Our movie updates continue! In Part 1, we covered two movies opening this week (DREDD and HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET) and a movie we won’t be seeing for awhile (I, FRANKENSTEIN). Part 2 shows new clips, featurettes and posters for LOOPER, SKYFALL and Burton’s FRANKENWEENIE. Now, we have the newest trailer for THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, which was released today (9/19), rumors on the new JUSTICE LEAGUE, and another poster for V/H/S.
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
We’ve had a deluge of HOBBIT photos and promos over the past week, but it’s all a tease compared with what was released today, a brand new trailer for the Peter Jackson film! I know that’s what you came to see, so I’ll skip the pleasantries:
THE HOBBIT stars Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Evangeline Lily, Orlando Bloom, Billy Connolly, Lee Pace, Cate Blanchett, Elijah Wood, Ian Holm, Hugo Weaving, Andy Serkis, Christopher Lee, Richard Armitage, and Luke Evans.
V/H/S
There have been a ton of V/H/S posters, but this may be my favorite.
You can watch V/H/S on VOD right now, but if that’s not your cup of tea, the movie has a limited theatrical run starting on October 5th. The horror anthology movie features directed segments by Radio Silence, Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett, Ti West, David Bruckner, Joe Swanberg, and Glenn McQuaid.
JUSTICE LEAGUE
Rumors are swirling about WB’s JUSTICE LEAGUE daily, but some interesting ones came about earlier this week.
If you’ve been following the JL film closely, you’d know that George Miller (MAD MAX) had a Justice League film in development right around the time that BATMAN BEGINS was hitting theaters. That film was going to be outside of the continuity of BATMAN BEGINS and SUPERMAN RETURNS and feature a Batman and Superman not played by Christian Bale and Brandon Routh. The project went to the scrap heap, but apparently the idea might still be kicking around with WB.
There’s a chance that the Will Beall penned script would take place on its own, and the SUPERMAN and rebooted BATMAN would be played by different actors and not be apart of the narrative in JUSTICE LEAGUE.
An insider said that the film is “…being produced as if NOTHING else exists.” This is the complete opposite approach from Marvel, which tied all of their movies together with solo films before bringing them all together with AVENGERS (and it’s hard to argue with the results). This approach seems shortsighted and sucky, in my opinion. First off, young kids will be confused that there are two different Batman’s, hell, I’m going to be confused, with Michael Keaton, George Clooney, Val Kilmer and Christian Bale all in different Bat suits and none of them as THE Batman, and this is before you add two more to the mix. If SUPERMAN: MAN OF STEEL is a hit, why would you dilute the man’s presence and Cavill’s performance with an all new Superman? An all-new Batman is a must, because Bale is out, but two new ones? Their films will compete against themselves, rather than compliment them.
This makes it easier to rebound if one is a flop, but it sure sounds like WB is setting this thing up to be a flop. Some fans may love this, because it means more Batman, more Superman, more Aquaman, but quality trumps quantity every time. I hope that this doesn’t come to fruition.