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The Rumor Mill Has The Rock Playing ‘Lobo’, Which Kind Of Makes Sense
There’s a rumor making the rounds today hinting that Dwayne “The Rock”Johnson might be close to taking the title role in Lobo. Per some initially dubious sounding information from Bleeding Cool, “The Rock is going to play Lobo in Brad Peyton´s upcoming film of the DC comics. An untested, unknown source opened up correspondance with us, and told us a tale of “a Hollywood party” at which Mr. Rock was a guest, and told some fellow partiers that he was going to take the Lobo role.
Sounds flimsy, right? It is. But when you factor in that The Rock’s Journey 2 director Brad Peyton is writing and directing the film for Warner Brothers it makes a bit more sense. Then came this veiled hint from The Rock himself. Let’s not forget that this is the same twitter account that broke the news of Osama Bin Laden’s death.
In the comic, “Lobo is an alien that works as an interstellar mercenary and bounty hunter. Introduced as a hardened, rarely used hard boiled villain in the 1980s, the character remained in limbo until his revival as an anti-hero biker in the early 1990s, when he became on of the most popular characters in the DC Comics stable.?
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‘Manhunter: The Final Cut’ Trailer – Michael Mann’s 4K Restoration Arrives in Theaters This Month
Michael Mann‘s adaptation of Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon is receiving a stunning new 4k restoration in celebration of the film’s 40th anniversary this year, and a new trailer gives a look at the gorgeous release.
Manhunter: The Final Cut will open in select US theaters on July 24
The film will also release theatrically in the UK on September 25 and on home entertainment later this year.
In Manhunter, “FBI criminal profiler Will Graham (William L. Petersen) is called out of early retirement to assist on a serial murder case involving a killer known as the “Tooth Fairy” (Tom Noonan). Graham enlists the help of imprisoned serial killer — and cannibal — Dr. Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox), who is the reason Graham took an early retirement. Soon, Graham and the FBI are entangled in a deadly cat-and-mouse game between the Tooth Fairy, Lecter, and an interfering journalist (Stephen Lang).“
It marks the first on-screen appearance of the cannibalistic killer that Anthony Hopkins would later popularize in The Silence of the Lambs, though Brian Cox’s iteration has even less screentime.
It’s the talents of the late Tom Noonan as the unsettling Francis Dollarhyde that makes this serial killer thriller so creepy. Three-time Oscar nominee Joan Allen (The Contender, 2000) also stars as his blind love interest.
Mann guided this 4K scan of the original 35mm negative, with a few shots from an interpositive , that was conformed and digitally restored at L’Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna. Both the theatrical version and the UHD HDR & SDR video color gradings were performed by Stefan Sonnenfeld at Company 3 in Los Angeles with the director. Sound restoration was done at Audio Mechanics from an original 35mm magnetic 6-track printmaster to release a new 5.1 mix by Luke Schwartzweller at Fox. Technical coordination and deliveries were managed by L’Immagine Ritrovata. This project was supervised by Becca Mann and the StudioCanal team, Jean-Pierre Boiget, and Delphine Roussel.
This new 4K Final Cut, overseen by Mann, “enhances the film’s depth, visual clarity and sound, offering audiences the ultimate immersive version,” per the press release.
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