By Robbie Graham
Nolan’s
‘Interstellar’ gets a release date
Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros.
Pictures jointly announced last week that
writer/director Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic Interstellar will be will be
released beginning November 7, 2014,
in theaters and IMAX. The film will be co-produced and distributed by the two
studios, with Paramount Pictures on domestic distribution duties and Warner
Bros. Pictures handling International
distribution.
Based on a script by Jonathan Nolan, and inspired by the work of theortical physicist Kip Thorne, Interstellar will be produced by Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan. Kip Thorne will executive produce. According to Paramount, “the film will depict a heroic interstellar voyage to the furthest reaches of our scientific understanding.”
Jeff Robinov, President, Warner Bros. Pictures Group, said, "Christopher Nolan is truly one of the great auteurs working in film today, and we're extremely proud of our successful and ongoing collaboration with him and Emma Thomas. We are excited to be teaming with Paramount, and look forward to working with the Nolans, and producer Lynda Obst, on this extraordinary new project."
Interstellar was originally being developed by Steven Spielberg, who eventually let the project go due to other film commitments. Whether or not it the film’s heroic explorers will encounter alien life on their travels remains to be seen.
New ‘After Earth’
trailer
Columbia
Pictures has released the new trailer for After Earth, the official synopsis
for which reads as follows:
“A crash landing leaves teenager Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his legendary father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape. With Cypher critically injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help, facing uncharted terrain, evolved animal species that now rule the planet, and an unstoppable alien creature that escaped during the crash. Father and son must learn to work together and trust one another if they want any chance of returning home.”
“A crash landing leaves teenager Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his legendary father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape. With Cypher critically injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help, facing uncharted terrain, evolved animal species that now rule the planet, and an unstoppable alien creature that escaped during the crash. Father and son must learn to work together and trust one another if they want any chance of returning home.”
After Earth
hits cinemas June 7 this year.
‘Guardians of the
Galaxy’ will be set mainly in space
Marvel Studios
president Kevin Feige has told SFX that the vast majority of the
upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy movie will
take place in space.
“The Thor film and the Guardians of the Galaxy film
certainly are cosmic,” he said. “Guardians and Thor will take the brunt of the
cosmic side of the universe, particularly Guardians, which is 95% in
space...”
Feige also added that while Guardians of the Galaxy is very much
“a standalone film” in the Marvel franchise, “It takes place in the same universe” as The
Avengers, “but the Avengers are not involved with what's happening out
there at this time.” If that makes any sense.
Tarantino
mocks ‘Prometheus’
Ever
wondered what Quentin Tarantino thought of
Prometheus?
No, me neither. But now we know...
While being interviewed by Craig
Ferguson late last year, Tarantino said:
"I
saw Prometheus.
I loved it and I was disappointed at the same time. On one hand I was a little
disappointed about it. On the other hand, it was actually kind of cool to see
such a big deal, serious, science fiction epic by a director like Ridley Scott.
There were parts of it I actually did like and over-all the experience was
really cool having been in it. There was also a lot of dumb stuff in it,
though."
Tarantino then mocked what he called
the “space cobra” scene where the crew’s exobiologist greets a hideous and
clearly deadly alien snake-thing as if it were fluffy puppy before dying a
horrible death. A contender for the dumbest scene of
2012?