Filmism.net Dispatch August 3, 2010
Oh my god oh my god oh my god. I wasn't terribly gripped by the news that Stephen (Blade, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) Norrington was directing the remake of The Crow, one of my favourite films of all time. But now I've heard Nick Cave might be writing the script, I can't sit still.
You might be a little tired of leather-clad, arse kicking girls, dragons, martial arts, swordplay and aerial battles, but put them all together in the trailer for Zack Snyder's new movie Sucker Punch and they almost look cool enough to have me convinced.
MGM's future continues to look bleak with even less certainty about the future of the Bond franchise. Might be time for a high profile rights sale to someone with a little more liquidity.
In movie news, Len (Underworld) Wiseman is doing the remake of Schwarzenegger classic Total Recall , and J J Abrams is producing the film version of Boilerplate to the screen, from the graphic novel about a Victorian-era robot.
Lastly, if you like mash-ups, this one's a little rough around the edges but very funny.