DHep #216 - Facing Reality

Doctor Who turning 50, Green Lantern drops the ball, World of Warcraft gets a director, Star War re-release gets stop and reality television is here to stay and we discuss it the Hideout way. Enjoy.

Star Wars' 3D Death

Yeah, it's that dumb

There will be no more re-releases of star Wars movies in 3D as Lucasfilm has decided not to bring the remaining movies to theaters in order to concentrate on production of the next set of film.  This seems to be another positive effect of Disney taking over the property and hiring JJ Abrams to direct the first of the next set of trilogies.  Phantom Menace was released last year to not so great box office and Attack of the Clones was supposed to come this year.  The first film of the new trilogy is set to be released in 2015. It is a sure bet this will be in 3-D.

Directing WoW

WoW Director

Looks like Legendary Pictures has found its director for the upcoming World of Warcraft movie, the most popular MMORPG on the planet.  According to Hollywood Reporter Legendary has signed David Bowie's son, Duncan Jones, to direct the movie due out in 2015.  Jones directed Source Code in 2011 and the cult hit/box office flop Moon in 2009.  Jones is also reported to be directing a bio-pic based on the life of James Bond creator, Ian Fleming.  This teams Jones with writer Charles Levitt who was recently hired to adapt the game-to-movie.  If anyone remembers Sam Raimi was attached to direct since 2009 but left the production for unknown reasons.

Who Mad Who

The 1st Doctor

On November 23rd, 2013 Doctor Who is turning 50 years old, and they are going to make a movie about it.  No, not a movie about the adventures of The Doctor, but a documentary/bio-pic about the creation of first show, called "An Adventure in Space and Time.  David Bradley will star as the first Doctor, William Hartnell, and Brian Cox will pay Sydney Newman, then BBC's head of drama.  Jessica Raine will play Verity Lambert, the show's producer, and Sacha Dhawan will play Waris Hussein, the director of the very first episode.  Shooting will start February 2013 and they hope to have the movie ready coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the longest running Science Fiction television show ever.

Harbinger the Marvel Way

The Original

Paramount Pictures has stalled on the proposed "Harbinger" movies because they were afraid of that the same kind of lawsuits that plagued the movie Watchmen would be a problem for them.  Valiant Entertainment group has therefore taken back the movie rights and plan to go the Marvel way and develop the film in-house.  Paramount options the movie rights back in 2008 and because of advice from their lawyers did not move forward with the project.  Harbingers was originally created by Jim Shooter way back in the 1990's and the property has passed through more than a few hands since the comic company first went under a few years later.  According to Variety, Valiant is in talked with writer Stephen Susco, who wrote Texas Chainsaw Massacre, to write the adaptations and Brett Ratner to direct.