solace in cinema : A vast wasteland of movies

Following the same style as the posters that have already been released (a similar style to the books) there’s three new ‘character posters’. Everything about this film looks so stylised from the poster art to the look of the film, I can’t freaking wait to see it. I really love the books, so i’m trying not to overhype the film to myself incase i’m disapointed, but I have real faith in David Slade. Josh Hartnet may be the weak link in the chain, but with support from actors like Ben ‘Shark eyes’ Foster playing ‘The Stranger’ I think we might be alright….

Speaking of Ben Fosters character; I’ve read the books so understand the part he plays, but found this great description of his character over at the imdb message boards…

“He is the harbinger of the vampires. Well really a scout who was sent into the town because he can be out during the day. He is tantively known as a “bug-eater”, not a vampire but something akin to a ghoul. They find him snooping around town and trespassing so they arrest him. “

Check out the trailer here if you still haven’t seen it.

The posters are originally from shocktillyoudrop.com, but they seem to put massive watermarks all over them and ruin them, so you can check out the untainted versions here

Don’t get too excited there’s no shots of any of the characters yet, just some possible sets and a couple of background players in costume. The little kid pictured is from the scene where Dr Manhattan meets JFK. The photos are minimal but after so many false starts in the past with ‘Watchmen’ i’m just glad it’s up and running. Fingers crossed Snyder brings it all to fruition, and who knows maybe Moore will even like this one? nahh probably not

Check out a bunch of other spy photos, including some possible pics for the shooting location of Adrian Veidt’s Antarctic retreat here at watchmencomicmovie.com

Via IESB

I believe this was just some make-up tests from Rick Baker (woot! Rick Baker Monster Maker… awesome). Still it’s awesome.

via AICN through firstshowing

I’ve been talking up ‘Transsiberian’ for a long time, but the info about the film has been slim. Brad Anderson’s still not fully on the map, which is a shame as he makes really interesting films; ‘Happy Accidents’, ‘Session 9′, and ‘The Machinist’ have all been, if not perfect… interesting to watch. Here’s the plot synopsis for ‘Transsiberian’ although I think you’ll be able to gather most of it from the trailer:

“When an American couple (Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer) traveling from China to Moscow on the Trans-Siberian Railway meets an outwardly friendly couple (Eduardo Noriega and Kate Mara) traveling the same route, deception soon gives way to murder in The Machinist director Brad Anderson’s tense tale of international intrigue. Ben Kingsley and Thomas Kretschmann co-star as a pair of Russian police officers striving to solve the case and stop the rising body count”

Via cinempire and horrormovies.ca

It was the VMA’s last night, and i’m guessing this played in the ad break, as 90% of the other news this morning is in someway connected with that vacuous awards night. It’s all stuff that was in the comicon trailer but it’s nice to finally see some crisp and clear stuff (ish) that wasn’t filmed on a camera phone.

So also at the VMA’s Shia LaBeouf ‘let slip’ (**roll eyes** .. please..) that the title for new Indy movie will be ‘INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL’, not the supposedly confirmed ‘City of the Gods’. Cool.. fine.. whatever.. just make the film good.

I’m sure the PR people at paramount don’t mean to be arseholes, but we’ve been fed so much dissinformation and bullshit about the indy movie even before it was properly in production that i’m tired of talking up speculation around it. I’m of course hoping it will be awesome… but people need to start straight talking or i’m gonna crack some skulls.

I think I need some sleep.

The Indy news was confirmed over at the official site, where there’s also a bunch of new video diaries.

Iron man trailer for the trailer via comingsoon, Indy news via Joblo

Ed Harris, yes. Sam Jackson, of course. Eva Mendes, passable. directed by Renny Harlin…. oh dear. Harlin gets points in my book for Die Hard 2, Deep blue sea (Tom Jane, Giant Sharks, Sam Jackson as shark snack.. awesome) but 9 of of 10 times just produces incredible dreck.

All in all it just looks a bit dull…now if we had some giant sharks in there, THEN we’d have a proper Harlin movie.

via AICN