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Report: Harrison Ford to play Jack Ryan one more time?

Harrison Ford dropped a big bombshell when he spoke to the Sun newspaper that he is eyeing a big comeback to the Jack Ryan character. He said that Jack Ryan is worth re-visiting and he would like to reprise the role in the next movie. Ford played Jack Ryan twice, he played the character in “Patriot Games” and “Clear and Present Danger”.

The Sun reports:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/film/article1208711.ece

If he can still play Indy for one more time, I’m sure he can play Jack Ryan again too. Since Indy 4 is such a big success, I’d say go for it. Harrison playing Jack Ryan again would be friggin’ badass! He obviously made the best Jack Ryan out of all the ones that played the character in the past.

I fuckin’ loved “Patriot Games” that is one of my favorite action movies of all times. I think they should get Harrison for the next Jack Ryan flick ’cause Harrison deserves a successful movie career.

Before “Indy 4” Harrison was about ready to have a failed career…hmmm… movies like “K-19: The Widowmaker”, “Hollywood Homicide”, and “Firewall” all flopped in the box office.

I hope Harrison continues to do successful movies. He shouldn’t have to become the king of bombed movies like Sly Stallone.

Kev

 

Report: Eddie Murphy returns as Axel Foley for “Beverly Hills Cop 4″…

After “Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull” being  a huge box office smash, Paramount Pictures had just greenlighed “Beverly Hills Cop” series to get a 4th installment, and Eddie Murphy himself has agreed to reprise his role as Axel Foley. Paramount aims for a production start in 2009 and plans to release it in 2010.

Murphy himself approached Paramount about wanting to bring Axel Foley back to the big screen after he finished filming his newest movie “Nowhereland” which will release next summer in 2009.

Brett Ratner is in negotiations to direct “Beverly Hills Cop 4”.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117986558.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

As long as they still get Judge Reinhold as Rosewood and still keep it an R rated movie, I’ll go see it. Reinhold hasn’t done any acting and vanished from movies since “The Santa Clause 3”, so it would be good to see him back in the movies again.

Kev

 

Report: Rainn Wilson star of “The Office” announces cameo for “Transformers 2″…

Rainn Wilson who plays Dwight Schrute on “The Office” TV show revealed to MTV that he’s been casted to play a short cameo in “Transformers 2”, he’s only joking about turning into a robot though.

MTV Movies Blog reports:

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/05/28/exclusive-rainn-wilson-joins-transformers-2-cast-as-university-professor/

I’m glad he’s getting movie roles now, congrats Rainn.

Kev

 

REMINDER: Rambo DVD/Blu Ray out now!

The new Rambo has invaded DVD and Blu Ray today. You can now officially purchase all 4 Rambo films on Blu Ray and on DVD both.

I won’t need to buy the first three Rambo films since I already have the first three, I’ll be buying the new Rambo movie most definitely, I’m picking it up this week, probably Friday on my day off of work.

I’m still trying to decide whether I should get it on Blu Ray or regular DVD. I’ll probably get the Blu Ray.

Kev

 

Report: Christian Bale finally speaks about working on “The Dark Knight” with Heath Ledger…

Batman star Christian Bale has been quiet about Heath Ledger ever since his death way back in Jan. As the film “The Dark Knight” gets closer to it’s release date on July 18th, Mr. Bale or Mr. Wayne, speaks out about the late young actor.

Bale describes Heath Ledger as “intense” and “anarchistic” when performing scenes in the film, but when not filming Bale describes Heath’s personality as shy, quiet, and laid back. Bale says the film was something he wanted to share with Heath and says he hopes “The Dark Knight” will be a celebration of Heath’s work for everyone.

More on it here:

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20202566,00.html

I can’t wait for “The Dark Knight”, I’ve been looking forward to this film ever since the last one “Batman: Begins”.

I have a feeling that “The Dark Knight” will definitely top Indy 4 in box office, not just because it’s Heath Ledger, only because it’s a Batman movie. The Batman movies are always successful.

