David Fincher’s HEAVY METAL Is Dead. Love Live Robert Rodriguez’s HEAVY METAL!
David Fincher’s proposed reboot of HEAVY METAL is dead. Love live Robert Rodriguez’s HEAVY METAL!
Yes, it’s true, Fincher’s proposed vision of a animated anthology film that would’ve featured segments directed by James Cameron and Guillermo Del Toro has went bust. No official reason was given as to why Fincher left the project. All that is known at the moment is that METAL publisher Kevin Eastman (one of the guys who created the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES) has teamed with Rodriguez and that the film will be produced under Rodriguez’s Quick Draw banner.
Can’t say I’m really broken up about this. Fincher is an amazing talent, but his love affair with HEAVY METAL was an odd one. Never made much sense. There’s nothing in his filmography that would suggest that he was suited for a project of this magnitude.
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Film Bites: Kobe Bryant Is THE BLACK MAMBA!
Straight up, I don’t watch professional basketball. Never have and probably never will. I’m not much of a sports guy outside of watching the Super Bowl and having enough knowledge about sports to carry on an intelligent conversation about sports with people who do watch sports. Sports just isn’t my thing.
So, a short film featuring Kobe Bryant as his alter-ego “The Black Mamba” that is basically a five-minute long commercial for Nike shouldn’t really be up my alley, right? Well that would be the case any other day of the week. But today, that short film is directed by Robert Rodriguez and it also stars Bruce Willis and Danny Trejo. Bring those three into the mix and this suddenly is very much up my alley.
Click on the pic to watch Robert Rodriguez’s THE BLACK MAMBA…
Simon West To Direct RED SONJA; Amber Heard Top Choice For The “She-Devil With A Sword”
I wasn’t aware of this, but apparently director Robert Rodriquez and star Rose McGowan are no longer attached to the RED SONJA reboot. You might remember that Rodriguez was going to produce the flick and allow his longtime second unit director Douglas Aarniokoski to helm with McGowan as the “She-Devil With A Sword” Sonja. Hell, there were even concept teaser posters created with her in costume and kneeling on a mountain of skulls!
And while I knew that this version of SONJA had encountered some problems and was basically in development hell, I didn’t realize that all of the people connected to had left. If anything, I figured that producer Avi Lerner was waiting to see if his upcoming CONAN reboot was going to be successful before giving the greenlight to another sword-and-sandals epic.
Turns out, I was only half-right. Lerner IS waiting for Marcus Nipsel’s CONAN redo to hit before giving the go-ahead to SONJA, but Rodriguez, McGowan and Aarniokoski have all left for greener pastures. But not to worry, Lerner has already found himself a new director and a potential new star: CON AIR helmer Simon West and uber-hottie Amber Heard!
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31 DAYS OF HORROR: From Dusk Till Dawn
For the next 31 days, we here at Adamantium Bullet will be reviewing a different horror flick daily leading up to Halloween. Some of the movies will be classics, some will not. Some will be slashers while others might be old-school monster movies. Some might be the most obscure of the obscure, while others will be the most popular fare you can find. Every one of them, however, will be horrific, terrifying, chilling, pulse-pounding, and maybe, just occasionally, not very good. All in honor of Halloween. Expect some moderate spoilers. Welcome to Adamantium Bullet’s 31 DAYS OF HORROR: PART 2.
Today, J checks out the crime caper/vampire flick FROM DUSK TILL DAWN. Click on the pic to read more…
JOEL MCHALE JOINS SPY KIDS 4 (aka SPY KIDS: THE REBOOT or SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD)
Any COMMUNITY fans out there? If so, don’t forget that the season premiere is Sept 23rd on NBC. If not, do yourself a favor and pick up season one HERE and experience the funniest show on television. Yeah, I said it, the funniest show on TV. Screw all the other shows, COMMUNITY is where to find the funny on a weekly basis. There and THE SOUP on E!
And in case you haven’t noticed the tying factor there, it’s Joel McHale. McHale has been slowly but surely building some cred over the last few years, what with hosting THE SOUP, starring on COMMUNITY and clocking in bit part in big films (THE INFORMANT, SPIDER-MAN 2), but 2011 looks to bring him fully into the spotlight. And by spotlight, I mean launch him into starring roles.
