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SD Comic Con ’10: ‘Cabin in the Woods’ NOT 3D, Abrams on Spielberg
Entertainment Weekly caught up with J.J. Abrams and Joss Whedon at the San Diego Comic-Con where they both took turns talking about their upcoming projects. Whedon, who announced he would be directing The Avengers movie, talked about the 3D transfer of The Cabin in the Woods (hilarious stuff), while Abrams was pretty tight-lipped on his Steven Spielberg collaboration Super 8. More inside.After Abrams joked, “I tried to wedge my way into Cabin [in the Woods],”, Whedon talked a bit about the 3D conversion and how they might make it the only horror film NOT in 3D.
He explained to EW that the 3D thing came because MGM looked at the schedule and saw every horror movie was going to be in 3D for the next couple of years. While it still might happen, they’re actually thinking of making Cabin the only horror movie that’s NOT in 3D! He also stated that he thinks Drew Goddard (the director) film is in your face, as he studied John Carpenter, and made it almost a little old fashioned.
As for Abrams and his top secret Super 8 project, he explained that working with Spielberg is awesome.
“Its surreal as hell, working on something that has a genre element to it,” he tells EW. “Its impossible to do it with him and not reference his film. You can’t talk about it without talking about what he’s done.
“When I had this idea for a movie, he [Spielberg] was the first person I called. Then it took about a year until I realized I didn’t know what the hell I was doing and that I needed a whole new component to it.” Who better to ask than Spielberg?
While the Super 8 secrets will stay in a vault until next summer, Paramount is giving Comic-Con attendees Popsicles courtesy of Rocket Poppeteers (part of the viral campaign).
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R-Rated ‘The X-Files: I Want to Believe’ Director’s Cut Gets New Title and Streaming Premiere Date
After a slight delay, Disney has finally announced a new streaming date for the R-Rated director’s cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe. According to Gizmodo, it’ll also come with a new title.
The X-Files: I Want to Believe Vrach Frankenshteyn begins streaming on Hulu on August 14.
The new cut was first teased in an interview with director Chris Carter on the Fail Better With David Duchovny podcast from last year, where he teased a much scarier movie he intended.
“Now I have a chance to go back and make the scary movie that I always intended to make,” Carter explained last year. “It’s not just doing a Director’s Cut to do a Director’s Cut. It’s really kind of bringing to life something that for me was on the page and never got to the screen.“
The director’s cut of the film was initially set to arrive on Disney+ in June, but quietly disappeared from the schedule without a word. Polygon reported the delay was “due to some last-minute adjustments being made to the film.”
The release’s new “Vrach Frankenshteyn” title certainly suggests those adjustments have been made, likely referring to a Frankensteining of bonus footage.
In the film, Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) have been out of the FBI for several years, with Mulder living in isolation and Scully having become a doctor at a Catholic hospital, where she has formed a bond with a critically ill child patient.
When an FBI agent is mysteriously kidnapped, and a former Catholic priest who has been convicted of pedophilia claims to be experiencing psychic visions of the endangered agent, Scully is asked to bring Mulder back to the bureau to consult on the case because of his work with psychics.
The brand new R-rated cut will “faithfully restore the filmmaker’s original vision.”
Look for it on Hulu next month.