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Gerard Butler locked in for a futuristic thriller... No, not ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK: The Remake, another one!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Another bit of news has come out of Cannes, besides the breaking news that I wish I was there of course, this time concerning Gerard Butler joining a futuristic thriller called GAME. The flick is the brainchild of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (CRANK) and is being produced by Lakeshore. This sounds a little fucked up. It's kind of based in the world of video games. Where do we go from here? Well, it seems that it's not enough to manipulate and control fictional creations on a TV screen, so this future has people controlling other human beings through nano-devices. Butler plays Kable, a world-wide sensation and top ranked warrior in a game called SLAYERS. He tries to regain his humanity and topple the system, all while being watched by millions of viewers. I don't know... these CRANK guys seem to be single-handedly returning action cinema to a kind of '80s fun we haven't seen in a while. This sounds like a new RUNNING MAN to me. Gerard Butler sounds perfect for this role. I just hope he doesn't start getting pigeon-holed in this kind of role. But whatever. He's good at it. Why not? Thoughts?
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Hope he's doing this instead of the EFNY remake.
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If they change the title to "300 II."
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it'll be fun for all the 13 year old boys with confused hard-ons to see Butler in something besides 300 and realize he's an actual actor...and a good one at that...
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forget about remaking EFNY.
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I'm in.
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but this sounds very, very cheesy...
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Don't most movies make millions anyway?
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we'll have to see..
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Butler is supposed to be also in the cast of the Watchmen movie. We know that they start shooting in Vancouver in August for a late 2008 release date. How come AICN, that gave us the news that Snyder was on board as a director months earlier than the official press release, doesn't have any rumors on the casting yet?
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Sounds a little bit like Death Race 2000, obviously it doesn't sound like it's about cars but DR2000 was about controlling people through the tv and the game etc.
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Hmmmm. Didn't see that one coming. I hope the effects and fights are better than Crank. Some of the action was good. But some parts (like that rooftop shootout) was like a cheap movie on IFILM.
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its a blockbuster, remember to add midgets with chainsaws
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In a future where the laws of nature have abandoned mankind, there's temptation around every corner. Sweet, delicious, wonderful tasty temptation. Welcome to....CANDYLAND!!! (voice of Lord Licorice: I have a bit of a sweet-tooth...hahahaha!) SUMMER 2008
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As long as he doesn't sing.
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that sounds sweet.
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will be used for The Gum Drop Mountains and Chocolate Swamp.
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300 consisted of a bunch of grimacing, hollering men running around half-naked. Unintentional, Homo-erotic tendencies aside, the movie sucked. All I got out of it was a bunch of guys going "AAAAAAAAAAARRRGGHHHH!!!!!!!!" and "SPAAAAAARRRTAAAAAAAAAA!!!!". That about sums up the whole movie.
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Do you know how I know you are gay? Because you watched 300 and all you saw was 'a bunch of half-naked homo-erotic guys sucking'.
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Running Man again? I'd rather see GB do some other Stephen King thing. He'd make a good Roland.
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Damn you Herc!
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You watched 300 and actually enjoyed it.
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after the season finale. Too many people now how it's going to end. Damn you, Sylar-eats-brains!
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...Crank was a lot of fun, with a decent budget and script this could be promising.
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...it sounds like it should have Mark Dacascos in it, or maybe Michael Dudikoff.<p>Anyway, Crank, I believe, is a harbinger of the coming apocalypse. About damn time, really. We are pretty shit.
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I know Gerard Butler as been in movies for a long time now but i think he's the new Russell Crowe, anyone agree?
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So yes, SteffanLongdon, I do agree.
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than an action star - seems to me Ah-nold did pretty well by it. So did Pre-meltdown Mel, kurt Ruseel and even Sly (well maybe not so much)
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Westworld...as much as I LOVE the original, this could be a remake worthy of the original with talented actors... Draw...
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"I thought they were last year's winners!" "No, last year's LOSERS!"...Running Man, 80s cheese at it's best.
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With Framke Jensen as Hexa Decimal!<br><br>I'm slated to write, but casting is not yet confirmed.
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Video games are for nerds.
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That movie was a pile of donkey dung. It would be great if they re-made that movie, and actually followed the Richard Bachman story
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This move sound like a remake of<br>"the Running Man" but they're <br>gonna use Midi-chlorines to make <br>it more like "the Matrix". <br><br>
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with a Running Man Ride?<br> Maybe this is based off <br> of that. <br> <br> Do you think they can use<br> term Midicholines? <br> I would love to see Lucas's Retort.
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The Gunslinger is not a buff guy like Roarke and Butler. Its too bad Clint Eastwood is too old, he would be perfect. Maybe Daniel Craig!
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Main frame were revoluntionaries.
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What's the point of playing if you can't reboot and learn from your mistakes?
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at last! Now, if someone could make an uber-expensive spy-action flick with some fantasy/sci-fi elements and not being afraid of going OTT (say, like the Roger Moore's 007, with better acting and without the cheese) It'd be awesome! Some kind of Terminator/Robocop meets Indiana Jones. I've heard that Favreau intends somthing like that with Iron Man. Hope it's real. I dug the "gritty" Batman Begins, but it lacked 'splosions.
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It was just a shitty movie. I didn't even finish watching it.
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Bring it!
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FRRRRRRROOOOOOSSSSSTIIIIIINNGGGG!!!!
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You can't have flesh-and-blood people in video games without The Bishop of Battle.
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Tron remake starring Billy Zane
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this IS a pretty good idea, and i'm a girl who doesn't even play video games. you know who would have been in this movie 10 years ago? tom cruise. i'm glad to see gents like butler taking the reins.
