Mad Max Reboot Casting News

Mad Max Fury Road the long delayed return of the cult classic Mel Gibson action series, continues to inch closer to actual production, adding more names to its ever growing cast list.

Tom Hardy (Inception, Dark Knight Rises) announced in 2010 that he would be stepping into the lead role as Road Warrior ‘Mad’ Max Rockatansky, riding the post-apocalyptic wastelands and dishing out a much needed brand of violent justice. He was quickly joined by Charlize Theron, but since then the project has struggled to pick up speed amidst rumours of drastic budget cuts and script re-writes.

It still remains unclear whether or not Mad Max Fury Road will be a remake, reboot or straight up sequel to the original Gibson led trilogy. But we now know it will feature a group of alluring ladies known as the ‘five wives’. Lingerie model turned Transformers actress Rosie Huntington-Whitely has now officially joined Zoe Kravitz, Riley Keogh and Adelaide Clemens. With four wives found that means there’s now only one golden ticket left for generic model/actress types. Megan Fox’s agent take urgent note.

Despite the fact Charlize Theron has shaved her head and Tom Hardy has grown a grizzly wilderness man beard in preparation for filming, no confirmation yet on when production will start or any hint at an intended release date.

Anna Karenina Trailer

Here’s the first trailer for Director Joe Wright‘s opulent new production of Anna Karenina, once again starring his period drama muse Keira Knightly. The pair previously worked together on Atonement as well as Pride & Prejudice. Their new film is based on the classic romantic Russian literature of Leo Tolstoy , co-starring Jude Law and Aaron Johnson. Check it out for yourself below, especially if you want to see what next year’s Best Costume Oscar winner looks like…

Dredd 3D Trailer Judge For Yourselves

The first trailer for Dredd 3D the big screen reboot of 2000AD cult comicbook hero Judge Dredd has arrived, with its shiny helmet and permanent frown firmly in place.

On the up side it already looks far more credible than the embarrassing mid 90′s version which starred Sylvester Stallone and Rob Schneider. On the downside it looks a little too much like this year’s recent action hit The Raid. With most of the plot centered around watching our two heroes fighting their way up through a building controlled by a powerful drug lord and her army of evil minions.

Star Trek’s Karl Urban plays the scowling lawman who was evidently too busy coming up with an endless array of justice themed one-liners to learn how to smile.  Juno starlet Olivia Thirlby plays his  inevitably pretty young sidekick, presumably hoping that shooting people in the head makes her more popular than coining the phrase “Honest to blog” did.

 

Taken 2 Trailer Arrives

Inspired by movie audiences unquestionable love of watching Liam Neeson kill things in a skilled and violent manner, he’s reprising his role as heroic retired CIA agent Bryan Mills for Taken 2.

The full length trailer below reveals that unleashing his fists of fury to rescue his daughter from evil kidnappers in Luc Besson’s original 2008 action thriller has its consequences. As once again generic looking bad guys are trying to take his family from him…

Clearly these particular bad guys haven’t seen Taken, Unknown, The Grey or any of the other films which convinced adoring fans just how good Liam Neeson is at killing things. From the looks of the above trailer looks like someone’s going to learn the hard way. You do NOT take Liam Neeson’s stuff. Evidently he’s not a sharer.

Taken 2 hit cinemas with the furious strength of a Liam Neeson hand slap on October 5th.

Ridley Scott Plans Prometheus Sequel

The relentless viral marketing, hype and fan expectations for Prometheus might have been greeted by an ambivalent shrug from disappointed audiences who saw the actual film, but that hasn’t deterred director Ridley Scott continuing with long rumoured plans for a sequel.

Scott has confirmed his enthusiasm for continuing the story, admitting it was always his intention to stretch things out for a second film. If you still haven’t seen Prometheus , be warned that Scott’s musings on the sequel do give away the ending of the first film. So read on with caution:

“From the very beginning, I was working from a premise that lent itself to a sequel. I really don’t want to meet God in the first one. I want to leave it open to Shaw saying, ‘I don’t want to go back to where I came from. I want to go where they came from.’”

Scott also intimated that the inevitable sequel will also likely borrow his original title for Prometheus, which was Paradise. The famously abrasive director also elaborated on what that Paradise might actually involve.

“I’d love to explore where [Dr. Shaw] goes next and what does she do when she gets there. Because if it is paradise, paradise cannot be what you think it is. Paradise has a connotation of being extremely sinister and ominous… Because [the Engineers] are such aggressive fuckers, I always had it in there that the God-like creature that you will see actually is not so nice, and is certainly not God.”