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RATNER TO BRING YOUNGBLOOD TO THE BIG SCREEN, WHETHER OR NOT THEY’LL HAVE FEET REMAINS TO BE SEEN
May 14
Ah, Brett Ratner. Is there a bigger whipping boy in the fanboy community? Whether it’s the RUSH HOUR flicks or his one-time stint with the X-MEN franchise (that would be THE LAST STAND), Ratner seems to be the Rodney Dangerfield of directors, he simply gets no respect. And why should he? After all, the guy has helmed culturally popular movies that worked with audiences and made loads of money (for the record, he’s only helmed one financial flop and that was AFTER THE SUNSET). Brett Ratner is a monster and must be stopped!
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Man, KICK-ASS director Matthew Vaughn must be a glutton for punishment. In case you don’t know, a few years back he was all set to direct X-MEN: THE LAST STAND for Fox, but he had to bail at the last minute for reasons unknown. There were rumors that he had some personal issues to deal with and there were rumors that the studio was treating him like shit and he bailed. Nothing official ever came out, but that seemed to be end of his involvement with the X-Franchise.
Cut to now, KICK-ASS hasn’t quite performed as well as he’d hoped (unfortunately squashing any ideas he might have had about filming a sequel) and Fox has came calling again. This time, they want him to direct X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (a project that you might remember had Bryan Singer attached to it a couple of months back). Initially, the reports said he’d passed on the project and smartly so, you have to remember that Fox did him wrong back in the day. However, that was a couple of days ago and this is today, and today Matthew Vaughn has been announced as the director of X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. According to /film, not only is Vaughn directing the flick, but he’s supposedly going to have it filmed, edited, done and release by June 3rd, 2011. Um…wow, that’s a little over a year away. Nice to see that Fox is worried about quality and not just getting movies into theaters.
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Despite previous reports indicating that Bryan Singer would be returning to the X-Men series to helm FIRST CLASS, Fox has announced that they are on the lookout for a new director and Singer will instead produce the prequel. Click on the above pic for the full story…
Reports are saying that Patrick Stewart will NOT be reprising his role as Professor X for Bryan Singer’s X-MEN prequel FIRST CLASS. Click on the pic for the full story…
Click on the banner above to find some new details on Bryan Singer’s X-MEN: FIRST CLASS flick and why it has pretty much killed David Goyer’s X-MEN ORIGINS: MAGNETO pic…
Defeated after the one-two double disappointment of SUPERMAN RETURNS and VALKYRIE, Bryan Singer has signed on to direct X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. Click on the banner above for all the details…
In this weeks installment of Adamantium Men, AngieBee gives her two cents on why she thinks that James Marsden should finally graduate into leading man roles.
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After a slight absence, Digital Wasteland is back with a double-sized column covering the past two weeks of DVD and BLU-RAY releases. In the Wasteland this week, you have a much-maligned superhero flick from early summer, an low-rated Fox sci-fi show, undead girls, undead babies, Nathan Fillion being Nathan Fillion, a forgotten TV spin-off of FRIDAY THE 13th that had nothing to do with Jason Voorhees, Rob Zombie animation, Hannah Montana, Seth Rogen as a mall cop, Matthew McConaughey stretching his acting abilities (haha), a skeleton from Ellen Page’s closet, two tourists who wander from the path, a man and his boomstick, and Godzilla.
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WOLVERINE is a drive-in movie. Plain and simple. It paints with simple strokes, gives just the right amount of character exposition to propel the movie forward, and, periodically, floods the screen with pretty explosions. And, really, isn’t that all we should ask of a summer blockbuster?
I think critics are being too harsh. I think the fanboys are being too harsh. I mean, seriously, this is a WOLVERINE movie we’re talking about here. It’s not supposed to be some low-cal Oscar-caliber picture ready for the awards season. This is a slightly undercooked steak that is served with a baked potato and tons of butter. It’s junk food, and, well, junk food isn’t supposed to be examined closely. You eat, enjoy, and move on. That’s WOLVERINE.
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