Prequels, Sequels & Remakes

Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer will team up for the Terry Rossio and Ted Elliot scripted The Lone Ranger. The Lone Ranger, for you whipper snappers out there, started in the ‘30s as a radio show and has seen just about every medium since. “The hero's origin story begins with a group of Texas Rangers chasing down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish. The gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the unscrupulous gang and others of that ilk to justice.”

The remake of The Day Earth Stood Still will replace the original’s Cold War era message of ‘peace or else’ with an anti global warming message. I’m depressed.

Jamie King will be the female lead in Patrick Lussier’s remake of 1981 slasher My Bloody Valentine. It’s about a murderer who kills people who celebrate Valentine’s Day. The movie will shoot as 3-D starting May.

Michael Martin has been hired to write the sequel to 1991’s New Jack City, Warner Premiere is behind the movie.

Julie Benz, Tobin Bell, Scott Patterson, and Costas Mandylor have been cast in Saw V, with David Hackl directing and Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan writing. “John Kramer has been confirmed dead, and Hoffman, who admires Jigsaw's work is hunted and captured by the sadistic apprentice, currently unknown. Agent Perez, who is in critical condition, is suddenly missing, and awakes to find herself at the beginning of the apprentice's new work.” Lionsgate is looking at an October 24th release.

Simon Pegg talks Star Trek XI. (Submitted by Sitting Duck)

According to Spoiler TV, the plot for Crank 2 is: “In spite of having fallen a mile from a helicopter at the end of CRANK, Chev Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.”

Chris Carter says about X-Files 2’s title, "I can't tell you [what it is], because I don't know, really. I know what I want it to be, but Fox has ideas of their own. And I know what it should be."

According to Robert Downey Jr., he makes an appearance in The Incredible Hulk: “It happens to be a scene where I basically approach [William Hurt's character, General Ross], and we may be considering going into some sort of limited partnership together... I don't want to give too much away -- but he's in disrepair at the time I find him. It was really fun seeing him play this really powerful character who's half in the bag.”

Director Jon Turtletaub said about a National Treasure 3, "I'm guessing that we're a few years away. By the time we come up with a decent idea and develop it into a complicated and intelligent puzzle it's going to be at least 2009. Then to prep it and cast it... it should be three years away."

Rumor has it that Clint Eastwood’s new film, Gran Torino, will actually be a sixth Dirty Harry movie.