ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CASTING!!!

By Sean Smyth

Not So New Things Are Happening In Hollyweird.

For the sake of my limited time I'm going to condense the majority of the past couple of days worth of movie news into this single article. FYI, it's not much big news. I'm sure if I dug farther in I could have found something worth wild but there is just so much Emmy news that I couldn't find anything else.

Who snubbed who. Who did what. I like this, she did that. It 's kind of ridiculous. Just give us the nominations and your brief predictions and maybe a few select favorites and be done with it. Good god. 

Anyway back to movies. 

Sequels are all the rage these days. They will try and drain every last cent out of anything they can find in Hollywood no matter how stupid or dismal the film may seem. And with the wide spread of sequels in theaters now why not continue with the trend. 

First up we have some big Marvel news and announcements as Marvel has laid out its schedule for "Phase 2" (Every movie from Iron Man to Captain America, I think, and Avengers is Phase 1). The movies are as followed:

Iron Man 3

Thor: The Dark World

Captain America: The Winder Solider

Ant-Man

and last but not least

Guardians Of The Galaxy.

Yeah, they have sub-titles. Which is how they should have done it with Iron Man, but they didn't think that far ahead I guess. What's Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man you ask? Well Ant-Man is a long gestated movie of one of the original Avengers, while Guardian's is apparently going to be the lead in for Avengers 2, that follows a more cosmic team up of characters from the Marvel Universe. I personally have never heard of the Guardians but trust me I will try and learn some and dedicate a full post to Marvel. 

There are also rumblings of a Black Panther Movie, but very little news is on that. Mostly just speculation. 

Another movie Marvel has coming up is the Fantastic Four Reboot that will be helmed by Josh Trank, the Director of Chronicle.  There is also very little news on this, other than the announcement, but expect more within the year, since I'm sure Fox is going to want a new franchise since Paramount is rocking like six or seven.  Trank was also speculated to be taking part in a Venom movie, that will link in with the current incarnation of Spider-Man, so we'll see where that takes us.

One last piece of Marvel news is that the plot details for Captain America are somewhat announced, though it doesn't take a genius to figure out the Winter Soldier, for those who don't know, that is Bucky Barns re-incarnation after his death. Bucky died kind of anti-climatically if you ask me in the first Captain America so it will be nice to see how that ties in with the sequel. 

The movie will deal heavily in the present as Captain tries to adjust to the new world he's been placed in, more than likely dealing heavily with Shield, and a new character that was widely speculated early on. Falcon. Falcon is an interesting character as he has a major piece of Captain's story in the comics as well as a link to Red Skull. His abilities are nil, but he makes up for it with great hand to hand combat much like Cap. He can also telepathically talk to birds and fly using some wings made up for him by Black Panther. So that kind of further inclines Black Panther being a possible character in the Phase 2 plan but only time will tell.

Onwards to something a little less heroic and a little more fantasy.

 

As some may know, there is a live action Sleeping Beauty film in the works called Maleficent, which stars Angelina Jolie as the evil queen. Well believe it or not Disney is green lighting the same Princess again much like they did with Snow White and The Huntsman and Mirror Mirror.

They will be doing the same thing. Trying to hit to different audiences with the same retelling of a Disney Classic. Maleficent, if you couldn't tell by the name, is the more serious of the two, while the unnamed green lit project from 21 Jumpstreet Producer, Neal Moritz, will be an even more modern take and spin it into a Rom-Com that involves Sleeping Beauty being a clingy girlfriend, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter. 

Personally I've never really cared for Sleeping Beauty. In fact I don't remember most of it, except for the prince fighting a Dragon towards the end, or was that Snow White... It's all the same... But anyway the movie is only in development where as Maleficent is well into production so maybe this gap will be better rather than stacking the movies so close together much like how Huntsman and Mirror Mirror did. 

Speaking of 21 Jumpstreet, guess what! It's been green lit for a sequel and will go into production later this year with Tatum and Hill back in the lead. Little news or plot is known so I won't even try and speculate other than, how are they going to make another movie based around cops in High School. Wasn't Agent Cody Banks and Underclassmen enough? 

Remember those movies? Ridiculous. The only difference between those and 21 Jumpstreet is it's R rating. 

In case you haven't noticed, Sequels is the main theme of this article. 

So I bet you know what I'm going to say next. We've all been waiting for it for years. That's right. The best movie made about fish is back. Finding Nemo 2! Apparently that fish is accustomed to getting lost.  There is no real details about the film, but expect familiar characters to return because it is a kids movie, even though we all kind of liked it and grew up on it. Andrew Stanton is back from the first, only his credit is wildly diminished in the Disneyland due to the flop John Carter which he also directed, but maybe his return to animation will be epic. 

Then their is just one final piece of news I have for you watering mouths. And it involves the most Kick-Ass movie out there because it is Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Walls. Moviehole reports, Director Jeff Wadlow have announced, via casting calls, they are looking for a women, tall and fit ranging from 20's to 40's for the role of Mother Russia. Red Mists Body Guard in the comic. As of now there is no real front runners, obviously if they're are holding casting calls, but who ever fills that role will join Aaron Johnson, Christorpher Mintz-Plasse, and Chole Grace Mortez for some more gory ass super hero murdering. 

So there you have it. A whole bunch of stuff for ya'll to digest. Let me know what you think. Anything spark your interest? What are you going to skip? Comment below. As Always, Thanks For Reading.