Full Trailer for Sci-Fi 'Europa Report' with Sharlto Copley. ‘The Cabin in the Woods’ Director in Talks to Make Sci-Fi Thriller ‘The Martian’ Drew Goddard, who wrote Cloverfield and directed The Cabin in the Woods, has almost locked down a new directorial project.
He is now in talks to make The Martian, based on an e-book by Andy Weir. The film revolves around an astronaut stranded on Mars, who must find a way to survive and return home. Goddard will write the film as well, which is set up at Fox, with Simon Kinberg producing. A few more details are below. In the story, a Mars exploration mission is aborted six days into its two-month span, thanks to a dust storm. I’m pretty much f**ked. That’s my considered opinion. F**ked. Six days into what should be the greatest two months of my life, and it’s turned into a nightmare. Sounds like a great concept for a film, if fairly close in kinship to Gravity. 12 Things The "Ender's Game" Trailer Got Right.
David Thomson: Why I Hate ‘The Hunger Games’ There are several spoilers in this review of The Hunger Games, and I’ll get them out of the way early.
The film shows precious little hunger and no sense of game. It’s a terrible movie, but it grossed $68.25 million on its first Friday. So that’s where your teenage daughters were over the weekend—or what they told you. And that’s why film critics sometimes feel their own futility. I know, or I have heard, that the series of books by Suzanne Collins, of which The Hunger Games was the first, have sold all over the world in amazing numbers since 2008. The film places us in a post-apocalyptic world, though there is no sign of how the end came and no trace of a toxic aftermath. Death to Overly Expository Opening Voiceover Narration. By Matt Singer | Criticwire June 4, 2013 at 9:41AM Having Jaden Smith or Tom Cruise explaining the story is not the right way to start a movie. 0000013e-f8d8-d94d-a5be-f8fb1ead0000 "Oblivion.
" Film criticism isn't about telling directors how to do their job; it's about telling audiences how directors did their job. Generally, critics are here to provide analysis, not advice. And so I say today, loudly unto the entire Internet: death to overly expository opening voiceover narration. The execution is scheduled now because of two movies in current wide release: "Oblivion" and "After Earth. " But in spite of their different storytelling goals and different paths through their environmentally ravaged worlds, they both start with the exact same thing: protagonists explaining, at length in hushed tones, each film's complete backstory.
True, there is a history of science-fiction movies opening with a blast of exposition. VOTD: Prop Wars. 'Prometheus' Credits Tag Leads to a New Viral Site & Weyland Video. By Alex Billington June 10, 2012Source: MovieViral Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
Well, what do we have here. Amidst all the discussion on Prometheus, fans have seemed to miss a clue that continues the story beyond what we see in this movie. MovieViral points out of that if you stay to the very end of the credits, there is a Weyland Corp tag (not a scene, just a logo - seen above) that includes the date 10. 11. 12. prominently displayed. Weyland Industries. See The Bleak Snow-Covered World In Concept Art From Bong Joon-Ho's Snowpiercer. Imagine a dystopian future where Earth is covered in a seemingly endless blanket of snow and ice.
This world is nearly devoid of human life, save for a smattering of people who are all confined to one passenger train that's tearing its way through the bleak terrain. Trapped and uncertain of their future, these passengers begin to fixate on their differences rather than a common goal of survival, and it soon rips their little world in two. This is the setting of Bong Joon-ho's English-language debut Snowpiercer (formerly Snow Piercer), which is inspired by the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige.
Chris Evans And More Ravaged By End Of The World In Snowpiercer Character Posters. Moviegoers around the world know Chris Evans as the clean-cut titular hero of Captain America: The First Avenger, but this character poster for his Avengers follow-up Snowpiercer shows a bearded and brooding side to the actor we've never seen before.
As the first English-language feature from celebrated South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, Snowpiercer has attracted a staggeringly promising cast that includes Academy Award winners Tilda Swinton and Octavia Spencer, as well as John Hurt, Jamie Bell, Ewen Bremner, Song Kang-ho, who starred in Joon-ho's The Host. Based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige, Snowpiercer is set in a bleak future where the world has been submerged into hostile Ice Age-like environment. The last scraps of humanity now live within the confines of the titular train as it speeds through the unrelenting drifts of snow and ice. Star Wars. Cool Boba Fett Bounty Hunter Geek Art Relentlessly cheerful tumblr.