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INDEPENDENCE DAY Meets BLACK HAWK DOWN?? BATTLE: LOS ANGELES Has A Director Now...
Merrick here...
Back in April we learned that Columbia had picked up a called BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (HERE).
BATTLE: LOS ANGELES sounds like a Pay-Per-VIew wrestling special, but it isn't. It's about a bunch of Marines grappling with an extraterrestrial invasion of L.A. - which could either be way cooler, or nowhere near as cool, as a PPV wrestling special depending on how this shakes out.
Now comes word that Jonathan Liebesman (TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING and DARKNESS FALLS) is closing in to direct.
Liebesman beat out several other prospects for the job by making a whiz-bang presentation that showed his specific vision and passion for the project, described as "Black Hawk Down" meets "Independence Day."
In August, Liebesman went out to locations in Santa Monica and downtown Los Angeles, shooting sequences and plates, and adding CGI aliens. He also created a pre-viz alien invasion sequence.
...says THIS ARTICLE in Hollywood Reporter.
Neal Moritz (THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS films, xXx, and I AM LEGEND) will produce.
Ever see a short film called ALIVE IN JOBURG by Neill Blomkamp (the guy who, at one point, was set to direct the Peter Jackson produced HALO film)? It has nothing to do with BATTLE: LOS ANGELES, but for some reason it always springs to mind whenever I read about it. Here it is:
In August, Liebesman went out to locations in Santa Monica and downtown Los Angeles, shooting sequences and plates, and adding CGI aliens. He also created a pre-viz alien invasion sequence.
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WHOOP
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But with aliens - not so interested but not the worst concept I have heard
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Damn You Michael Bay
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...than horror.
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Are there no more original ideas anymore?
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Oct 02, 2008 8:28:54 AM CDT
From the director of shit comes...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
MORE SHIT! Hooray for Hollywood!
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I will remember I read about it here first. On the other hand it most likely will be total shit.
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*Gif uz zee blah blah blah or ve vill blah blah blah*
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Marines bunkered down in LA, pushing back against a furious liberal attack led by the Evil Michael Moore and Nancy Pelosi. Alec Baldwin and Sean Penn command legions of cynical, nihilistic, self-righteous West-coast liberals and European socialists (preferably from France, Spain, and England), only to be pushed back by the 26th MEU, led by a resurrected Ronny Reagan. This has 'Hit' written all over it!
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Exhibit A: From the director of TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING and DARKNESS FALLS
Exhibit B: From the producer of THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS films, xXx, and I AM LEGEND.
Has the jury reached a verdict? We have your honour.
How say you? It's going to be a steaming pile of shit! -
Cast John Travolta as the leader of the alien race. And call them Psychlos! And don't have them battling marines, but cavemen who can fly jets! And include as many screen wipes as humanly possible. Hang on, have they already made this movie?
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Blomkamp is a genious!
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You knew it was coming bitches.
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At least it's not a remake or a sequel. Could be good, could be so bad its good. Either way it's still an original genre flick. It's being hated on because Independence Day and Predator 2 are already out there???
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that Blomkamp short film was a piece of shit
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Hope that's a working title...
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Los Angeles? Are you kidding me? Feh. L.A. is the worst place to set a story like this. What's needed is a city that has geographic/topographic boundaries and clearly defined destinations. I'll bet we'll be watching this thinking, why don't they just drive around all the mayhem to rescue the princess?
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Man that is a surprise that another action movie is being filmed in Los Angeles. At least if it was filmed in NYC or Chicago someone might actually care if it was obliterated.
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Just let it die man. The world obviously isn't interested......
Halo movie...no thank you. -
without the lancers.
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hard to know...not really that impressed with any of the director's stuff so far, but maybe this will be his break. An Aliens/Predator story on a large canvas could be a very cool thing...
