Jul 17, 2005
Bryan Singer debuted the trailer for his Superman Returns movies at Comic-Con International in San Diego yesterday (July 16th). The showing of the trailer apaprently gained a standing ovation from the fans who were present.
The trailer features the voices of Marlon Brando as Jor-El and Susannah York as lara from the original 1978 Superman film and the new score apparently incorporates John Williams now famous Superman theme from that film…
Jul 16, 2005
With all the hype currently about the latest Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, there’s post at Monotonous dot net asking just what is so special about Harry Potter. The author does enjoy fantasy books, but doesn’t “get” the excitement about Harry Potter.
Its a fair question. Harry Potter is hardly the first fantasy book series. It’s not even the first children’s fantasy book series. Both the…
Jul 16, 2005
There’s a report from ComiCon at Aint It Cool News that talks about the V For Vendetta movie trailer and panel at the convention. The tone of the report is overwhelmingly positive, both about the panel and the trailer itself.
The V For Vendetta Trailer apparently features the scene where Evey (played by Natalie Portman) is captured and shaved bald. She is asked tot ell them where V is and refuses.…
Jul 15, 2005
According to Variety, Fox plans to produce a trilogy of films based on the fantasy novel Eragon, written by Christopher Paolini. The first film in the trilogy will be called Eragon and begins production on August 1st. The cast for Eragon includes Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Djimon Hounsou and Ed Speelers will play Eragon himself.
For those of you who haven’t read the book, Eragon is the story of a boy…
Jul 12, 2005
A rumor has surfaced that the voice of Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia, the Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe movie will be Liam Neeson. Brian Cox was originally to be the voice of Aslan but some months back that seemed to change and he has never recorded any dialogue for the role.
The new rumor is that Liam Neeson has already recorded his dialogue as Aslan and that animation…
