Wednesday, May 20

• In Gamer's Future, Lohman Says 'Everything's Debaucherous'

  Alison Lohman took a little time out from promoting Drag Me to Hell to talk to Sci-Fi Wire about her role in the upcoming dystopian action flick Gamer. In Gamer's vision of the future, video games have evolved to the point that players manipulate actual people in life and death combat. Lohman plays Trace, a member of the resistance who attempts to get death row inmate turned top cyber-gladiator Kable (Gerard Butler) back to his family. The world in which this all takes place is a plausible future, she contends, but not a happy one:

  "It's not a pretty world. It's chaotic. Everything's debaucherous."

  As for the movie itself, she apparently didn't start out with the highest of expectations. Working with directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor turned her around though, and she found herself impressed with the result. "It turned out better than I expected, to be honest," she says.

  
  

  Posted 05/20/2009 by Bill

  Related: Brian Taylor | Mark Neveldine | Alison Lohman | Gamer

Tuesday, January 6

• Horton Director Now Taking On Jonah Hex

  Jimmy Hayward, the director of animated movie and Dr. Seuss story Horton Hears a Who, will be entering the world of live-action movies with the comics/western Jonah Hex, about a confederate soldier turned bounty hunter.

  This news comes only a few weeks after Crank creatives Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor had been attached as writers and co-directors, but then left the project over "creative differences."

  Also attached in the title role is W star Josh Brolin.

  The property comes out of DC Comics via Warner Bros., and will be put into production as early as March.

  
  

  Posted 01/06/2009 by Jim

  Related: Brian Taylor | Josh Brolin | Mark Neveldine | Jimmy Hayward | Jonah Hex | Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who

Monday, January 5

• Crank 2: High Voltage Trailer Released

  Jason Statham's fall from a window and bouncing off a car roof at the end of Crank seems to be only the beginning. The sequel to the extreme action movie, Crank 2: High Voltage, has a new, unrated trailer that sees Statham start over with a new heart that needs electric charges to keep beating. While the trailer is not for all audiences, it does show that directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have, like the original Crank, crafted either another gratuitous action masterpiece, or one of the worst movies of all time.

  
  
  Next Showing: Crank 2: High Voltage opens April 17, 2009

  Posted 01/05/2009 by reelz

  Related: Brian Taylor | Jason Statham | Mark Neveldine | Crank 2: High Voltage

Tuesday, July 24

• Y: The Last Man and Jonah Hex coming to the big screen

  Fanboy alert! Two major comic book adaptations are in the works.

  Vertigo's Y: The Last Man--about an escape artist named Yorick who, along with his pet monkey, are the last surviving male mammals after a mysterious plague--is making its way to the silver screen.

  The force behind the surprise hit Disturbia, director D.J. Caruso and writer Carl Ellsworth are working on the adaptation of the Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's popular comic.

  Not to be slighted, DC Comics' Jonah Hex is also slated for movie adaptation. Hex, the Confederate-army-uniform-wearing-part-time-bounty-hunter/gunslinger with a partially disfigured face, will be made into a a comic/Western with "supernatural overtones."

  Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the team behind Crank, are heading up the project. 

  Source: The Hollywood Reporter.

  
  

  Posted 07/24/2007 by reelz

  Related: D.J. Caruso | Carl Ellsworth | Mark Neveldine | Y: The Last Man | Jonah Hex