Showing posts with label doomsday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label doomsday. Show all posts

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Movie Minesweeper - The Almost Everything Is A Movie Minesweeper These Days Edition

- JoBlo have a YouTube clip from after the credits of Pirates 3. Clearly, the clip was obtained illegally (not by JoBlo, but the original uploader) but, on the upside, it'll save you sitting through the end credits when really, all you'll want to do is get out of there and restart your circulation.

- MTV are bringing back Unplugged. The new epsiodes will apparently include Mary J. Blige, The Police, Bon Jovi, Kenny Chesney and John Mayer.

- Mark Verheiden has announced that his Teen Titans script will find the kids at 'an interesting (and universal) crossroads in their lives'.

- Twitch were on an absolute role today. They've had pictures from Be Kind, Rewind (Mos Def and Jack Black about to bust some ghosts, it seems); Daybreakers; Eastern Promise; and Doomsday.

- Feed have Mike Maguire's Comcast ad. Download it and watch it 'all big' for the best effect.

- On June 10th, the Prince Charles Cinema will be given over to a reprise of the Hot Fuzztival. Hard Boiled at 11am, The Last Boy Scout at 1.45, Point Break at 4.30 and then (!) at 8pm, Hot Fuzz with a live audio commentary from Edgar and company.

- The Poor Things schedule is being rejigged just so Lindsay Lohan can be in the film. What a waste of effort.

- Broken Lizard's next will probably be The Babymaker.

- Time Magazine's Ocean's 13 interviews are a nice, sparky read.

- IESB loved Hostel 2 too.

- Animation Magazine have some clips from the US version of Creature Comforts.

Sunday, May 06, 2007

The Events of Doomsday

Neil Marshall has spilled plenty of Doomsday details in The Scotsman today:

In the £15m film, Scotland has been cut off from the outside world for about 30 years, following the outbreak of a deadly virus, caused by genetic tampering.

Hadrian's Wall has been rebuilt to keep the Scots out of England. But the Scots have a cure for the virus, and when England is threatened by a new outbreak, a crack military team goes over the wall to get it, led by Nip/Tuck's Rhona Mitra.

She goes through from the wall up to Glasgow and then farther north. The farther north she gets, the more back in time she goes. It's like a Heart Of Darkness journey. There's a Kurtz character running a feudal society and living in a castle. He used to be a scientist - he's the guy who found the cure and he's taken on this kind of God-like stature up there.

Marshall had tried to recruit Sean Connery for the Kane part, but, unsurprisingly, Connery declined. He was probably looking for a payday at least the size of the entire budget - and the part isn't so trivial that it could just be discarded, a la Indiana Jones Goes Fourth.