Director Neil Burger on Uncharted: Drake's Fortune movie

Director Neil Burger spoke to Collider about the Uncharted: Drake's Fortune movie. It sounds like he's got a good handle on it to me. I'm very pleased that he's being honest about wanting to keep as many things from the game as possible, but only if they fit into a movie structure. How refreshing.

“We’re rewriting it, and I’m just jumping in right now to do it. The deal really has just closed, so it’s very, very new. I’m basically writing it from scratch. So, it’s a ways off, but it’s very exciting to have something that could be a franchise. I like it, and I like that it’s a bit different from a lot of the science fiction stuff that’s out there. I like that it’s a classic, great adventure.”

“I think that the game has a really cinematic quality to it, and it has a wild feel to it, and I like the characters. I like the character of Nate. I know guys like him, who are either war correspondents or extreme adventurers – these guys that are living in a very different way and who are slightly hustlers or con-men. I think it’s a great character. All that stuff is there, the trick is to make it into a movie. There’s a lot of moments in the video game that are very cool and very intense. I would use as many of them as I could, if they work into the film’s story.”

“I just think you have to make the best movie you can. Something like Indiana Jones was updating 1930′s B-movies. In the same way, we’re inspired by the video game, but we have to do what a movie does best. What the gamers like is that it looks real and that you can be this person and do these amazing things. In a way, we need to do the same thing, but in the world of movies. We need to make it exhilarating and wild, and make you completely identify with this character and take you along on this ride, where you are this character and you feel it.”

Source: Collider

Parallax attacks Green Lantern of Space Sector 2815

The US Government intercept a communication between our sector neighbour and Sinestro.



Green Lantern hits cinemas in one week.

First Amazing Spider-man posters

The teaser poster and first banner for The Amazing Spider-man have been released, giving a very subtle tease to the Lizard as the villian (as if Rhys Ifans as Dr. Curt Conners wasn't enough of a clue). A bit underwhelming if you ask me, I would've wanted to make a bigger split from the previous films.

Source: LatinoReview

The History of the Green Lantern Corps - Trailer 3

Green Lantern sequel foreshadowed in trailer?

I'd just like to point out that this massive symbol in flames from the new Green Lantern trailer is the Sinestro Corps symbol.

Will Sinestro go rogue in Green Lantern 2? Count on it.

Green Lantern Trailer 2

This movie is going to rock all yellow out of the theatre. If any of your friends or family make fun of you for liking comics, tell them to be quiet and show them this .

Green Lantern talk from director, Martin Campbell

Geoff Boucher of the LA Times' hero Complex has interviewed martin Campbell about the upcoming Green Lantern movie and to my mind Campbell has said all the right things. Comparing Green Lanterns with Jedi Knights is exactly how I would explain the GLC concept to someone who had never heard of it. Confirmation of the movies tone is also welcome news!
(Just incase anyone's wondering how I would put it: Green Lanterns are basically flying Jedi Knights, but instead of lighsabers and force powers, they have a green ring that can create a hardlight construct of whatever they imagine.)

On a stifling hot New Orleans afternoon, “Green Lantern” director Martin Campbell closed his eyes and thought about the cold, deep reaches of outer space. “The interesting part of all this is to take a hero and take an adventure and then go out there,” the filmmaker said pointing to the ceiling and beyond. “That’s something you haven’t really seen.”

