If you want to ruin Christopher Nolan’s hopes of keeping the plot to his upcoming Inception a secret click here, or you could just be patient and watch the wordless teaser again to the right.
Ryan Reynolds is set to star in Green Lantern for director Martin Campbell and Warner Bros., but Inside Film says, “Green Lantern‘s proposed Australian shoot is understood to be under threat after the rising Australian dollar has blown out production costs. Two other Hollywood productions (Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark), which were secured by Queensland and Victoria earlier this year, have already begun filming.” The film was looking at a November start for a June 17, 2011 release, but who knows what will happen now. The site also references Happy Feet 2 as in production. [Inside Film]
Next comes word from Ain’t It Cool reporting Christopher Nolan’s Batman 3 “could very well be FULLY shot in IMAX, not IMAX Digital – but the beautiful, stunning IMAX that we saw pieces of The Dark Knight in.” AICN’s Harry Knowles speculates the reason Nolan went from The Dark Knight to Inception “was possibly to create a few new IMAX cameras made to his specs.” [AICN]
Speaking of Batman, the video to the right is the trailer for the upcoming Batman: Arkham Asylum videogame, which is in stores now for PlayStation 3 and XBox 360.
This is relatively old news, but Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov was talking Wanted 2 with MTV and once again talked about the resurrection of Angelina Jolie’s Fox character saying, “If you remember from the first film, we have a recovery room with the baths of wax. We know how to do this, but it’s still tough to do, because the bullet is inside her head… But there has to be a reason for her to come back… and we know the reason, I think we found the reason for her to come back.” [MTV]
You can listen to Karen O’s song “All is Love” from Where the Wild Things Are at MySpace by clicking here.
Producer Frank Marshall revealed on Twitter we can expect the next trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender this Christmas posting, “For those of you wondering about LAST AIRBENDER, all is well in post and we r working on a trailer for Xmas…” [Twitter]
Rumor has it the subtitle for Cars 2 will be “World Grand Prix” as Disney has just registered four new website domains with said sub. [Jim Hill Media]
Screenwriter David Goyer (Blade, Batman Begins) opened his mouth about the X-Men Origins: Magneto film saying, “[Fox is] definitely looking into doing other X-Men spinoffs… I’ve been in touch with them. I’m sure that project will move forward in the next year or so.” [MTV]
Those clever folks at The One Ring received word from one of their faithful from an all-night Lord of the Rings screening in which Ian McKellen was in attendance. The scooper told the site, “Currently at the all night screening at the BFI IMAX, London of Lord of the Rings. Ian McKellan dropped by earlier and revealed he is currently re-reading ‘The Hobbit’ and is expecting to be back in New Zealand in March. Apparently he also knows who they’re getting to play Bilbo and that he should be seeing the script within the next week.” [The One Ring]
The above image comes from NataliePortman.com and is the first look at the actress as a warrior princess that the arrogant lazy prince (Danny McBride) falls in love with in David Gordon Green’s medievel comedy Your Highness due in theaters on October 1, 2010. [NataliePortman.com via Playlist]
Next we have Quentin Tarantino’s hour-long interview with Charlie Rose in promotion of Inglourious Basterds. Slash Film points us to a direct download of the WMV video file (get that here) and they have also embedded the Google Video. [Slash Film]
PosterWire.com brings us the above unused poster for Inglourious Basterds illustrated by James Goodridge. Click here for the complete story on the psoter and the man behind it.
Finally, we have a new Princess and the Frog featurette on the Villainous Dr. Facilier as voiced by Keith David in the film due in theaters on November 25.
