Prequels, Sequels & Remakes

TV Hulk Lou Ferrigno will voice The Hulk in the movie.

The new name for Transformers 2 is Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. Matthew Marsden has been added to the cast. Michael Bay says that two will not be a set up for a possible three, it’ll have a stand alone story. Also, “First one was just introducing, setting up stuff, so we can go a lot farther. Let’s just say [this] is not a lame sequel.” Roberto Orci made a post saying, “I'd love and think we could almost barely manage ten on each side, with some front and center and others as more supporting." 20 robots?

On Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins… Bryce Dallas Howard is in negotiations to replace Charlotte Gainsbourg, who had to leave due to scheduling conflicts. Director McG says: “This movie takes place several years after Judgment Day, but prior to 2029. Just like it took a long time to get an HD plasma screen in our world, it took Skynet a lot of research and development to get to the T-800, and this movie explores that 'space between.' We have all been fascinated with the world after Judgment Day. Here it is.”

Brett Ratner says he wants to get a PG rating for Beverly Hills Cop 4, “10-year-old kids, 12-year-old kids don’t really know the old ‘Beverly Hills Cop.’ So it’s an opportunity to make it new for kids. The same way it felt for me watching ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ when I was a kid, that’s what I want to do for kids today.” (*head in hands*)

DreamWorks has released the cast list for Eric Darnell’s Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric The Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd, Alec Baldwin, and Will.i.am. “In the new story, Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria, King Julien, Maurice and the penguins and the chimps find themselves marooned in Madagascar. The penguins have 'repaired' an old crashed plane. Once aloft, they stay airborne long enough to make it to Africa, where the members of the zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the first time.”

After Twentieth Century Fox releasing the first two, Transporter 3 will be released through Lionsgate.

After the success of the first movie’s U.S. theatrical run, Viz Pictures has begun exploring the possibility of releasing sequel Death Note: The Last Name in theaters after the DVD release of the first on September 16.

After getting the remake rights, CineTel Films plan to redo I Spit on Your Grave as a theatrical release. In the original, a woman hunts down and kills the attackers who abducted, raped, and left her for dead. CineTel president Paul Hertzberg: “After seeing what was done with an R rating on films like 'Saw' and 'Hostel,' we think we can modernize this story, be competitive with what this marketplace expects and not have to aim for an NC-17 or X rating."

John Moore will direct a remake to 1978’s science fiction conspiracy thriller Capricorn One. Peter Buchman wrote the script for the “updated reimagining of the story about a group of astronauts on an abortive mission to Mars."

Vertigo Entertainment (maker of bland American versions of Japanese films) has hired Vlas and Charles Parlapanides to write the screenplay for a remake of the Death Note franchise. There are already two Japanese live action movies and an anime series based off Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's Death Note manga, about a teenager who finds a notebook that he uses to put criminals to death by writing their names in it. This leads to a game of cat-and-mouse with the authorities and one idiosyncratic genius detective.

Sam Raimi on Spiderman 4:
“Right now James Vanderbilt is writing the script, and he's working on it, and I'm excited to read it. I think it's going to be done in a few months. I'm hoping it's as great as our discussions were about it and hoping it feels right for me, because I love Spider-Man, and I'm hoping I'm well-enough rested to, like, really embrace it and hoping that Sony wants me at that time to direct it. So if all those things come together, I would love, love to do it. But this is a lot of unknowns about the future."

Sam Raimi on the Evil Dead remakes:
"We [Raimi and Ghost House Pictures] never actually pursued it. We said we were going to do it, and then we got so busy with other projects we never actually pursued it. So we still want to do it. We still think it's worth trying, and ... I've not done a single thing about it."

Steve Carell on doing an Anchorman sequel: "Oh, absolutely... Yeah, in a second. I’ve heard some inklings as to what Adam McKay has in mind for a sequel, and it’s really funny. Everybody’s a friend...That is one of the most fun things I ever did. I laughed until I cried, every day on that movie.”