The film will definitely be a celebration of Heath Ledger for sure.

Kev

 

Report: Ray Manzarek working on the Doors documentary…

Ray Manzarek the longtime keyboardist for the legendary psychedellic rock band The Doors revealed to Billboard.com that he is working on a major documentary for the Doors. This film will be in light of the 41st Anniversary of the debut self titled Doors album released back in 1966. Manzarek says that this film will be a diss at Oliver Stone’s film “The Doors” that stars Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison. If you remember this, Ray Manzarek hated “The Doors” film so much because the film never stayed true to the band and Jim Morrison himself. Ray Manzarek worked closely with Oliver Stone for the film, but then they had a fallen out after the film was released, Ray was upset how much garbage that film was. It appears that Ray Manzarek is “still” unhappy with Oliver Stone and Ray wants to make his own Doors documentary to show Oliver how it’s done.

Ray says the film will include never before seen footage of the Doors whether on stage performing, backstage segments, interviews with the band, or whatever is in there. They already filmed the first cut of the documentary and Ray says it won’t be out ’til the next 6 months.

Billboard reports:

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003808282

As a big fan of the Doors, I am looking forward to this. Ray’s film sounds interesting!

Oliver Stone ruined The Doors, he’ll ruin George W. Bush with his movie too.

Kev

 

Report: Confirmed…no Back to the Future 4…

While the 18th Anniversary of “Back to the Future III” is happening writer/producer Bob Gale was at the 5th Annual Exotic Car Festival  for the Make a Wish Foundation where they held a fan Q&A session, someone from the audience asked him if there is ever going to be a “Back to the Future part 4” to have one more sequel to the series.

Gale confirmed to the audience, no there is going to be no Back to the Future part 4. He explains, Michael J. Fox is battling many years of suffering Parkinson’s Disease. Gale said if they did one without Michael J. Fox, it wouldn’t live up to the first three. They simply don’t want to do another Back to the Future movie without Michael, so they said the hell with them, they’ll just leave the three movies alone. They feel that they can’t make a fourth one at all and like the three movies the way they are.

From the Back to the Future official website:

http://www.bttf.com/index.php?/weblog/more/bob_gale_dashes_any_hope_for_back_to_the_future_4/

Another Back to the Future movie without Michael as Marty McFly would be travesty. So it’s a good thing they are not doing another one. I’m sure Christopher Lloyd still has what it takes to play Doc Emmet Brown but I can’t see him doing the movie alone as the leading role instead of McFly.

I love the three Back to the Future films myself, of course the first one will always be a classic. I love the second one too, the third one wasn’t great but still a fun movie though.

Kev

Report: Quentin Tarantino confirms to film “Inglorious Bastards” next…

Iconic film director Quentin Tarantino plans to start filming his long awaited World War II film “Inglorious Bastards” very soon. He plans to release it next year and debut the film at Cannes 2009.

For a long time now, rumours have been swirling that four iconic actors Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, and Adam Sandler were signed as the leading stars of the war film but Tarantino has denied hiring them ever since.

Stallone himself once hinted on “Ain’t It Cool” website that he’d be willing to work with Tarantino for “Inglorious Bastards” but Sly got too tied up with the new Rocky and Rambo around those times.

The question is who is Tarantino plan on casting the leading roles for “Inglorious Bastards”?

More on the story here:

http://www.joblo.com/tarantinos-next-is

I’d say Tarantino should get Sly Stallone. Maybe Bruce Willis too. Sly and Bruce in an action movie together is what I always wanted.

I doubt Tarantino would get Arnold but since Sly Stallone is finally back home from promoting the new “Rambo” overseas, it’s time for Sly to get a new project and I think working with Tarantino would be perfect for Sly. I always wanted to see Sly in a war film. Tarantino already worked with Bruce Willis a few times in the past before so I don’t see why not have Bruce for this movie too.

Bring on “Inglorious Bastards”, Quentin!

