While we’re on the subject of upcoming video games, here’s a trailer for the highly anticipated Ghostbusters: The Video Game. Well, highly anticipated by a lot of nerds… of which I am one of. So shove it.
Technically a sequel to the films, the game stars Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Bill Murray reprising their roles as Spengler, Stantz, Zeddmore and Venkman. The game plot is pretty straightforward:
With Manhattain newly overrun by ghosts and other supernatural creatures, it’s up to you to take on the role of a new recruit joining the original, famous Ghostbusters team. Equipped with a variety of unique weapons and gadgets, you will hunt, fight and capture a wide range of uncanny phantasms and demons in an all-new, funny and frightening battle to save New York City from its latest paranormal plague.
Activision is releasing the game this October for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PC, Wii and Nintendo DS.
Bloody Disgusting reports that Rob Cohen (xXx, Stealth, The Skulls, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and The Wiz) will be producing a remake of classic 1987 movie Monster Squad for Paramount. Nothing more has been said about the pending rape of your childhood.
“Werewolf Women of the SS is back! This time it’s back as a comic book series! The wacky exploits of Commandant Hess, Lt. Boorman, Von Strasser Eva and Gretchen Krupp, Fu Manchu and even Hiltler will be coming you way. Everything you ever wanted to know about Project Pure Wolf but were afraid to ask!”
To me this makes the most sence for this project. I’m kind of excited to see who Zombie brings to the table to make this happen. My guess is that he’ll have artist David Hartman illustrate it.
Last year the animated horror short Dear Beautiful hit the world with high acclaim. Here was the potential of horror in animation - full of tension and grit and truly entertaining. And now the film’s creator Roland Becerra is in the works to turn the short into a full-length feature animated film, as reported by Quiet Earth.
The feature will expand the story as such: “The sudden appearance of exotic flowers in New Haven spawns an unprecedented epidemic rumored to be the result of a botched experiment by cosmetics giant, V-Zone. Paul and Lauren, a married couple, are caught between the catastrophe and their own troubled relationship when Lauren encounters one of the flowers and becomes infected. As her symptoms worsen, Paul’s denial of Lauren’s illness puts the couple in grave danger as the city is overrun with infected people, media frenzy, National Guard, protesters and a panicked populace. Struggling to maintain a normal daily life, Paul engages in a battle of wills with his best friend and business partner, Roger, as Paul tries to deny his wife’s condition and Roger tries to take matters into his own hands. As the epidemic reaches a climax, Paul must confront the reality of his situation as well as the monster his friend has become.”
Not much else is being said about the film or about the release date, but I highly recommend that you check out the short film to get a taste of what’s to come.
Here’s a little sneak peek into the next Futurama movie, Bender’s Game, which is set to be released late this year. Filled with nerdtastic Dungeons & Dragons references and various scifi puns, Bender’s Game tells the tale of how the Planet Express crew gets trapped in a fantasy world while in search for fuel.
“Everything is set into motion based on the high price of fuel, which is dark matter,” head writer and executive producer David X. Cohen told Wired.com in June. “Our crew tries to get to the heart of the problem…. Of course, strange events unfold.”
As if this day can’t get any better, what with the big announcement about Metropolis and all, we now hear that our favorite comic book ever, The Goon by Eric Powell, has been optioned to be made into a move by none other that director David Fincher (Zodiac and Fight Club)! And it gets better. Academy-Award nominated Blur Studio will be developing the film!
If you are unfamiliar with The Goon, a masterpiece of zombies and slapstick Lovecraftian humor set in some old-timey world, I highly suggest you walk into your local comicbook store and demand it. You’ll thank us for it.
In what is arguably one of the most important finds in cinematic history, the original, full-length edit of METROPOLIS has been located in Buenos Aires!
German magazine Zeit made the announcement via their website that a Buenos Aires museum director has possession of the “original copy of a long version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, including scenes believed lost for almost 80 years. After examining the film the three experts are certain: The find from Buenos Aires is a real treasure, a worldwide sensation.”
The article goes on to read
“Among the footage that has now been discovered, according to the unanimous opinion of the three experts that ZEITmagazin asked to appraise the pictures, there are several scenes which are essential in order to understand the film: The role played by the actor Fritz Rasp in the film for instance, can finally be understood. Other scenes, such as for instance the saving of the children from the worker’s underworld, are considerably more dramatic.”
Martin Koerber, the restorer of the previously longest known version of “Metropolis” examined the footage and said “No matter how bad the condition of the material may be, the original intention of the film, including all of its minor characters and subplots, is now once again tangible for the normal viewer. The rhythm of the film has been restored.”
I’ll be honest and tell you all that I am not a big fan of remakes, but damn, this looks like it could be a potential winner. Mirrors is the upcoming film is based on the 2003 South Korea horror movie Geoul sokeuro, which is about a mall security guard investigating a series of murders that somehow involve mirrors.
Director Alexandre Aja of High Tension fame makes some changes in his version but seems to keep the overall story intact. Kiefer Sutherland plays an ex-cop hired to guard an old building that is filled with mirrors. Soon he and his family become the target of an evil force that is using just about any reflective surface as a means to torment them. Blood, gore and creepy small children abound.
MTV’s Movieblog released a clip of one of the most anticipated characters from Hellboy II: The Golden Army - Johann Krauss, the powerful psychic whose soul is forced to reside within a protective suit. Why is this character getting fans all a flitter? Because he is voiced by Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy and the voice behind many of its characters.
Granted this clip only gives you a tinny taste of what MacFarlane’s talents will be adding to the film, but being that Hellboy is filled with humor along with all the monsters and goo, I’m pretty sure it’ll be a really good fit into the mythos.
David Cronenberg has become a genius or is incredibly stupid. He and Grammy and Oscar-winner composer Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings) have teamed up with Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) to bring you The Fly The Opera, an operatic adaptation of Cronenberg’s 1986 film The Fly.
I don’t know much about operas but I do know who Plácido Domingo is, and they got him to conduct the U.S. premiere for the LA Opera, who commissioned the opera. In the world of stuffy music Domingo is a heavy-hitter, so having him involved adds some street-cred I would guess.
Time magazine described The Fly as “a profound parable on love and loss.” Uhm… what, no Brundle-Fly vomit?
Rob Zombie’s faux trailer Werewolf Women of The S.S., featured in the movie Grindhouse, is coming to a comic store near you.
In what is arguably one of the most important finds in cinematic history, the original, full-length edit of METROPOLIS has been located in Buenos Aires!
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