Geek Daily: 'Wimpy' Gets a Director, 'Atlantis' a Writer, 'Kick-Ass' a Set Report
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AICN's Moriarty has Part One of his visit to the Kick-Ass set online -- and it's such a long, enjoyable read that I honestly can't figure out what to cut and paste ... but I settled on his description of the character I once dubbed my future daughter, aka Chloe Moretz's Hit Girl. "Hit Girl's the coolest of the bunch. Her outfit's a variation on a schoolgirl outfit, but with body armor, leather-wrapped. She's got a purple wig and a small black mask, and Chloe's got a sneer that would make Elvis Presley proud, like if Batman adopted a tiny female Billy Idol as his sidekick." Check out the image they debuted below, and in a larger size over at AICN.
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Back in February, Fox optioned Jeff Kenney's graphic novel, Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Well, it now has a director in Thor Freudenthal, who's the hottest name for young adult fare thanks to the hotly-anticipated Hotel for Dogs. I'm sorry to say that in the intervening months, I never did purchase and read Wimpy Kid. Any fans out there who can shed some light? (By the way, Mr. Freudenthal -- with that awesome name, I hope you direct a Marvel film someday.) [THR ]
Last week, Len Wiseman signed on to direct Atlantis Rising, and now the project has a writer. Joby Harold is in negotiations to pen the adaptation. Producer Roberto Orci describes the project's appeal for those of us who didn't get sucked in by the comics: "In all the classic versions of this kind of movie, the threat is always from the stars. The idea that it's somehow our cousins who went off in a different path of evolution who have been here, literally, underneath our oceans ... That's fascinating, the idea of secrets right under your nose."[ [THR]
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ScreenCrave has some more from Liev Schreiber on playing Sabretooth. You might remember that gossip had him playing William Stryker, as that's the part he was originally offered. Schreiber's fandom took over: "I asked, 'Do you think there is any way I could play this Victor Creed guy? The research that I did, Victor's particular mutant issue, has nothing to do with his name 'Sabertooth' but that's where I decided to start. What is Sabertooth. How do they move? What are their behavioral characteristics? And I knew this stuff from the comic. I knew that he was a completely savage street fighter and that, that was his MO. But, what I hadn't seen in some of the earlier films that I was interested in trying to pursue, [which] is what drives the guy, and instead of saying this guy is just a violent brute, what is the cocktail that makes the brute tick. Hopefully people will like it."
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12-11-2008 @ 4:01PM
Clark Parker said...
I wonder if any attempt will be made to reconcile Tyler Mane's look with Liev's performance... It's a recasting I can understand but at first glance, it might as well be a totally different Sabertooth. In fact, unless I'm mistaken, they don't even call Tyler's character by name in the original film, do they?
On the other hand, he doesn't talk and given Logan's memory loss it's perfectly plausible that they have a history Logan is not aware of... Sabertooth's interest in his Dog Tags seems very supportive of the plot they are constructing for this Flick, so it seems to me that all the puzzles pieces fit, except this look... His mane, black eyes and feral, non-speaking attitude. This includes his almost sad, whipped dog demeanor, which seems a far cry from the fierce and independent Sabertooth Liev describes.
Jackman said something a while back, something about how if they did their job right, you would feel like the Logan of this new film could have turned around at the end and walked straight into the bar seen in the original film... I really appreciate that kind of effort being made and I guess what I am saying is I hope they create the same situation for Sabertooth... I can dig him being more human and talkative in past but I hope at least some effort is made to explain how he ends up in X1.
Same goes for Deadpool... I saw that perfectly handsome shot of Ryan Reynolds and I'm cool with it... So long as it's early in the Weapon X program and he goes through the proper motions that end with him looking a little more like he attends the Freddy Krueger School of Fashion.
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12-11-2008 @ 6:36PM
RadioDan said...
Diary of a Wimpy Kid is really hilarious. If you get chance you should check it out. Imagine the diary of a selfish, jerk of a kid told in stick figure format and there you have it.
And if that's not enough check out my interview with Jeff Kinney, who as it turns out is really nice guy: http://radiodanshow.podomatic.com/entry/2008-01-22T04_40_00-08_00
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