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A spy recently saw a presentation on INCREDIBLE HULK, HELLBOY 2, WANTED and MUMMY 3, plus Quint chimes in on HELLBOY II!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I am recently returned from a trip to Budapest to watch a night of shooting on HELLBOY II, so I can confirm pretty much everything our new spy has to say about the project.
I'll have a full report up whenever I get the okay, but I can say now that Johann looks fucking terrific. Our spy mentions his suit looking very BIOSHOCK and he's not wrong... the work the practical effects guys did on making keeping this character as CG-free as possible is fantastic. Considering that the character is essentially a cloud of gas in a suit with a glass head, that's pretty incredible that it's going mostly without CG. They have little motors built into the half-domed head of the character and a little vent that produces real smoke at the push of a button that the little motored fans blow and cause to swirl around in the glass head.
Anyway, more on that later. Here's a look at a preview for a ton of Universal films, including animatics, footage and art for flicks like HELLBOY II, THE INCREDIBLE HULK, WANTED and MUMMY 3. Enjoy!
First off, we saw lots of stuff for Wanted, the adaptation of the Mark Millar graphic novel. It's to star Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy. Not sure if they've started shooting because they showed no footage from the film, but did show a hell of a lot of pre-viz stuff. Lots of animatics of McAvoy's character kicking ass. At one point, his character (or at least I'm assuming its his character) does the arms out, back-to-back gun pirouette with who I'm assuming is Jolie's character. Very Mr & Mrs Smith. Not much to say about this one other than the animatics looked solid, lots of gunplay and kicking over of tables.
Next was some good stuff for The Incredible Hulk. Again, not much footage to show, but tonnes of cool concept art and pre-viz animation. The art I saw of Hulk was fairly similar to the Ang Lee hulk (i.e. green) but it looks like he wears ripped jeans (!) instead of short shorts. According to Voice Over Man, this Hulk will be 9 foot tall. Saw some ace animatics of Hulk racing through the city, hopping over cars, climbing up fire escapes and leaping off a building onto a helicopter. Also saw a cool shot of William Hurt as Thunderbolt Ross, complete with white tache. The coolest Hulk stuff was the concept art and animatics for Abomination. This dude looks awesome. He's huge (much bigger than the Hulk), kinda has clear, see-through skin, a chrome dome head and a protruding spine running up his back. There were some cool pre-viz shots of him with a car in each hand, 'clapping' them together and crushing some army guys. All the concept stuff I saw looked great, much more action-orientated than Lee's Hulk, but then I guess we knew that anyway.
Saw a little bit of concept footage for The Mummy 3 – big whoop, I hear you say. But then Voice Over Man reveals that the franchise has made over a billion dollars in box office. What. The. Fuck. Anyway, saw some nice looking location art (It's all in China), some snowbound temples, and your typical Chinese bad guys. Jet Li's character – he's the Mummy of the piece – is apparently back for revenge (no!) and commands the Terracotta army, which is way cool. He also lives in a giant stone man buried halfway underground, which I guess is quite fitting if you're an evil mummy but not so much if you want to stay out of the limelight.
Next up was Hellboy 2. Now I've never seen Hellboy (I own it but have never watched it) so stop me if any of this stuff is common knowledge. All of the original cast are back (Jeffrey Tambor was in the original? Get the fuck outta here!) including Perlman, obviously. Voice Over Man did mention a few new additions to the cast; Johann, a dude made entirely out of gas (decked out in a cool Bioshock-esque suit) plus a troll with one eye called Mr. Wink. Also, and this may be a rather large spoiler, but it seems there's a five storey high monster (tentacles, eyes and shit, hard to see from the concept art) that attacks the Brooklyn Bridge. Saw some concept art for the Golden Army, and they kinda look like bigger, badder, golder versions of the Destroyer druids from Episode 1, crossed with a bit of General Grievous. But not lame.
Saw some other stuff too, Mamma Mia footage (looks good) and some CG mouse movie called The Tales Of Deveraux. Sadly not Chance Deveraux.
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banana!
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when is this supposed to be complete
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Wow, those "Smallville" guys know about the Terra Cotta warriors of Qi'an (Or whatever it is...)...I still don't have faith in this, though. :(
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And fourth, apparently.
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when it premieres. Too cool.
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El Gordo is grande!
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Can't wait. The first was superb, and I wasn't even a fan of the comics. I am now, and I'm wondering what the hell I was reading instead. Oh yeah, crap.
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Don't let those bad boys near Stonehenge - they've got no respect.
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but you guys are getting your sequel so good for you.now if only we can get a big mommas house 3...
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film of next year. Well, behind Batman Begins anyway. I'm looking forward to it.
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And is he taking the lead too? Hellboy was OK, and just OK. It looked great, but it was too fast - it needed to be longer. But since I saw Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labrynth, I'll DEFINATELY give Del Toro my £5 for HB2. The mans brilliant. As for Mummy 3 - I'd rather fist myself.
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AND GLAD TO SEE YOU'RE BACK GABRIEL GRAY...GO GET EM!I wonder if they'll release stuff on the Hulk like they have with Iron Man? Isn't it almost time for more stuff on Iron Man?
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The Tales Of Deveraux is actually the Tale of Desperaux.
It's being made by Framestore in London. -
to crush army guys sure beats fighting a deranged poodle. So at least that's a start.
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That was a Van Damme reference at the end yeah? His last name was actually Boudreax in Hard Target.
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and surprised how good it was, apart from a terrible final scene and lazy pacing. Love the opening prologue set in Scotland, way cool.