Campbell has made masked-man movies before (he brought a smart verve to both “The Legend of Zorro” and “The Mask of Zorro” in the 1990s) and he knows his way around venerable brands that can be smothered by fan expectations (his “Casino Royale” bet the house on a hard-edged James Bond reinvention and won big). Now he’s bringing that experience to “Green Lantern,” the Warner Bros. project that wants on-screen superheroes to boldly go where they’ve never gone before – into a deep-space film franchise.
“This was a chance to do some things I’ve never done before,” Campbell said between takes for a scene near the end of the film, which arrives in theaters on June 17. “We have a story that is very human and very much about human emotions but what’s within that story takes us off-world and into some alien settings that are extraordinary.”
The film stars Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, a cocky test pilot who is pulled into a cosmic struggle between good and evil when he is selected as the first human to serve in the Green Lantern Corps., a galactic peacekeeping force whose members are armed with power rings. Co-stars include Mark Strong, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Geoffrey Rush and Tim Robbins.
Reynolds said he was sold on the project when he saw the concept art of the planet Oa, ancient home of the Green Lantern Corps. and the alien membership that wears the same uniform motif despite assorted numbers of limbs, eyes and heads. The tale of Jordan and the Corps. dates back to 1959 and the film speaks to every era of the character’s ever-morphing mythology. That, too, pulled in the 34-year-old actor.
“I wandered through the art department and that’s what sold me, seeing this universe that’s created and the scale of it all,” Reynolds said. “They’re taking the Green Lantern canon from the comics and they’re extending it out into this new medium. Our goal is to make the first superhero who really goes on a ‘Star Wars‘ kind of epic journey and this mythology goes back a lot further than ‘Star Wars.’”
Visual effects supervisor Jim Berney said the film is an enticing challenge for digital wizards, too, with the Lantern’s power ring, which creates a glowing emerald construct of anything its wearer can imagine; on the screen that presents the chance to create giant guns, flying fists or energy nets that look like a cross between a genie’s magic and the luminescent tech of “Tron: Legacy.”
The big worry for fans has been tone – the earliest trailer made the film look more like a galactic version of “The Mask” than a gripping epic where the universe hangs in the balance. A strong showing at WonderCon has tempered some anxieties, but even last summer on the set, Reynolds seemed to sense that the challenge for the film wasn’t the struggle between green and yellow energy but the balance between peril and comedic moments.
“Tone was the biggest concern going in and then it almost became a contagion and it became the concern of everyone and with me just harping on it,” Reynolds said. “And now I feel that it’s the most exciting discovery as we kept going. No it’s not dark like Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies but it isn’t very light like you saw some of the [1980s] Superman movies get. The character is somewhere in the middle. He’s a classic male. Han Solo, who was witty but not really funny, was one of the touchstones.”
Reynolds added: “It’s about courage versus fearlessness and the power of will power and the need for sacrifice and service. This is not a comedy film but like Han Solo or an Indiana Jones, there are moments where you smile and the hero can trades lines with anybody.”
Screenwriter Greg Berlanti has called the overall story architecture a mash-up of “Top Gun” and the Jedi knight culture from “Star Wars” and that might make “Green Lantern” a franchise for a new frontier in superhero cinema, Berney said.
“Look, to me, Spider-Man, Batman and those movies, I don’t know where you go with those other than plugging in another bad guy. They did an amazing job with those last two Batman movies but really [visually] where do you go with those characters? You’re still in New York or in Gotham. With this you go on and on. The characters, the planets, the reach…this is the hero who takes it the next level and beyond.”

Source: Hero Complex

Green Lantern TV spot

New Green Lantern TV Spot

A lot of sites are claiming that this has loads of new footage. It doesn't. There are maybe three or four extra clips that weren't in the trailer or the WonderCon footage. Still, it's good to see Kiliowog sling some ring.
Since this movie was announced, I hav had faith that it would be great, but a small niggle in the back of my mind was telling me that it could suck. With all the footage we've seen in the last month, all doubt that I had has been cast from my mind. This movie is going to be awesome.
I know that this will be the second movie that I watch in 3D (the first was Avatar), but my only problem is, do I make the hour+ drive to Bradford to watch it on IMAX or stay in Sheffield and watch it on the biggest non-IMAX screen in the country?



Source: Blog of Oa

New Tomar-Re Green Lantern movie poster

Green Lantern looks bright

WonderCon has featured Green Lantern heavily and yesterday's Green lantern movie panel showed off four (nearly complete) clips from the movie. Apparently fan reaction is good. One of the new posters is shown above. Personally, I think that the costume looks fantastic. Look at the way the energy is pulsing around his chest, even peeling away in some places. An entirely CG costume was a very brave decision that, I think, has hit the nail on the head.

I think that this is shaping up to be a great comic book movie, especially if everything that Geoff Johns (DC's Chief Creative Officer) has been saying on twitter is true. Very excited for June - think that I'll make a trip to Bradford to watch it at the IMAX!

Update:

The first clip begins with the title "Sector 2018" and we see Abin Sur using some fancy light-based controls on his ship and communicating with Mark Strong's Sinestro, who is telling him about a planet that's been destroyed by Parallax, but before getting too far into the conversation, Abin Sur is attacked by Parallax--we can't see it too clearly but it looks like a large yellow head with sharp teeth--and he gets seriously injured before flying away in his glass cylindrical spaceship.
The second clip has Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan finding Abin Sur's spaceship in the water and he runs out to try to save the being he sees in there. He wades out and pulls Abin Sur out of the ship and carries him to the beach, making a joke about having to get him to a hospital where they have purple blood. After giving Hal his ring and telling him to use it with the lantern in his spaceship, Abin Sur dies and his body transforms into some sort of grey substance.

