Once again, we deliver up your platter of links, with news today on Eddie Murphy, Will Ferrell, "Transformers 2," and more.
- "Transformers" writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci teamed with Ehren Kruger for robot sequel. (Hollywood Reporter)
- Ligers, and tigers, and, umm, pumapards! Oh my! Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley play scientists who create animal hybrids in thriller "Splice." (Hollywood Reporter)
- Eddie Murphy to star in "A Thousand Words," about a man who learns he only has 1,000 words left before he dies. (Variety)
- A naked Will Ferrell? Count us in for this "Semi-Pro" teaser. (Funny or Die)
- Another update from "Mummy" director Rob Cohen, with the first pics of Mario Bello. (Rob Cohen)
- McG to direct "Terminator 4”? (CHUD)
Leonard Nimoy nearly wasn't succeeded by a "Hero" but instead by "The Pianist" himself, Adrien Brody. We all heard those rumors months back that the Oscar-winner was up for the part of the most famous Vulcan this side of Sarek, and now the man has confirmed it.
"I did talk to J.J. [Abrams] about that," he told me today. And shed a tear for Mr. Brody, because he sounds kind of bummed that he missed out. "That would have been cool. I told my parents. They got a kick out of it. 'I may be Spock!' Oh, well. Could have been cool."
So did he do the famous live long and prosper salute for J.J. to try to get the part? "No. Didn’t do it. Maybe I should have. Would have had a better shot at the role," he sighed. (Watch our full-color video of Brody talking about his "Star Trek" near-miss after the jump!) Read more...
Francis (Owen Wilson), Peter (Adrien Brody) and Jack (Jason Schwartzman) discover a poisonous snake is loose in their train car. "The Darjeeling Limited," the latest from director Wes Anderson, opens in limited release on September 29.
Shooting in any city is a challenge, but even more so when you're looking to send a camera down a narrow alleyway in India. Director Wes Anderson plunged forward though, producing this gem of a behind-the-scenes video to give audiences a sense of what goes into the making of his upcoming quirky comedy, "The Darjeeling Limited."
Check out our other exclusive from "The Darjeeling Limited" right here.
Last week, we brought you an exclusive featurette from "The Darjeeling Limited," Wes Anderson's next dark comedy starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman. Well, now we have the trailer, which you can view below. When you're done with that, don't forget to check out our other brand new trailers, including Reese Witherspoon in "Rendition," Amanda Bynes in "Sydney White" and many more.
We're anxiously looking forward to Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited," so we're quite thrilled to be teaming up with Fox Searchlight to roll out a series of exclusive behind-the-scenes featurettes from the film, which stars Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman as three brothers who travel to India. We're also psyched that Anderson himself wrote a description for us of the featurette, which follows below...
"We started our shoot in the middle of one of the busiest and least accessible (by anything other than bicycle or auto-rickshaw) parts of Jodphur. Luckily, our key grip Sanjay Sami introduced us to his "rickshaw dolly" which became our favorite piece of equipment."