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Other than Tron.
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As much as I like Jason Statham, I'm sorry for him being in this scrapheap of a movie. The cutting was awful, the action completely boring, the dialogue laughable. And the wannabe-funny "sex scene" was an unbounded cheek.
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I mean... hey, baby.
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jakes, you just made my morning. yes i am a girl. however, i am married to a video game designer, therefore i have a total lack of authority on all things gamer because i am one of those wives who don't listen. my husband tells me stuff like 'today the tools broke' and i say 'i don't speak spanish.'
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Fuck off
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Hey, Occula, if you know any other Talkback babes... I mean ladies, be sure to send them my way. I look like Chuck Norris and can almost cook my own meals now. No, seriously.
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jakes, i will make sure that the babes i send you do not have chest hair. but the real question is, can you potato-sack the ladies?
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Come on...He's Jesse. Just look at him. You know it's true. Anyone else remember that cruddy movie with Peter Bilingsley called Arcade? That was some true blue direct to video brown gold right there.
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Wordy McWord occula, mah fellow sistah.
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seriously I'd rather watch AVP again than that shit. Ugh
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After 300, I'm hoping he'll star in a movie with Al Pacino, Sam Jackson and Nick Nolte, where they can all scream their conversational dialogue at the tops of their lungs.
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You're really a dude, aren't you? Occula, What does potato-sack mean? Sounds filthy.
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pilgrims in an unholy land!
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you don't know that chuck norris doesn't teabag the ladies, he potato-sacks them? time to read up, my friend.
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Hope he works on learning English soon.
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it makes no sense. isn't it the ladies' job to do the teabagging? my husband is probably going to beat me for not knowing that when he gets home from his long days' work of making money to pay the mortgage.
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You are one sick female. Too bad you're married.
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this concept is not based on a philip k. dick story. or is it? we have had enough of lackadaisical dick adaptations. seems like every 10 minutes there's one starring some generic dude running around.
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i am rawther sick. i would say more but i don't want to get banned from the TB, nor do i want the FBI red-flagging my online presence. although who am i kidding, i've probably been on some kind of watchlist since i fooled around with girls in college.
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So few truly good Dick adaptations (I did like A Scanner Darkly, though). What's the new one? Next? With poor ol' Nic Cage. Hasn't made a good movie in ages. P.S. I experimented with girls in college too. And most of them seemed to like 'dick adaptations'... See what I did there?
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taking your lead: i realized i like dick adaptations too. pa-POW!
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...check out the Rocky Joke Contest TB. Those guys are having a hoot, I'm tellin' ya. Guess that's what happens when there's no real "cool news" to debate.
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i suck at jokes and even i know those are dogshit. uh, no offense, jokesters.
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I just hope they get Maria Conchita Alonzo in this thing wearing spandex.
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Daniel Craig?!? Have you seen him as Bond? If Butler or Mickey won't work, neither will Daniel. Try again.
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The premise: interesting; the execution: annoying. The ending: absolutely stupid. Statham, work on the TRANSPORTER 3, please.
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Need to go into a big room all by themselves and just holler until they can't holler anymore. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! <p> Seriously, do people think yelling at the top of your lungs makes for good cinema? The fuck are YOU smokin?
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The Comedian!!!!!!!!! Please let it be.
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It was a movie that tried to be all style and no substance and didn't even get that right. It was so bad I rechecked the opening credits to make sure my friend (who rented the movie) wasn't playing a cruel joke on me and that Crank wasn't a Uwe Boll movie. Is a movie by Uwe Boll the only movie AICN DOESN'T like? Crank was definitely right down there close to Bloodrayne. Crank was so utterly souless you couldn'tt even enjoy it for the fact that it was a bad movie.
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You know a movie sycks when their most used "special effect" is Google Earth. Come on, my fucking local news stations think that they're innovative for using it.
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I sorta used to think it was the movie everybody was complaining about the month it came out and that was revived when it hit video, but now I realize it has some enduring quality to it that has kept in the conscience of all of you talkbackers and I feel compelled to know what the deal is with this film.
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I USE ENCARTAAAAAA!!! O_O;
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Id be more pshyched. you too, yeah?
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Maybe Uwe Toilet Boll can direct. <p> BTW, Crank is free on the Internet. That's how good it is. Ha ha ha ha.
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But I don't know if this is the project for him. I love the whole 'most dangerous game' genre of film. Still, he can write his ticket after 300's mega gross. If he's going to become a genre idol then I hope he picks and chooses those kinds of projects. He should wait for a quality project, one people will remember. The Matrix (the first one), Spiderman 2, The Terminator, Predator, Dark City, and Aliens are all pretty good examples of films from the past twenty-five years that have kept their staying power as the time ticks by and still stand as unique (and with rabid fan bases still singing their praises). It may not be realistic to hope for. In fact, let's face it, it isn't. But actors tend to lose their charisma when they start making movies that are just gowing through the motions. Look what happened to Arnold Schwarzenegger in the post 'True Lies' era. If you're going to take trash for jobs, then make sure you take it out of the park and fill the bin with shit that knows how to rock your world. Man, it makes me ache for my childhood (which kind of sucked). The 80's may have been the nail on the lid of the coffin of great 70's films, but they sure did have kick ass action movies.
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too. crank was kind of cool really, I'm all for this.
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please tell me you realise that Richard Bachman was actually a ghost name for Stephen King. "OVER HERE CHRISTMAS TREE!" classic.
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Just action movie fun ,not an Oscar caliber deal but come on...An antihero who snorts coke ,fucks his girlfriend in public and just generaly beats ass to raise his adreniline up to keep from dying. Just good fun. This new one sounds good too.
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