The third clip has Hal with the lantern and ring back at his place. He places the lantern on a table and then slips on the ring, following the instructions to insert his hand and recite the oath, but the only oath he remembers is the Pledge of Allegiance, so he tries a variation on that, but the lantern rejects it, pushing him away with a green blast. Suddenly, Hal knows the oath that's required and he recites it as the ring glows and he's transported into the sky with a green hue surrounding him, out into space away from earth and the Milky Way and towards the planet OA. When he lands, he's in his full Green Lantern suit and mask and he tries to act cool like he belongs there by strutting around. He's called over by Tomar-Re, voiced by Geoffrey Rush, who is basically the OA welcome wagon, and Hal is surprised that he can understand the creature in front of him, and Tomar Re explains that the ring is translating and that it can also create a mask or not depending on whether Hal's identity needs to be kept secret.

The last clip has Sinestro addressing the massive Green Lantern Corps collected to warn them about Parallax having killed four of their members. This is a giant open space filled with Green Lanterns with a giant Green Lantern symbol behind Sinestro, and this is probably the scene that's going to have the biggest fanboys soiling their trousers because there are so many of the great Green Lanterns we've seen in the comics over the years and probably more than a few easter eggs. We don't know enough of their names by heart to expound at length about who we saw, but we did see a very familiar robotic GL and possibly even an Alpha Lantern in there.

Source: DailyBlam

Green Lantern actors talk special effects

Not much info here, but a couple of lines about the upcoming movie. Empire obviously asked Mark Strong if he'd seen a rough cut yet. It's things like this that made me stop reading Empire - of course he hasn't! He's an actor and it's three months away. That's another month or so to finalise effect shots, firm up a rough cut and screen test leading another month to do the final edit and record the score before the printing and distribution process begins.
Anyway, looking forward to the movie. Very pleased to have War of the Green Lanterns to tide me over until June.

With only three months before Green Lantern is scheduled to debut in theaters, long-time fans of the DC Comics character are anxious to see footage featuring the finalized effects for the film. The first trailer, which premiered last November, was met with mixed reactions; and there is currently no official date as the release of the second trailer or even theatrical posters. Ryan Reynolds -- who recently was named the 2011 CinemaCon Star of the Year -- briefly commented about his role in a project with such heavy-handed computer generated imagery to Variety.com:
"On a movie that's coming out on a size and scale like this, you realize how insignificant the actor is. I'm an important cog in a very large machine

"I was on a greenscreen stage with a hundred other crew members...and it's those people whose efforts created what will later be known as the film."
Mark Strong plays the alien hero Sinestro in the film, and acts as a mentor to Reynolds' Hal Jordan. Though he tells Empire Magazine he hasn't seen a full cut of Green Lantern yet, he has high hopes for the final product:
“I haven’t seen it yet, but I’ve seen the artwork and if they can get that right, it’ll be astonishing. It's very similar [to his other CG heavy film John Carter Of Mars] in sense that they’re like trying to make a jigsaw puzzle with two thirds of the pieces missing because so much of it is CGI. As Andrew Stanton says, ‘I’m not in post, I’m in principle digital photography.'
"On Green Lantern two thirds is on Earth and a third is in space. All my stuff is in space, so all my scenes were in a big green room."
Green Lantern, directed by Martin Campbell, stars Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Mark Strong, Peter Sarsgaard, Tim Robbins and Angela Bassett. The film is scheduled to hit 2D and 3D theaters June 17th, 2011.

Source: DailyBlam

Amy Adams cast as Superman's Lois Lane

After all that pish a few months ago about no Lois in Zack Snyder's Superman reboot,  here she is.

I think that Amy is a fantastic choice - partially because I had never thought of it! The age is spot on, so we won't see a repeat of the Bosworth paradox and she definitely has the acting chops. She's been bubbling under for a good few years now and here is her push into superstardom.

Great news. With Costner locked in as Pa Kent, I hope that this is just the start of the casting news heading our way.

This just in — three-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams will play journalist Lois Lane in Hollywood’s revival of “Superman.”

