Category: Rumours

Bond, Generic Bond
According to Variety, MGM is writing the next James Bond film with a generic Bond in the lead and not Pierce Brosnan.

Dueling 007s
Moviehole had word from a scooper that Heath Ledger has some competition for the role of 007.
“Ledger’s still definitely in the running to take over from Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, ” said the site.† …”can’t say anyone’s too keen on the idea though – but that doesn’t mean he has no competition….One of other interesting names on the list is Eric Bana, funnily enough, another Australian.
Now, Bana’s had a bit more success at the box office of late than Ledger.”
Apparently MGM also isn’t too keen on making Quentin Tarantino’s remake of CASINO ROYALE. Apparently they want to play it safe and produce another lackluster sequel.

Nine Discs of Hell
Guillermo del Toro told VideoStoreMag that he plans to release two DVD versions of HELLBOY. The director said the first edition will be a double-disc regular cut of the film, while the second will be an extended cut with 20 more minutes of footage that extends the Hellboy-Selma Blair-Agent Meyers love triangle and something about Rasputin’s eyes.

Reunited and it Feels so Good
Granting everyone’s wish, Quentin Tarantino plans to recut KILL BILL VOLS. 1 & 2 for one special cut that will be released in theaters, reports Davis DVD. Tarantino plans to use the Japanese cut of Volume 1, which is longer and bloodier. Tarantino also plans to make a special edition DVD out of the film.

Bat-Toys
Where does Batman get his suit and utilities in BATMAN BEGINS? Well, an on-set scooper says that Bruce Wayne gets them from projects set up at Wayne Enterprises. The suit specifically comes from a powered prototype suit for the military. The utility belt toys are all gleaned from other military contracts.

Garner: Alias returning next season
ABC hasn’t officially announced its fall programming, but “Alias” star Jennifer Garner says you can count on seeing her spy series in the network’s lineup.
“We are coming back for next year, which we are thrilled about,” Garner told Zap2it.com. “I don’t know if it’s announced, but I’ll be back.”
Garner, who plays CIA agent Sydney Bristow, says the show has hired new writers and new cast members for the next season.
“Alias” has been beloved by critics, but this season has only ranked 73rd overall in the Nielsen numbers.
Garner is in the middle of promoting her upcoming movie “13 Going on 30” and training for “Elektra,” where she will reprise her “Daredevil” role.

Brosnan done with 007: Pierce pal
HOLLYWOOD — Pierce Brosnan is finished with James Bond, according to his friend, neighbour and one-time 007 co-star, Michael Madsen.
“Pierce lives right down the beach from me. Our kids play together,” Madsen said during interviews for his own new movie, Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1.
“And he told me he doesn’t want to do another one.
“I also heard that they bought him out. I really don’t know but an impasse is an impasse.”
Madsen said he was told that Brosnan will be replaced with an Australian, although he did not know who and could not confirm if it was Hugh Jackman, who has been touted as a possible future Bond. So has Englishman Clive Owen.
Madsen’s comments seem to put in stone something that Brosnan has only hinted at. The Irish-born actor admitted last month that, while he was willing to do his fifth Bond picture if the filmmakers could get a decent script written and find a director for the project, the negotiations were not going well. Neither was the script development.
“We’ve reached an impasse with the producers,” Brosnan said in March. “They seem to be paralyzed and cannot move forward. If they want me, they know where to find me.
“I was prepared to do a fifth film and then walk away. I made that very clear to the producers. We had started negotiations and I want to follow through, but conversations and telephone calls have dried up.”
Madsen said he himself is interested in the new Bond because he was supposed to get a role in it. He last worked with Brosnan as Bond in Lee Tamahori’s Die Another Day (2002), playing Damian Falco. Now Madsen is wary.
“Well, I was going to do it with Pierce but, now that Pierce is out of the Bond picture, I don’t know what is going to happen. If (producer) Barbara Broccoli calls me up and says: ‘Michael, I want you to be in the James Bond picture,’ I’ll probably go do it, but I’m not going to call her.
“I don’t know the new Bond guy. I’ve never seen anything he’s done. I don’t even know what he looks like. I can’t remember the guy’s name. I would have to feel like he’s going to be a good Bond for me to want to do it.”
Madsen, who plays the assassin Sidewinder in the Kill Bill films, said that watching Brosnan on Die Another Day taught him how torturous it is for the star on a 007 set.
“You know, making a Bond film is not an easy thing to do. That’s a heavy shoot, man. That’s a long, long, big, big, heavy thing. The Bond thing is a tremendously gigantic production and the last one was hugely successful.
“For Pierce, that was the fourth one that he did. He’s tired, man. You know, he’s James Bond. He doesn’t have to do another one. Why would you? Why would you bother?”
BROSNAN’S BOND YEARS: Pierce Brosnan, who will be 51 on May 16, reinvigorated the James Bond franchise with GoldenEye (1995) and continued with Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002). His final 007 credit may end up being the 2004 video game, James Bond 007: Everything Or Nothing, which features Brosnan’s voice.

‘Vega Brothers’ Rumors Reemerge
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LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) – Back in 2002, stories broke that Quentin Tarantino had plans to make a film prequel on the criminally minded Vega brothers — Michael Madsen’s Vic of “Reservoir Dogs” and John Travolta’s Vincent — that would be titled “The Vega Brothers.”
Yet, nothing ever happened. Then, at last year’s San Diego Comic Con, Tarantino himself quashed the rumors saying, “I might write it still, but I’m not sure if I can do it as a movie anymore. I think the time might’ve passed it by, and Michael and John would be too old for their parts. I mean, it’s supposed to be a prequel and ‘Reservoir Dogs’ was over 10 years ago already.”
But it looks like the film may happen after all. During interviews for “Kill Bill Vol. 2,” Madsen revealed that after Tarantino quashed the idea, “he went off to Mexico for a couple of days and, I’m not sure what he did down there, but when he came back” Tarantino had figured out a solution to the age problem.
“I was in a hotel in San Diego and he called me on the phone and said, ‘I think I figured out how to make the “Vega Brothers.”‘ And I said, ‘Really?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, listen to this …’ and he pretty much told me the plot of the film in about 20 minutes,” Madsen says. “I couldn’t repeat it to you because it’s really confusing but it did make sense, but only he could tell it in a way that made sense. If I tried to tell you, everybody would be very confused.”
“So, he’s going to do it and he has the idea and the idea works very well. I think it’s just going to be a matter of getting the screenplay finished and actually getting out to shoot it because I think we’re going to do this World War II thing first,” adds Madsen, referring to “Inglorious Bastards,” in which Madsen will also appear.
If Tarantino ever does get the script done, John Travolta says he’s also ready to jump on board.
“I heard it though a journalist that said Michael Madsen had said something about it. But that’s up to Quentin. I don’t question him. I wouldn’t even ask him,” Tarantino says during interviews for “The Punisher.” “Someone said I had to vie to be in one of [Tarantino’s] films [now] and I said ‘I didn’t the first time, why would I have to that this time?’ He’ll let me know.”

Reunited
The New York Post is reporting that the series finale of FRIENDS will be available on DVD on May 11, five days after it airs on NBC.

More Killing of Bill
Quentin Tarantino told Empire Online that he’s considering a couple of sequels to the KILL BILL duology. ìYeah, Iíve been thinking about revisiting the story in a couple of ways,î said the director. ìIíve been thinking about doing it as an anime feature that would tell the entire origin of Bill.î Tarantino also says he’s thinking about doing an entire movie about Nikki, the five-year old daughter of Vernita Green, The Bride’s first victim in the first film.