Will Smith to board The City that Sailed

Director Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) and star Will Smith are to join forces again for the fantasy drama The City That Sailed at 20th Century Fox says The Hollywood Reporter.

Andrew Niccol's script follows a New York City street magician whose daughter, because of family circumstances, lives in England.

In exploring a lighthouse one day, the girl discovers a room with magic candles and wishes to be reunited with her father, causing the island of Manhattan to break away and drift across the Pond.

It sounds a bit like James and the Giant Peach, but in reverse. Could have some good imagery, but I want to know a little more about the adventures they could possibly have on an ocean going Manhattan. This could be the second film set on the sea that Will Smith stars in. The first being McG's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

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Captain Nemo's adventures face another rewrite

The 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea remake is heading through stormy waters at the moment. After the middling response to Terminator Salvation this new McG may not go as smoothly as planned. It has already had a rewrite - Justin Marks (Masters of the Universe, Super Max) was hired in February to rewrite Bill Marsilli’s (Deja Vu) but looks like another one is in the works. The original script sounded terrible.

“A fugitive whaler teams up with a naturalist, a mysterious woman and a captain of a futuristic submarine, to search for a lost underwater civilization that holds libraries of vast knowledge and a weapon with the power to destroy mankind.”

Randall Wallace (Braveheart, Pearl Harbor, We Were Soldiers, and The Rookie) has been hired to rewrite Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo.

This is meant to be an origin story for the mysterious Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus. McG wants Will Smith as Nemo.

Nothing I have heard about this project fills me with any hope for what should be an amazing adaption of a wonderful piece of work.

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Terminator Salvation - Title Sequence

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Could Terminator 5 be set in London?

The usually very reliable Rich Johnston over at Bleeding Cool had this little nugget of information.

I hear from industry sources that yet-to-be-named Terminator 5, the sequel to Terminator: Salvation, will be set in London in the year 2011, with a time-travelling John Connor (Christian Bale).

Not sure if this could be true or not. Very early days although back in April, Film Journal ran an interview with McG on his plans for a follow up to Terminator Salvation:

I strongly suspect the next movie is going to take place in a 2011. 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 fucking awesome.

I think setting it in the UK will mix up the franchise a bit in a good way, and I wonder if it is anything to do with Bale wanting to shoot it back in his home country. Still as I've said this is very much a rumour, but it could lead to some pretty cool visuals. Now what would Skynet want with London?

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Terminator Salvation - TV Spot - You Need to See This (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

For those of you who don't want to see the film, but who want to know what Arnold Schwarzenegger's appearance is like then this TV spot is for you.

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Terminator Salvation, 2009 - Quick Review

Craig over at the always excellent Movie Banter site let me post his snap review of the McG helmed Terminator Salvation.

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Do you agree or disagree with Craig's review?

Thanks Craig

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Terminator Salvation is out...but not in the UK

If you have seen the new Terminator Salvation film let everyone know what it is like. Leave your opinions on it in the comments below. I have to wait until 3rd June before I get to see it.

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Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series (Ep. 1 Preview)

Two years before the events of Terminator Salvation, Resistance fighter Blair Williams embarks on a deadly mission to eradicate a technological threat that is weakening the Resistance's ability to fight a deadly A.I. called Skynet and its lethal array of Terminator machines.

The Resistance is the last hope for survival. Commanded by the remnants of a decimated military system, resistance fighters battle the machines of Skynet day and night without quitting. Blair Williams (Moon Bloodgood) is one of these fighters. Blair is in her early 30's and is old enough to remember a normal life but vital enough to learn how to fight. She is highly skilled and superbly courageous - traits that often get her some of the hardest missions.

We meet Blair at the beginning of one of these missions. She has been sent into the heart of downtown Los Angeles, a known hot zone, to seek out and destroy something called "The Ghost" - a code name designated to a machine designed to interfere with Command's communications. The resistance knows that Skynet is ever evolving and this must be just another tactic to bring down the leadership. Without the ability to talk to each other, the Resistance would simply fracture and collapse. It was already starting to happen.

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Terminator Salvation - TV Spot - Humanity

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Terminator Salvation - Early review sounds promising

Some early screenings of Terminator Salvation have taken place and it sounds like the trailers and footage we have seen so far have been bang on the money. This looks like it could be great.

Variety had this to say about it - Possible spoilers ahead:

McG exhibits an unexpected flair for the dreadful, abrupt and awesome. What we get here -- which was perhaps missing on the relatively sunny mental landscapes of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" -- is a sense of real horror: When humans are snatched up like Cheez-Doodles by skyscraper-sized Go-bots, there's no slo-mo relief or stalling. Stuff happens as it might were the world actually overtaken by demonic appliances.

Christian Bale, playing the "prophesized leader of the Resistance" John Connor, may have traded in the Batman body armor for "Road Warrior"-style outerwear, but one thing hasn't changed: He is, once again, a movie star playing second fiddle. Heath Ledger stole "The Dark Knight" away from him and Sam Worthington (who will appear in Cameron's "Avatar" this Christmas) heists "Terminator Salvation" from Bale, for the most ironical of reasons: In a movie that poses man against machine, Worthington's cyborg is the far more human character.

As a steel-beaded logo of Warner Bros. fades away, Marcus (Worthington), on death row for an unexplained crime, gets an 11th-hour visit from Dr. Serena Kogan (Helena Bonham Carter), who wears the headscarf and pallor of a terminal cancer patient. She wants Marcus' body -- literally. She wants to turn him into a cyborg.