The 36-year-old star got the news on Sunday from director Zack Snyder, who phoned her from Paris, where he was promoting his just-opened film, “Sucker Punch.” There had been a crush of Hollywood interest in the lead female role in the Warner Bros. project but Snyder said that after meeting with Adams, she was the clear choice to take on a character that dates back to 1938 and has long represented the strong, professional woman who can hold her own against any man – even if he can leap tall buildings in a single bound.
“There was a big, giant search for Lois,” Snyder said. “For us it was a big thing and obviously a really important role. We did a lot of auditioning but we had this meeting with Amy Adams and after that I just felt she was perfect for it.”
Snyder declined to discuss the precise prominence of Lois in the story or any plot details about the film but he said the role is “a linchpin” to the project and that he considers it essential that Lois — an FDR-era creation – arrives on screen in 2012 with contemporary appeal and spirit.
“It goes back to what I’ve said about Superman and making him really understandable for today. What’s important to us is making him relevant and real and making him empathetic to today’s audience so that we understand the decisions he makes. That applies to Lois as well. She has to be in the same universe as him [in tone and substance].”
Adams has shown an affinity for finding the plucky but pitch-perfect center of old-school roles; in the cartoonish ”Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” she brought a surprising amount of yearning emotion to the role of a simplified Amelia Earhart and she won rave reviews for the role of Giselle in “Enchanted” and its sly send-up of Disney princess traditions that date back to “Snow White,” which premiered just six months before Lois Lane hit newsstands in the pages of Action Comics No. 1.
Adams is coming off an Academy Award nomination for her work in ”The Fighter,” the David O. Russell film that took her into far darker territory; she played a bartender named Charlene who is fire-tested and fierce in her love for a down-but-not-out boxer portrayed by Mark Wahlberg. The film earned an Oscar win for Christian Bale, who played Wahlberg’s deliriously drugged-out brother, and he will be in the other big superhero film of 2012, “The Dark Knight Rises,” which will see Bale back in the cowl of Batman.
The big breakthrough for Adams was “Junebug,” which premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, where Adams won a special jury prize for her performance. The star’s other notable credits include ”Doubt,” Julie & Julia,” “Sunshine Cleaning,“ “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” and “Charlie Wilson’s War.” Later this year, she will be seen in both “On the Road” (an adaptation of the famed Jack Kerouac novel) and in Disney’s new Muppets film.
In the still-untitled Superman film, Henry Cavill will play Clark Kent and the Man of Steel. Kevin Costner and Diane Lane are set to play the Kents, the adoptive parents of the last son of Krypton.

Source: LATimes

Abin Sur crashes onto the net

Temuera Morrison as Abin Sur in June's Green Lantern.

Source: DailyBlam

New Green Lantern Movie Image

The UK version of Green Lantern's offcial facebook page has launched (I don't know why, because we can access the regular one fine), but it brought with it a new close up of Ryan Renolds as Hal Jordan.

The mask looks MUCH better; always suspected that the CG in the trailer was work-in-progress.

Source: Facebook

Spoiler alert!! War of the Green Lanterns begins!

 The latest issue of Green Lantern has served as a prolgue to the Spring event: War of the Green Lanterns.

The issue contained the movie preview (left) and the last panel of the story hints that we will be losing one of our four Earth-born Green Lanterns.

Will one die?

Will one join another Corps?

Honestly though, I don't see any of them dying.

We could lose Hal to the Sinestro Corps or Guy to the Red Lanterns, but they aren't going to kill off three really popular characters or John Stewart (even though he hasn't really done anything since Kyle made him a new GL ring, except for being in the cartoon).

As long as Kyle still has a book, I'll be happy.

Green Lantern movie posters

Here we get a look at some posters, obviously designed for a younger audience, but I'm sure that won't stop many grown-ups from bying them as well.

Look at the bottom of the first poster.

Is this our first shot of Isamot?
Is that supposed to be Iolande at the top or Saalak (or even Parallax)?

 

 

Source: GeekTyrant

David O'Russell talks Uncharted film

Gamespot have an interview with David O'Russell, the man that will direct the movie based on the successful adventure game series, Uncharted. The movie will lift it's plot from the first game, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, in which we are introduced to relic-hunter and self-proclaimed ancestor of Sir Francis Drake, Nate. Nathan Drake is the 21st century's Indiana Jones and to pretend that he isn't would be foolish.
The fact that O'Russell is looking to direct this after doing so well with The Fighter, leads me to think that this may turn out to be more Raiders than Crystal Skull.
My outlook for Drake's Forune? Sunny.

