Prequels, Sequels & Remakes

Troy Duffy says that Sony has agreed put up money for Boondock Saints: All Saints Day (finally), and that it will have the original cast members, except Willem Dafoe.

Screenwriter John Fusco says he’s ready to adapt and update Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic, The Seven Samurai, this time as a private paramilitary company. "I didn't want to do it unless it could be remade like Magnificent Seven, which was great and translated beautifully with the Old West gunfighters. I did a lot of research on these [paramilitary] guys and the way they are, and they lend themselves to an updated version of this story."

Rambo 5 will be shot in Bulgaria. At the moment, word is this is for financial reasons, but that the story’s actual setting will be America – somewhere in Arizona.

Kevin Conroy will voice Batman in Batman: Gotham Knight (Yay!). The rest of the cast includes Corey Burton, Rob Paulsen, Kevin Michael Richardson, Will Friedle, Jason Marsden, Jim Meskimen, Pat Musick, Scott Menville, Hynden Walch, Corey Padnos, and Crystal Scales.

Jared Padalecki will play the lead “who investigates what happened up at Crystal Lake” in the Friday the 13th remake. Movie’s set for a February release. (But if he’s investigating what happened [as in past tense] is it really a remake or a sequel?)

Neal McDonough will play M. Bison in the Street Fighter remake.

Lena Headey has joined the cast of Tell Tale. In this “update” of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell Tale Heart, Josh Lucas is "a single father whose recently transplanted heart leads him on a frantic search to find the donor's killer before a similar fate befalls him."

Gina Phillips is in talks to reprise her role for the third Jeepers Creepers movie.

Sam Raimi is the latest director in negotiations with Paramount for the revival of Tom Clancy’s CIA analyst Jack Ryan.

Guillermo Del Toro on the status of negotiations for The Hobbit: "At this stage anything I say is of no consequence for I am not yet signed to do 'The Hobbit.' Negotiations advance but are still ongoing."

Anton Yelchin is in talks to play Kyle Reese, John Connor’s later father, in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins [latest title]. In this one, Connor is in his thirties, and Reese is a teenager (What would Freud say about all this?) who is a child survivor of a “machine driven nuclear holocaust,” and befriends an early version of the Terminator named Marcus.

Christian Bale on the possibility of a third Batman Begins movie: "Um, look, let's wait and see.”…”Part 3 is what I'd consider it, yeah, I don't say part 6. Batman Begins - that was the beginning there, with all due respect to the others. We are re-creating this. You know, obviously the decision is out of my hands. I would, knowing the Dark Knight story, I would like very much to complete a trilogy. And I think that knowing the story of The Dark Knight, it leaves you anticipating something that really can get very, very interesting for a third. Now, the question would be: Is Chris going to be doing it? Because to me I find it tricky to imagine working on it without it being a collaboration with Chris."

Chris Evans on a third Fantastic Four movie: “I’m pretty sure we won’t do one. I’m assuming that one is a closed book. After the first one was released we got wind of potential titles and plots, and I’ve heard nothing from anyone at Fox. We had all planned on doing one but if there were going to be a third I think a week after the second one was released we would have heard.” But if Johnny Storm were to make an appearance in another Marvel superhero movie? “Absolutely, If Johnny Storm wanted to make a pop in appearance in one of those movies that would be a treat.”

While director Francis Lawrence says, depending on the script, he’d do another Constantine/Hellblazer, Keanu Reeves isn’t interested in playing John Constantine again.