Captain Jack as Captain America

The Avengers film draws ever closer and we have our Iron Man, Thor, Nick Fury, and a few others. However, there is still no news on who will play Captain America.

Worryingly Will Smith's name keeps getting bandied about. Don't get me wrong, I like a bit of Big Willy stylee (hmm a dodgy sentence if ever there was one!) but they should stick with the Steve Rogers set out in the comic. However, another actor, who would agree with the sentiments of my previous sentence but in a whole different way, has said they'd like to give it a go.

During the BBC "Torchwood: Children of Earth" mini-series panel at Comic-Con last weekend, actor John Barrowman revealed that he would like the chance play Captain America in The First Avenger: Captain America and The Avengers films.

"You know what I want to play? Captain America," he said to the wildly receptive crowd, before adding that it "so won't happen."

Barrowman plays the fixed point in time, Captain Jack Harkness and is pretty good at it.

The question is would he make a good Cap? To be honest I think he would. He's got the looks (my wife and mother love him as do many other men and women), he's a bit of an unknown for the mainstream audience (only fans of TV sci-fi, musical theatre and 1980's Saturday Morning Kids TV would know him) which would make them buy into him as the character rather than as a big name playing a part. Although Kevin Feige has said they are looking for a star with international appeal.

Of course, there would be none of the shenanigans that Captain Jack gets up to if he took on the role of Steve Rogers.

I seriously doubt that this will come to pass or that he will even make it to an audition, just one of those things that the Comic Con throws up once in a while. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there are people working away on making vids and pics of Barrowman as Captain America right now.

Would Barrowman be a good Captain America?

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Karate Kid...Kung Fu Kid - It's filming, it will suck

The Will Smith-produced remake of the 1984 family hit The Karate Kid has scored the official title of Kung Fu Kid according to The Associated Press.

Filming kicked off on Saturday in Beijing on the co-production between the state-run China Film Group and Columbia Pictures.

'Kid' stars Jaden Smith as the titular student and Jackie Chan as the wise kung-fu master. Harald Zwart ("Pink Panther 2") directs.

Producer Ken Stovitz confirmed the story will be set in modern-day Beijing and filming will continue for three months.

Posting this was as painful as having to read it. It's going to be so bad isn't it. Directed by the man who brought us Pink Panther 2.

Source: Dark Horizons

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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.

Source: /film

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Could Tyrese Gibson be in the Captain America film?

Busy promoting Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and his new comic book, Mayhem, Tyrese Gibson mentioned a few interesting things.

“The energy from Comic-Con really did something to me,” Gibson told MTV News of what prompted him to try his hand at comics. “Instead of me sitting back and waiting on ‘Luke Cage’ to finally happen — which I’m still looking forward to doing once they get the script together — and instead of me waiting on ‘Captain America,’ which they were talking about me for, I’m going to create my own. And that’s what I did.”

Now what could Tyrese be in talks about Captain America for? There was the rumour that Will Smith could be playing Steve Rogers, but nothing more has been said. Smith as the First Avenger is a bit of a stretch, but he would bring in a wide audience (I don't think it will happen though), however Gibson as Cap would never work. He's just not that big a name to pull in the punters.

There are a couple of characters that spring to mind for Tyrese.

First there is the role of Sam Wilson aka The Falcon. Sam debuted nearly three years before Luke Cage so is one of the first African American characters (Black Panther is from Africa).

The Falcon, as the name suggests, had the ability to fly via a high tech winged suits. He was also a top spy kind of character and had many an adventure with Steve Rogers.

Maybe Tyrese is in talks to play Sam, maybe not. As The First Avenger film is supposedly going to be set for the most part in World War II then it seems unlikely that The Falcon will feature in the film. However, he is a cool character and it would be great to see him on screen.

The other, more likely, option is Isaiah Bradley who featured in the Truth: Red, White & Black mini series.

