Robocop courtesy Orion Pictures Corporation
Just as Warner Bros Batman franchise is flying high once again MGM is hoping to reboot one of its action tentplolesAccording to Variety the studio is fast-tracking a new Robocop picture for a 2010 release with Darren Aaronofsky Requiem for a Dream The Fountain directing a script written by David Self The original film which debuted in 1987 and spawned two sequels focused on a fatally wounded cop who returns to the force in cyborg formThe studio is mum on the details but some have suggested the new film will take a noir approach What do you think Are your excited for more part man part machine all cop action Adam Bryant
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Per Variety, Dougray Scott (Desperate Housewives) is in talks to join Deadwood's Timothy Olyphant in an adaptation of the video game The Hitman. Robert Knepper (Prison Break) is also on board.... Darren Aronofsky (The Fountain) is in talks to direct Mark Wahlberg and Matt Damon in The Fighter, based on the story of "Irish" Mickey Ward.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Little Miss Sunshine's Greg Kinnear will star opposite another Office boss — this time, Ricky Gervais — will star in Ghost Town, a comedy about a dentist who starts to see dead people after he briefly dies during orthodontic surgery.
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See Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this weeks new flicks in Movie TalkSend your movie questions to FlickChickMathematicians live in a black and white world of absolutes and infinitely reproducible results while mystics deal in ambiguity and magical thinking and never the twain shall meet Except of course when math becomes so theoretical that the two melt into one mind-blowing mass of golden proportions and lucky numbers Nearly 10 years before Jim Carrey got tangled up in The Number 23 this weeks DVD Tuesday pick pitched camp on the numerical border between razors-edge rationality and complete lunacy Darren Aronofskys super-low budget Pi 1998 was a knockout debut and if he hasnt yet delivered on its promise Requiem for a Dream 2000 is a highfalutin Just Say No PSA with style to burn and The Fountain 2006 is a flat-out mess the film itself looks better than ever Mathematician Max Cohen Sean Gullette specializes in number patterns the bigger the b
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Lost
Question: Lost, Lost, Lost. Anything Lost, please!
Answer: You've come to the right place, Carrie. Back by popular demand, this week's Ask Ausiello is essentially one big Lostapalooza, starring executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. Not only is the duo answering all of our burning Season 2 questions, but they're also offering up tantalizing clues and spoilers about the final four episodes. Or, I should say, three. Conspicuously missing from the following Q&A is any discussion of tonight's explosive May-sweeps kickoff. For the dirt on that, you'll have to check out my Ausiello Report blog immediately following tonight's telecast. Trust me when I say you don't want to miss
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Question: Do you have any info on the episode of Lost that Darren Aronofsky is supposed to direct? Are all the castaways going to break into Charlie's heroin stash and run around the island stoned just like in Requiem for a Dream?
Answer: That joke was made already, Ray — and by me. Besides, it's a moot point. As EW.com reported last week, Darren had to back out due to family obligations; he and Rachel Weisz are about to have a baby.
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Question: I enjoy watching those AFI (American Film Institute) specials, but what is AFI's function?
Answer: Founded in 1967, AFI is a film school: Directors David Lynch, Terrence Malick, Darren Aronofsky, Paul Schrader, Carl Franklin and Amy Heckerling all went there. Its initial funding came from the then-recently created (and now embattled) National Endowment for the Arts, the MPAA and the Ford Foundation, a heavy hitter in early corporate-sector support for the arts
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Question: Is there any truth to the rumor that Darren Aronofsky is going to direct an episode of Lost later this season? Answer: It certainly sounded that way when I asked Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse for a preview of the maverick filmmaker's episode during our interview last week. "I think the obvious thing that people are going to think is that he's going to do some big sort of tripped-out heroin thing [with Charlie]," says Damon, referring to Aronofsky's most celebrated work, the 2000 drug-addiction opus, Requiem for a Dream," but that's exactly what we are not going to do." (Who would think that? Oh, right. Me
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Lost is getting a shot of indie cred. Entertainment Weekly reports that cult director Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, Pi) has signed on to helm a May-sweeps episode of the ABC hit. "It was one of those fantastic calls out of the blue," says Lost exec producer Carlton Cuse. "His agents let us know he liked the show, and we jumped at the opportunity." In related news, I see a major relapse in Charlie's future. (If you haven't seen Requiem, that joke will make absolutely no sense. But take my word for it — it's funny.)
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