In a year of an Iron Man, Man of Steel and a X-Man of Adamantium…who deserves the Gold?
Inspired by the Golden Globes and upcoming Academy Awards here are the geek movie awards.
Best Villain: Smaug in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. A pitch perfect performance of actor and special effects by Benedict Cumberbatch and director Peter Jackson. Continue reading Geek Movie Awards
Ian McKellen is talking about his return “under the helmet” as Magneto in in X-Men: Days of Future Past. Earlier this week Bryan Singer (director of the first two films in the X-Men series) tweeted that McKellen and Patrick Stewart would return to the franchise in the next film.
While promoting The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey McKellen told Huffington Post:
“What a gas! I mean, Patrick Stewart and I have been have just been playing “Waiting for Godot” throughout England and in the West End of London. So, we’ve stayed in touch. We can’t believe it [laughs]. I thought these were Fassbender and McAvoy’s parts, but — no, no — we’re back. We’ll give them a run for their money. I mean, I haven’t read the script, so I don’t know how much we’ve got to do. But, to be back in that world, and for Bryan to be doing it — with all the success he’s had in the meantime — it’s wonderful. Wonderful.”
Fassbender and McAvoy played the young Magneto and Charles Xavier in X-Men: First Class. The new film is based on the classic storyline involving time travel, a team of X-Men from the future trying to influence the past and SENTINELS!
Hugh Jackman will return as Wolverine. I expect we might hear a Storm warninig about talks with Halle Berry soon?
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The Hobbit will be the gift that keeps on giving to geeks this holiday season! The first 9 minutes of Star Trek: Into Darkness will screen on select IMAX screenings of Peter Jackson’s new film. Now Warner Brothers announced a new Man of Steel trailer will screen with The Hobbit in 2-D and 3-D.
The director of the new Superman film tells MTV :
“It’s fun. I can’t wait for ‘The Hobbit,’ so it will be fun to see our crazy ‘Man of Steel’ trailer and then enjoy the Hobbit because that’s going to be great,” Snyder told MTV News. “It just feels like a fun Christmas thing to do, drag the whole family out for that action.”
The director of the Superman reboot is praising his two leading men: Henry Cavill and Michael Shannon:
“Shannon is great, he has such great enthusiasm and dedication constantly,” Snyder said the actor playing Zod. “You can imagine that you could get actors who go, ‘Oh right, it’s Zod, it’s not 100 percent serious,’ or [you can play it] slightly with a wink, there is none of that with him. His effort is to make it realized and to understand this character and what he has to go through, so you have that on one side and you have Henry, who basically is Superman, on the other side and that dynamic.”
“I was just incredibly fortunate to play with those guys who really were giving all they had to bring a level of commitment to the scenes they have together so that audiences will get an opportunity to really have their heroes taken seriously,” he said. “As serious as I was taking it, and I don’t mean that from a depressing kind of way but from a, ‘This is important and fun and needs to be given the respect that it deserves,’ from that perspective it was so exciting to watch them drink the Kool-Aid of that concept and go all the way.”
Man of Steel soars June 14, 2013.
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United geeks rejoice! What’s better than a big screen version of The Hobbit by Peter Jackson on IMAX? How about an extended preview of the new Star Trek sequel before?
9 minutes of Star Trek: Into Darkness will screen in front of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on 500 IMAX screens starting December 14th according to Dark Horizons.
IDW will be publishing a comic book prequel to the movie sequel to feed your Trek need until the film arrives.
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Producers of Star Trek 2 have added a new actor in a lead role but will be hero or villain?
Deadline is reporting that producers have hired Benedict Cumberbatch. The British actor is currently on the big screen in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and War Horse. He will playing the dragon Smaug (via motion capture) and the voice of the Necromancer in The Hobbit. He was Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock on BBC.
Benicio Del Toro turned down the villain role. Edgar Ramirez and Jordi Molla was under consideration. Del Toro’s casting immediately generated rumors he would be playing Khan Noonien Singh. I was hoping for a return of the Klingons in the sequel.
I agree with Collider that this casting is a curveball – especially if it is for the main villain role. When I see Cumberbatch – I think Romulan or Andorian.