Outlander-Vikings,Aliens and Dragons

As an age old battle rages amongst the stars, Kainan’s ship burns brightly as it crashes into the Nordic coast. As his space craft comes to rest in the fjords of ancient Norway, it’s with dismay that Kainan realizes that he wasn’t the only survivor. A second passenger, a Moorwen also emerges from the wreckage. A Fierce and animal-like creature, the Moorwen is intent on causing harm to those it perceives have wronged it. As the Moorwen kills everything in its path, Kainan must work together with the Vikings to destroy the beast before it destroys them all.

and the link to see the trailer is below

http://outlander.solsector.net/index.htm

Max Payne

Is it just me or does Mark Wahlberg look perfect for Max.

Mutant Chronicles

Thomas Jane is back, and this is looking good, for all those that actually enjoyed the punisher (and i am one) this is looking good. The premise is:

Set in a dystopic future where corporations battle for the world’s depleted resources and mercenaries do their bidding, the film sees a horde of deadly, well-nigh unstoppable mutants released from under the Earth, forcing the evacuation of the planet to begin. Mercenary Jane, along with a few brave souls and a mysterious monk, has to save the world.

The film also stars Ron Perlman, Devon Aoki, Benno Furmann, Sean Pertwee and John Malkovich, with Simon Hunter directing. And of course Thomas Jane

http://www.thomasjane.com/mutantChronicles/

Dark Knight Photo’s

Heath Ledger as Joker

Gary Oldman as Gordon

Guess Heath didn’t get Christians “punch” line

Scary Eh

Comic Related news supplied By Lord Ruthven

The First Avenger: Captain America” set in WW2, ending with his fall into the sea (oops, . sorry for that spoiler) Released 2011.

“The Avengers” movie released 2011, two months after the Captain America movie - both films being shot back to back.

Interestingly, Mathew Vaughn (sic) has walked away from the Thor movie, thus no longer directing it.

He did exactly the same with the X-Men 3 movie, that due to a clash with the studio about the script. Seems he has no faith in the plans Marvel/Paramount have for Thor…

New Hellboy Poster

This is the offical Movie poster for Hellboy 2: The Golden Horde. Looks good to me

Brian K Vaughan to write for Runaways the Movie

Runaways from Marvel may soon be heading to a silver screen near you. Hugely succesful writer Brian K Vaughan has been tipped to write. more as and when this develops

Iron Man! Guest Review by MWM!

Okay! So the Butcher’s away and he’s asked me to put a review of Iron Man up, so here it is, a review from the Monkeys with Machineguns, Stu.Art and Chris Lynch.

Now I didn’t actually see this movie with Chris (sorry to destroy the illusion that me and Chris are some sort of ‘Bert & Ernie’ style duo!) so I haven’t really had a chance to talk with him about what he thought. So I’ve asked him to type his review and I’ll do mine and the two can run in tandem.

Firstly, let’s talk casting. Robert Downey Jnr. Is perfect. Perfect as Stark and perfect as Iron man, the two don’t always go hand in hand. Michael Keaton was a brilliantly dark and disturbed Bruce Wayne, but his Batman sucked! But Downey Jnr. Manages to bring an intelligence, charm, wit and genuine sincerity to his portrayal of Stark and lets not overlook his actual appearance, he looks like Tony Stark should.

The supporting cast too do a great job, the normally amiable Jeff Bridges pulls off quite a villainous turn and Gwynedd Paltrow successfully manages not to annoy me too much every time she’s on screen (something she normally does!).

Moving on next to the SFX. They’re brilliant! We’re spoilt these days in movies because unless something is mind blowingly brilliant, we as an audience are so used to CGI and SFX, we almost let it wash over us and don’t even notice it. The SFX in Iron Man are fantastic. The suit, the action, the environments all excellent without distracting you from the action or the movie.

The story of the movie is of course an origin story. This is fine as it’s what we expect and the story surrounding this origin holds up in this new movie adaptation. It’s what they’re going to do after this movie story-wise that is perhaps more interesting. There are rumours that Downey Jnr. Is tied into a trilogy, but further rumours also say that it may not be a direct sequel, but in fact Iron Man Vs. The Incredible Hulk and finally an Avengers Movie! I know, I know; imagine that!

