David Carradine - This is getting weirder

I read this over on Hollywood Elsewhere and I'm just going to post the whole thing. Have a read of it.

Movieline's Stu Van Airsdale has posted a smart summary of the evolving investigation into the recent death of David Carradine. Suspicions of foul play are growing (i.e., who bound Carradine's hands?), Carradine's family has hired lawyer Mark Geragos and superstar forensic pathologist Michael Baden to look into things on its behalf and the FBI has gotten involved.

"Thai investigators essentially ruled out the possibility of foul play after interviewing hotel staff and reviewing surveillance footage of the corridors near Carradine's room," Stu reports. But Extra's Jerry Penacoli said on a recent Larry King Show interview that he's spoken to the director of the film Carradine was shooting in Thailand "at length" and that the director "said that he believes that there was foul play.

"And he said that no one else knows this but his family -- Carradine's family and friends and people closest to him, but David was very interested in investigating and disclosing secret societies."

Secret societies?

How weird is that. Secret societies, hands tied behind his back, it's turning into some kind of weird bizarro film script. What are your theories on all of this?

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Kill Bill Volume 2: Deleted Scene

Here we have Bill (David Carradine) having a bit of a ding dong with Michael Jai White.

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David Carradine - Sadly The Five Finger Death Punch got him

Really sad news. Bangkok's KABC network has broken the news that kung fu icon David Carradine (Kill Bill) was found dead in a hotel room in Bangkok this morning.

Carradine was working on a new film in Thailand called Stretch. Initial reports suggested suicide by hanging but Carradine's manager, Chuck Binder confirmed to Bangkok's WABC network that he believed Carradine had died of natural causes.

However, Thai police told the BBC that hed was found by a hotel maid sitting in a wardrobe with a rope around his neck and body on Thursday morning.

"His death is shocking and sad. He was full of life, always wanting to work ... a great person," Chuck Binder said.

Carradine, who became famous in the 1970s when he starred as Kwai Chang Caine in the television series "Kung Fu," was 72.

His career included more than 100 feature films, two dozen television movies and theater work. Carradine was last seen in this year's release, Crank 2: High Voltage, where he played Poon Dong.

He was married five times and divorced four, is survived by his widow, Annie Bierman and four children.

There currently seem to be a few conflicting stories as to what exactly happened. I'd personally have loved it if he passed away while fighting off numerous ninjas while saving the hotel maid.

Whatever way you look at it another icon has passed away. What are your memories of the Kung Fu star?

Source: CNN

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Autumn - Trailer for adaption of cult horror novel

Based on the acclaimed cult novel by David Moody, Autumn is cold fear, projected 24 frames a second, “a modern horror classic”!

As the last autumn leaves slowly peel away from the trees, a mysterious airborne virus ravages the planet, and within a few hours billions die. Victims suffer horrific deaths as their internal organs liquefy, and whole towns’ expire within minutes. Soon cities become infested breeding grounds for the new apocalyptic virus. By the end of the first day there are only a handful of survivors.

A small group of ordinary strangers are soon forced to work together to stay alive. The survivors are lead by Michael (Dexter Fletcher “Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels”, “Doom”) a lonely soft ware consultant, and Carl (Dickon Tolson “Peak Practice”, “Eastenders”) an ill-tempered mechanic. When Michael and the survivors escape from the infested city to an isolated country house, they discover the real horror has only begun!

When the dead start to gruesomely reanimate the group have naive hopes that the “walkers”, or the “meat suites”, would decompose and simply fall apart but they discover the longer the reanimated corpses are alive the more they learn, the cleverer they get, the more aggressive and treacherous they become – the more they became killing machines.

When Phillip Evans (David Carradine “Kill Bill”, “Kung Fu”) is discovered as a lone survivor in the lifeless city, a new hope emerges, but nothing is as it seems in a world turned upside down, and hope soon turns into terror. In order to endure the winter each survivor must find the strength within themselves to fight their personal demons and find the courage to combat a war against the vicious dead.

What follows is a shockingly clever adventure of survival, in a thrilling desolate world. This Autumn, the darkness will come!

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My Suicide - Trailer for a film, not my suicide. David Carradine is in it

Archie Williams (Gabriel Sunday) is a 17-year old media geek who has suddenly found himself the most talked-about kid in school. He has announced that he's going to kill himself - on camera - for a class project. His classmates, parents, Sierra - the most beautiful girl in school (Brooke Nevin), and a "Shady Bunch" of shrinks, doctors, pill-pushers, and counselors descend on Archie. Some are hoping to save him, some want to imitate him, others try to push him over the brink. Archie films every moment of his high school experience, hiding nothing from his audience: realities of life, death, violence, sex, drugs, and the intense media overload and hypocrisy that bombard all teenagers.