Project: Rebirth began as a collaboration between US, British and German eugenicists led by Dr. "Josef Reinstein" (real name Dr. Wilfred Nagel), and Dr. Koch. When WW II began, Koch took over the German program and Josef Reinstein took over the American program. Each was attempting to recreate the super soldier serum which had previously turned Steve Rogers into Captain America a year prior to Pearl Harbor. Reinstein's early attempts to refine the formula were tested on African-Americans. Three hundred of these soldiers were taken from Camp Cathcart and subjected to potentially fatal experiments at an undisclosed location in an attempt to re-create the Super Soldier formula, as seen in Truth: Red, White & Black. Only five subjects survived the original trials. In the name of secrecy, US soldiers executed the camp's commander and hundreds of black soldiers left behind at Camp Cathcart. The government told the families of the three hundred subjects that their loved ones had died in battle.

The sole survivor of his test group, Bradley stole a spare costume intended for Captain America before he engaged in a suicide mission to destroy the Super-Soldier efforts of the Nazis at the Schwarzebitte concentration camp. There, he was also able to assassinate Koch. The mission ended when the Germans captured Bradley. Nazi interest in the American supersoldier was high; he was even brought before the Führer himself. Bradley was later rescued, only to be court-martialed and imprisoned at Leavenworth around 1943. In 1960, Bradley was pardoned by President Eisenhower and released.

This is all supposition on my part based on the few words mentioned by Tyrese. Isaiah Bradley seems the role most suited for the film.

What do you think Tyrese Gibson was talking about in relation to Captain America?

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Kevin Feige talks Avengers, Captain America and Thor

There is a great interview ove on Ugo with Marvel Films President Kevin Feige about the new films coming out over the next few years. He talks about the Hulk with the Avengers, Will Smith as a possible Captain America (which I think is a big mistake although he could fit into that universe as Isaiah Bradley that I've previously mentioned), Thor on Earth, the return of Blade and more. Here are some of the highlights.

Are you planning on putting The Hulk in The Avengers?

Feige: I think it'd be cool. I'd like to see The Hulk again. It will have been a number of years, four years since he was in a movie by that point, by 2012. So I'd like to see him in it. I'm not being coy. We're just starting the story. I was on the phone with Zak Penn this morning. He's coming in next week and he's going to work on the outline this summer, but because it's so intertwined with what we're doing before - I almost wanted to get done with production on Iron Man 2 [and] the scripts to Thor and Captain America well underway before we even started Avengers.

Is there any possibility of having SHIELD show up in a Spider-Man movie? Is that something you guys would like to do and is there a possibility of bringing these disparate properties back into the fold?

Feige: If we were talking about this four years ago and you asked if there was a chance to do an Avengers movie and a Marvel Cinematic Universe under one roof, I would've said that anything was possible, but that it's a long shot and I'm not sure. Now we're doing it. I'll kind of give you the same answer to that now. Anything is possible. Right now they're certainly different. What's at Fox is at Fox. What's at Sony is what's at Sony and what's at Marvel is what's at Marvel. When I say the MCU that's a goofy internal thing, but that's [how] we're referring to it.

You've got a lot now, but what other characters would you like to see make it onscreen?

Feige: Ant-Man. I want to make Ant-Man one of these days. I think that'll be surprising and a funny thing. I love that what Edgar [Wright] likes about it is that when he says he's doing Ant-Man people go, “Ant-Man? What the hell is that?” I think that's fun. I think Dr. Strange would kick ass. I think we've done very well at the superhero genre, if you will, this street level superhero aspect of the Marvel Universe. I think with Thor you'll see us cracking into the cosmic side of the Marvel Universe in a very good way that's never been done before in our movies and I'd love to get into that supernatural element. I think that Dr. Strange could be a good way of being the lynchpin to that universe with Werewolf By Night, with Blade again someday – that side of the Marvel Universe.

Recently it's been announced that more of the Thor story will take place on Earth. Is it a contemporary earth or Viking times?

Feige: It'll be contemporary.

How are you going to deal with the fish out of water aspect of it? Are you concerned at all about Thor dealing with the wacky modern day aspects of his life, being on a cell phone or something like that?

I am concerned about that and that's why we're not going to do that. We always think about, not in terms of “Thor,” but if you talk about fish out of water; if a character is goofy at any time he'll be goofy. If you bring in an idiot from the past he's going to come into the future and go [holding a recorder up to his face] “What is this? Hello?” That stuff is not funny and it's overdone. If Indiana Jones came to the future he's going to be cool. He's not going to be an idiot bumbling with things. There might be some fun humor out of him just getting something wrong for a minute, but he's going to play it cool and just not come off like an idiot. I think that Thor…if you look at [Jack] Kirby's Asgard, if you look at Walt Simonson's Asgard; they are technologically superior to us by far. They're not going to come and be flummoxed by much on Earth. There might be cultural differences that could be amusing or endearing, but he's not going to be talking to a lamppost for five minutes.

