coming in and the verdict is …Huh?
This is another film from Nacho (Timecrimes) Vigalondo.
See, it is a giant monster movie where the focus is on the personal relationships (and not between giant monsters). It is not because of this aspect but the very particular way the story has been told that is leading to reviewer’s bemusement.
This film attracted some controversy when the pre-sales crew went to Japan and got into legal problems through mentioning Godzilla in their sales patter.
Colossal is at the festival stage, more when it gets general distribution.
Capsule (“the British Gravity” notwithstanding that Gravity was filmed in the UK, and assessed as a British film by the BAFTA committee…) is now out in supermarkets. They are still insisting it is based on a true story. And if anyone knows which true story that might be, feel free to tell me.
“What Happened to Monday?” -Grunting (135)- which has apparently been knocking around since 2011 will finally be made. What makes us so sure? Netflix just bought it and they don’t play.
Improbably enough Noomi Rapace is still attached, also cast is Glenn Close, and Tommy “Dead Snow” Wirkola is to direct. The plot is pretty much as before: a dystopia where every family is allowed just one child, but one enterprising couple has had a sextuplet of girls, each comes out on a different day of the week which is all fine until Monday goes missing.
More as it emerges, but I suspect it will follow the usual Netflix route of a short cinema release before being streamed.
We are hearing about a feature in planning, ISRA-88; two astronauts take a voyage in search of the edge of the universe, one goes mad.
Director will be Thomas Zellen, Sean Maher is to star.
It is set to shoot this month.
I stumbled on Iron Danger, while looking for something else. It’s from Finland. This is a feature from director Sami Timonen based on the epic, poem the Kalevala.
However it’s no elf and dwarf story. It’s been updated; how can we put it: Mechs verses superpowers.
Take a look yourself.
OK, the CG is a bit ropy. But it does the job.
Expect a 2017 release. No world on International distribution.
Last Grunt we intimated of an exciting new project from the director of District 9.
Ah, it appears the New Project Neill Blomkamp is involved in is, in fact, an advertisement, in-fact a sequel to a series of web advertisements starring Clive Owen and his black BMW from a few years back.
Pity… I was hoping for a movie.
The live-action Attack on Titan is definitely in shops now. I have seen it. It is in two separate parts, neither DVD has extras.
As mentioned before, it has attracted unambiguously bad reviews… but then there are some cool visuals…
The Girl With all the Gifts opens this week, this one has attracted unambiguously good reviews, however it is a zombie movie (kind of) if you like the Kind of zombie genre that 28 Days later pioneered (but with a twist) then it may be for you
What’s Ridley Doing? No Really?
Yes Ridley Scott is buying projects again.
This time he is buying a book from one of my favourite Crime writer’s Don Winslow.
Winslow wrote the Power of the Dog and The Cartel, His novel Savages was made by Oliver Stone and several other of his novels have been optioned.
Warner Bros., on behalf of Ridley Scott have optioned Winslow’s latest unpublished manuscript. Check this, it is so far untitled.
Man I hate “untitled”, drives me nuts.
Anyway, this one is based in the world of the NYPD, and is centred on a dirty cop. (I like it already). Winslow is calling it his masterpiece (and that is saying something). But for godsake; give it a title.
But anyway, this “untitled” projects takes its place in line with the other projects Scott has lined up.
Thankfully he has unloaded a bunch of projects onto other people: The Forever War, and Monopoly have been passed on and The Wolf of Wall Street was also one of his.
This still leaves a bunch of films he has been sitting on: The Prisoner, The Cartel (he hasn’t made that Winslow feature and he’s just bought another!), The Devil in the Kitchen, Wool, and Fae (this is far from comprehensive).
Well at least it is unlikely he will be making that film about sports concussions because Will Smith already made that film.
But, but, we can’t complain*; Ridley Scott’s last film was Science Fiction and will his next one also be. I am happy, no, really, this is my happy face.
*Huh?
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