First Trailer for Brett Ratner's Hercules

CinemaCon is this week and it started with a bang last night with the premiere of Brett Ratner's Hercules starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as the man himself.

 Its based on the Radical Studios graphic novel "Hercules: The Thracian Wars" from a few years back and by the looks of it, we have some good action coming are way later this summer.

The Rock has said that even with the serious tone portrayed in the trailer, there will be some fun to be had with one-liners and other similar things. That is a trademark of Ratner, to put humor in everything. The jokes on us I guess with X-Men: The Last Stand. (Great title, terrible movie).

Hercules will hit theaters in 2D and 3D on July 25th

Sylvester Stallone's Bullet to the Head Trailer!

Today is a great day for The Expendables crew with trailers being released for 2 of it's biggest stars newest action films. I posted earlier the trailer for Arnie's The Last Stand. Now, we get the first trailer for Stallone's delayed graphic novel adaptation Bullet to the Head. I will say I love they have Walter Hill directing an action film again and it has potential to be epic. 2013 will be the year of the 80's action.

Here is the trailer for Bullet to the Head hitting theaters on February 1, 2013 

Benjamin Myers 

Tony Scott Directing Nemesis

20th Century Fox recently acquired the rights to Mark Millar's graphic novel Nemesis and plan on having acclaimed director Tony Scott direct the big screen version of the crazy good graphic novel.

This is what Mark Millar wrote on his official website:


Oh, man. It's so good to finally be able to talk about this:


The man who shot Maverick in Top Gun, Bruce in the Last Boy Scout, yelled action for Will Smith in Enemy of the State, directed Denzel in Man on Fire (one of the finest revenge movies ever made), had Tarantino rework Hackman's dialogue in Crimson Tide and gave me Deneuve's naughtiest performance in The Hunger is directing our movie. Oh, AND he did True Romance, for my money the best of all the Tarantino flicks. Tony Scott: I can't even pretend to be cool about this.

Bryan Hitch and I would reference Tony on a weekly basis when we were doing The Ultimates. Our dream was an Ultimates movie with Scott directing because he can do the character work and the intensity, but also handle scale and action like practically no other. The idea of a him helming a superhero movie had us giddy and here he is directing the one Steve McNiven and I created. We found out last Friday night and managed to keep a secret from all but a few of our closest friends and family. But this is the call I had a couple of weeks back, which I described as the most exciting of my career; Tony on the blower chatting about how he wanted to shoot certain scenes if we gave him the rights. He was buzzing about it, describing Steve as the best comic book artist he's seen in over twenty years. We talked casting, we talked budget (and we're talking way more than Wanted and Kick-Ass put together here in terms of money for him to play with) and we talked with Fox about making this into a major franchise, something they're really going to invest their time and energy into.


As you can imagine, I'm more than excited. Steve is delirious and this puts our books instantly in an entirely different league in Hollywood terms. Tony said this was a very timely project and Fox want to get this moving as soon as possible. Next up is a script and the writer we talked about did one of my top five movies of all time. The actor he's shooting for as the lead character is going to blow your socks off.


I'm happy and Steve's happy. This has been the most exciting week you can imagine and we're enormously appreciative of all the people who have been waiting around for the twenty-four hours we've been waiting for the news to go live. It's incredibly affirming to have people so into the work that they care enough and apologies for the delay in getting this out there, but we hope you agree this is awesome news.


Very best wishes,
MM


So, this is just great news all-around. I am a huge fan of Wanted and Kick-Ass and can't wait to what Tony Scott can do with this great material.


Benjamin Myers
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Email: BenMyers92@gmail.com

Cowboys and Aliens Casting Change

The news that Robert Downey Jr. was leaving the Jon Favreau-directed movie Cowboys & Aliens made the studio not waste anytime on casting because Bond himself, Daniel Craig is stepping in Downey's place. The news isn't official yet, but he is in talks with the studios to star. Craig is probably the best replacement for Downey, but will he have a connection with Favreau, who is good friends with Downey. Only time will tell.

Benjamin Myers

PSN ID and Gamertag: fusionman15