I really enjoyed Iron Man, the only thing it suffered from a little was too much of the good stuff had been used in the trailers, something a lot of films are guilty of recently I would say. Overall though? 5 trotters up!

I offer 2 pieces of advice to you oh readers of the Crafty One. Firstly, run! Don’t walk to your nearest multiplex to see Iron Man! Secondly, don’t leave until the credits have finished.

Stu.Art

Master Butcher & Purveyor of all things…Meaty?

OK, so by now you’ve read Stu’s half of the review and he’s told you how great Iron Man is. The good thing is, he’s a man of taste (look at who his writing partner is!) and he isn’t giving you a bum steer. Iron Man was quite possibly the first American comic I ever read, and I have still have my copy of that issue, and as a bit of an uber-nerd myself, I like the idea that science can be cool.

So, it has everything you expect. But, for the congniscenti, here are what I consider to be the hidden gems.

1: Jeff Bridges potrail of Obidia Stane.
Pitch perfect and oh-so-reminiscent, at least to me, of some of the antics of everyone’s favourite CEO … Steve Ballmer. You might think your boss is crazy, but he’s got nothing on this guy …

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kvbWLfr-Z4s
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8To-6VIJZRE

Who can’t imagine that guy turning up in a thirty ton battle suit to tell your report was late.

Seriously, Bridges is great and deserves recognition for capturing on screen how truly scary corporate America is.

2: Robert Downey Junior is so good an actor he can act with a fire extinguisher.

If you thought the lamp in the Pixar demo movie had charm, or Bob Hoskins did a good job acting to thin air in Roger Rabbit, you have to see Downey have a conversation with a fire extinguisher. He gives it … life. Amazing stuff, and an almost throwaway scene as well.

3: The suit doesn’t work first time.

For anyone who has worked in developer hell. We’ve all had our own “boots at 10% power moment”. This should touch the heart of every engineer and scientist out there. How we pain for our works my brothers!

This list could run on and on, and its a testament to the painstaking attention to detail that oozes out of this movie. So, go and see it, compile your own top three, and send it on to a friend. Everyone deserves to see this movie.

Outpost-Coming soon

I love a good war film, I love a good horror film and call me spooky, but I love a good film that has WW2 german soldiers in. Now Ray Stevenson (Rome) is about to merge all those into one. a film about Zombie Nazi’s. The premise is that the Germans experimented on their own men to make invincible  soldiers, Ubermen  if you like.  The only problem is it  made them undead.  Fast forward and seven mercenaries enter a bunker complex that housed the experiment. The address below is for a short trailer

http://www.blackcamel.co.uk/multimedia/OutpostTrailer.html

New Hulk Pictures

Thanks to those folks over at Empire magazine for being the great movie news people.

Grant Morrison confirms that WE3 is still ongoing

The Highly popular Grant Morrison announced at NYCC ‘08 that WE3 is definetly going ahead and that delays with new lines highly published woes are whats held it up. It will be a live action movie with CGI animals. Those that loved the mini series will love this. I can’t wait

Rachel Nichols Plays it as Scarlett

Rachel Nichols is to play Scarlett in the new GI Joe Movie, she’s supposed to be the martial artist and counter intelligence gal for the good guys. Hmm how many female soldiers do you know running around in skin tight lycra.Mind you that would be one way for Bush to win approval for his war on terror

Rec- European Horror

This is one genuine scary horror movie, It’s claustrophobic, jump inducing and one that I totally recommend.

Here’s the link for you to go watch

http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/r/Rec/index-6187734.html

warning it is foreign language though but if you liked r-type then this will be up your street

Valkyrie Pushed back Again

Brian Singers Valkyrie starring Tom Cruise has been pushed back again, If like me you were actually waiting for this then the new tenative date is Febuary 2009

New Iron Man Shots

Hellboy Theatrical Trailer

Took some hunting but here is the theatrical trailer for you guys

http://movies.yahoo.com/premieres/7254432/

Surrogates

The cast for Bruce Willis’ sci-fi thriller, The Surrogates, is shaping up quite nicely (although if you ask us, it was doing ok when it merely had Bruce in it).

