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Robert Rodriguez Filming Live Action ‘Jetsons’ Feature Next Year

Posted on June 9, 2009

Yes, you read that right. Directly from the “please don’t ruin my childhood. . . again” department comes word, via MTV Movies Blog, that director Robert Rodriguez will begin filming a live action adaptation of the classic 60’s Hanna-Barbara cartoon The Jetsons sometime next year.

According to Rodriguez, he will be pushing forward on his sequel to 2007’s Grindhouse with Danny Trejo in Machete and he’s also working on the sci-fi thriller Nervrackers for the Weinstein Company set for release next April. No word on where this fits in with Rodriguez’s reboot of the Predator franchise or what this could mean for a sequel to Sin City, but the Texas native says that filming for Jetsons could start as soon as 2010.

The director has already stated that he’s dropped a remake of Barbarella due to the amount of time he’d be away from his family, so doing a remake/reboot of the classic 60’s cartoon family from space may just fill that sci-fi void that the scantily clad vixen could have.

Given Rodriguez’s track record with both kid-friendly adventures (Spy Kids, The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl) and adult-friendly horrors (Planet Terror, From Dusk til Dawn), what could this mean for our favorite childhood cartoon? Will his on-again off-again partner and friend Quinten Tarantino come aboard in any way, and will this be under the helm of Rodriguez’s long-term distributors, the Weinsteins? With production starting before 2011, these answers probably aren’t far behind.

Shia LaBeouf Says ‘No’ To Yorick Role In ‘Y: The Last Man’

Posted on June 9, 2009

shia-labeouf Almost two years ago, it was announced the D.J. Caruso would direct and Carl Ellsworth would write a big screen adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra’s celebrated comic Y: The Last Man. Since that time and pretty much immediately, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen star Shia LaBeouf’s name has been associated with the film and speculation had been that he was in talks to take on the lead role of Yorick Brown, the “last man” of the title who survived a plague that wiped out all other men.

But now, according to an interview with Wizard Magazine, you can take LaBeouf’s name off the list of potential Yoricks. Why? Well, according to the interview, the star feels that the character is too similar to the one he’s played in both Transformers movies: Sam Witwicky.

“You take Sam and you put a monkey on his shoulder,” said LaBeouf in the interview of Yorick’s simian sidekick Ampersand. “I don’t know if it’s that big a differential. It seems like he’s the ordinary guy in an extraordinary situation again.

He added, “I’m not willing to make that movie currently, and may be too old to play the role by the time it does come around.” So, now that LaBeouf is apparently out of the picture, who will take on the role of “the last man?” Well, to throw out a couple names just for fun, how about someone like Topher Grace or Adam Brody? They might work.

‘Star Trek’ Meets ‘Monty Python’

Posted on June 9, 2009

What do you have to know about this video other than it combines two great things: scenes for classic Star Trek and music from classic Monty Python. What does this potent mix of greatness create?

Well, it creates a wonderfully hilarious melange of sight and sound to delight the eye and ear. Plus, its just damn funny.

If only other things could go together so easily as these two do. What a world we would live in then.

Be sure to check out the video after the jump and enjoy.

Dave’s Weekly Comic Recommendations

Posted on June 9, 2009

ironfist_omni_hc This is a week full of great comics and comics collections. And because we care about what you read, here’s some great books to check out.

The highlight of this week for me is Immortal Iron Fist Omnibus. This collects the entire run re-imagining the “kung fu billionaire” Danny Rand as done by Matt Fraction, Ed Brubaker and David Aja. This is easily the best superhero comic being published by Marvel Comics today and you can get the entire, and in my opinion too short, run in this big Omnibus.

Another collection to check out this week is the totally brilliant Captain Britain and MI-13: Hell Comes to Birmingham. Written by longtime Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell and drawn by Leonard Kirk, this book explores the mysticism of England, while taking off in the midst of Secret Invasion, making this book the highlight of that entire event for me. Unfortunately, this book is coming to an end with issue 15 with a battle to the finish with Dracula! Seriously, you won’t be sorry if you pick up this book.

Sam Rockwell Has ‘2 Weeks to Go’ In New ‘Moon’ Video Clip

Posted on June 9, 2009

sam-rockwell-moon Over at Yahoo Movies, they’ve got another new clip for the Sam Rockwell starrer Moon to share. Sadly, they won’t allow embeds, so you’ll have to go there to see it. This new clip features Rockwell, who stars as lunar miner Sam Bell, a man spending three years alone on the lunar surface overseeing a process that harvests energy from the moon.