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Oct 02, 2008 11:13:26 AM CDT
Will the aliens have a Windows based interface?
by stereotypical evil archer
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Oct 02, 2008 11:14:33 AM CDT
The Aliens are = to the U.S. and Americans are = Somalis
by stereotypical evil archer
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but that Blomkamp's short movies seem pretty good. Let him do Alien 5 or Predator 3 instead.
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Oct 02, 2008 12:36:21 PM CDT
Sure, Blomkamps aliens can pick up a truck...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
but they throw like a girl!
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Two crapstacular talents teaming up to make some fanboy wet dream. Yes, it will suck.
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Anyone here ever seen the "Battle of Los Angeles" newspaper photo? It's so dramatic you'll wonder why it isn't on everyone's "Holy shit!" list. Just Google image search it and scroll past the Rage Against The Machine album covers.
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... that allows you to traverse interstellar distances, yet you restrict yourselves to just capturing LA and even have trouble with a few bands of human Marines armed with what (to your viewpoint as an advanced alien species) would be equivalent to rocks and arrows? What? Are these the same water-soluble, "can't figure out a doorknob" aliens from Signs?
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Sounds like Resistance: Fall of Man.
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Smart use of limited budget gives us plenty of scope, naturalistic acting, sets up a believable world and executes a fairly novel concept. Now I'd really love him to do a Halo film -- but if that isn't in the cards, I certainly hope now that his name is out there we'll see a full-length project from him sometime very soon. Actually, maybe it would be best for him to create something of his own before he gets his name forever attached with the minefield that is video game adaptations.
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Kurt, I've never heard of that before! Now, if they were to make a movie of that, or expanded on that premise, i'd be interested (even with said talent involved). It would have to set in 1942 though. Not current or "near future". Risky, but could work.
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...just a good ol' fashioned rip-off. Ooh, the aliens should be giant insects who are defeated by bacterial infections in the end.
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hey rumple foreskin, why dont you go fuck yourself. all you la haters are just jealous that you don't live in LA.
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Why did the movie industry relocate there ? Seems like Chicago, NYC, San Fran, Denver .. all have better and more attractive locales.
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I like it for that reason alone.
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I'm giving the movies a miss until December 09
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That is basically the plot of every first person shooter that has been released since 2001.
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since aliens- let's hope it's more like aliens than war of the worlds, and throw in some colonial marines for good measure. also, no exposition about where the aliens came from or what their motivations are. drop 'em in the middle of LA and let them duke it out.
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they are called Mexican.....I kill me
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Anyone here seen the Korean film DRAGON WARS? The first 2/3rds of this film are forgettable, but when the dragon(s) come out to play in L.A. and the National Guard shows up with Abrams Main Battle Tanks, and attack helicopters to deal with them and the orcs/demons accompanying them ... wow.
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I'm rooting for this one. I'm ready to watch something I haven't seen before (or at least not in this particular iteration).
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Darkness Falls is one of the shittest, laziest, hackiest pieces of shit ever. He isn't fit to direct piss into a toilet bowl.
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I hated LA when I was growing up in Washington state, but that is just because I had been taught to hate LA. Now that I live here I love many things about it. There is everything you could possibly want in LA if you are willing to look for it. Art Galleries, Museums, Clubs and venues with top national acts playing every night of the week all year long, Amazing first run movie theaters like the Arclight in Hollywood and the Landmark in westwood and well as revival houses like The New Beverly and The Aero, Great Dining of every kind, Great stand up comedy theaters with national headliners every day of the week, all kinds of outdoor recreation opportunities from surfing to snowboarding all within and hour and a half drive, not to mention the career opportunities that all you haters seem to think is the only reason to live here. I can't even cover all the great things about LA in this post. Yeah, the traffic blows, rent is too high, the valley is hot as hell during the summer and has too many strip malls, but that is just a small price to pay for everything that LA has to offer.
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You know they'll ad somewhere in there an anti-American sentiment. Bet you a million bucks.
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so does ID4 rate higher than War of the Worlds? Cuz they're the same movie, except with and without Apple product placement...
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