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Potential ‘Godzilla’ Lead Has Us Stomping In Excitement!
Last night I watched Nowhere Boy (it’s on Netfix), a biopic about John Lennon’s childhood that blew my mind. The film was carried on the shoulders of Aaron Johnson (aka Aaron Taylor-Johnson), who you may know as Dave Lizewski in Lionsgate’s Kick-Ass. Frankly, it was one of the best performances of the year, and put Johnson in my personal list of favorite actors.
Warner Bros. apparently feels the same way as they’ve put him atop the shortlist of actors being pursued for Legendary Pictures’ newest Godzilla, says Deadline. Other actors that are being considered for the project include Gordon-Levitt, Henry Cavill, Scoot McNairy (Argo), and Caleb Landry Jones (X-Men: First Class), the latter of which is my personal fav from this group.
While he is the current frontrunner, he’s said make a final decision on whether or not to take the offer after he sees the final polish that Frank Darabont is writing based on the Max Borenstein script.
Even with the legal mumbo jumbo, the film is still on course to begin production in March, with the film dated for a May 16, 2014 release.
It was announced two years ago that filmmaking team Radio Silence (Ready or Not, Scream, Scream VI, Abigail) were working on bringing Snake Plissken back to the screen for a brand new movie based on John Carpenter’s Escape from New York for 20th Century Studios, with John Carpenter himself on board as an executive producer of the upcoming movie.
The project had originally been described as a “reboot,” but filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett had described it as more of a “requel.” Unfortunately, the pair revealed to Comicbook.com that they’re no longer developing the requel and have parted ways with the project.
Gillett told the outlet, “We are not, unfortunately. I think titles like that bounce around for a while and I think they’ve tried to get that out of the blocks a few times. I think it’s just ultimately a tricky rights issue thing. There’s a clock on it and we just weren’t in a position to make the clock, ultimately. But who knows? I think, in hindsight, it feels crazy that we would think we would, post-Scream, step into a John Carpenter franchise. You never know. There’s still interest in it and we’ve had a few conversations about it but we’re not attached in any official capacity.”
Escape from New York was set in 1997. “When the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.”
In Escape from LA, also directed by John Carpenter, “Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported.”
Radio Silence is fresh off of helming gory vampire movie Abigail. It’s the third vampire movie from the Universal Monsters brand in the past year, the film scaring up $34.7 million at the worldwide box office these past few weeks. That gives it a higher worldwide gross than both The Last Voyage of the Demeter ($21.7 million) and Renfield ($26.4 million), and it’s also the most critically successful of the three vampire movies. Abigail also just landed on Premium VOD, so you can watch at home now.
Stay tuned for additional details on the Escape from New York requel, and what’s next for Radio Silence.
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