With news on "Wolverine," "Wall-E," Tim Burton, Jackie Chan, and more in our links of the day, now would be a bad time to have a case of the Mondays. Read about those and more below.
- Some people ask why. Upcoming prequel director Gavin Hood says why not to Wolverine. (Superhero Hype)
- Jackie Chan not so different after all. Hates "Rush Hour" series just like the rest of us. (Yahoo)
- Tim Burton to direct Frankenweenie feature film? (Slashfilm)
- New "Wall-E" teaser hits the web. It's in French, with English version coming tomorrow. (Allocine)
- Rule Britannia Redux: Peter Morgan developing sequel to "The Queen," which will focus on Blair's relationships with Presidents Clinton and Bush. (Variety)
- Morgan Freeman and Antonio Banderas set to break "The Code," in caper drama. (Variety)
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We have superheroes on the brain this morning at the MTV Movies Blog, with the big news today that Jessica Biel may star in "JLA" as Wonder Woman. More powerful than a locomotive come our links of the day, with news on "Harry Potter," "Punisher," "Transformers 2," and more.
- Faster than a speeding bullet come spoilers from the "JLA" script. (UGO)
- Harry Potter chimed in, now director David Yates talks the cave scene in "Half-Blood Prince." (Voices from Krypton)
- The puzzle is complete: Dominic West joins "Punisher: War Zone" as the villain Jigsaw. (Hollywood Reporter)
- Clint Eastwood eyeing Nelson Mandela flick about a South African Rugby World Cup match, to star Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. (Variety)
- June 26, 2009 is now more than meets the eye. Date chosen for release of "Transformers 2." (ComingSoon)
A young couple -- played by Alexa Davalos and Toby Hemingway -- share an intimate moment in this exclusive clip from "Feast of Love," the upcoming drama that showcases the trials and tribulations of a community of friends in Oregon. The film, which also stars Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear and Selma Blair, opens September 28.
If you thought Johnny Depp was the world's unlikeliest buccaneer, just wait'll you get a load of Dakota Fanning in "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle," enthused director Danny DeVito.
The movie, an adaptation of the book by author Edward Irving Wortis (better known by his pen name Avi), centers on the adventures of a 19th Century 13-year-old girl, who must forswear her ladylike upbringing when confronted by intrigue and danger on the high seas.
"[Dakota] is a very proper girl who is thrust into a situation where she has to take this ship and there's a mutinous crew on board -- all sorts of intricate loyalties, and storms, and gunfights," DeVito excitedly revealed about the set-up for the upcoming flick, for which he is currently "working on storyboards," he said. "It's really cool stuff." Read more...
A thirty-mile-long alien spaceship with mysterious origins is set adrift in our Solar System by an unknown intelligence. What is it? Who built it? What is it doing in our corner of the galaxy?
Morgan Freeman thinks he's just the man to find out.
"I play the captain of the spaceship Endeavor that is charged with rendezvousing with this thing from outer space to find out what it is [and] what its intentions are," Freeman said of his role in "Rendezvous with Rama," the celebrated story from the mind of science-fiction legend Arthur C. Clarke.
Freeman, who has been trying to get the movie made since early in the millennium, said it's still on track to happen, (with "Fight Club" director David Fincher at the helm) - it's just taking a little while longer than expected. "It's a very intellectual science fiction film, a very difficult book to translate cinematically." Freeman said. "[At least] we have found it very difficult to translate, to get ready for film." Read more...
