Disney to remake ‘The Black Hole’
The Hollywood Reporter has it that Walt Disney Pictures is to remake its 1979 sci-fi epic The Black Hole, which followed the exploratory craft U.S.S. Palomino on its long journey back to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extraterrestrial life.
In the original movie – a shameless star wars rip-off featuring some of the most inert fight scenes ever committed to film – the crew of the Palomino stumbles across a supposedly lost ship, the U.S.S. Cygnus, which is stationed near a black hole. What the crew find onboard the Cygnus is as ‘wondrous’ (read as ‘boring’) as it is ‘terrifying’ (read as ‘really, reallyboring’).
Though the 1979 version of The Black Hole was alien-less, don’t be surprised if the remake throws in an ET element, especially as Disney has hired Jon Spaihts (Prometheus, The Darkest Hour) to rewrite the original story.
Joseph Kosinski, (Oblivion), is attached to direct. No release date yet.
‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ concept art
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‘Transformers 4’ to shoot in China
In addition to filming in Chicago and Michigan, Paramount Pictures has announced that Michael Bay’s upcoming Transformers 4will shoot partially in China. According to an official press release:
“China Movie Channel, under the State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT), will cooperate with Paramount in broad-based support of the production of the film in China.
The parties also intend to cooperate in a number of other areas related to Transformers 4, including the selection of filming sites within China, theatrical promotion, and possible post-production activities in China as well as casting of Chinese actors and actresses in the film.
This agreement represents the first time that China Movie Channel will work with a western studio in the production of a major motion picture.”
This agreement represents the first time that China Movie Channel will work with a western studio in the production of a major motion picture.”
For more info on the Transformers 4 production arrangement, see here.
‘The Host’: reviews, plus comments from director
‘The Host’: reviews, plus comments from director
The new body-snatching alien movie The Host has received appalling reviews from critics, scoring just 10% on RottenTomatoes.com.
Manohla Dargis of the New York Times calls The Host “Dopey, derivative and dull... a brazen combination of unoriginal science-fiction themes, young-adult pandering and bottom-line calculation.” CNN’s Tom Charity criticized the tween movie for being played “with maximum solemnity,” while having “no discernible humor and minimal excitement.”
Total Film, meanwhile, slammed The Host for its dismal storytelling and “general disregard for narrative structure and pacing.”
A poorly executed movie, then, but one with an interesting premise, nevertheless. The director of The Host, Andrew Niccol, told io9.com recently that the underlying message of his film is one of coexistence:
“For me the message is… Can we coexist with each other? And even with a species from another planet. For me that's what it is, coexisting.
One of the things that attracted me to this particular story is the ambiguity of it. Which is of course a dirty word in Hollywood, because they just want either good or evil. I was just intrigued by the [question of], are these aliens really the enemy? Because they're so often portrayed as the enemy. And in this story the context is, what if they're better for the world than we are? I kind of liked that, because of course [the aliens in The Host] have ended wars and famine. They're much kinder to each other and they've healed the planet. All we lose is our free will, but it's our free will that makes this place what it is in the first place.”
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