A Week In One Post – Movie News!

So, it’s been a bit of a week, well, kind of…

To make it easier for you guys to catch up on all the week’s movie news I figured I’d put all the Nerdles headlines in one easy to read post.

Why?

Coz that’s the kind of guy I am…

Remake Alert! Clash Of The Titans Casting News!
Gemma Arteton (Quantum of Solace) is being lined up to play the demi-goddess Io in Louis Leterrier’s upcoming remake of Clash of the Titans.
With Sam Worthington (Terminator Salvation) already onboard and Liam Neeson supposedly attached to play Zeus, Clash of Titans is shaping up to be quite the blockbuster.

Spider-Man Musical To Feature Green Goblin!
The villains in the upcoming Spider-Man musical have been revealed.
Joining Spider-Man on stage will be the Green Goblin, Carnage, Electro, Rhino, Swarm and Lizard.
A brand new villain has also been created for the show called Swiss Miss whose costume will consist of rotating knives and swirling corkscrews.
The full title for the musical will be Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark.

Rhys Ifans Signs Up For ‘Deathly Hallows’
Welsh actor Rhys Ifans has joined the cast of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Talking on British chat show ‘Friday Night with Jonathon Ross,’ Ifans spoke about the project without revealing who it was he had signed up to play.
Some reports suggest that he will play Xenophilius Lovegood.

Angel Star Dies Of Heart Failure!
Andy Hallett, who played Lorne in the TV series Angel, died of heart failure last night. He was 33 years old and had been battling heart disease for the last five years.
His father was at his bedside as he died.
Hallett, who played the demon nightclub owner starred in over 70 episodes of the cult Buffy Vampire spinoff.

First Sherlock Holmes Poster!
Check out the first official poster for the upcoming Sherlock Holmes.
Robert Downey Jr stars as the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic detective.
As the poster says, the film will release on Christmas Day.

Ghostbusters 3 News!
Harold Ramis has been talking about the much talked about Ghostbusters 3 and claims that all the original Ghostbusters will return for the movie including Bill Murray who’s “Waiting for the truckload of money to arrive to get him out of the office”
At the moment Ramis is just waiting for the first draft of the script to arrive which is being written by Lee Eisenbeg and Gene Stupnitsky, the two writers for ‘The Office’.
For those of you who are in desperate need of a Ghostbusters fix, the video game is due out shortly as are the Blu-Ray releases of the original movies.

Paramount Orders Another Star Trek Movie!
With the new Star Trek movie over a month away, Paramount have gone and hired three screenwriters to write the screenplay for the sequel.
Writers Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof have been hired to scribble out the first draft.
Paramount are aiming for a summer 2011 release.

Disney Talks Toy Story 3!
Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group President Mark Zoradi has been talking about the Toy Story franchise.
He started with the news that both Toy Story and Toy Story 2 will be re-released to cinemas in 3-D on October 2nd for a limited 2 week run, they will be showing as a double feature.
The trailer for Toy Story 3 will premiere on their release.

Interview With Transformers 2 Screenwriters!
The good folks over at Sci-Fi Wire have been talking to the screenwriters for the upcoming Transformers 2.
In the interview they talk about the story, what robots we might see and the rumors that Star Trek’s Spock; Leonard Nimoy might be voicing one of the characters.
Anyway, if you’re at all excited about more Transformers action then follow the link…
http://scifiwire.com/2009/03/orci-kurtzman-reveal-tran.php

Spider-Man 4 Script To Be Ready By Summer!
Sam Raimi has gone on record saying that the script for Spider-Man 4 will be ready by the summer.
He had this to say…
“Right now, David Lindsey-Abaire is working on a draft of the new picture. And he’s hard at work, and hopefully we’ll see something in three months.”
Spider-Man 4 is scheduled to release on May 6th, 2011.

Beauty And The Beast To Be Redone In 3-D!
Disney is re-releasing Beauty And The Beast in 3-D on February 12, 2010.
The classic animation will be the first of Disney’s hand drawn movies to be getting the 3-D treatment.

Men In Black 3!
Sony have announced that they are in development on a third Men in Black movie.
No news yet as to whether Will Smith or Tommy Lee Jones will reprise their roles but after the abysmal second movie, does anyone really care anymore?

Buffy’s Spike To Get Spinoff Show?
James Marsters, who played the Vampire Spike in Joss Whedon’s long running Buffy The Vampire says that a spinoff for his much loved character is still a possibility.
He had this to say on the potential project…
“Oh, yeah, when Angel was coming down, [creator] Joss [Whedon] came to me and said, ‘Do you want to do a Spike project? And I said, Heck yes. In fact, whatever you want to do, whether it’s Spike or not, wherever I am in the world, just call me. I’ll come running. But you have seven years, Joss, because I don’t want to do Spike aging. Let’s keep him the same age, and I think that I can hold that look for about seven years before it starts to become too different.’ Maybe there’s a few more years, but at this point, really it would all have to do with a camera test. Can we light my face in such a way that it’s still in the same ballpark as what the audience is used to? If that’s possible, then I think that it would be a good thing to do.”
Marsters though, admitted that selling a Spike series would be a tough pitch, adding, “I think that Buffy has always been swimming upstream, it’s always been fighting uphill. It’s no different now. You would have to really get behind it and sell it, even if Sarah [Michelle Gellar] were the lead. But asking the powers that be to put their money
behind a secondary character of that show, there’s just resistance. I think if Sarah wants to come back, I’ll jump on behind her again, but I think that’s the way there would probably be something else.”
So will there be a Spike spinoff?
My gut feeling is no.
Do I want a Spike spinoff?
Again, no. No thanks, I’ve moved on.

Rorschach In Final Talks To Play Freddy Kruger!
It’s been rumored for months but it seems that finally Jackie Earle Haley is ready to be revealed as Freddy Kruger in the Nightmare on Elm Street remake over at Platinum Dunes.
It has been reported that an official announcement may come early next week.

Quantum Of Solace Director Says No To Another Bond!
Marc Foster, director of Quantum of Solace has rejected an offer to direct another James Bond movie.
I’m actually quite happy about this news as well, let’s face it, the direction Quantum of Solace was headed towards was pure Brosnan territory.
Take a read of what he said about the next Bond movie if he had his way…
“I wanted to take it to a harder and darker place, but now that the journey I’ve gone on has succeeded, I feel like the next one can take it to a bit more humorous place again…maybe add a few more girls and a bit more sex.”
If that’s how he sees future Bond movies then good riddance.
Though it does kind of explain why Quantum of Solace was the way it was…

Simon Pegg Signs On For Ice Age 3!
Simon Pegg, who’s playing Scotty in the new Star Trek movie has signed on to voice a character in the upcoming Ice Age 3.
Pegg will play Buck, a one-eyed weasel who’s, well, brave. See what they’re doing there?
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is released on July 1st.