Wracked with guilt, resigned to his execution, Marcus agrees to sign the release in exchange for a kiss. "So that's what death tastes like," he says, as she leaves him to his lethal injection.

This is not your governator's "Terminator."

Bale, meanwhile, playing the adult version of the hero-to-be portrayed by Edward Furlong ("Terminator 2) and Nick Stahl ("Terminator 3"), is as purposeful and furious as anyone played by Arnold Schwarzenegger or Robert Patrick. One suspects he's been studying Linda Hamilton in "Terminator 2," although -- let's face it -- this is serious business. It's 2018. Skynet -- the "aware" machine -- has all but accomplished its self-appointed mission of destroying the threat of people.

But pockets of rebellion continue to operate even if, as in the case of a charred and rubble-strewn Los Angeles, the local contingent consists of just two kids: Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin) and the mute/cute Star (Jadagrace).

Kyle -- given a slightly geeky and perfectly plausible portrayal by Yelchin ("Star Trek") -- will grow up to father John Connor after being sent into the future to meet Sarah Connor (if you haven't followed the "Terminator" time line, this is no time to be catching up).

Thus, he has to be preserved. So does John, given that it's been predicted since 1984 that he'll be the one to save the world. There's a lot at stake.

McG's direction is always intelligent. (He does seem to have a thing for "The Great Escape," which is referenced several times.) The script by John Brancato and Michael Ferris occasionally goes off the rails. Certainly, their insertion of an existential dilemma for Marcus -- "I need to find out who did this to me," he says, his chrome-plated plumbing having been exposed to the open air -- feels very late-inning.

And the obligatory borrowing from the previous movies ("Come with me if you want to live," "I'll be back ...") tend to upset the mood created within McG's bleached-out world, which is very deliberate and doesn't need the comic relief.

There are great bits though: The thrashing, centipede-like, killer-snake thingie, which has the personality of a wolverine, is a neat invention. So are the biker Terminators, which molt like malignant pinecones off their towering mother ‘bot. A Schwarzenegger lookalike -- it isn't clear whether it's the ex-actor CGI'd or a complete fabrication -- is funny, but in this case apt.

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Arnie in Terminator Salvation - Is this our first glimpse?

We all know by now that Arnold's likeness is going to be used at some point in McG's Terminator Salvation. He will again be in it as a T-800 with a CG younger version of his face used in the mix.

io9 have this photo which may or may not be from the film. What do you reckon? Is it real or fake?

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Terminator Salvation - Christian Bale talks about his role as John Connor

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Terminator Salvation is due out on 21st May 2009.

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Terminator Salvation - Behind the scenes footage

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Terminator Salvation - Viral - Nukes, War, Judgment Day

The viral marketing for Terminator Salvation continues. Carter is ambushed by Skynet forces at the evac point as Walker tells of a future in which Skynet is seeking to destroy what's left of mankind. "The Resistance is all we have left." Check out more at resistorbeterminated.com.

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Terminator Salvation DVD will have 30 minutes of deleted scenes

McG has been speaking to Collider. He told them that the DVD/Blu-ray release of Terminator Salvation will have half an hour to 40 minutes of deleted scenes.

The deleted scenes would include John Connor giving Sarah Connor style speeches, Moon Bloodgood topless, and the alternate ending.

Here's McG talking more about what was cut. Be careful if you watch this though as there are some big spoilers. You have been warned.

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Terminator Salvation - Extended Trailer

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Terminator Salvation - Skynet and You

Filmmakers Matthew Keen and Melissa Bramley display how Skynet Research is bringing mankind and technology closer together for a better future.

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Terminator Salvation - TV Spot - Difference

TV spot for Terminator Salvation features new footage and dialogue from John Connor (Christian Bale). Preview emphasizes on Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington).

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Terminator Salvation - TV Spot - "I'll Be Back"

TV spot for Terminator Salvation features new footage and shows John Connor (Christian Bale) saying the signature line, "I'll be back."

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The Rock may be Captain of the Nautilus

News of McG directing the Jules Verne classic came out in January.

Production Weekly made the announcement today about the McG helmed adventure along with a short synopsis of the film.

20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA: CAPTAIN NEMO

STATUS - Active Development LOCATION - Australia

PRODUCER: Sean Bailey - Jeanne Allgood WRITER: Justin Marks - Bill Marsilli

DIRECTOR: McG LP: Brent O'Connor CAST: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

A fugitive whaler teams up with a naturalist, a mysterious woman and a captain of a futuristic submarine, to search for a lost underwater civilization that holds libraries of vast knowledge and a weapon with the power to destroy mankind.

Will Smith was originally rumoured to be attached to this film as Captain Nemo. It's not clear whether Dwayne Johnson will be playing the mysterious Captain or another character.

Would he be a good Nemo? Well the script review I posted a while back shows a film geared towards the action side of things, so maybe The Rock is what the studio think is the perfect fit. I don't really see it myself, but then I'm an old school James Mason as Nemo fan. However, I am looking forward to Dwayne playing Black Adam in the Captain Marvel film.

It looks as if this is getting further and further from the Jules Verne novel.

Can you smell what The Rock is cooking? I'd love to know what you think of this piece of casting news - would Dwayne make a good Nemo or do you think he is playing another character? Who would be the perfect Nemo?

Source: IESB

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