Is Donald Blake going to be in Thor and is he still going to be handicapped?

Feige: No.

Will Thor still be recognizable as a what we understand to be a superhero movie or is it going to be closer to fantasy?

I think it's going to be very much a Marvel superhero movie, but I think to the movie audience it's going to expand that definition more and more. Again, we've got a forty four year old guy who's going to be a superhero in a movie and he puts on an armored suit. That didn't necessarily mean superhero to people. In that same way, I think, someone who's got superpowers coming to Earth and dealing with other character from his realm will come off very much as a big ass superhero movie. But it's going to expand that definition, I hope, in a way.

QCan you talk about the casting of Chris Hemsworth and what it was ultimately about this guy after looking at all these other actors?

Feige: You couldn't take your eyes off of him. When he did his auditioned he worked for it. He put himself on tape. He put himself on tape again and then did it again and then came in and sat with Branagh and then worked again with Branagh and then ultimately did a very late in the process screen test and there was no question. It was very much like going back to 1999 when Dougray Scott got injured on Mission Impossible 2 and we had to go back to the videotapes and suddenly we saw Hugh Jackman who came in and did a screen test and it was like, “There's no question that this is our guy.” In this case it was actually even cleaner with Chris because with Hugh he was like two feet taller than the character was supposed to be which was nerve racking, but Chris is six four and looks exactly Thor.

Are you going to get a big name for “Captain” or are you looking to get another unknown?

Feige: We'll see. I do think that's something that we'll take into account, international appeal. There are only a handful of stars that mean anything here much less overseas. But I do think that will be a factor in it. As long as we have the freedom to do so at Marvel….to just cast the best actor for the part whether it's an actor who's been a great actor, but hasn't starred in marquee action movies before like Downey or somebody that came out of Australia that they've never heard of.

There's been some talk of going with a Will Smith and using the “Truth” storyline of Captain America.

Feige: I love the “Truth” storyline. I think that's very cool. I wouldn't do that as a first Captain America movie though. I think Will Smith is probably one of those handful of international stars. But I think that [arc] came about four or five hundred issues in to the “Cap” run. I don't see launching with that comic.

If one of the movies doesn't do well in this run, how will that effect The Avengers? It’s the riskiest one of the bunch because you're relying on people wanting to come and see Thor again and Cap again.

Feige: I think Avengers is going to have it's own vibe. I think Avengers will feel very much like…it'll have a different tone than the other Marvel movies. I'm not talking budget level here, but it'll have a much more massive global feel to it. Our movies aren't about saving the world. Iron Man doesn't save the world. Hulk doesn't save the world. Captain America, a little bit. But it's not about these comic bookey “I will save the world” things. The Avengers is about saving the world because there's no other reason for characters that powerful to band together. So I think the scope and the scale will feel like a much bigger thing. So whatever you had seen - whether Starscream was your favorite character or Megatron is your favorite character or Soundwave is your favorite character - you're going to see the experience of that epic thing together. I think it'll be the same thing. Clearly I hope it'll all work. I hope that people will, like they've done with the comics for years and years, argue about who their favorite is and who would win in a fight and all of that fun stuff.

For Avengers,will the threat to them come from outside the Earth?

Feige: It'll be big. It'll be something that no single hero can handle.

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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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POLL: What Will Smith film is your favourite?

The Fresh Prince, one time partner to Jazzy Jeff, owner of a fine pair of ears, seems to be a really nice bloke and a major movie star. He has starred in many a movie - some good, some not so good - yet which one is your favourite?

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John Cena talks about the Captain America rumour

There have been many rumours as to who will be playing Steve Rogers, The First Avenger - Captain America. Names such as Matthew McConaughey, Matt Damon, Will Smith, Aaron Eckhart and one that I posted a while back, Neal McDonough. However, one name that has cropped up recently is WWE Superstar, John Cena.

