Burt Wonderstone is currently shooting in Las Vegas, with veteran TV director Don Scardino working from a script by John Francis Daley (the mouth-breather kid from Freaks and Geeks) and Jonathan Goldstein (Horrible Bosses). In the film, which I assume will be like a sitcommy version of The Prestige, Steve Carell and Jim Carrey play dueling magicians. Which I suppose would explain why Jim Carrey is dressed like Johnny Depp on an average day.
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"Coloreds? This is highly irregular."
As if hipsters didn’t already have enough reason to buy vintage clothes, Baz Luhrmann is directing a film adaptation of The Great Gatsby set to open next Christmas, sure to be a sumptuous visual feast for everyone from the casual fan to the die-hard Luhrmaniac. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, along with Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, Joel Edgerton, and Isla Fisher. DiCaprio as the title character cuts a dashing figure in these new pictures from the set in Sydney’s Centennial Park, but something about the way Tobey Maguire rocks the collared sweater and floppy bow tie (as would-be writer Nick Carraway) absolutely steals the show for me. Tobey Maguire was born to play the Little Lord Fauntleroy role. He looks like what would happen if you brought a wedding-cake figurine to life and taught it skip around whistling jazz tunes. He’s like a human Jiminy Cricket.
There’ve been rumblings about George Miller making a Mad Max sequel /prequel/whatever going back almost three years, when it was originally conceived as a 3D animated feature. Since then, there have been so many rumors, counter-rumors, and delays, that I just started ignoring it, figuring it would be like one of those movies that everyone talks about that never happen, like Arrested Development or Justice League. But as recently as last month, Tom Hardy was telling Collider that he’s still attached to star (as the new Mad Max) alongside Charlize Theron, and that filming was set to begin in April.
Then a few days ago, someone uploaded these new pictures — one of what looks like an old Mercedes body on top of a semi-truck chassis, the other of a dune buggy-looking thing — to a Mad Max message board, writing:
On the 19th Sept 2011, I pulled into the Little Topar Road House which is between Wilcannia and Broken Hill to partaking in some refreshments.
There were 2 semies with vehicles on board, one of the tarps was torn.
I thought it was a Monster Truck of some sought
I asked the truckie what they were for and he said
Vehcles for the Mad Max 4 Movie, they were transporting them back to Sydney. They were apparently going to be taken to South Africa for filming as the area around Broken Hill was to green.
So I grabed the camara and some pics before they took off
Enjoy
Excuse the spelling and grammar, but the photographer appears to have been some Australian borderline illiterate a lá Chopper. “Yeh, Oy call a truck drivah a ‘truckie,’ a fella in a taxi a ‘cabo,’ and a bloke on foot a ‘thongwobblah.’ Whoy, what language didja think Oy was speakin’, mate?”
Anyway, I’m torn. A George Miller-directed Mad Max reboot sounds pretty horrible, but Tom Hardy is an inarguable badass. Get Peter Dinklage on board as some kind of side kick and it would have to be amazing.
Someone over on the SuperheroHype forums just posted these new pictures of Henry Cavill on the set of Zack Snyder’s Superman: Man of Steel, and WHAT THE HELL, NO MANTIES!?!? WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS? It’s right there in the damn song: You don’t spit into the wind, you don’t tug off the old Lone Ranger, and YOU DON’T TAKE AWAY SUPERMAN’S MANTIES, YOU GODDAMNED TERRORISTS! Phew, deep breath, Mancini, we can do this. Okay, let’s think about this logically: He’s not wearing a cape in this picture either, but we know from the publicity photo they already released that he does wear a cape in the movie. So… maybe they took the manties off temporarily so that he wouldn’t get his biceps caught in them while he was doing punch stunts? Sure, why not? Seems plausible, right? I do it all the time. Guys like me and Henry, we have to take off our underpants before we do any serious punching, or else our thighs chafe.
I don’t know why you’d want to do this, but I’ve seen enough Brazilian fart fetish porno to know that there’s no accounting for taste, so I’m here to report, for any interested parties, that you can watch the shooting of Brad Pitt’s World War Z movie (which is kind of based on the book but not really) today via the Glasgow City Council’s helpful webcams. They’ll be filming all week in Glasgow, which will be playing the part of Philadelphia for some reason. Which I assume will be accomplished by having a team of extras chuck D-batteries at Brad Pitt, and by building an art museum that no one will know is there until they put a statue of Rocky next to it. ZING!
Here’s the webcam link again. Thanks to Bryce for the tip and banner picture.
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