Ving Rhames, Radha Mitchell and our very own Rosamund Pike have all signed on to join the Jonathan Mostow flick, which starts filming in Boston later this month, and which is set in a futuristic world where humans live their lives through surrogate robots who are better-looking versions of themselves.

Mitchell will play the partner of Willis’ character, who’s a cop investigating the murder of surrogates through his own surrogate. Pike will play Willis’ wife (bit of an age gap, there – we wonder if they might explain that away through the use of the eternally youthful Surrogates), while Rhames will play a charismatic cult leader (why are all cult leaders in movies charismatic?) who opposes surrogates and attempts to lead an uprising

New Hellboy stills

This is one film I am really looking forward to, Ron Perlman is a vastly under-rated actor. And Yes that is Luke Goss as Prince Nuada 

Dan Simmons Hyperion to be made into a movie

Dan Simmons has long been one of the best genre authors out there, flitting between astoundingly inventive, layered and profound takes on sci-fi and horror with ease.

But so far – apart from tentative interest by Darren Aronofsky in adapting his brilliant debut novel, Song of Kali – he’s remained untouched by Hollywood. So, you should know the phrase that’s coming next.

Until now. For today British producer Graham King announced plans to adapt Simmons’ Hyperion Cantos series of sci-fi novels into movies.

The sprawling, ambitious and award-winning series – of which there have been four so far (assuming you bought the individual books and not the two omnibuses. Omnibi?) – deals with, on the surface, a space war threatening the planet of Hyperion, with its electricity-producing Tesla trees and Time Tombs (artefacts that actually travel backwards through time) and terrifying bladed Shrike monster (think a cross between Shredder and Danger in Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men), while seven pilgrims travel to the Time Tombs to stave off the war. Easy enough to adapt, right?

Yet there’s a reason why the books have been left alone for almost 20 years – the structure and timeline are multi-fragmented and incredibly complex, told from the point of view of each of the pilgrims for the first half, crammed with literary references from Chaucer to Boccaccio to Keats that are essential to the plot, and would prove a nightmare to adapt. The bigger themes deal with god and destiny and fate and other big concepts that Hollywood usually skirts around.

So step forward Trevor Sands, the writer with the cojones big enough to try to adapt the first two books, Hyperion and The Fall Of Hyperion, into a single film (with the other two books, Endymion and The Rise Of Endymion, on standby for sequels).

Sands has, apparently, found a way to adapt Hyperion, choosing to pare down the multiple viewpoints of the book and find a throughline without making it all too confusing. What sense that makes for a story expressly modelled on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (at least for the first half) is debateable, but if he succeeds this could be the next 2001.

Thanks to Empire for this scoop

I so want this to happen but it remains to be seen if the complex books can translate well to the big screen

Heath Ledger- Thanks for the Memorys

Now that the hysteria is over, I’d like to do my bit for a man who’s movies I Admired.

Heath Andrew Ledger (April 4, 1979 – January 22, 200 was an Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and SAG Award-nominated Australian-born film actor who lived in New York City. After appearing in television roles during the 1990s, Ledger developed a movie career, appearing in nearly 20 films. He starred in both critical and box-office successes, including 10 Things I Hate About You, The Patriot, Monster’s Ball, A Knight’s Tale, and Brokeback Mountain. For his portrayal of Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain, Ledger was nominated for a 2005 Oscar for “Best Actor in a Leading Role” and won awards from the British Academy and the Australian Film Institute, as well as two MTV Movie Awards.

In addition to his work as an actor and as a producer and director of music videos, Ledger also aspired to be a film director.

Ledger completed filming his role as the Joker in the forthcoming movie The Dark Knight, shortly before dying from an accidental prescription drug overdose at age 28. His last acting project was Terry Gilliam’s unfinished film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.