MTV caught up with the big guy to ask him. “Strictly a rumor,” said Cena but added with a smile, “If you guys are listening over at Marvel, that is a pretty cool rumor. I’m extremely patriotic, I was a captain of the football team once, so I think it works out. I think I’m your man.”

“To kill the rumor, I was never contacted by anyone,” admitted Cena. “Usually when those rumors start it’s because someone in that community thinks that I would be okay for a role. I’m flattered that they think I could play Captain America and I would be up for it.”

Yet, for an athlete known to give 250 pound bruisers the occasional “Attitude Adjustment” when necessary, could “The Champ” take himself seriously clad in a spandex jumpsuit?

“Hmm…could I take myself seriously in spandex…have you seen my other job?” joked Cena. “I think I could be alright. I think it’s a great fit.”

I personally hope that they don't go with Cena for Captain America. I'd rather they went for a big name actor or a total unknown first (although Cena has done a bit of action before).

Who do you want to see throw Captain America's mighty shield? Would Cena be a good choice?

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Script review

IESB have the script review for the Captain Nemo origin story that McG recently said he was going to direct. Sounds a bit fishy at the moment (did you see what I did there?)

The film opens with CAPTAIN NEMO having a dream. He's naked with fish swirling all around him. (Ok, we'll see if this actually makes it into the film)

NEMO awakens, his ship is headed into Mumbai Harbor circa 1850. He is welcomed by DAKKAR and a poorly playing band. DAKKAR quickly extends his deepest sympathies about the recent death of NEMO'S mother but instead of taking him to the grave as NEMO wishes, DAKKAR is under orders to take him to the governor's office immediately, something that NEMO isn't happy with.

NEMO and DAKKAR board a train, three spies jump into the last car without notice.

NEMO is taken the the GOVERNOR GENERAL'S office. The general is appalled that NEMO isn't in uniform. We quickly find out that the general is actually NEMO's father.

After a confrontational conversation, NEMO must take his post in Her Majesty's service as his father has commanded. NEMO is unhappy at the treatment of the Indian people and his father's insistence.

As NEMO supervises the artillery drills. We see the three spies from earlier have infiltrated the army and are in full uniform with rifles.

NEMO senses something is wrong. He uses an elephant to get a lift to the top of the fortress wall and sees hundreds of Indian insurgent soldiers ready to invade the fortress. He sounds the alarm.

Chaos ensues as the soldiers open fire on NEMO and the soldiers inside the fortress turn and fire on the English officers and on each other.

Lots of fighting, explosions, deaths and narrow escapes follow.

Suddenly a horse riding soldier appears, the scarf falls away to reveal a woman, her name is RANI. She rides like a warrior and heads down the hall full speed with the reigns in her teeth, a sword in one hand and a pistol in the other.

NEMO quickly rides his horse to cut her off at a pass. They collide and a horseback swordfight is on between the two. NEMO is shot in the arm.

The description of the swordfight is so full of sexual connotations and wild passion as these two have more of a “sword tryst” than a “swordfight.” It's bit too Zorro Catherine Zeta Jones versus Antonio Banderas for me.

After being close enough to kiss, she headbutts NEMO and leaves him staring down the barrel of her pistol. She motions him to move, he is up against a giant aquarium full of exotic fish. He won't move, she leaps to get her sword instead, he jumps and slides. She pulls out her sword, he pulls a book to stop her and of course its the Kama Sutra and it opens to a descriptive drawing. See what I mean, laced with sexual innuendo. Anyway, he ends up punching her, they fight some more.

Plot, plot, plot and we find out the rebellion was to free India from British rule. RANI is part of the rebellion obviously.

NEMO finds out he knew her before as well when she was a servant girl when they were little. But that's besides the point. They overhear that the rebellion was crushed save for the Jhansi fort where after being promised safe passage all the British men, women and children were slaughtered. NEMO and Rani are devastated by the news. Rani slips away. NEMO goes to see his father who was wounded in the fight and was the target of the rebellion.

Cut to NEMO standing over his mother's grave. We find Rani watching him, they agree to meet in a more secret place.

Both swim to an island from opposite ends, meet and talk on the shore while eating pomegranates.