Kev

 

RIP: Sydney Pollack 1934 – 2008

Legendary actor and film director, Sydney Pollack was made famous by making such memorable hit films with films such as “The Firm” starring Tom Cruise, “Random Hearts” starring Harrison Ford, “Sabrina” also starring Harrison Ford, and his most popular directed film “Tootsie” starring Dustin Hoffman. He also directed other such films as “Absence of Malice”, “Havana”, and “Out of Africa”.

Other than being a director of his own films, he is also an actor where he played small roles in most of his films he directed himself and he also appeared in many other films that aren’t directed by himself. His acting can be seen in movies such as Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut”, and his latest acting role was that he played in “Michael Clayton” starring George Clooney.

Sydney Pollack diagnosed with cancer about 9 months ago and been battling it ever since. He passed away yesterday on Memorial Day surrounded by his family, he died at his home in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, California. He was 73.

The Associated Press reports:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g3IGUlRbuhYdVZ1vkPwH2OYUgD9gD90TTV002

Oh no, what a shock! 😦 I wake up this morning turn on the computer and there are news all over the internet that Sydney Pollack just died!

So sad! Such an amazing talent! He is a great actor and a great film maker. Another great talent gone!

What is it with this world losing so many amazing people.

Kev

Thought: CGI in movies is a new revolution…get over it people…

Man, movie goers are still slamming Indiana Jones 4 for all the CGI used in them. And for the silly scenes in Indy 4 that didn’t make sense which they made for humor and laughs in the film. Profesional movie critics loved Indy 4 but regular movie goers are giving it mixed reviews from bad to good. So that goes to show that the new Indy film created a lot of controversy.

When people slam Indy 4 for the CGI used in the film, they all sound like hypocrites ’cause of most of them are fans of the Spiderman trilogy and the new Star Wars prequels, and all those movies are loaded with CGI.

You’re talking about Indy 4 being loaded with computer effects and silly scenes that don’t make sense? Those things are all over the first 3 three Indy films.

What about in Raiders where all them ghosts started coming out of the Ark when Belloq opened it at the end of the film? Those are computer effects, since CGI wasn’t around back in those days, they still used computers to make that effects. Computers that are not so profesional back in those days.

What about in Raiders when the Nazis pushed Marion down the hole where Indy and John Rys Davies were waiting to climb back up, Marion landed on the statue and crashed onto the ground. There is no way she could have survived that fall in real life. That stunt was obviously done by a stunt woman.

What about the truck chase scene in Raiders where Indy climbs under a Nazi truck?

What about the Rollercoaster mine chase scene in “Temple of Doom” that scene was goofy and silly but it was made for fun and entertainment. What wabout the rope bridge scene with Moloram and his army in the final battle at the end of “Temple of Doom”?

Oh yeah, and what about in the “Last Crusade” the ending, when Indy, Elsa and Donovan finally found the room where the Holy Grail is at, when Donovan agrees to drink from the grail, Elsa chooses a grail for him, Donovan dies by quickly turning into a skeleton noticing it was the wrong grail. That scene was goofy and silly! But it was made for humor and laughs!

THE INDY TRILOGY IS FULL OF SCENES THAT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE!

Spielberg had always been known to make weird scenes in all of his movies. What about in Jaws? Do you think sharks actually jump out of the water and eat people in real life? NO! In Close Encounters do you think aliens actually know how to play music in a spaceship? LOL! War of the Worlds remake is a goof fest but still a fun movie. Hmmmm…Minority Report is full of CGI and goofy scenes as well. Look at Articial Intelligence, even serious movies like Amistad and Schindler’s List has scenes that are pretty weird (like it’s supposed to be a black and white movie, yet you see a little girl in the film with a red coat).

Spielberg had always been a loon when making movies. But he still makes great movies. The guy is a fucking legend. Stop slamming Indy 4 ’cause of it’s goofy and silly content. It’s just a damn movie people.
Like I said before the people slamming Indy 4 because of CGI used and it’s silly content are sound like a bunch of hypocrites.

Spielberg movies are made for fun. Get a life Indy fans.

End of rant.

Kev