Bee Gees BiopicEveryone's favourite disco singing brothers from the Islet of Man are potentially going to be featured in a warts and all biopic about the surface to fame in the 1970's. Culminating in their hugely successful soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever. OK, OK, so this "story" originally appeared in the Daily Mail so I very much question that it's material but it is an excuse to make a musical interlude. Hit it boys:Cell 211Paul Haggis has obviously enjoyed the action of making prison-break movie Next Three Days with Russell Crowe. We know this because he's already been coupled with another prison set thriller, also for him to accommodate from a European original (albeit Spanish this time not French). Celda 211 was an Goya award winning 2009 production directed by Daniel Monzon which concerns a prison guard who gets involved with a scream on his first day in a new penitentiary. Sounds juicy enough to gets some great talent involved in the primary office at least.Machine ManWe haven't had any new Darren Aronofsky news in almost days so I was far from shocked to learn about another project that's passing by his desk. Although it's not too far from another film he was passing to make, the aborted Robocop, this story (adapted from Max Barry's novel) concerns an engineer who "upgrades" his own body with titanium and so becomes the place for criminals. Darren must've been really desperate to watch Robocop.Agincourt/Big TunaMichael Mann's last two movies (Miami Vice and Public Enemies) both underperformed in cinemas so it was hardly surprising to see him retreat back to TV movies for his future project. But now "Luck" is finished Mann is itching to give to the multiplex. Two of the options announced this week are an in depth look at the pivotal Battle of Agincourt between England and France in the fifteenth Century (famous for it's victory through the quality of the English archers, right) and a biopic of Chicago crime boss Tony Accardo. I wish to see my favourite directors branch out into different things so I'm hoping Mann plumps for Agincourt (which is based on the new by Bernard Cornwell), and Mann's proved he has an eye for period action with Last of the Mohicans so we know he can hold this.Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
I'm not certain how this bizarre Jane Austen spoof has managed to get a publishing sensation (cover right) although I deeply suspect it's hardly a passing fad. However the winner has inevitably led to a big screen adaptation. So far we've seen a bit of a revolving door on the cast but it's sounding like Scarlett Johannson, Bradley Cooper and Tilda Swinton (Yay! are tipped to lead in the last movie. Whilst I am sure this won't be a large movie there's something so deliciously car crash about it that's making me interested.Squirrel to the NutsPeter Bogdanovich has been MIA for about ten years now, since his Hearst/Chaplin picture The Cat's Meow - criminally underrated at the time - but it looks like his most recognisable disciples are planning to force him into another movie. Noah Baumbach and Wes Anderson are producing his latest picture which is reportedly a screwball comedy on the lines of What's Up Doc which connects a hooker, theatre director and a private detective. This is almost certainly the nearest to art-house I'm bringing up this week so hopefully Peter will end it done and we'll get a risk to see something a little different. Twixt Now and SunriseSince returning to film making Francis Ford Coppola has made a pair of personal projects with differing results (Tetro was excellent, Youth without Youth less so) so it's a slight surprise to see he's taking up horror/thriller picture. Val Kilmer will lead as a Stephen King like horror writer who finds the events from his latest novel start to segue into reality. Coppola has a unique visual eye so bear this to be sumptuous even if the plot sounds horribly familiar.The final time Coppola tried horror it was with the beautiful, if confused, Bram Stoker's Dracula (above).Casting NewsI'm only release to name one film here and not so often for the extensive rumour mill surrounding the casting - literally every hot-right-now actress under 35 with any intellectual back catalog has been listed - but also because of the plot details which may or may not have been leaked. The Alien Prequel may easily have Noomi Rapace, Anne Hathaway, Natalie Portman, Abbie Cornish, Lance Henrikson and James Franco. Or more likely none of them will end up in it but there you go. The leaked plot details - which could easily be fake - involve the space jockey(s) using mind control to try to breed humans. Sounds interesting except that the two victims happen to both be men. So this might fight the boundaries of outrage on screen, or it might only be approximately a heterosexual man's irrational fear of anal sex. I don't look this plot detail to have it to the last film - let's see. Release DatesMy Person to Take - Wes Craven's latest horror movie, the one that isn't Scream 4, has inexplicable moved back one week in January - given that it's bombed in the US search out for later shifts. Run off from a deranged killer on 21 January 2011.Biutiful - The festival sensation has polarised audiences at it's every showing with it's utter bleakness being either a major selling item or a shocking turn off but veryone agrees Javier Bardem gives a sensational central performance. Seek out police corruption on 28 January 2011.That's it: four weeks since our last update and just 2 release schedules have changed at all which is a will to how quiet things are as we pass into the awards season. Except there has been some bad news. Flipped, the advent of age movie from Rob Reiner has disappeared from the schedules just two weeks before it was due to be released. I'm really disappointed as it looked quite watchable. Maybe it will get second in time.
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