Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
As I watched the trailer below for Cosmos hosted by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, I became excited for the new season to start…
…Then I saw Cosmos wasn’t premiering until 2014.
I’m still looking forward to Cosmos, but 2014 sure seems a long time away.
Chris Flick of Capes and Babes makes his second appearance in my Stallone Theme Sketch Collection. I had the good fortune to sit with Chris, LittleJohn312 and Patricia at last year’s Heroes Con Drink and Draw event. What a great evening! Ah, but I digress…
Chris Flick worked up this cool sketch of Sly wondering why he was invited to be an Avenger. You can learn more about Chris as well as check out his popular Cape and Babes webcomic.
Steven Grant is a writer than I’ve written about many times.
Grant is the co-creator of Damned with Mike Zeck. Grant is also the writer of the first Punisher mini-series [which took the character from a second-tier guest star to one of the most popular Marvel characters of all-time] as well as the best Punisher stories ever told.
Grant is also the creator [along with artist Mataes Santolouco] of the comic mini-series Two Guns. As, you’re probably aware, Two Guns is now also a movie starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg. Grant has written an interesting article that he calls Temporary Madness: Lessons Learned from Watching “Two Guns” Get Made. You can read part one here and part two here.
Thanks and a front row seat to Two Guns for CBR.com.
Have you seen the cool poster of Tom Cruise for his movie Edge of Tomorrow? Well, of course you have, I posted it right above.
Sly Stallone as Jimmy Bobo from Bullet to the Head by Ron Salas. Obviously I’m a huge fan of Ron’s art. If you’re a sketch collector, you should be too!
Check out more of Ron’s art here.
If you’re already following Riddick on Twitter then you’ve seen these images.
If you’re not, you know what to do.
Here are 24 Interesting Tidbits You May Not Have Known About “I Love Lucy.”
Although I knew most, I was surprised by a couple…
10. The first episode of I Love Lucy aired when Lucille Ball was 41.
and
23. I Love Lucy was the first to series to end its run at No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings.
Thanks to Ashley Perez and Buzzfeed.com who have “Some ‘splaining to do.”
Gerardo Moreno is back with his new Jack Carter piece. Prints of this painting are available here. I’ve always enjoyed Gerardo’s Stallone art, and know that I can see more of his art here.
John Carpenter’s The Thing is a classic in the horror genre. Most fans consider it Carpenter’s high-water mark.
What many don’t know is that The Thing that was released to theaters was very different from what was originally planned and filmed. When Carpenter saw a rough cut he realized that the movie didn’t work. It lacked tension (can you believe that?), the pace was slow and MacCready (played by Kurt Russell) was just another face in the crowd.
Luckily a six-week break had been built into the shooting schedule. During that time Carpenter…
…restructured the film, wrote what was essentially a new Second Act to conform to the editing he had done (including new death scenes for two characters), adopted MacCready as his spiritual doppelganger, and scrambled to get all of it shot on location in Stewart, B.C. Coming face to face with his own greatest fear – fear of failure – he was able to make THE THING undeniably his…
Stuart Cohen was a co-producer on The Thing. Cohen was on location during filming and in his blog, details the changes that Carpenter brought about to turn a movie that didn’t work into a horror classic.
Recently Annapurna Pictures and Skydance Productions announced that the Terminator movie franchise was going to reboot with the first of a projected trilogy to premiere in the summer of 2015. Arnold Schwarzenegger was in talks to star.
Over at the MTV Movies Blog, Kevin P. Sullivan posted Terminator 5: Everything We Know About the New Movies. In his piece, Sullivan posts his thoughts on the direction the new film should take. Here are his major points and my thoughts:
Arnold has to be human. Sullivan contends, and most would have to agree, that because Arnold ain’t a spring chicken, it would be hard to accept him as a Terminator. My first reaction was, Sullivan is right. But then I reconsidered. With the right make-up and stunt doubles Arnold could realistically play a Terminator again… if that’s the direction the movie goes.
(Arnold) has to be the model for the T-800. Sullivan asks, “If Schwarzenegger’s character is human, how do you explain his uncanny resemblance to the Terminator that hunts Sarah Connor in the first film and protects her son John in the second?” This could be a problem except for the fact that the new Terminator films are a reboot. As long as this is clear to the average movie-goer, then the earlier Terminator movies’ continuity are no longer a problem.
This deleted scene is getting reconned. Two things stop the above deleted scene from being a problem: 1) It is a deleted scene and so has no place in the any Terminator continuity and 2) the new film is the start of a reboot — past continuity doesn’t come into play.
It’s either set it in the past… …or in the future. Well, yeah. I like the thought of a Terminator film set in the 1940’s or 50’s. I also like the idea of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson playing a part. I especially liked the idea that “Schwarzenegger would play the man who stops the futuristic assassin using period-appropriate technology, thus impressing the robotic overlords and becoming the model for the T-800.”
I’ve always enjoyed the Terminator movies (and the first two remain all-time favorites) so I look forward to seeing how this will all play out.
Thanks to Kevin P. Sullivan for the Terminator food-for-thought. – Craig
In honor of the 40th anniversary of its release, Warner Bros. released a special 2 disc edition Blu-ray of Enter the Dragon.
CBR.com had a post that is no longer available. Enter the Dragon’s producers Fred Weintraub and Fred Heller, cinematographer Gil Hubbs and co-star Bob Wall were interviewed. In it, Fred Heller talked about how comic books influenced the look and feel of Enter the Dragon:
Heller: Comic books played a big part in Enter the Dragon. When we first started thinking about the look of the film, there was a comic strip called Terry and the Pirates, and that became sort of the genesis of the whole look of the film. It was about a Dragon Lady and Chinese pirates, and it was a wonderful moment in time about adventure. But it has a wonderful, brilliant color scheme of golds and blues and reds, and if you think about Enter the Dragon, that’s what we did. And that was very, very conscious. It just felt like it would be very right for the film.
I just learned that Bob Carter passed away yesterday at the age of 83. Mr. Carter was better known to his thousands and thousands of fans as Sammy Terry.
If you grew up in the midwest (especially Indiana) in the 1960’s, odds are you couldn’t wait for each weekend to roll around and for Sammy Terry to present his unique brand of humor coupled with a monster movie or two.
From 1962 until 1989, Sammy Terry hosted Nightmare Theater [later called Shock Theater] and made personal appearances at events throughout the state. Sammy was a big part of many kids’ childhoods, mine included.
Although I’m glad his Sammy Terry character will live on, I’m sad to report the passing of Bob Carter.
A public memorial will be held Friday, July 5, 2013 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Singleton Mortuary, 7602 Madison Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46227.
NextMovie recently posted The 35 Best Movie Cameos of All Time.
I love movie cameos (who doesn’t?) and was happy to see that Sly made the list for his in Staying Alive. – Craig
Today we have Sly as Deke DaSilva by Shawn Surface. Shawn is an all-around nice guy and his art should get more attention. So why not check out his site and give him some love?
Here is the new trailer to Escape Plan starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger! – Craig
