It appears comic books will mean third time’s a charm for the director of “300″ and “Watchmen.”
As broken on The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog, Warner Bros. Pictures has tapped director Zack Snyder to helm the next big screen installment of its “Superman” franchise. Snyder reportedly beat out a wide-ranging list of potential directors including Darren Aronofsky and Tony Scott
While waiting to hear whether or not The Hobbit will end up in 3-D, there are five more classics we’ll DEFINITELY be seeing in 3-D, and they include Planet of the Apes and The Call of Cthulhu. (OK, so they’ll be book covers, not films. But that doesn’t make the idea any less awesome.)
Vintage Classics will be reissuing five books with 3-D covers in April 2011, basing the art on 1950s’ sci-fi movies, and packaging 3-D glasses with each novel.
The five books will be:
I’m thinking it’s a little too much. Thoughts?
It’s a difficult time in American history. Political instability, economic uncertainty, war, populist outrage… The time is right for a movie that dares to explore the trials and tribulations of Abraham Lincoln, one of our country’s greatest and most tormented Presidents. Unfortunately, that movie is probably not happening anymore. But don’t worry, America, we’re getting the Lincoln biopic we really deserve. According to Variety, the Tim Burton-produced adaptation of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is going to begin pre-production, with Wanted/Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov helming the movie. Since the material is so over-the-top, and since Burton and Bekmambetov are two flavors of stylized insanity, just how crazy is this movie going to be? Thoughts?
X-Men: First Class will be refilming a famous scene from the very first X-Men movie frame by frame, and it will be one of the most dramatic sequences of that film: The discovery, by a young Eric Lensherr (aka the future Magneto) that he is so much more than just an ordinary human being.
The powerful opening scene from the first X-Men movie took place in 1944 Nazi-occupied Poland and, according to Bleeding Cool, will be refilmed shot for shot (up to a point) with a few dramatic tweaks here and there, no doubt to allow the scene to fit in with the new movie.