Director: David Lee Miller
Writer: David Lee Miller
Cast: Gabriel Sunday, Brooke Nevin, David Carradine

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The Golden Boys - David Carradine, Rip Torn and Bruce Dern. Now that's a cast list

The trailer for The Golden Boys which has no release date set, but will hopefully soon. Based on the bestselling novel by Joseph C. Lincoln titled “Cap’n Eri,” “The Golden Boys” boasts an all-star cast including multiple Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated actor, David Carradine (Kill Bill Volume I & II), Academy Award-nominated Rip Torn (Men in Black, Wonder Boys, Marie Antoinette), Academy Award-nominated Bruce Dern (Monster, Coming Home, The Astronaut Farmer) and Academy Award-nominated actress, Mariel Hemingway (Manhattan, The Contender, Deconstructing Harry).

Set in Cape Cod at the turn of the century, three retired sea captains living together decide that the only way to keep their house in order is for one of them to get married. There is just one problem, none of them wants to get married.

They decide to flip a coin and Captain Jerry Burgess (Rip Torn) loses. They place an ad for a mail order bride in a big city newspaper and a woman from Nantucket named Martha Snow (Mariel Hemingway) responds. Captain Jerry immediately gets cold feet.

In a humorous series of events, Captain Perez (Bruce Dern) hatches a plan to keep Martha in town while Captain Jerry works up his confidence to propose. However, it is Captain Zeb (David Carradine) who falls in love with her and proposes.

Captain Jerry seems to take this news hard, but soon, he is dancing a jig celebrating his friend’s good fortune.

In the vein of Grumpy Old Men and Three Men and a Baby, “The Golden Boys” is a comic gem with lots of laughs to please audiences of all ages.

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Kill Bill anime - David Carradine knows Kung Fu

MTV has been chatting to David Carradine about Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill. Taratino did say back in 2004 that his next installment of would be 10 years away, however it has also been reported that a potential anime prequel could be in the works.

“He planned an anime version of the life of Bill before the movie — which would have to be anime because I’m not getting any younger,” Carradine said recently in an interview with MTV News. “He’s also talking about two sequels to it.”

Carradine revisisted Austin, Texas, the city where he first met Tarantino, to film last year’s comedy “Homo Erectus.” The city is also the site of the semi-annual Quentin Tarantino Film Festival. Asked if he would still be up for voicing Bill in an anime prequel, Carradine nodded.

“If he ever gets around to it, but he’s a will-o’-wisp,” the former ‘Kung Fu’ star said. “If he does that, great!” As Carradine pointed, out, though, no one is holding their breath for the prequel to happen soon.

“He’s a little busy,” the actor added. Tarantino’s latest movie, the amply vowel-endowed war flick “Inglourious Basterds” starring Brad Pitt, is slated for release later this year.

“Just doing the first ['Kill Bill'] took ten years,” Carradine joked, “so who knows when he’ll get around to doing the anime?”

Below is the animated segment of O-Ren Ishii's origin from the original Kill Bill. Would you want to see a full anime style Kill Bill film?

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Autumn - Trailer for another zombie film. This one stars David Carradine and Dexter Fletcher

"As the last autumn leaves slowly peel away from the trees, a mysterious airborne virus ravages the planet, and within a few hours billions die. Victims suffer horrific deaths as their internal organs liquefy, and whole towns’ expire within minutes. Soon cities become infested breeding grounds for the new apocalyptic virus. By the end of the first day there are only a handful of survivors.

A small group of ordinary strangers are soon forced to work together to stay alive. The survivors are lead by Michael (Dexter Fletcher “Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels”, “Doom”) a lonely soft ware consultant, and Carl (Dickon Tolson “Peak Practice”, “Eastenders”) an ill-tempered mechanic. When Michael and the survivors escape from the infested city to an isolated country house, they discover the real horror has only begun!

When the dead start to gruesomely reanimate the group have naive hopes that the “walkers”, or the “meat suites”, would decompose and simply fall apart but they discover the longer the reanimated corpses are alive the more they learn, the cleverer they get, the more aggressive and treacherous they become – the more they became killing machines.

When Phillip Evans (David Carradine “Kill Bill”, “Kung Fu”) is discovered as a lone survivor in the lifeless city, a new hope emerges, but nothing is as it seems in a world turned upside down, and hope soon turns into terror. In order to endure the winter each survivor must find the strength within themselves to fight their personal demons and find the courage to combat a war against the vicious dead. What follows is a shockingly clever adventure of survival, in a thrilling desolate world. This Autumn, the darkness will come!"

It's based on the acclaimed cult novel by David Moody. Here's the trailer. Your views on it?

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Hellride - Presented by Quentin Tarantino

Quentin is the executive producer on this one. Written and directed by Larry Bishop who also stars in it along with Michael Madsen, Dennis Hopper, Vinnie Jones, David Carradine and Eric Balfour amongst others. The Red Band trailer is below so make sure you're old enough to watch it.