You know how it goes with the collective consciousness in Tinseltown.
An executive is sitting around the 6th Street Cafe on Montana, and gets an idea. Simultaneously, up Pch in the shower of a Malibu stilt-house, another executive gets the same idea. Ten minutes later, three other executives at a margarita brunch come up with the idea too.
And thus, one of the weird trends in film-making is born – the same kind of freak occurrence, like a hurricane, that bring us squalls of the same sort of film in the same season: Friends With Benefits coming out right next door to No Strings Attached, or Insidious and The Haunting in Connecticut, and so on.
This holiday season, the trend is to seize the high-profile anti-heroes of crime fiction and stick them up on the screen.
Some, like Alex Cross, feature characters who are no stranger to the box office. The same goes for Parker,...
An executive is sitting around the 6th Street Cafe on Montana, and gets an idea. Simultaneously, up Pch in the shower of a Malibu stilt-house, another executive gets the same idea. Ten minutes later, three other executives at a margarita brunch come up with the idea too.
And thus, one of the weird trends in film-making is born – the same kind of freak occurrence, like a hurricane, that bring us squalls of the same sort of film in the same season: Friends With Benefits coming out right next door to No Strings Attached, or Insidious and The Haunting in Connecticut, and so on.
This holiday season, the trend is to seize the high-profile anti-heroes of crime fiction and stick them up on the screen.
Some, like Alex Cross, feature characters who are no stranger to the box office. The same goes for Parker,...
- 10/18/2012
- by Matthew C. Funk
- Boomtron
Mr. Popper's Penguins arrives in theaters this weekend, and producer John Davis has been doing a lot of press lately. Davis recently spoke to Collider and revealed some details about his upcoming projects, including the action-thriller Protection, David Ayer’s Commando remake, and The Last Mission.
Here is what he had to say about Protection, which at one point had Dwayne Johnson attached to star:
Protection I have been developing for 5 or 6 years. It is this really great writer, who did 21 (Allan Loeb). He writes a lot of great scripts. It is a really great script. It is just going to be the right director, right actor, and the right time. But it is a fabulous script.
Davis talks about how different the new Commando is from the original, and confirms it will be a hard R. Here is what he had to say:
We have a really great script.
Here is what he had to say about Protection, which at one point had Dwayne Johnson attached to star:
Protection I have been developing for 5 or 6 years. It is this really great writer, who did 21 (Allan Loeb). He writes a lot of great scripts. It is a really great script. It is just going to be the right director, right actor, and the right time. But it is a fabulous script.
Davis talks about how different the new Commando is from the original, and confirms it will be a hard R. Here is what he had to say:
We have a really great script.
- 6/15/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Cinemablend reported today that a remake of the Schwarzenegger classic Commando might be coming to a theater near you. This was buzzing around approx. a year ago, and Producer John Davis (Predator, Predators) spoke out reiterating its continuance in an interview stating that a script has been written by Training Day and The Fast and the Furious writer David Ayer, who is also slated to direct the reboot.
- 6/15/2011
- by Jeremy Wynia
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Would Arnie and Sly be proud? Two of their films are getting modern updates and we know who is attached to star. The first, a Commando remake from 20th Century Fox is looking at Avatar and Clash of the Titans star Sam Worthington to step into the boots of Matrix. [Production Weekly (via NewsinFilm)]
We reported on this news in April when they hired David Ayer (Harsh Times, Street Kings) to write and direct. He will put a “real-world” spin on the original premise of “a retired elite special forces operative sees his daughter kidnapped and is told she’ll die unless he gets on a plane and kills the rival of a nasty exiled dictator.”
Back then it was reported an unknown star will be “less brawny, but more skilled in covert tactics and weaponry.” I wouldn’t exactly call Worthington unknown, as he has had a ridiculously fast rise to blockbuster fame.
We reported on this news in April when they hired David Ayer (Harsh Times, Street Kings) to write and direct. He will put a “real-world” spin on the original premise of “a retired elite special forces operative sees his daughter kidnapped and is told she’ll die unless he gets on a plane and kills the rival of a nasty exiled dictator.”
Back then it was reported an unknown star will be “less brawny, but more skilled in covert tactics and weaponry.” I wouldn’t exactly call Worthington unknown, as he has had a ridiculously fast rise to blockbuster fame.
- 8/15/2010
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
I'm not one of those guys that loathes the Underworld films. In fact, I liked the first one and the third one (mostly for Michael Sheen) but I don't credit much of their success to director Len Wiseman (he didn't even direct the last one), who kind of demonstrated his penchant for mediocrity in Live Free and Die Hard, which I thought was about as close to the definition of "serviceable" as you could get. But, man: People loathe this guy as a director. I'm not entirely sure where the hate comes from, but I don't think the level of disdain the average fanboy has for Wiseman will drop any now that he's officially signed on to direct the Total Recall remake, the next step in Hollywood's attempts to cycle through Arnie's entire catalog before moving on to remaking 1980s Tom Hanks movies (oh, you know it'll happen).
Anyway, that happened.
Anyway, that happened.
- 7/30/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has sent us exclusive information about the upcoming Predator "Ultimate Hunter Edition" Blu-ray which hits stores on June 29th 2010. The new release will feature an all new digital restoration of the film, a new sneak peak at Predators, and an all-new retrospective documentary entitled "Evolution of the Species: Hunters of Extreme Perfection" that includes interviews with Predators producer Robert Rodriguez, director Nimród Antal and original Predator producer John Davis. Here's a quote from Rodriguez from the doc: "What I loved about Predator is how it played against expectations. Everyone expected another Commando type movie, and it starts off that way but then switches gears and goes very horror, sci-fi and it was refreshing to see something take that turn and become something else and that's what I think give it it's cult classic status." Also, the release will include one of those $10 Movie Money certificates...
- 5/21/2010
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
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