""My son plays most of the games in our house, and I will play them with him, but I'm not hardcore. I’m not going to present myself as hardcore. But I played the game a bunch of times and I also read as much as I could about the game," O'Russell said. "I started to brew together what I thought could be a really cool idea that I’d never seen in a film before…really intense action and really intense family dynamics on a global stage."
"To grow a game into a movie is an interesting proposition because a game is a very different experience than a movie. You guys are playing the game, and it's about playing the game. It's not about a narrative embracing you emotionally," he said. "So, I want to create a world that is worthy of a really great film that people want to watch and rewatch, so that's what I'm working on right now."
As far as the narrative of the film is concerned, O'Russell did not offer specifics but did note that his story will ring true with the video games. That said, he also mentioned how the film is his and his alone, and fans should let him do his work.
"I'm very respectful as far as the core content and spirit of the game, but beyond that, it's my job as a filmmaker to make what I think is going to be an amazing movie," he said. "People have to trust that and let that go, I think. There's not a bunch of movies you can point to that are made from games that are amazing movies...that stand up to time as a franchise or as [individual films]."
In early May, O'Russell was among a list of potential directors for the film, and in August, it was reported that negotiations between O'Russell and Columbia Pictures fell through. However, now all bets seem to be back on.
Unfortunately, further specifics on the upcoming film, like a potential release date or cast members, have not been officially announced. However, O'Russell has indicated his interest in having Wahlberg play Nathan Drake, either Scarlett Johansson or Amy Adams play love interest Elena, with Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci part of the cast as Drake's father and uncle, respectively.


The next entry in the Uncharted series--Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception--is due out on November 1, 2011"

Update:
I've just posted this on twitter and clicked on #Uncharted, just to see what other people were saying and was overwhelmed by the amount of fanboys (and girls) already saying bad things about the movie. The script isn't even completed yet! People just don't realise that some things that work well in the game, just won't translate well into a movie. Yes, Uncharted has got some real cinematic scope, but things will need to be changed. We can't have Drake and Sully running around the jungle for three hours looking for the Strange Relic.
Before you ever grumble about a game-to-movie translation, think this through: it's fun to play, but would it be fun to watch?

Source: Gamespot

Green Lantern movie prequel comics announced

Prequels to the Green Lantern movie have been announced. They will arrive in comic form in May. The really exciting part is that they are going to be written by both regular Green Lantern writers and the movie's writers, as well as featuring art by experienced comic industry pencillers. Joe Bennett and Karl Kerschl alone are enough to be plaesed about.

"Written by the creative talents behind the highly anticipated motion picture, these exclusive one-shots tell the tales of the movie characters before the events of the film. What were Hal Jordan, Sinestro, Kilowog, Abin Sur and The Guardians all doing before the curtains rise on June 17?

Experience it all in these one-shots, as told by the superstar Green Lantern movie team including producer Geoff Johns (GREEN LANTERN, THE FLASH), screenwriter Michael Goldenberg, producer/screenwriter Greg Berlanti, producer Donald De Line, screenwriter Michael Green (SUPERMAN/BATMAN) and screenwriter Marc Guggenheim (JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA). Each issue will be available day-and-date digitally for $2.99.

GREEN LANTERN PREQUEL SPECIAL: SINESTRO #1
Written by GEOFF JOHNS and MICHAEL GOLDENBERG
Art by FERNANDO DAGNINO
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GREEN LANTERN PREQUEL SPECIAL: KILOWOG #1
Written by PETER J. TOMASI and ADAM SCHLAGMAN
Art by JOE BENNETT and FABRIZIO FIORENTINO
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GREEN LANTERN PREQUEL SPECIAL: ABIN SUR #1
Written by MICHAEL GREEN
Art by KARL KERSCHL
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GREEN LANTERN PREQUEL SPECIAL: TOMAR-RE #1
Written by MARC GUGGENHEIM
Art by CLIFF RICHARDS
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GREEN LANTERN PREQUEL SPECIAL: HAL JORDAN #1
Written by GEOFF JOHNS, GREG BERLANTI and DONALD DE LINE
Art by JERRY ORDWAY
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Each issue is 32 pages / Color / $2.99 US / RATED T "

Source: The Source