Twilight Star Kellan Lutz is New Tarzan
Twilight‘s Kellan Lutz and Resident Evil‘s Spencer Locke have landed the coveted lead roles as Tarzan and Jane in the new Tarzan movie from Constantin Films. Directed by Reinhard Klooss, the new film will be made with motion capture CGI and will update Edgar Rice Burroughs tale considerably.
Tarzan (Kellan Lutz) is raised by apes in the jungle after his parents die in a plane crash. Leading him to become the familiar tree swinging loin cloth Adonis we all know. Jane (Spencer Locke) is a modern day conservationist who encounters the hunky Wildman on one of her expeditions. Together Tarzan and Jane will be taking on a nasty CEO who has taken over the company owned by Tarzan’s parents in his absence.
Following on from the colossal critical and commercial disaster of recent Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptation John Carter, the studio will be hoping that the public appetite for nearly naked action heroes and CGI gorillas proves more popular in a jungle setting than it did in a Martian desert.
Happy Star Wars Day
May 4th is officially Star Wars Day, a time to celebrate and greet your fellow Jedi with the immortal words
“May the Fourth be With You”.
Bizarrely we have Margaret Thatcher to thank for the origins of the delightful force based pun. On May 4th 1979 when she was elected as Britain’s first woman prime minister the conservatives took out a newspaper ad in the London Evening News which read
“May the Fourth be with you, Maggie. Congratulations.”
Last year saw the first large scale organized celebrations of Star Wars Day at the Toronto Underground Cinema in Canada, but fans continue to celebrate around the world in their own ways.
Typical festivities include inviting fellow Star Wars-obsessed friends to stay over for joyous movie marathons. Late night lightsabre fights and violent debates about whether or not you should fast forward any part with Jar Jar Binks in it are subject to personal discretion. Whatever you decide have fun, play safe and stay away from the dark side.
Scarlett Johansson Gets Hollywood Star
Rosie Launches M&S Lingerie Line
Model and actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is designing a lingerie range for Autograph at Marks & Spencer. The collaboration follows on from her contract modelling for the brand alongside actor Ryan Reynolds and marks the first time the model has turned her hand to design.
Rosie for Autograph launches in September comprising 33 pieces including silk lingerie sets, cami and French knicker sets, a teddy and a kimono-style robe.
The pretty Transformers star has this to say about the project
‘M&S is an iconic British brand, adored by many so I’m very excited to be launching my debut lingerie line with them. I thoroughly enjoyed collaborating with the design team to create my dream collection, and I’m looking forward to a fun and creative time ahead.’
The Dark Knight Rises New Trailer
The latest and greatest of trailers for The Dark Knight Rises arrives today to remind us all of Christopher Nolan’s genius. Packed with more Bane menacing, Catwoman smoldering and plot hints than previous teasers it’s 2 minutes 19 seconds of awesome.
In more detailed analysis, the third and perhaps final trailer for this summer’s biggest film provides a lot more insight into Anne Hathaway’s role as Selena Kyle aka Catwoman. In the comics and past big screen interpretations, the relationship between Catwoman and Batman was always ambiguous, constantly shifting between adversaries and allies.
While the previous trailers seemed to suggest she might be leaning to the dark side this time, it’s very clear from the new snippets of dialogue and action that Dark Knight Rises will follow that familiar arc. She will be fighting alongside Batman and most likely providing some catsuit clad romantic undertones.
The new trailer also gives us a first taste of Joseph Gordon-Levitt as mysterious new character John Blake. It’s clear again that he’s going to another friend for Batman and from the looks of his attire may be a young cop.
Fanboys are already busy speculating that he may be being groomed as a successor for the vacant Batman position after Bruce Wayne and Christian Bale leaves the franchise. Director Christopher Nolan will also of course be stepping away after this third installment leaving an unenviable task for whoever the studio finds to keep the multi-billion dollar franchise alive.
As for Tom Hardy’s musclebound villain Bane, the new trailer reveals that in addition to his already well known penchant for blowing up American Football games, he also enjoys demolishing bridges and exploding buildings. His proud announcement in this new clip that he is Gotham’s reckoning, combined with his previous pledge to reduce the city to ashes and an obvious hatred of Batman, may trace back to the events of Batman Begins.
In conclusions the new trailer promises full out war on the streets of Gotham unlike anything before.
See it for yourself below: