First A-Team Teaser Trailer Arrives by Owen Williams
(from Empire)
This looks utterly ridiculous... and utterly cool because of it. Wonderful use of the series' opening monologue as all of the trailer's narration, making it sound like that's exactly what it was written for.
Sony reboots Spider-Man film franchise by Mike Moody
(from Digital Spy)
Well I never. After managing to secure Raimi and co and properly entering development, I didn't see this one coming.
It'll be interesting to see how easy that is to sell to a general public not as familiar with random reboots and changes as a geek fanbase are. That said, it'll have been so long since Spidey 3 by the time this hits that half the core audience -- i.e. kids -- might be more than happy to see the franchise start from scratch.
And following that...
10 Directors Who Could Take Over Spider-Man by James White
and
10 Actors Who Could Take Over Spider-Man by Helen O'Hara
(from Empire)
Do what they say on the tin.
(As in they do, not you have to.)
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I'm a little disappointed by the Spidey news, but I'm afraid that is overshadowed by the sheer gut-wrenching awfulness of the A-Team trailer.
Some things are prime for remaking, and some things should just be left alone.
I thought it was a dumb enough idea to recast the original Star Trek characters, but The A-Team?
THE A-TEAM???
1. Liam Neeson, as awesome as he generally is, just isn't Hannibal. He doesn't have the charm. George Clooney would have been an excellent Hannibal, if only he were a few years older. But regardless...
2. Murdock was my favourite character as a child, and one of my TV heroes. This guy doesn't appear to have been in much, apart from District 9 which I haven't seen. He looked reasonable in the trailer (which makes him the only one of the four who does), but still...
3. The Face Man is just plain wrong. He's not smooth at all, it's just... wrong. Seriously, when BSG cast a woman to play Dirk Benedict's role, THAT was more on target than this.
4. Mr. T.
5. Again, Mr. T. What the hell. 90% of people couldn't even tell you the character's name in the A-Team. There were Smith, Face, Murdock and Mr. T. The character so iconic that he's known the world over by the name of the actor who played him. Sure, it's B.A. Baracus, but you're not REALLY recasting B.A. You're recasting Mr. T, and frankly you just CAN'T recast Mr. T.
Two options:
a) recast the others, bring back Mr. T as B.A.
b) if you regard Mr. T as too old, then don't make the film at all.
They even gave him the Mohican. It's not like they're just having different actors, who look different, but keeping true to the characters' natures. They've whitened Neeson's hair, given some UFC guy a mohawk... it's like they're playing dress-up as the originals.
6. Wow, it also turns out it's nothing like the A-team at all. It's going to be "dark" and "gritty" and no doubt full of gravitas, with lots of violence and a body count to rival every Bruce Willis film put together.
7. Mr. T
Summary: It's a bunch of people dressing up like iconic TV characters, being a bit like them but not pulling it off, and bastardising an iconic concept by shoving said characters in a completely different tone of movie than they ought to be.
I can't wait until the Poirot movie, with Poirot played by Orlando Bloom, as he goes around kneecapping people until he finds out who killed his wife. In this movie, Poirot is ably assisted by Scarlet Johansson's character, who he also shacks up with a couple of times throughout the movie.
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