Montage begins, we see Rani and NEMO have been seeing each other secretly...music overlayed of course.

Honestly, I am getting the Captain NEMO meets High School Musical vibe here mixed in with The Mask of Zorro.

There are several scenes that cut back and forth between NEMO getting orders and fighting rebels during the day and him and Rani having a contest underwater over who can hold their breath the longest.

Rani tries her hardest to win but soon passes out, NEMO grabs her and they both head for the water's surface, she is coughing. He drags her to shore and hold her in his arms...love, passion and all that jazz.

Seriously, this is more of a Harlequin novel rather than 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea!

The two get married secretly and leave India to travel the world.

Cut to however long later, NEMO is on a steamship in the middle of a storm, his wife and their infant son at his side.

A wave hits, the captain of the steamship (not NEMO) is washed overboard.

Cut to the next morning, the storm has subsided, the crew is struggling to figure out where they are, the compass is spinning. Rani points...they've discovered VULCANIA ISLAND!

They dock and find a mining facility along with some fresh graves.

NEMO discovers a room that's boarded up with the door nailed from the outside, he hears scratching. They break down the door and a man, almost a skeleton, falls out onto the floor. They pear into the room to find it full of dead bodies, contorted in all different positions covered in strange burns.

The crew assumes it's a plague colony they have discovered and run in fear.

The skeletal name dies in NEMO's arms.

Cut to a montage of NEMO figuring out Vulcania's secrets...overlayed with music of course...again.

Cut to NEMO, Rani and son on steamship deck again docking at Mumbai Harbor back in India, the place they fled. NEMO says he's come back with a “discovery” we aren't sure what this is, something he learned on the island – how to create power for free. He plans to share his discovery with the world.

He summons his father, the General, to see what he's discovered. The General says it belongs to the Queen, NEMO refuses and says he plans to share it with the rebels and the world.

BONNEVILLE, the General's right hand man, says NEMO has already shared it and stabs the General in the back. He yells for the guards and blames NEMO for the killing.

The lake miraculously bubbles up into a fog, just enough for NEMO to jump on his father's horse and escape. He heads to the palace, finds Rani and the baby and tells her of BONNEVILLE'S betrayal.

He tells her to flee with the child as they will all be killed if found. After she leaves, DAKKAR enters the room, NEMO assumes he's there to help but he pulls a gun on him and shoots NEMO in the chest. The bullet pierces through NEMO and hits the giant fish aquarium. NEMO falls to the ground, the aquarium shatters and waters spills out everywhere.

Cut to NEMO hung by his wrists, bandaged, breathing raggedly. BONNEVILLE is interrogating him. He tells his men to find NEMO's wife and child and that is how they will break him.

NEMO is soon sold into slavery. He meets an American DR. CAHILL.

DAKKAR is out hunting for RANI and the child. He finds her during a battle and captures her and the baby.

Guards throw her hair and tell him his wife and son are dead. He cries uncontrollably.

Cut to his dream, the same one that opened the film, nakes NEMO with fish swirling around him underwater. This time RANI is there with him. The images in his mind turn into diagrams and drawings of a whale's ribcage then an underwater vessel.

He is awakened by his name being yelled by a guard. The guard stabs him in the side with no reaction, NEMO has receded into his mind. As he's dragged out into the open he does take notice of a few things and figures out a plan of escape.

He is dragged out to where the other prisoners are held and left for dead as an example. The guards leave but NEMO does the unimaginable. He gathers all his strength, takes a deep breath and stands up. He tells the others to listen to him if they want to live.

Time passes, the guards return, NEMO is back in the position they left him in and assume he's dead.

Obviously not, and he proceeds to escape and take everyone with him.

At the end, he gives a rousing Braveheart slash Bill Pullman Independence Day inspired speech to the prisoners he's freed. Cahill stands with him along with the men.

Cut to the rebels. We find out RANI and the baby are truly dead. But they conceive a plan to convince NEMO they are still alive as leverage against him. They are also constructing a huge super ship the VIRAGO.

NEMO and the men head to VULCANIA ISLAND to start construction on the NAUTILUS.

Another montage...I swear there are more montages in here than The Breakfast Club!

The NAUTILUS is complete.

