Being greatly inter­ested in Greek mythol­ogy I find myself look­ing for­ward to Clash of the Titans. This is a remake of the 1981 film of the same name, which was a box office hit back then.  The fan­tasy film is loosely based on the Greek myth of Perseus and fea­tures an impres­sive cast. Sam Wor­thing­ton stars as Perseus, Liam Nee­son as Zeus, Ralph Fiennes as Hades, and Gemma Arter­ton por­trays Io. The film is directed by Louis Leter­rier – who already did The Incred­i­ble Hulk – and the music will be com­posed by Craig Armstrong.

The teaser trailer looks good! It sure looks like an action movie rather than a fully-fledged adven­ture. The remake will hit the the­aters on March 26th, 2010.

A movie adap­ta­tion of one of my most favorite games of all time – Prince of Per­sia: The Sands of Time – will come to a movie the­ater near you in 2010. The game evolves around an adven­tur­ous prince who teams up with a beau­ti­ful princess to stop an evil sor­cerer from unleash­ing the Sands of Time. It fea­tures beau­ti­ful envi­ron­ments, clever puz­zles, superb ani­ma­tions, really strong char­ac­ter­i­za­tion, and a well thought-out story won­der­fully nar­rated. An absolutely gor­geous mas­ter­piece that has been praised many times for its stun­ning atmosphere.

The film will be the­atri­cally released on May 28th, 2010. Jor­dan Mech­ner, the cre­ator of the Prince of Per­sia fran­chise, lent a hand in writ­ing the script. He re-conceived the sto­ry­line to shift the per­spec­tive to a non-interactive expe­ri­ence and in doing so he crafted a new story. Though the film still is based on the video game Mech­ner doesn’t expect pos­si­ble sequels to be based on the sub­se­quent games War­rior Within and The Two Thrones.

The prince is played by Jake Gyl­len­haal and con­trary to the game, in the movie he has a name: Das­tan. Gemma Arter­ton por­trays princess Tam­ina and Beng Kings­ley stars as the film’s antag­o­nist, Nizam. Alfred Molina plays a char­ac­ter named Sheik Amar, a men­tor to the prince. Jerry Bruck­heimer is pro­duc­ing for Walt Dis­ney Pic­tures. Like Pirates of the Caribbean The Sands of  Time has received a PG-13 rat­ing due to intense sequences of vio­lence and action.

Now, with­out fur­ther ado, enjoy the trailer:

Venom by kg21 (deviantART)

SCI FI Wire talked to Paul Wer­nick who co-wrote the script for the Spider-Man spin-off Venom with Rhett Reese and it looks like Sony is going for­ward with the project. Accord­ing to Wer­nick “the project is still mov­ing for­ward and the writ­ing team has turned the script in to the suits at Sony”. Appar­ently, the stu­dio has two drafts of Venom to con­sider and is try­ing to fig­ure out its next step. It seems unlikely that Venom will hap­pen before Spider-Man 4, which the lat­est rumors have shoot­ing  in early 2010. Wer­nick was tight-lipped when asked about a pos­si­ble rela­tion­ship between the two movies.

I’d love to see a Venom movie, that’s for sure! And I know a bunch of peo­ple who’d sell their moth­ers to do so too. It will be inter­est­ing to see whether the film will ignore what’s hap­pened in Spider-Man 3 or starts fresh if they decide to go through with the project. I still hate the fact that Venom didn’t get enough screen-time in the third install­ment of the Spidey franchise.

Ever since I saw the trashy The Dark Side of the Moon back in the Nineties I was into sci-fi flicks. There are lots of other movies but this one I couldn’t for­get and I still know a few scenes. Of course, I absolutely loved Event Hori­zon and Sun­shine. And now there’s another movie promis­ing a nice mix con­sist­ing of sur­vival hor­ror and sci-fi ele­ments: Pan­do­rum.

I haven’t enjoyed any sci-fi movies lately. I hope this one’s good and worth the money. In any case, I rely on Cameron’s Avatar to once again blow me away like he did with Ter­mi­na­tor II but I’m digress­ing. Read more…

Yeah, right! Some­body posted the offi­cial trailer of the Boon­dock Saints sequel Boon­dock Saints II: All Saints Day over at YouTube.  Hon­estly, I don’t know what to expect from this sequel to one of my favorite movies but I’d love to see more right now. We got our broth­ers and their father back and a hot chick – Julie Benz (who plays Rita Ben­net in my favorite TV show Dex­ter) – joined the fray! Accord­ing to IMDB the movie is cur­rently slated for a Novem­ber 1 release. And here’s the trailer:

Avatar Teaser Poster

Yay! Who would’ve thought it? Apple just put a teaser trailer of James Cameron’s lat­est project – Avatar – online. Avatar is a 3D sci­ence fic­tion epic, slated for a Decem­ber 18 release this year. The movie is about Jake Sully, a for­mer Marine who was wounded in com­bat on Earth. In order to get rid of the wheel­chair he agrees to par­tic­i­pate in the Avatar pro­gram and con­se­quently to travel to Pan­dora. Pandora’s a planet with a lush rain­for­est veg­e­ta­tion filled with incred­i­ble life­forms. It’s also home to the Na’vi, a humanoid race – just take a look at the poster.

Humans now encroach on Pan­dora in search of valu­able min­er­als and Sully has become part of this encroach­ment. Humans can’t breathe the air on Pan­dora, so they have to make use of a genetically-bred human-Na’vi hybrid – an Avatar. These Avatars are liv­ing bod­ies con­trolled by a human dri­ver through  a tech­nol­ogy that links the driver’s mind to the Avatar’s body.  This way, Sully can be whole again and he soon falls in love with a Na’vi woman. Of course, Sully sud­denly finds him­self caught between the mil­i­tary forces of Earth and the Na’vi. Did I men­tion that there will be epic battles?

Any­way, you can find the teaser trailer – includ­ing glo­ri­ous HD vari­ants – over at Apple’s site. The offi­cial site isn’t really infor­ma­tive just yet but if you want to give it a try, visit www.avatarmovie.com. I don’t know about you but I’m going to watch this movie in the the­ater. The trailer doesn’t look that awe­some but you never know.