Monsters! Aliens! Ultimate 3-D!
Posted by admin in News on April 4th, 2008
Monsters Vs. Aliens from DreamWorks Animation SKG boasts a new form of 3-D that they’e billing as Ultimate 3-D. The project is being directed by animation veterans Rob Letterman (Shark Tale) and Conrad Vernon (Shrek 2) with a projected March 27, 2009 release. The voice cast was announced this week, topped by Reese Witherspoon (Legally Blonde) as Susan Murphy, a.k.a. Ginormica; Hugh Laurie (House) as Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D.; Will Arnett (Horton Hears a Who as The Missing Link; Seth Rogen (Knocked Up) as B.O.B.; Rainn Wilson (The Office) as Gallaxhar; Stephen Colbert as The President of the United States; Kiefer Sutherland (24) as General W.R. Monger; and Paul Rudd (Reno 911)as Susan’s boyfriend, Derek.
Monster Zoo Headed for Raimi Zone
Sam Raimi is blending comics with horror by attaching his production company to Doug TenNapel’s Monster Zoo graphic novel. Word has it Paramount Pictures, where Raimi is already at work, will release the adaptation.
Terror Tidbits
Superman Returns was pretty horrific so we’re cautiously concerned that Bryan Singer is talking up his involvement in the follow-up Superman: The Man of Steel. At Shoe West in Las Vegas, Singer has been telling people he will be back but the writing team of Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris will not return. Speculation already has the hot genre screenwriting duo of Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman replacing them.
Uprising will be Wolfgang Peterson’s (Air Force One) next film for Columbia Picutres. A thriller, it will involve Earth already occupied by a nasty alien race, and has been written by Charles Leavitt (Blood Diamond). Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher (Gladiator) will produce.
Cloverfield may have only been the beginning with other direct-to-DVD monster flicks in the works. Taking a page from Sci-Fi channel’s Saturday night monster-of-the-week formula, Birth of a Legend: Story of the Wawa will feature irradiated worms in Alabama. The enlarged worms are hungry and begin eating the fisherman. Yum. Then there’s Minnesota-based Serpent Lake which is based on local lore about a dinosaur-like creature.
Charlie Sheen returns to his low-budget roots with a film once known as Tortured. The Twisted Pictures production is said to be about a couple coping with their loss of their five year old. He was killed by a pedophile, who was freed by the courts so they decided to take justice into their own hands. Rob Lieberman (Fire in the Sky) will direct from a script by Marek Posival (Hold Up).
