Quick Cuts: TMNT enter development hell, Lone Ranger gets a bigger budget and more
Michael Bay’s fan-maligned Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles remake has been shot down by Paramount, at least for the time being. It’s been pushed back until Summer 2014, due to issues with the script. Apparently, no one thought a reboot in which the TURTLES are aliens was an issue, but are learning that now. (Source: Vulture) […]
In: Movies, News, Trailers · Tagged with: Christopher Nolan, Gary Oldman, Gore Verbinski, Hugh Laurie, Johnny Depp, Jose Padilha, Michael Bay, Robocop, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Dark Knight Rises, The Lone Ranger
Trailer Watch: Dark Shadows and Frankenweenie
Tim Burton has come full circle. He’s re-teamed (again) with Edward Scissorhands star Johnny Depp and appears to be delivering a gothic romantic comedy that shares more than a little of that film’s DNA with the upcoming Dark Shadows. Starring Depp as vampire-out-of-time Barnabas, the film has an excellent cast and while it borrows the […]
In: Movies, Trailers · Tagged with: Dark Shadows, Frankenweenie, Johnny Depp, Tim Burton
The Lone Ranger falls off its horse
This is kind of incredible. I mean, this was a license to print money. According to Deadline, Disney has pulled the plug on The Lone Ranger. This may not seem like such a surprising decision, but when you add in the winning Pirates of the Caribbean team of Johnny Depp and Gore Verbinski, it becomes […]
In: Eyes and Ears, Movies, News · Tagged with: Canceled, Disney, Gore Verbinski, Johnny Depp, The Lone Ranger
Johnny Depp reteaming with Gore Verbinski for The Lone Ranger
Gore Verbinski has officially signed on to direct The Lone Ranger, according to Deadline. The film will see him working again with his Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp, who will be playing Tonto in the film. While there is no word on who the Ranger himself will be, the film will be produced […]
In: Movies, News, Trailers · Tagged with: Gore Verbinski, Johnny Depp, Rango, The Lone Ranger, Trailers
Kara’s Video of the Day: Reason #8476 Why Johnny Depp Is Awesome
Yeah, who says celebrities never read your letters. A nine-year-old British schoolgirl wrote a letter to Captain Jack Sparrow asking him to help lead a mutiny against her teachers. By a strange stroke of luck, Johnny Depp just happened to be Brit-side working on the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie. The result? According to […]
In: Around the Intertubes · Tagged with: awesome celebrities, Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean
Johnny Depp to become next Doctor?
Not exactly. On one side, you have Chris Greenland, a blogger from science fiction publishing house Tor.com who said last week that Johnny Depp will be the star of a movie adaptation of the quintessentially British TV series. After citing a deleted article from content mill PubArticles.com which said that the reason that new series […]
In: Movies, The Internet is Wrong—Again · Tagged with: adaptation, Doctor Who, Johnny Depp, really?, rumors
Trailer Watch: Rango
I…really don’t know what to say. After seeing the poster go up yesterday, I tracked down the teaser (which consists of a wind up fish swimming in midair across a desert road) and came back to this trailer today. Apparently no one knows what to say, as the synopsis consists of: CG adventure follows a […]
In: Movies, Trailers · Tagged with: Gore Verbinski, Johnny Depp, Rango, Trailer Watch