Just so you understand the, not to be mean but immaturity of this script let me break down the launching of the famous Captain NEMO ship NAUTILUS, it goes something like this - NEMO breaks a champagne bottle to celebrate... the NAUTILUS is launched to sea...cut to the men cheering...cut to the NAUTILUS as it sinks...cut to the men with jaws dropped dumbstruck...cut to the NAUTILUS as it pops back out of the water....cut back to the men cheering. Whew! A close one!

Wow....

The mean board the skiff to get on board the mighty ship. The nuclear reactor is live. It's a jolly, good time all around.

They traverse the underwater grotto and encounter a giant sea monster in the form of a spider crab, Battle, battle battle, war ship, war ship, war ship, collision after collision and so on.

NEMO soon tells Cahill and others of his plan to stay out at sea forever, exploring the depths of the ocean....you see the foreshadowing here don'tcha.

BONNEVILLE sees the NAUTILUS and plans to follow NEMO to his base to take it over and build his own version. He tricks NEMO into thinking his wife and son are still alive by planting a buoy in the water with a map with VULCANIA ISLAND circled and her hair clip saying to find them there.

NEMO figures out a point at the straits where all of BONEVILLE'S war ships will have to converge and plans an attack.

The warships lauch torpedo like explosives that cover the NAUTILUS in glowing paint so it can be seen underwater.

The NAUTILUS rams several of the ships underwater and rips the bellies apart.

BONNEVILLE and DAKKAR scan the ocean for signs of the NAUTILUS. Suddenly it breaks the waters surface in all its glory. They are alongside the VIRAGO as NEMO and his men invade the other ship trying to disable their weapons.

Oh wait there's more, giant mutant monster fish arrive to save the day biting the boats etc. ramming the war ships.

BONNEVILLE and NEMO are fighting. NEMO is stabbed by a dagger. He falls. The NAUTILUS is hit by a turret gun. The men scurry back to NAUTILUS.

NEMO is trying to get back but is plagued by the troubles of slow motion and flashbacks to his wife's death. He jumps aboard just as it's pulling away from the VIRAGO.

Three war ships are left.

Through a series of explosions and hot ocean steam acting as a cannon (don't ask) and a giant sinkhole that swallows up a boat plus a volcanic eruption that creates a tidal wave.

The NAUTILUS is underwater and quickly surfaces, Cahill is thrown and is hurt. NEMO goes to his side, he is bleeding heavily almost dead he is disappointed that NEMO killed thousands of people leading them all to their death through war. He dies in NEMO'S arms.

A part with a seal that climbs stairs (I kid you not) follows, I won't go into detail here.

They give Cahill an underwater burial and form a pact to keep the secret of the island, the free power from nature, to themselves, a secret to their grave.

The NAUTILUS heads back to VULCANIA ISLAND to dock and repair the ship.

Dissolve to find the NAUTILUS completely repaired looking like a yellow eyed sea monster with Captain NEMO at the helm!

THE END

Sounds pretty poor doesn't it. Lots and lots of montages, voice overs and cheesy action. At the minute it appears to be a Zorro crossed with Wild, Wild West, crossed with Kevin Costner's Robin Hood. Oh and a bit of Titanic.

Needs a lot of work and I how the final version McG gives us is a lot cooler and a bit darker. I also don't think Will Smith will be the right fit got the part.

I think this sums up motages the best.

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Will Smith to play Barack Obama

Movieweb spoke to Will Smith and Rosario Dawson about their work on Seven Pounds. However, during the conversation Dawson let slip that Smith may be playing Obama at some point.

Smith said that he was definitely considering playing the president elect sometime in the future, and then remarked that his ears made him a lock for the role. It's a joke he has shared many times. He explained that a Barack Obama biopic excited him because the film, "Already has one heck of an ending!" For anyone that is expecting to see this within the next couple of years might have to hold their breath, though. If Mr. Smith has it his way, he'd want to wait eight years before producing and starring in a film about America's first black president. He also commented that he'd want to wait until at least six months after Obama was out of office before releasing it, which he felt should have been done with Oliver Stone's W.

Will Smith as Obama? Good thing or bad thing?

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Hancock sequel could be in the pipeline says Will Smith

Will Smith has told JoBlo that we'll be seeing a sequel to his superhero movie, Hancock.

