Prequels, Sequels & Remakes

David X. Cohen says the next Futurama movie will be called Bender’s Game. It’ll be in a "land of magic and dragons. You'll get to see the fantasy versions of all of our characters. Visually, it's going to be very spectacular, I think." DVD release later this year.

Sony has okayed a Van Wilder prequel. While Ryan Reynolds won’t be back, it will be about Van Wilder (unlike the sequel). It “explores what happens after Wilder graduates high school. Apparently it involves Amsterdam.”

The next Chronicles of Narnia adaptation, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, will move to Mexico. The Michael Apted directed movie will need several soundstages and a large water tank and so will film at Baja Studios, with location shoots in Australia. Production has been pushed from October to January.

Guillermo del Toro says that the second Middle-earth movie will only be able to use certain source materials (The Silmarillion, for instance, was finished by Tolkien’s son). "We're talking, utilizing the materials that are available to us, and the discipline has been to try and, from my part, know everything else. Not to know it and use it, but to know it and not step on those things. There is enough ... narrative abridgement and some other pieces of narrative and suggestions and appendix notes and this and that to guide and create something that will not infringe anything else. But it's too early for me to swear by it. I think that that's the real creative endeavor on the second film."

Christopher Guest [who is great. Just sayin’] has been cast as Ivan the Terrible in Shawn Levy’s Night at the Museum 2.

Kimberly Joseph has been cast in Da Vinci Code sequel Angels & Demons.

Helena Bonham Carter will, according to JoBlo, play a character named Serena in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.

According to People magazine, Rose McGowan and Robert Rodriguez have not broken up and the Barbarella and Red Sonja remakes (and TV project Women in Chains!) are still a go. [*shrugs* Meh.]

Val Kilmer and Xzibit have been cast in Werner Herzog’s re-imagining of The Bad Lieutenant. Kilmer will play Nicholas Cage’s partner and Xzibit will play nemesis Big Fade.

Mark Millar on the possibility of doing a Superman remake: “Since I was a kid I’ve always wanted to reinvent Superman for the 21st century. I’ve been planning this my entire life. I’ve got my director and producer set up, and it’ll be 2011. This is how far ahead you have to think. The Superman brand is toxic after that last movie lost $200 million, but in 2011 we’re hoping to restart it. Sadly I can’t say who the director is, but we may make it official by Christmas. But fingers crossed it could work out, that would be my lifetime’s dream.”