The bootleg Transformers 2 trailer (this is trailer number three, if you’re keeping score at home) just hit the web. I suggest watching it right now below as it’s likely to get taken down faster than your mom’s panties.  It’s got a lot of the stuff we’ve already seen, like emo-Bumblebee and Megan Fox in short shorts, plus – SYMBOLS AND LANDMARKS AND ANCIENT RUNES!  “They gotta mean something, they’re like a message, or like a map!”

Of course, X marks the giant robot fight.  It’s a story as old as time.  Michael Bay you brilliant bastard.
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^{Gordon GECKO?  Anyone?  Shut up.}

Michael Douglas is coming back to Wall Street to reprise the role of Gordon Gekko, the character who inspired a generation of douchebags.  Oliver Stone will direct the Fox (uh oh) production, with Shia LaBeouf still in negotiations.

Just as “Wall Street” epitomized the high-flying 1980s with Gekko’s motto “greed is good,” the sequel [still called Wall Street 2, which I doubt will stick] is expected to mirror the latest news from the credit crisis and the recession. Production on the sequel is expected to begin this summer, and the screenplay comes from Allan Loeb, who helped pen the 2008 gambling movie “21″ starring Kevin Spacey. [Yahoo, Variety]

Ooh, ripped from the headlines – it’ll be like Law and Order on the big screen.  And with Oliver Stone at the helm, what could go wrong?  He has a reputation for even-handedness, you see.

While the proposed Predator reboot is already losing steam with Robert Rodriguez only producing and not directing as originally reported, Fox co-chair Tom Rothman claimed in a recent interview with IESB that Ridley Scott was “toying with the idea” of doing another Aliens movie.

Excited?  Don’t be.  This is still Fox we’re talking about.  You may remember their last alien movie?  The one with Eddie Murphy living inside an Eddie Murphy-shaped spaceship? The one that got outgrossed by Soul Plane? And as for Ridley Scott?  Yeah, he’ll be good to go once he finishes his movie based on MOTHER EFFING MONOPOLY. Ahh, what a crappy time to be alive.

Question marks in the headline can mean only one thing: it’s time to prognosticate! If you came here for answers, you’re in the wrong place, bub. Now, who wants to get stabbed in the dark?  Ouch, I’m bleeding! Yay!

MTV recently talked to American Psycho/Rules of Attraction/Less Than Zero author Bret Easton Ellis, whose 2005 book Lunar Park will soon become a movie.  The protagonist of the book is a fictionalized version of the lily-white Ellis, who says the lead candidate for the role is noted Puerto Rican Benicio Del Toro.  It’s a strange book – it starts with Ellis raising a family after gaining literary fame in the 80s, and eventually becomes a Stephen King-style supernatural thriller.

“Benicio would actually be playing Bret Easton Ellis,” the author said of his new, unlikely doppelganger. “It’s a strange bit of casting.”  According to Easton Ellis, it was their physical differences that attracted the “Traffic” star to the role. “I think he’s interested just because he’s rarely offered Anglo parts. I think that’s one of the reasons it was very exciting to him. I don’t even think he read the book; I just think he read the script and said ‘Oh, this is an Anglo writer and you’re not casting a white dude? You’ve come to me?’ And I think that rarely happens for him. I think he’s offered a lot of Spanish characters and ethnic types, and I think it’s very rare for him to get offered Anglo parts.” [MTV]

Of course he didn’t read the book – he’s Puerto Rican. I kid, I kid. But in all seriousness, if they ever make a movie about my life, I’m going on record that I want Danny Trejo for the lead.  Mira, puto – deed ju come here for some pinche movie news? (*fires shotgun at camera*)

This is the second trailer for Antichrist, from Dogme 95/The Idiots/Dancer in the Dark filmmaker Lars Von Trier (first trailer here). The idea of a Danish director doing a movie about the antichrist is kind of terrifying.  When it comes to sacrilege, no one holds a candle to the Scandinavians. Don’t believe me? Read about Norwegian Black Metal some time you’re interested in having nightmares.  Anyway, this version of the trailer has Danish subtitles, and the second damned word in it is “sorgmønster.”  Sorgmønster!  I don’t know what it means, but it sounds like it means a big scary demon, or penis, or demon penis, or Willem Dafoe.

[via Twitch]