Fortunately, he’s only got two weeks left before he can go home. Unfortunately, he’s starting to get “cabin fever” and is experiencing strange visions he can’t explain. All of this concerns his only companion on the moon, a computer named GERTY — played by Kevin Spacey in the film. As Bell’s time gets even shorter, his visions turn into something even more frightening and he starts to believe he’s not alone — someone or something is on the moon with him.

Think that sounds interesting? So do we. To fully experience just how cool we think this new movie is going to be, check out the trailer after the jump. Moon, starring Sam Rockwell and directed by Duncan Jones, hits theaters later this year.

How Da Vinci Helps Make You Da Man In ‘Assassin’s Creed II’

Posted on June 9, 2009

As reported last week here on The Flickcast, during Sony’s E3 Press Conference, the company announced that in the upcoming Assassin’s Creed II game the main character, Ezio, will be making hits during the Italian Renaissance. But unlike the first game, you won’t be going in to this on your own. You’ll have allies aiding you, teaching you and providing useful tools along the way.

The most important of these allies is the famed Leonardo Da Vinci, one of the greatest artists and thinkers of his time. As already demonstrated during Sony’s press conference, Ezio will have access to some of Da Vinci’s greatest inventions to help advance his cause. One prime example of this in the use of Da Vinci’s well known “flying machine”.

Now you might wonder why someone like Leonardo Da Vinci would associate himself with a killer. The answer to that lies in the essence of who Leonardo was. He was a futurist. He thought about what would be coming lifetimes ahead of him, as seen by many of his inventions that were the basis of many current technological marvels. In the first Assassin’s Creed, the assassin Altair worked for a guild that only assassinated those who deserved it. They put the needs of the many ahead of the needs of the few in their eyes.

Liam Neeson May Join Bradley Cooper In ‘The A-Team’

Posted on June 9, 2009

liam-neeson As we told you before, Bradley Cooper accidently confirmed he’s been cast in the role of Templeton “Faceman” Peck in director Joe Carnahan’s upcoming big screen incarnation of The A-Team. Now, according to Empire Online, we can potentially add another name to the A-Team casting mix. And that name is Liam Neeson.

According to the site, Neeson is in talks to join the A-Team as none other than Col. John “Hannibal” Smith, the leader of the disgraced team of elite soldiers wrongly accused of a crime and forced to flee to the Los Angeles underground. If true, this would mostly fill the enitre roster of team members with Cooper as “Face”, Common rumored to be a “lock” for B.A. “Bad Attitude” Baracus and Neeson as “Hannibal.”

All that would remain is the role of H.M “Howling Mad” Murdock, which if you believe rumors over at IMDB, is supposedly going to be Woody Harrelson. Not that rumors really mean all that much. However, with the film scheduled to begin production in Vancouver in August, we can expect to hear some actual confirmed casting very soon.

Once that’s done, we can then move on and start speculating on other stuff like the film’s story, if other cast members will include reporter Amy Allen, if the team will often fire hundreds of rounds from machine guns and not hit anyone and if cars will still explode in midair for no apparent reason.

The A-Team hits theaters on June 11, 2010.

‘Heroes’ Star Masi Oka Sets Up ‘Defenders’ At Dreamworks

Posted on June 8, 2009

San Diego Convention Center According to The Hollywood Reporter, DreamWorks has picked up The Defenders, a kid-friendly adventure story conceived by Heroes star Masi Oka, who plays Hiro on the show. The pic, to be produced by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, also has D.J. Caruso in negotiations to take on directing duties. Writer Gary Whitta is on board to pen the script.

The story centers on a group of mostly teenagers from around the world who are involved in a multiplayer video game, each unaware of who they really are behind the anonymity of their avatars. When trouble arises, they are forced to come together for a real world adventure and become accidental heroes in the process.

According to THR, DreamWorks will also develop a video game simultaneously with the feature. Oka had met Kurtzman and taken a couple of meetings with them, hoping to land a role in one of their movies. The pair was looking for “the kinds of movies that Amblin used to do, that combined an innocence with the adventure,” Orci said in the article.

Oka, also a fan of those types of movies, which for him are epitomized by Richard Donner’s 1985 hit The Goonies, pitched Kurtzman and Orci his idea and they loved it. And the rest, as they say, is cinematic history. Gotta love Hollywod. Gives hope for the rest of us — especially if “the rest of us” are also on hit tv shows and have access to big-time writers and producers.

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