Star Life Talk and Gossip

Battleship is a popular board game by Hasbro (I think I played it when I was in 3rd grade) which director, Peter Berg, is going to turn into a movie, with permissions from the game company. I like most projects Peter Berg has done, so this is quite interesting to me. But that makes it more interesting is their inclusion of two good looking actors such Alexander Skarsgard (from True Blood) and Taylor Hisch (from Friday Night Lights) in the cast. The two will play brothers who are both naval officers and who will be battling it out with aliens. The film will obviously be an action adventure sci-fi combo, with lots and lots of good looking men!

Writing the script for Battleship are Jon and Erich Hoeber , while filming will begin this August to make it to their June 2012 release date.

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Director Christopher Nolan, yesterday, announced the playdate to his Dark Knight follow up and says a July 2012 release date is going to be its target. Together with his brother, they are already putting together the elements for the third Batman reboot, saying to Empire Magazine, “My brother is working on the screenplay. We came up with a story that we are very excited about. We particularly like where we are taking the characters and what the ending is …” He, however said, he isn’t sure about directing this third film for now.

He also said that The Joker, which was effectively played by the late Heath Ledger, will not be in this third film. The idea of recasting the role to another actor does not sit well with Nolan. There are also no plans to have Batman and Superman in one storyline together.

“It’s not something I ever really applied a blanket rule to, but Marvel characters are very different to DC characters, and the key DC characters are very different to the minor DC characters. You’ve got to go back to that element of, ‘What do I see when I close my eyes and think of Batman? What do I see when I close my eyes and think of Superman?’ And for me a big part of that is their individuality. The yare extraordinary beings in an ordinary world. And the reason I think the two are fascinating is because Superman is very specifically superpowered and obviously otherworldly; Batman is very human and flawed. Theyr’e two very different characters, but there’s an elemental feeling of power in the iconography of those characters. To me that’s originally because they stood alone. I need to hang on to that in my imagining of them.”

He is, nevertheless, helping out with the second Superman update, by becoming the project mentor to David Goyer, the writer for the Superman movie.

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Tom Cruise has just agreed to reprise his role as Ethan Hunt and do the fourth installment to the Mission Impossible franchise.

The film already has a script since last fall and it’s written by Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec. Principal photography should start anytime soon or if the film has already found its director. There is no word yet on who gets to direct it though. The last one was directed by JJ Abrams, who have not expressed interest to do this. Although he and Tom Cruise are on-board the fourth story as producers.

The target release date for Mission Impossible 4 is summer of 2011.

Are you excited for this project or do you think that Mission Impossible should have already stopped at their third one?

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Transformers director has opted to forego is “break” and met with Steven Spielberg on the next Transformer’s sequel, Transformers 3. The target date is on July 1, 2011 and this early, you can bet that Megan Fox will be back.

“Well its official: We have a great Transformers 3 story. The release date is now July 1st 2011. Not 2012,” he said. “Today is Day One. This morning started with an ILM meeting for five hours in San Francisco. Currently I’m flying with writer Ehren Kruger to Rhode Island to talk to Hasbro about new characters.”

And about that small-budget film he was looking to make before “Transformers 3″… “‘Pain and Gain’ is right after shooting of Trans 3,” said Bay.

via Worst Previews via Shoot for Edit

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“Wichita” centers on a lonely woman (Diaz) whose seemingly harmless blind date suddenly turns her life upside-down when a super spy (Cruise) takes her on a violent worldwide journey to protect a powerful battery that holds the key to an infinite power source. Grace is playing Diaz’s sister, who is getting married, excited that Diaz will take the place of their late father and walk her down the aisle.

Cast:
Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Maggie Grace, Marc Blucas, Paul Dano

Release Date:
July 2, 2010

Via: Coming Soon.net

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