Wednesday, October 7

• The Whole Predators Cast Revealed

  Adrien Brody has been cast in Predators, the sequel to Predator being written and produced by Robert Rodriguez and directed by Nimrod Antal, and THR reports he won't be alone.

  Joining Brody will be Alice Braga (I Am Legend), Mahershalalhashbaz Ali (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Walton Goggins (The Shield), UFC fighter Oleg Taktarov, and Danny Trejo, who was the first Predators cast member to be revealed. Topher Grace is also in negotiations to join the cast.

  According to a recent script review, Brody will play Royce, a man kidnapped and brought to a Predator planet to join an international gang of ruthless criminals and thugs who must survive being hunted by a group of Predators. Trejo will play Cuchillo, a Mexican enforcer with "twin Uzis strapped to his back." Braga will play the sniper-toting, French-speaking Isabelle, while Taktarov will play former Russian special ops agent Nikolai. Goggins will play Stans, a former San Quintin prisoner who is the "loose cannon" of the group, and Ali will play Mombasa, a member of the African Sierra Leone death squad who is not afraid to die. Should Grace officially join the cast, he will play Edwin, an unassuming accountant-type who is one of the FBI's most wanted serial killers. The only role left to cast is Hanzo, a Japanese yakuza enforcer.

  Predators begins shooting next month in Hawaii, with a scheduled release date of opens July 9, 2010.

  
  

  Posted 10/07/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Adrien Brody | Alice Braga | Walton Goggins | Robert Rodriguez | Topher Grace | Oleg Taktarov | Mahershalalhashbaz Ali | Predators

• Adrien Brody Added to Robert Rodriguez's Predators

  Producer Robert Rodriguez's reboot of the popular Predator franchise has just gotten a big boost from an actor with some serious skills.

  THR announced yesterday that Oscar-winner Adrien Brody would be joining the cast of Predators as the leader of a group of deadly humans on the run from the alien manhunters.

  This development was not met with joy by The New York Post's Jarett Wieselman, who said:

  If I was combing through a crowd of actors for one I could trust to get me to the chopper, I'd blow right past Adrien Brody and keep holding out for a hero.

  What do you think, Predator fans? Are you happy with this turn of events, or does it have you tempted to "write off" the entire production?

  
  
  Next Showing: Predators opens July 9, 2010
  

  Predator - Trailer

  Posted 10/07/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Adrien Brody | Robert Rodriguez | Predators

Tuesday, October 6

• Scientists Fall for Their Mutant Baby in First Clip from Splice

  For a monster movie, Splice has a lot of things going for it. It's produced by Guillermo del Toro. It stars Adrien Brody, who won the best actor Oscar for The Pianist. And it has a premise ripped straight from the headlines: The plot centers on a pair of scientists, played by Brody and Sarah Polley, who have decided to throw professional ethics to the wind by splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new hybrid organism.

  Shades of The Island of Doctor Moreau, sure, but science has come a long way since the time of H.G. Wells, so it really could happen. Of course, there will be consequences. It is, after all, a cautionary tale, as del Toro emphasizes in a clip introducing the movie.

  In this first clip from Splice though, the scientists are won over by their cute, though somewhat deformed, mutant baby, who is destined to turn into a "beautiful, but dangerous winged human-chimera" before things go horribly wrong.

  
  

  Posted 10/06/2009 by Bill

  Related: Adrien Brody | Guillermo del Toro | Sarah Polley | Splice

Friday, June 19

• Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Elijah Wood to Star in Remake of German Thriller

  Variety reports that Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Elijah Wood, and Twilight actor Cam Gigandet have all agreed to star in an English-language remake of Das Experiment, the 2001 German thriller directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel and starring Moritz Bleibtreu (Run Lola Run).

  Like the original, this new movie – simply titled The Experiment – will tell the story of a group of individuals selected to participate in a psychological study. They are put into a mock prison in which half of the participants are prisoners, the other half guards. As the experiment progresses, the participants fall deeper into their roles, resulting in abusive treatment.

  Prison Break writer Paul Scheuring is directing the movie from his own script, which was based on the novel by Mario Giordano (who also wrote the screenplay of the 2001 movie). Inferno Entertainment and Magnet Media Group are financing the movie, which does not yet have a specific release date.

  The story idea for The Experiment is based in part on the 1971 Stanford Prison Project, which involved undergraduates at Stanford participating in a similar study in the basement of the university's psychology building. The study was planned for two weeks but had to be abandoned after six days. You can read more about it on the study's official site.

  
  

  Posted 06/19/2009 by Rich Z

  Related: Adrien Brody | Forest Whitaker | Moritz Bleibtreu | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Elijah Wood | Paul Scheuring | Cam Gigandet | Das Experiment | Twilight