He’s already got THE BIG YEAR with Jack Black, Steve Martin and Owen Wilson in the can, as well as WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER with Chris Evans, Anna Faris and Zachary Quinto, but according to Variety, McHale has just his biggest role yet: he’ll be starring opposite Jessica Alba in Robert Rodriguez’s SPY KIDS reboot. Well, “reboot” isn’t exactly the correct term, as this is more of a re-sequel? Is that a word?
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Theatrical Review: MACHETE
About a week back, AngieBee and I went and saw THE EXPENDABLES and while it was a good movie, it wasn’t what I was expecting. What we were expecting was the ultimate homage to the action flicks of yesteryear, the brawny muscle epics that she and I had grown up on. What we got was a decent, but very modern and cold, action pic that barely resembled the movies that Stallone was hoping to pay homage to.
The main fault, the almost crippling issue, with the movie was that there was no motive, no reasoning. “The Expendables” of the title were simply kicking ass and taking names because they wanted to. Sure, there was some bullshit reason about how some Latina gal had a connection with Stallone and he had to save her, but it didn’t work. There was no driving force that made me connect with the characters. And while it was an action pic and that’s a genre that doesn’t really deliver much in terms of story, there needs to be something for us (the audience) to relate to. We need that small morsel of plot or motive that allows us to understand why our hero is killing everything and everyone in sight. That’s just something that THE EXPENDABLES didn’t deliver and it failed in it’s “action epic homage” mission.
That is not the case with MACHETE. Click on the pic to read my full review…
Theatrical Review: MACHETE
About a week back, AngieBee and I went and saw THE EXPENDABLES and while it was a good movie, it wasn’t what I was expecting. What we were expecting was the ultimate homage to the action flicks of yesteryear, the brawny muscle epics that she and I had grown up on. What we got was a decent, but very modern and cold, action pic that barely resembled the movies that Stallone was hoping to pay homage to.
The main fault, the almost crippling issue, with the movie was that there was no motive, no reasoning. “The Expendables” of the title were simply kicking ass and taking names because they wanted to. Sure, there was some bullshit reason about how some Latina gal had a connection with Stallone and he had to save her, but it didn’t work. There was no driving force that made me connect with the characters. And while it was an action pic and that’s a genre that doesn’t really deliver much in terms of story, there needs to be something for us (the audience) to relate to. We need that small morsel of plot or motive that allows us to understand why our hero is killing everything and everyone in sight. That’s just something that THE EXPENDABLES didn’t deliver and it failed in it’s “action epic homage” mission.
That is not the case with MACHETE. Click on the pic to read my full review…
ROBERT RODRIGUEZ MIGHT GO SWIMMING IN DEADPOOL (ick)
Sorry for the icky Deadpool joke. My pun abilities are on low today.
Considering PREDATORS has only made 46mil domestic, one would be safe to think that Fox isn’t terribly thrilled with their recent studio team-up with director Robert Rodriguez. One would also be incorrect in thinking that because the LA Times is reporting that RR is in final negotiations to direct DEADPOOL. No, it’s not a remake of the 1988 Dirty Harry flick, but rather a spin-off from WOLVERINE starring Ryan Reynolds.
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TREJO OWNS IN THE GUT-RIPPINGLY AWESOME MACHETE RED-BAND TRAILER
Now this is a red-band trailer!
After debuting a fairly tame (but cool) green-band at the front of PREDATORS, Robert Rodriguez has revealed the true bloody nature of MACHETE and man does it look brutal. Chock full of nudity, violence, cursing and Danny Trejo using a dude’s guts as a bungee cord (I am not kidding), this red-band MACHETE trailer is insanely NSFW. In other words, make sure the boss or wife isn’t around, but definitely check it out. Click on the pic to check out all the NSFW goodness…
Theatrical Review: PREDATORS
Straight up, I’ve been having a hard time figuring out what to call PREDATORS. Technically speaking, it’s supposed to be a sequel to the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger action epic PREDATOR. Matter of fact, they even directly reference to that flick during the course of this one, so the connection is there and it does make for a viable argument that this is, in fact, a sequel.
However, PREDATORS feels more like a reboot to me. The basic storyline is nearly identical to the original (group of interchangeable commandos in the jungle fighting an invisible assassin), most of the characters seem to be cut from the same cloth as the original and PREDATORS is so jam-packed with homages that it feels like a reboot. I’m not kidding, there’s so many homages to the original here that they cease to feel like little nods and seem more like cut-and-paste screenwriting.
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