Paramount Pictures is moving forward with The Ring 3 nine years after The Ring 2 disappointed so greatly. At the helm will be F. Javier Gutierrez who’s also attached to direct The Crow reboot, which has had trouble getting off the ground. No word on whether or not Naomi Watts will return for another go ’round, but I highly doubt it considering the project is being targeted as a prequel. [THR]
Speaking with MTV, Michael B. Jordan discussed the upcoming The Fantastic Four reboot in which he’ll star as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch and said:
“We have been pretty much in our own world, that’s really the only way we could get a project like this done. It is so massive, so many moving parts, so many moving pieces, things are changing every day…The script is evolving, [you make] on set decisions on the fly, things are always constantly changing. Me personally, I block out that extra noise and I focus on the job I have to do. It is an important film for all of us… We’re taking it seriously, taking a lot of risks. I think it’s going to pay off.
“[Director Josh Trank‘s] vision is very clear and he knows exactly what he wants, and he gives us room to adapt and to play. That’s what I kind of think sets us apart, is that this is going to be grounded and unconventional. It’s not your typical superhero film, you know, we aren’t looking at this as like, being superheroes. We’re more or less a bunch of kids that had an accident and we have disabilities now that we have to cope with, and try to find a life afterwards — try to be as normal as we can.”
I sort of like the sound of that. The Fantastic Four is currently set for a June 19, 2015 release. [MTV]
The first trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 will premiere via Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab during Comic-Con on Friday, July 25 at the Samsung Galaxy Experience in the Hard Rock Hotel. Not in San Diego? Then you have to go to select Samsung Experience Shops within Best Buy locations in the U.S. to see it over the weekend before it premieres online the following week.
Roberto Orci recently Venom, which he is set to write and direct:
“Everybody is still figuring it out. It’s all up for grabs, right now. We’re just trying to figure it out. Everything is still on the table, right now. Because it’s a universe outside of the Spider-Man universe, even though it’s connected to it, those movies have to stand on their own. So, we’ll see. We’ll see how it goes.”
I still think if they quit with all the CGI villains and ground this thing in a little more reality, drop the idea of creating a spectacle and focus on story and character first they could still turn this whole franchise around. [Collider]
Ben Whishaw (Skyfall) will replace Colin Firth as the voice of Paddington Bear in Paddington. [The Daily Mail]
Duncan Jones is in post production on Warcraft but already looking forward to his next project which he says on Twitter may be his long-gestating sci-fi Mute which he’s long described as “a love letter to Blade Runner” and follows a mute bartender looking for his abducted girlfriend in a future Berlin. The villains of the piece are a pair of buddies he describes as “the most diabolical bastards they possibly could be.” Warcraft doesn’t hit theaters until March 2016 though, so don’t expect to see anything else from Jones any time soon.
Thinking about what film I want to try and do after Warcraft. May give Mute one more push before I put it on the "Don Quixote" shelf.
— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) July 15, 2014
