July 2008 News Archive (Page 13)

IGN recently spoke with The Shield creator Shawn Ryan about "production rewrite" he underwent for Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.

Here are excerpts from the interview with Ryan:

IGN: How did you get involved on Terminator and how long did you work on it?
Shawn Ryan: One of the producers, Dan Lin, was familiar with my work and I sort of put the word out that I was looking for a movie rewrite job while I had the time to do one. I came in three weeks before filming began and took a pretty big whack at the script. I spent a lot of time with McG and with Dan and with [producers] Moritz Borman and Jeanne Allgood, who are also producers on the film, just sort of talking about where they were on the script they had and what needed to be changed and what we'd change it to.

I'd spend the days in Albuquerque talking about what needed to be changed and I'd go to my hotel room and sort of write all night, until like 4 in the morning. So we did a lot of work and then I had to come back because of TV commitments and I think they've subsequently brought in one or two other writers to continue the work.

So I don't know what will be there. But I got to meet with the actors – meet with Christian Bale and Sam Worthington and Anton Yelchin and Moon Bloodgood, who are all in the film and talk to them about the characters and do some work on that. It's a franchise that I've always been really enamored with and I always loved those stories and it just felt like a great opportunity.

IGN: Knowing Christian Bale was playing John Connor, did that inform your writing of the character?
Ryan: Absolutely, yeah. I watched some of Christian's films just to try and get a sense of his voice and had a meeting with him and McG to talk about it. He's obviously a smart, wonderful actor and he's not going to put up with s***ty lines. [Laughs] So it put some pressure to make it good.

Check out the Terminator Salvation movie trailer now!

While most of the free world is watching The Dark Knight this weekend, those that prefer musicals to caped crusaders will be heading to the theater to see Mamma Mia!

The cast of this Broadway-show-turned-movie attended its premiere last night. Click on the following thumbnails now to get a closer look at them on the red carpet:

A couple exciting notes for Hannah Montana fans:

• The release date for Hannah Montana: The Movie is May 1;
• The image below is from a scene in the film.

Between this big screen version of the Nickelodeon series and the upcoming High School Musical 3, Hollywood appears to be catering to the teen demographic, doesn't it?

Will Ferrell has signed on to star in Two Face, a dramedy scripted by Vince Gilligan (Hancock, Home Fries).

As reported by Variety, Ferrell will portray the title character, a racist who, after a prank gone awry, develops a split personality.

Producers Mark Johnson and Jimmy Miller are searching for a director and aiming to start production early next year, before Ferrell begins shooting Judd Apatow-produced Sherlock Holmes movie, in which he plays Watson to Sacha Baron Cohen's Holmes.

While Christian Bale is currently starring in the summer's most anticipated movie - a little flick called The Dark Knight - his next project is receiving almost as much publicity.

Indeed, Bale steps into the shoes of John Connor for Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.

The film's first trailer has hit the Internet. Check it out now:

Stephen Dorff starred alongside Wesley Snipes in Blade and was hailed as the next major movie star.

Well, that never happened.

But the actor does co-star with Johnny Depp in the upcoming Public Enemies - and he had nothing but praise for the project and the actor.

"[Public Enemies] was an intense five-month movie with [director] Michael Mann," Dorff said. "I feel like I’m doing some of the best stuff I’ve done now."

Dorff added that he wants to follow in Depp's film steps.

"It’s trippy because I grew up watching guys like Johnny and respecting those choices of Sean Penn and Johnny Depp who did all these cool, smaller movies," he said.
"That’s one of the reasons why I did my career that way I did it, was because of guys like that. I worked with John Waters and people said, ‘Oh, what do you want to do a John Waters movie for?’ Because it’s John Waters.

I want to go for that experience. I never did that movie before. To me it was always about breaking those rules and that’s what guys like Johnny did. And [then] a funny little pirate movie changed his life."

Careful, Stephen. You don't wanna face the wrath of Captain Jack Sparrow by belittling his movie.

The folks at IGN recently caught up with Hellboy himself, Ron Perlman.

They asked the veteran actor about the possibility of Hellboy 3, among other topics. Here are excerpts from the interview:

Q: How gratifying was it to see the success of Hellboy II in the opening weekend, after moving to a different studio and all of that?
Ron Perlman: Incredibly gratifying. That's rarefied air and when you get to be my age, you realize it's not only something that you never take for granted, but a tiny little fraction of those of us who throw in to this adventure ever get the chance to experience something like that. It's so overwhelming that I haven't even begun to take it in. Luckily, I'm doing Sons of Anarchy and I jumped right from the frying pan into the fire.

Yesterday we shot six scenes, so I didn't have time to think about much but learning my lines and delivering them. But yeah, I cannot tell you how vindicated we all feel; what a tough struggle it was for Guillermo to get the movie made with me and seven years of struggling. You know, we got a first one out and it was a modest success. We got a second one out and the stories are… you could fill volumes, just telling the stories about what it was like to get that movie made and here we are. The world has given us this cosmic hug and it feels really good.

Q: Does a third one seem in the offing? Is it something you guys have talked about?
Perlman: Well, I certainly think that it's not without the realm of possibility at this point. Yeah, I can only imagine the discussions that are taking place in some other dark room right now.

Would you go see Hellboy 3?

John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell - who teamed up for Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby - are back for another summer comedy.

The two actors star together in Step Brothers. In the film, the pair portrays, well, step brothers.

Here they are, clowning around on the red carpet of the film's premiere:

Entertainment Weekly talked to Michael Bay (pictured) about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. We were encouraged by his take on sequels:

When we were writing the script, I said to the writers, "I hate sequels that try to make it to the third movie. Pretend like we’re never having a third movie, so let's go for broke on the second one. I hate those cliffhangers! Let's just make this movie stand on its own."

I really feel this movie is not a forced sequel. I think the script is really good, and I think it's got a lot of new stuff in it. There are a lot of rumors out there, but we've released a lot of fake stuff. We’ve done a really good job of keeping things secret.

Those that saw - and depised - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, can relate to the idea of sequels being written as lame segues to the final films in a franchise.

Let's hope Bay keeps his word and that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen doesn't fall into this category.

According to Variety, Quentin Tarantino is speaking to two huge names about starring in his World War II drama, Inglorious Basterds.

The director met with Brad Pitt in France on Tuesday to talk about the possibility of Pitt playing the main role of Aldo Raine. From there, Tarantino reportedly also plans to meet with Leonardo DiCaprio for another lead role, that of Hans Landa, later in the week.

DiCaprio and Pitt would be appearing in a Tarantino-directed movie for the first time. The film will shoot this fall in Germany and France.