Category: Rumours

More Green
A scooper at Dark Horizons says that Jon Zack will write SHREK 3: “Shrek and Fiona are King and Queen now and they hate it so Fiona tries to get friend Arty (aka. King Arthur) to do so but he’s still in college. From what he tells me Arthur, Gwenivere and Lancelot are supposed to be portrayed as a couple of jocks and a cheerleader and they have to find the holy grail for some rather odd reason.

Lucas Revising First ‘Star Wars’ Pics?
Rumors are spreading on Star Wars fan sites on the Internet that George Lucas is making numerous changes to his original three films prior to their release as “the Star Wars Trilogy” on DVD on Sept. 21.
According to Video Store magazine the changes include digitally changing the faces of at least two characters to make them gibe with those in the recent films. Steve Sansweet, head of fan relations for LucasFilm, described the set as versions of the films “as George Lucas sees them today.”
Some fans have expressed disappointment that the original films, as they were presented theatrically, will not be available on DVD.

On Trial
TV Guide says that former LAW & ORDER actress Carey Lowell may be headed to LAW & ORDER: TRIAL BY JURY, reprising her role of Assistant D.A. Jamie Ross.

Chainsaw vs. Machete
Bruce Campbell told Sci Fi Wire that there is some validity to the rumors that he would appear as Ash in the sequel to FREDDY VS. JASON. “As I’ve been explaining to people, this wouldn’t be a movie where you could just make a phone call and go, ‘Let’s do it,’ and then it all happens,” Campbell said. “You’ve got three franchises. [That] means you have 17 lawyers, each going, ‘Yeah, look at my franchise. Yeah, look at my franchise.’ So you have to get past that. Then you have to get past the question of ‘how will the characters be treated?’ What would you do with Ash? There’s no way I’d be in it if I lost. No way. The good guy has to win, especially in that movie. You couldn’t kill two whole franchises, but we could sure maim them.”

Touchy, Much?
Dark Horizons says that Barb Streisand keeps walking off the set of MEET THE FOCKERS because Dustin Hoffman keeps calling her ‘Barb.’ “Dustin Hoffman knows that Barbara Streisand HATES being called “Barb” with a passion,” said DH’s scooper, “so apparently he purposely keeps calling her that as a joke. When the director tells Streisand what she is supposed to do next, Hoffman chimes in with “Did Barb understand that? Do you get that, Barb?” Craig reckons Dusty is doing it all good-naturedly, but Barbara has apparently walked off the set in a huff twice because of this”.

Who?
According to SkyNews, the BBC will launch the new DR. WHO series on Christmas Day, 2004.

Diva?
According to IMDB, Halle Berry told X-MEN 3 producers that she wouldn’t return as Storm unless she was given a much bigger role than X2. “I love working with her,” said producer Lauren Schuller Donner. “We would only write a huge role for her, so she’s right in that respect. We would make sure that would happen.”

Another Day, Another Name
TheForce.net has heard BIRTH OF THE EMPIRE is one of many possible names for STAR WARS EPISODE III. The site said the official name should be announced soon.

He’ll Be Back Again and Again?
A scooper at Dark Horizons talked to producers Mario Kassar and Andrew Vajna who said that that they are working on TERMINATOR 4. “We are gearing up for some very huge projects! We are focusing all of our energies on Terminator 4! We have an amazing idea that will make sci-fi movie goers†cheer. It stays true to the Terminator universe says Vajna. Arnold will be back for this one, but for how long he will be in the film is the question right now.”
X-Factors
X2 producer Lauren Schuler Donner told Sci Fi Wire that X3 will film in June 2005 and be released in May 2006. Also, she added, “I tried to get Beast in the first one and the second one, but it was always too expensive. So, yeah, I’m really dying to get Beast in, and I’d love to get Gambit in, because he’s such a cool guy. And there’s some really good casting ideas for Gambit.”
Kryptonite
A Warner Bros spy got a chance to look at the offices of the long-troubled SUPERMAN project; the spy didn’t shed too favorable a light on the project. “It appears that they are going with the scripts JJ Abrams wrote,” said the report. “I got a chance to read it a few months back and I know what a pile of crap that was. I heard that they were going to change a few things around in it but from what I saw it looks like they went with the original draft….” However, Wolfgang Petersen, at one time attached to BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN, says that the project has been shelved.

Mom Hard
Bonnie Bedelia, aka Mrs. John McClane, talked to TV Times about DIE HARD 4. “It’s being written right now,” says Bedelia. “I’m definitely doing this one. It’s going to feature John and Holly’s kids too, I believe. It’s taken a while to do another one because Bruce wasn’t sure whether he really needed to do one and the studio wasn’t so sure that it was the best time to do a Die hard film with all that’s going on in the world right now. So they’ve waited a few years, worked on a story that doesn’t necessarily concentrate on the whole terrorist theme, and everyone feels it’s time to make it happen.” Bedelia also says she doesn’t know anything about popstress Britney Spears dancing her way into the film as her daughter.