When we first heard Night at the Museum’s Shawn Levy was directing a movie about robot boxers starring Hugh Jackman (and this before we saw the trailer for Levy’s latest, Date Night), this quote left us with little doubt it’d be a total train wreck:
“In a movie filled with these mechanical warriors, at its core ‘Real Steel’ is an incredibly human story.”
I don’t trust anyone who’d have the balls to say something that lame out loud. Anyway, Levy recently had a chance to discuss the project and say more stupid things with SciFiWire:
“It’s faithful to the [Richard Matheson] story in that that it was very much about a down-on-his-luck, slightly desperate journeyman who works in this robot boxing sport and who is desperately needing redemption and one last shot. The movie is more Rocky than Transformers.”
Uh, sweet?
Levy has not cast the main character’s son yet but has a good idea about the robots. “They are most definitely not Transformers, not Terminators, definitely not WALL-Es, either,” Levy said. “Unlike a lot of these others, these are human-built, human-scale fighting machines. “
You mean like… Terminators?
(Do you enjoy mustache rides, but also scabies?)
Don’t adjust your monitors, folks, I know it looks like they dug up Freddy Mercury’s corpse and died its hair blond and gave it more AIDS, but that’s just Daniel Craig in the first publicity photo for the Broadway show A Steady Rain, co-starring Hugh Jackman.
Jackman, who won a Tony in 2004 for hoofing it as 1970s singer-songwriter Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz, plays Denny, a patrolman with a racist streak and violent temper. And Craig, a London stage veteran making his Broadway debut, plays Joey, a recovering alcoholic and gentler soul who may not be as docile as he first seems. [EW]
To recap: blah blah blah holy God that is the ugliest f’ing mustache I’ve ever seen, and I’ve had sex with your mother. It’s like Hugh Jackman figured out how to combine a Golden Shower and a Dirty Sanchez into one, and he probably did because he’s fancy.
Hugh Jackman has signed on for The Greatest Showman on Earth, in which he plays a surly lumberjack with a deadly secret… ha, just kidding, he’s the lead in a musical about PT Barnum.
An original contemporary musical to be scripted by Jenny Bicks (”Sex and the City”), the film will be produced by Laurence Mark (”Dreamgirls”), Jackman and his Seed partner John Palermo. It is an outgrowth of their work together on the 81st Academy Awards, on which Jackman was host, Mark was exec producer, and Bicks was part of the Emmy-nominated writing team.
The musical also focuses on his infatuation with singer Jenny Lind — the so-called Swedish Nightingale. It follows the old Hollywood tradition in which tuners were scripted with specific actors in mind. The Lind role is being scripted for Anne Hathaway, who teamed with Jackman in his opening Oscars number. Jackman, who won the Tony Award for “The Boy From Oz,” is determined to make several screen musicals, and the Barnum film adds another to the properties he and Palermo are putting together at Fox. [Variety]
I can’t watch musicals, because no matter how hard I try to be accepting, every time someone breaks into song, part of me always wishes Sir Lancelot would burst in and kill everyone with his sword like in Monty Python. And that hardly ever happens (possible American Idol finale?). But boy, Hugh Jackman sure likes to be the singin’ ‘n dancin’ center of attention. He’s like the male Liza Minnelli.
(Hugh couldn’t believe it was really Suze Orman)
In a high six-figure deal (you’re kidding me, right?), guess which studio (hint: it’s Fox) bought a comedy pitch from Hitch writer Kevin Bisch called Avon Man. Hugh Jackman is attached to star.
Story follows men laid off from an auto dealership. One is reluctantly recruited into becoming an Avon salesman, and while the experience is initially emasculating, he uses his charm and good looks to become a top seller. The comedy takes on a “Full Monty” vibe when the car salesman sets out to save his financially strapped family and town by conscripting his buddies into the makeup business to win a regional contest. [Variety]
I imagine how this went down was, in the middle of a Fox meeting, someone stood up and shouted, “Hugh Jackman… as an AVON LADY!” Then confetti fell from the ceiling accompanied by kazoo sounds and monkeys throwing sh*t at each other.
MichelleRod can’t help but join in when she hears yelling - she’s like a coyote like that.
Terminator Salvation isn’t out yet and Wolverine is currently tracking lower than X3 on rottentomatoes, but haha, no one cares about that! We’re gonna make ten of each of these!
“I strongly suspect the next [Terminator] is going to take place in a [pre-Judgment Day] 2011,” McG reveals. “John Connor is going to travel back in time and he’s going to have to galvanize the militaries of the world for an impending Skynet invasion. They’ve figured out time travel to the degree where they can send more than one naked entity. So you’re going to have hunter killers and transports and harvesters and everything arriving in our time and Connor fighting back with conventional military warfare, which I think is going to be f*cking awesome. I also think he’s going to meet a scientist that’s going to look a lot like present-day Robert Patrick [who played the T-1000 in Terminator 2], talking about stem-cell research and how we can all live as idealized, younger versions of ourselves.” [FilmJournal]
Dude, naked dudes everywhere? That does sound awesome! (*air guitar*)
Fox, Hugh Jackman and Seed Productions are in development on a Wolverine sequel, which will likely take place in Japan. The classic Claremont/Miller four-issue [comic-book] miniseries detailed how Wolverine trained as a samurai and ninja, fell in love with a woman named Mariko, and basically plotted his life as James Clavell fanfic [meaning tough, I guess]. [CHUD]
One of the best things about the first two X-Men was that we didn’t have to watch anyone train as a ninja or samurai. Honestly, how many of those gd montages can Hollywood make? I swear, you drop an atomic bomb on someone and you spend the next 60 years telling anyone who’ll listen “No, but really though, those guys were tough.”
