Yesterday, Jay Chandrasekhar and Kevin Heffernan of Broken Lizard (Super Troopers) stopped by to humorously answer reader questions, and that was as awesome as it sounds. You can also catch up with Jay Chandrasekhar and Kevin Heffernan by watching The Babymakers in theaters this weekend (as well as on iTunes and VOD) and on DVD and Blu-ray September 18th. Chandrasekhar directs while Heffernan plays a supporting role to Paul Schneider and Olivia Munn.
20th Century Fox showed new Rise of the Planet of the Apes footage at San Diego Comic-Con and wisely put it online immediately so we wouldn’t have to post a buttcam bootleg. The audience in Hall H saw the clip below and the ones from yesterday. The new clip shows an army of primates attacking San Francisco, which is what I imagine a normal day on the west coast looks like. The director explained to the Hall H crowd why they rebooted the franchise so quickly (besides “for piles and piles of money”).
“It’s never been possible to tell this story, technologically,” Rise of the Planet of the Apes director Rupert Wyatt told the audience, explaining why Fox is revisiting the franchise just a decade after Tim Burton interpreted the story about chimps that achieve humanlike levels of intelligence. “We wanted to tell our story without using live apes for any number of reasons. It would be a cruel irony to tell the story of the exploited and repressed and use live apes to do so.” [HeroComplex]
Okay, so that’s their reason for the mo-cap, and I’ll admit it’s growing on me a little. A couple of the scenes in the clip below, particularly the end, were a bit intimidating. You could even say these apes aren’t monkeying around. . . . Play me off, Johnny!
What was that director guy saying about exploited animals again? I’ve already forgotten. Ha, funny kitty.
Breaking Dawn is a batsh*t insane book, so it shouldn’t be surprising that fans of it were also the first ones to line up for San Diego Comic Con 2011 just to get a glimpse at the actors and see two boring scenes from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 (AKA Snorkels the Vampire Fetus). The good news is part 2 (in theaters November 2012) is probably the last movie in the theaters, at least until Summit decides to reboot it with even younger, paler leads.
As far as they know, Summit has no plans for further “Twilight” movies and/or spinoffs.“I think Stephenie [Meyer] is done with us,” Elizabeth Reaser, who plays Esme Cullen in the film saga said, referring to the author of the book series. [ThePlaylist]
Hallelujah. So what other pearls of wisdom did the cast throw out to the 6,500 or so twihards in attendance at Hall H?
What was the cast’s reaction to the birth scene when they read it? Stewart: “I thought it was so cool; we really tried to go as hardcore as we could.” [Deadline]
Yeah, hardc0re! *chugs Mountain Dew Code Red, crushes can on forehead, uses teeth to perform vampire baby c-section*
Oscar-nominated director Jim Sheridan is known for movies like My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, In America, and Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (one of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn’t belong). He seems to be continuing his “lol wut” career trajectory with Dream House starring Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz, and Elias Koteas, all of whom deserve better than this. The film releases September 30th, one year after it was supposed to come out. The delay was for reshoots (always a good sign), which had to be delayed a year because Daniel Craig had better sh-t to do.
Kind of sad that the guy who made My Left Foot is now making a horror movie reminiscent of cheesy ’70s gimmicks like haunted houses, secret dwarf hookers, “it was all a dream OMGZORS”, and “the killer was you the whole time”. Let’s just plow through this depressing development and describe this awful, movie-spoiling trailer.
Daniel Craig quits his “high power job in Manhattan” to relocate his hot wife and two adorable, never-bratty kids to a “quaint New England town”. This never happens in cinema. Soon weird things go down and they find out a murder occurred before they moved in, which they weren’t informed of by the realtor because laws don’t exist in this movie universe. The wife and two kids who used to live in the house were murdered and the only suspect was the husband, who was institutionalized because deinstitutionalization never happened in this universe either. Craig goes to the mental institution to talk to the guy for some reason, and he finds out *record scratch/spoiler alert* he is that guy and his family was dead the whole time. WHAT A TOTALLY ORIGINAL CONCEPT, AND PERFECTLY BEFITTING INCLUSION IN THE TRAILER. Gaaah, f–k you, Dream House trailer. I hate you so much.
“Let’s see. We got soda, purple stuff. Sunny D! All right!” *
Did you love the amazing realism of the clip Vince posted earlier this week, where Alzheimer’s disease means you forget how forks work, apes who attack a person in a nice neighborhood somehow aren’t shot by police or euthanized by order of the court, and the motion capture effect looks like “a character from Madden superimposed onscreen”? Yeah, that was great. Oh, but there’s more. Andy Serkis (AKA Gollum), who plays Caesar the ape, is back to introduce two more clips from James Franco: Sexy Scientist, also known as Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
The clips below really show off the motion capture we can expect from the film, which opens August 5th. We get to see how Ceasar escapes and makes the other apes intelligent (still no explanation why firearms and the military don’t exist to fight the apes). I’m still not sold on this mo-cap, especially when Brian Cox just standing still looks fascinatingly real by comparison. But the most important question raised by these clips isn’t one of our humanity but rather a more practical concern: they spent all this money on mo-cap but they didn’t use any of it to fix Draco Malfoy’s creepy forehead?
