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Watch The New Trailer For Kurt Russell Western Thriller, BONE TOMAHAWK
The new trailer for S. Craig Zahler‘s Bone Tomahawk finally arrived courtesy of EW. The film had its eventful premiere on Thursday night at Fantastic Fest with a mix of reviews deeming it as largely favorable.
Ethan Hawke May Reunite With 'Training Day' Cohorts For THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
There’s something to be said about a certain type of project and the goodness it brings when all the right people come together. In 2000, that very project came in the form of the award-winning crooked cop thriller, Training Day, directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Ethan Hawke and Denzel Washington.
Haley Bennett Reunites With Washington And Fuqua For THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN!
Last year’s go-around with the Denzel Washington/Antoine Fuqua hit pairing, The Equalizer, turned out some really amazing from its cast. One such performance came from supporting actress Haley Bennett who plays a friend to that of lead actress Chloe Grace Moretz in the story of a monastic former government operative whose fight for a young girl’s freedom from human traffickers turned into a sprawling one-man war against an entire criminal organization, and at the rate we’re going, we could very well see a sequel.
Before then, director Fuqua and our lead actor Washington are bound to rejoin for the production of The Magnificent Seven as of last June – a remake of the original 1960 classic western directed by John Sturges and starring Yul Brenner and Steve McQueen. Actor Chris Pratt was announced for a possible role in the film last December as well, and now, Deadline is reporting the film could very likely reunite Fuqua and Washington with actress Bennett for a leading role – a widow who hires a bounty hunter to avenge her husband’s death at the hands of a rutheless gold-mining baron, offering enough money to split seven ways with his men to get the job done.
As a noteworthy mention, Pratt‘s name is also one with major circulation in the year following his successful start at Marvel as Star Lord in Walt Disney Co.’s Guardians Of The Galaxy, with any number of roles now lining up in his direction, including Cowboy Ninja Viking and Friday’s Deadline report of his pick by Steven Spielberg for a reboot of Indiana Jones. Hopefully we’ll learn more about which will come first in the months ahead as 2015 grows itself into another busy and exciting year for movies!
Stay tuned for more info!
Channing Tatum Circling A Role In Tarantino's THE HATEFUL EIGHT
The momentum is high for actor Channing Tatum who is on the way with the upcoming wrestling biopic, Foxcatcher and stripper dramedy Magic Mike XXL. According to Deadline, the actor is currently circling a role in director Quentin Tarantino‘s grizzled new western thriller, The Hateful Eight. The film previously underwent heavy rewrites following the drama that initially ensued between Tarantino and Gawker.com who leaked the script prior to a star-studded stage reading of said script at an event for fans back in April.
Filming set to begin in January 2015 in Wyoming with a script tentatively set on a post-Civil War story about mixed bag of bounty hunters and former soldiers trapped in a hotel during a bilzzard; Details are still pending, of course. Provided that Tatum is officially attached, the actor will be joining actresses Zoë Bell and Amber Tamblyn, and actors Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen, Kurt Russell, James Remar, Walt Goggins and others for the film’s production in Wyoming next year. The film will also mark the latest film to be shot on 70mm Cinemascope in 20 years.
Tatum is also attached to 20th Century Fox’s officially announced standalone Gambit film within its current Marvel cinematic universe by way of its X-Men franchise. Stay tuned for more info.
FILM OF THE WEEK (3/11/13): LONE WOLF MCQUADE
“…Series characters always have one archetypal scene. With Eastwood, it was the time he killed three men with one bullet. Lone Wolf McQuade has a classic. He’s shot. They think he’s dead. They bury him in his supercharged, customized pickup truck. He comes to. Pours a beer over his head. Floors the accelerator, and drives that mother right out of the grave. You get the idea.”
A Warrior Vows Vengeance Against The Gods In LAND OF GIANTS
The shortfilm teaser features Landwehr, joined by actors Michael Higgs, Manon Kahle, Sigo Heinisch, Tolga Degirmen and Luke Cronauer, and directed by Kryztof Zlatnik. Co-creator Mathis Landwehr and Bruchholz also directed the action, where Bruchholtz also served as co-editor.