When we asked Will if he'd ever be up for playing another superhero he replied that there were a lot of unexplored characters in the HANCOCK universe that would be ripe for a sequel and confirmed that we'll definitely see the rumored HANCOCK 2 in a few years.

How could they improve on the poorly received first one (although it did make a ton of money). First half was good, last half not so good and what could the other characters be? We learnt in the first one that Hancock and his Missus were the last of their kind so where do they go from there?

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Hancock - Deleted scene that shows why Superman and Lois would never have a baby. Brodie in Mallrats was right!

I finally got to watch Hancock the other night and to be honest I enjoyed it. It wasn't anything brilliant but it made me chuckle and the first half was better than the last half. Will Smith was pretty good, but I get the feeling he felt stuck in his own image. I still couldn't figure out why Charlize Theron would stay with a mortal human and child knowing they would grow old and die, also why didn't she become a crime fighting hero as well? You could definitely tell that it had gone through a number of rewrites and it was sad to think about how great it could have been.

Here is the scene that was mentioned a while ago about Hancock getting busy with a lady and showing that everything about being superhuman is risky. Remember the original title for the screenplay was Tonight, He Comes.

As Brodie (Jason Lee) said in Mallrats, "It's impossible, Lois could never have Superman's baby. Do you think her fallopian tubes could handle the sperm? I guarantee you he blows a load like a shotgun right through her back. What about her womb? Do you think it's strong enough to carry his child?"

io9 had the clip and also have a list of Superheroes who cannot have sex.

Should the scene have been kept in the film? What are your views on Hancock?
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Why remake it? Jaden Smith to be The Karate Kid

Why oh Why oh Why Hollywood! Some remakes I can understand, but this just doesn't need to be done at all. The one starring whatsherface, Hilary Swank, was a big pile of (rhymes with Swank) and now this sounds crapola.

Variety confirms that Jaden will star in a “refashioned” remake of the 1980’s classic, The Karate Kid. Want more naffness, the film will be set in an exotic locale, with a shoot planned for next year in Beijing. Chris Murphy’s screenplay is said to “borrow elements” from the original film, and is not a strict remake.

Jaden, an avid practitioner of karate, made his big screen debut as Will Smith’s son, which must have been hard to act, in Pursuit of Happyness. He can be seen next in The Day the Earth Stood Still. No word on if Stephen Chow will be involved as was originally rumoured (he was meant to be Mr Miyagi). He will be busy with The Green Hornet.

For this rumour I hope it gets wiped off! See what I did there? I look forward to Chisholm's thoughts on this remake news.

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Will Smith and Spielberg to remake Oldboy

Steven Spielberg and Will Smith are in talks to collaborate on a remake of Chan Wook-Park’s Oldboy. Spielberg has been looking for an opportunity to work with Smith for a few years now, and this just might be the project. DreamWorks is in the process of securing the remake rights, and Spielberg is on the search for a screenwriter to develop the project. The project was originally set up with Fast and Furious director Justin Lin.

In the 2003 South Korean film, a man named Dae-Su is locked in a hotel room for 15 years without knowing why or who is holding him captive. He is suddenly released, given money, clothes and a cellphone and is sent on journey for revenge. The film won the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and was highly praised by Jury President Quentin Tarantino. Roger Ebert called Oldboy a “powerful film not because of what it depicts, but because of the depths of the human heart which it strips bare” … “We are so accustomed to ‘thrillers’ that exist only as machines for creating diversion that it’s a shock to find a movie in which the action, however violent, makes a statement and has a purpose.”

I posted the cool corridor fight scene in one of the Best Fight Scene ever posts. As for this remake it is quite a dark movie for the Fresh Prince and Spielberg to do. What do you think of the news? Do you think they'll change the story to make it a bit more palatable to western audiences?

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Seven Pounds - Poster, trailer and ideas on what happens

Here is the poster for Will Smith's new film, Seven Pounds. The poster isn't really anything special unless you love looking at the Fresh Prince's face and hey, who doesn't. Seven Pounds is directed by Italian filmmaker Gabriele Muccino (One Last Kiss, Remember Me My Love, and The Pursuit of Happyness. The original screenplay was penned by newcomer Grant Nieporte.

