Ball-rattling action flick The Hurt Locker is easily the best movie I’ve seen this year and has damn near universal appeal.  So why the hell is it still playing to 535 theaters seven weeks after its release while G.I. Joe opens in 4,007?  Don’t answer that smartass, just share my righteous indignance.  Anyway, the good news is, Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal and teaming up again, for a film called Triple Frontier, from Dark Knight producer Charles Roven.

Boal’s writing the script, set in the notorious border zone between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil where the Igazu and Parana rivers converge — making “la triple frontera” difficult to monitor and a haven for organized crime. [Variety]

The guy who was embedded with an Iraqi bomb squad is doing a South American organized crime movie?  Color me giant boner-having.  Also, are you guys thinking what I’m thinking?  That’s right, DANNY TREJO.

Deedju mees me, putos?  (*shotgun blast*)

A Voltron movie?  Sure, why not.

The producers behind “Get Smart”, “The International”, and “The Dark Knight” have acquired the rights to make a live-action feature, pushing the project forward after several years in development.  “Wanted” producer Jason Netter and World Events’ Ted Koplar are joining the Atlas trio (Charles Roven, Richard Suckle* [!!??!] and Steve Alexander) in producing.

“Voltron,” features a “Transformers”-like conceit, in which a band of five robot-lions combine to form one super lion. Pilots control the lions, which are charged with defending the planet Arus from villain King Zarkon, who dispatches evil creatures called Robobeats to fight the Voltron robots.

Koplar compared it favorably to “Transformers, saying that “unlike other robotic action movies, ‘Voltron’ is the personification of the human spirit, a quality that will set this movie apart.” [THR]

That’s right, the human spirit, when personified, looks like a giant robot made of smaller, lion-shaped robots driven by human pilots.  With a big sword.  I think that was in the bible.

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