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Oct 30, 2007 7:47:29 AM CDT
F the TerraCotta army! Behold my paper mache house of pain!
by cletus van damme
Chinese finger cuffs figure into it heavily!
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But the script was already written from beginning to end when he came on board. I guess it just wasn't up to his standards at first.
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Poor people get bored too.
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Who fucking cares - just make HARD TARGET 2 before Lance Henriksen dies. Get the dude who made SHOOT EM UP, or failing that, the guys who made CRANK.
I'd better see points off the bac end for those ideas. I got a million of 'em. -
So did Titanic...all by it's onesies.
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It and "IRON MAN" may end up being a great one-two punch! And that's just awesome, for us geeks.
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and he was angry...
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I think it lasted three episodes. It was a about a sarcastic blind guy that was a prick. TV programming at its finest.
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“Now I've never seen Hellboy (I own it but have never watched it)”
Boy does that sum these talk backs and reviews up in a nutshell.
Great Job!
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Hellboy is amazing. Absolutely my favorite superhero movie. Beautiful, sypathetic, resonant, everything you need. And I never much liked thestory of the comics. I likedthe art, but the bad guys were a little too arch, a little unmotivated. Also, The Mummy is the sort of movie I love to see. Ridiculous monster movie. The Mummy Returns, of course, is garbage, but I'm sure I'll wind up seeing number three if only because my girlfriend has a huge crush on Brendan Fraser.
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Just as a note, the CG mouse film he mentioned is The Tale of Despereaux.It looks like it's going to feature the voice talents of Kevin Kline, Dustin Hoffman, Sigourney Weaver and Christopher Lloyd.
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Where the hell is Voltron? I want to see a pissed off crazy mind f#cked fight club hulk. damnit.
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thanks but it seems like Voice Over Man has all the inside scoops. Harry, get him on the payroll!
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but the samaritan here uses really big bullets....oh crap.
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...stuff a few months ago. Guy's right- looks awesome, visually. I remember the bit he's talking about, but also a bit where one character is running across phone lines, which also looked cool.
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All of those sound decent. I'm nervous about another Mummy though.
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Sounds crappy. I wish filmmakers would stop trying to put their fingerprints all over these comic book properties and realize that the characters have already been designed.
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That's actually good news. If Rachel Weiss is in it, I'm there, because I can never get enough of her. Just keep the kid out of it. I don't want to watch another "spunky youngster saves the day" flick this decade.
As for Incredible Hulk- If they don't waste a shitload of time making with the angst, and if there aren't fucking Hulk Dogs in it, I'll be pleased. Ang Lee fucking sucks, and now we can all see that his Hulk was just a stepping stone to Brokeback Mountain. If he could have had the Hulk admit his man-love for General Ross, I think he'd have done it, just so we could get the Bruce Banner crying scene he so wanted to film.
Hellboy? Really? People liked that movie? The only good thing about it was Selma Blair... -
That's actually good news. If Rachel Weiss is in it, I'm there, because I can never get enough of her. Just keep the kid out of it. I don't want to watch another "spunky youngster saves the day" flick this decade.
As for Incredible Hulk- If they don't waste a shitload of time making with the angst, and if there aren't fucking Hulk Dogs in it, I'll be pleased. Ang Lee fucking sucks, and now we can all see that his Hulk was just a stepping stone to Brokeback Mountain. If he could have had the Hulk admit his man-love for General Ross, I think he'd have done it, just so we could get the Bruce Banner crying scene he so wanted to film.
Hellboy? Really? People liked that movie? The only good thing about it was Selma Blair... -
The man is a genius. Pan's Labyrinth is one of the best films I've seen. Period
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What the fuck.
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Err, just *how' big is he then? Sounds huge..
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And my favorite was still Devil's Backbone, which bears a lot of parallels to Pan's Labyrinth, at least thematically.
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Oct 30, 2007 2:04:44 PM CDT
Chance Boudreau and Mason Storm just kidnapped voice over guy...
by westie
Now that would be a great movie.
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My wife thought I was made entierly out of gas.
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My wife thought I was made entierly out of gas.
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Sorry didn't mean to post that twice.
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But hopefully he is busy making Hard Target 2 with Lance and Jean Claude.
Isn't it great when Lance gets set on fire and suddenly hes all wet, hmm wonder what that is!
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Nice.
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Judge Dredds Dirty Undies beat me to it! Well played, sir.
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I think I remember an episode of "Mr. Sunshine" where he was supposed to be playing a wheelchair bound guy in a play, and then stupidly walks in the performance. :)
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I can't see Sleepy Bill as the fire & brimstone blustery Hulk-hating sonuvabitch general. Granted, Sam Elliott took a quiet approach as well, but I want to see APESHIT ROSS, not a quiet storm! Can't someone de-age Ernest Borgnine?
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Love it.
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these idiots post "FIRST" in topic and don't get the FIRST post. Fucking retards.
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To hell with Hard Target 2 and just give me the first one uncut and with the Sam Raimi ending. 'Been waiting for that for ages. You hear me Hollywood? You better or next time I cut me a steak!
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Sam Elliot's crap is meaner than William Hurt.
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...Selma Blair was the WORST thing about Hellboy, much like she is the worst thing in virtually every project she's involved in. She's an attractive woman, no argument there, but she couldn't act her way out of a wet paper bag holding two pairs of scissors.
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I struggle to think of anything that she has been good in (Cruel Intentions?). She certainly wasn't any good in Hellboy. Also didn't she get a cock caught in the back of her throat in that atrocity The Sweetest Thing. And still failed to be funny.
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"Destroyer druids from Episode 1". That's pretty funny.
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