In the film, Ben (Will Smith) is an IRS agent who is depressed and guilt-ridden about mistakes from his past. He sets out to make amends by helping seven strangers. When he meets a beautiful woman with a heart condition (Rosario Dawson), he falls in love with her, thereby complicating his plans. Woody Harrelson also appears as a blind pianist who befriends Ben.

Apparantly, there's a lot of wondering on the internet as to what he will do to change the lives of the seven. I reckon Smith's character will be planning on killing himself and then donating his organs to them all. The fact he falls in love with one of them means if he stays with her he will be happy but would lose her as she would not get his literal heart although she would have his romantic heart as it where.

There you go. No need to see the film now. The trailer is below. What do you think of that?

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5 More Friends - A whole lot of movie stars talking about voting

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Snoop Dogg, Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts, Ben Stiller, Will Smith, Steven Spielberg, Justin Timberlake, along with Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat, Zach Braff, Colin Farrell, Neil Patrick Harris, Scarlett Johansson, Shia LeBeouf, Tobey Maguire, Ryan Reynolds, and Jason Segal, are featured in a second of a series of public service announcements to encourage American youth to vote in partnership with Google, YouTube, Declare Yourself, and MySpace. The non-partisan PSAs, produced by DiCaprios Appian Way, were created to engage and inspire young people to vote and participate in the upcoming election.

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Men in Black 3 rumour.

The latest issue of Parade has an interview with producer Walter Parkes who apparently comments on the status of another Men in Black movie.

In response to a question about a Men in Black 3, Parkes says "the challenge is getting the script right and finding a time when our busy stars are available." He then goes on to say "Everyone, including Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, wants to do another."

Now I can't find anything more on this and was surprised on the last part of his comment. I did not think either of the two stars wanted to do another one after the naffness that was Men In Black 2.

If you hear anything more on this let me know. Do you want to see a third Men In Black movie?

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I Am Legend Prequel? Just what we didn't need

Warner Bros has greenlit a prequel to I Am Legend. Will Smith has signed on to reprise his role as Robert Neville, and Francis Lawrence has returned as director. According to Variety, D.B. Weiss (The Game) is writing the script based on a detailed plot outline that was developed over the past few months by Smith, Lawrence, Akiva Goldsman (producer and screenwriter of the original).

The prequel will follow Neville in the last days before and after the man-made virus kills/mutates New York City. A sequel was considered, but obviously wouldn’t have been possible without starting over with a completely new lead character/actor. No word on if author Richard Matheson was consulted about the film.

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UPDATE: Will Smith NOT to be Captain America

First Showing have the rumour which fits in with the Super Soldier programme and the Truth: Red, White & Black mini series. They don't actually mention Steve Rogers so he could have been offered the role as Isaiah Bradley in a opening sequence maybe. Pure conjecture at the moment:

This just in - an enormous casting rumor for Captain America has just hit! Apparently Derek Luke, who stars in the upcoming Miracle at St. Anna, told MTV that "they offered Will Smith Captain America." You heard that right, apparently the latest superhero casting rumor to hit is that Will Smith is Captain America!

"Just shows you how times have changed," Luke mentioned. I hate to bring this up, but I think it'll be the most poignant area of a discussion: a black Captain America. To be perfectly clear, I have no problem with it, and I support Will Smith. However, as far as I know, there hasn't been a black Captain America in the comics or in the character's 67 year history. But that's all besides the point, especially since we saw Samuel Jackson take on the role of Nick Fury in Iron Man. The First Avenger: Captain America is slated to hit theaters on May 6th, 2011, so we've got some time before they finalize this role. And considering Matthew McConaughey was rumored before, don't expect this news to be the final news for a while.

UPDATE: AICN have checked and as expected it's not true.

Hey folks, Harry here to restore your faith in the world - Multiple sources from MARVEL have confirmed that Derek Luke, of Spike Lee's MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA, doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to Will Smith and CAPTAIN AMERICA. Marvel never offered the part, nor did they approach or entertain a conversation about Will Smith for CAPTAIN AMERICA. That said - I'm sure they have a few parts that they'd like him for, just not Captain America.
So there ya go. They haven't gone insane and we don't need to be confused, angry and scared about it anymore.

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