By Robbie Graham
Alter
Voltage Pictures has secured the rights
to a sci-fi project called Alter, ComingSoon.net reports. No director
or stars are yet attached. The script has been written by newcomers John and
Thomas Sonntag.
According to ComingSoon:
According to ComingSoon:
“The
plot for the movie is said to deal with a crew of scientists monitoring a black
hole. Their research takes a terrifying turn when they receive a transmission
from what appears to be the near future, showing a deadly attack from an alien
force and their own deaths at the hands of the
extraterrestrials.”
Silver Screen
Saucers will report more details on this movie
as they emerge.
Guardians of the
Galaxy
In an interview with Marvel Studios
president of production Kevin Feige about Joss Whedon’s upcoming Avengers movie, CraveOnline learned that Marvel’s
big screen adaptation of Guardians of
the Galaxy – which is currently in the early stages of development –
will be about the modern version of the team, as opposed to the old
version.
When asked to confirm that the movie would focus on the new team, Feige said: "Yeah. It's more Star-Lord and Drax and Gamora, and less Vance Astro and that team."
Originally created in 1969 and
resurrected in 2008, Guardians of the Galaxy begins as a
far-future story revolving around a group of alien beings – each the last of
their kind – who eventually travel back in time to protect the earth from alien
invasion.
Guardians of the
Galaxy
is unlikely to hit cinemas before 2014.
Avatar
sequels delayed
Empire reports that
James Cameron’s two Avatar sequels have been delayed. In
a recent interview with the UK movie magazine, Avatar producer Jon Landau said of
the first sequel: "We're not naming dates, but I think 2014 will be a tough date
for us to make. It's about getting it right," pointing out that “movies make
release dates; release dates don't make movies."
Based on Landau’s
comments, Empire says “it’s safe to say that
we won't be heading back to Pandora until 2015 at the earliest, with the third
instalment likely in 2016 or 2017.
Prometheus
The
Guardian’s Paul MacInnes was one of several European journalists invited to
London's Leicester Square last week to watch approximately five minutes of new
material from Ridley Scott’s upcoming Alien prequel, Prometheus.
MacInnes notes that the
footage included “what may be the entirety of the opening scene in which
archaeologist Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and her lover and colleague Charlie
Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) uncover a pictogram that Shaw sees as
confirmation that aliens visited Earth in pre-history and invited humans back to
theirs.”
“Next,” continues MacInnes, “we were whisked straight off into space and
the exploratory vehicle Prometheus. We are introduced to the crew, from push-up
loving suit Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron) to disgruntled staffer Fifield
(Sean Harris). There's an on-ship briefing, a bit of truculent banter and the
judicious use of technology which, it's fair to say, is far more sophisticated
than that in the Nostromo, despite it taking to the skies decades later (in Alien time). From there the descent
begins to planet LV223 and, one suspects, the trouble starts.”
MacInnes goes on to say
that he learned five distinct things about Prometheus. To find out what those
things are, check out The Guardian’s
article.
Last week, Empire’s Chris Hewitt hosted a Prometheus Q&A in London with
Ridley Scott, Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron. You can read
the Q&A (which includes minor spoilers) here.
Meanwhile, Twentieth Century Fox’s
viral campaign for Prometheus continues to evolve with
a new ad for "David," the latest generation android from the Weyland Corporation
played by Michael Fassbender...
Will you be ordering a “David”?
Finally on the
subject of Prometheus, have
a ganders at these new pics from the movie, which come via ComingSoon.net...
