Star Trek 2: Various film news sites are reporting the much anticipated confirmation that Star Trek 2 WILL be JJ Abrams next picture. However, there is still debate about when it will be released; Paramount had it already slated for a June 2012 release but since Abrams has only just finished up work on Super 8, there may be a delay – he is unwilling to deliver a shoddy follow up and no-one can blame him for that.
Flight: After far too long in the world of motion capture, visionary director Robert Zemeckis is set to direct his first live action feature in many years. It will be an adaptation of a novel called Flight; a pilot’s dark past comes back to haunt him after becoming a celebrity after saving his flight after an emergency. Denzel Washington is being mentioned as the lead. This one is most definately on my radar as one to watch.
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After the dreadful misfire that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine, fans of the franchise would have been right to think that there would be no more big screen adventures for the X-Men as a team.
Thankfully, this reinvention of the universe – charting the early days of the friendship between Charles Xavier (Professor X) and Erik Lehnsherr (Magneto) and the formation of the X-Men – is unlike anything we have seen before in the franchise, or any other comic book movie for that matter.
The film is epic, charting large swathes of time and history. The way it integrates the mutant powers we love into moments of history is fun to watch – like most reviews have said, here it is a cross between Connery-era Bond and the best of the X-Men storytelling – longing for acceptance.
The cast are exceptional – James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender make this friendship, and it’s inevitable end, utterly believable. They also make the roles their own – capturing the essence of the future characters portrayed by Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan, but not mimicking
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James Bond 23: The release dates have been set for the next instalment of the James Bond franchise; UK fans can catch their favourite spy from October 26th 2012, but our friends will have to wait until November 9th 2012 (revenge for making is Brits wait two months for Super 8!).
Life Of Pi: The release date of Ang Lee’s long-gestating adaptation of Life Of Pi has been announced; December 21st 2012. This is a slight shift by Fox following Warners confirming the release date for The Hobbit.
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