Hands up who wants an Admiral Akbar spin-off?
• The Hollywood Reporter reckons that scripters Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg may not be working on Star Wars Episodes VIII and IX after all (as was reported a week or so back back), but separate spin-off projects concentrating on particular characters from the Star Wars universe. Finally, Admiral Akbar will get the recognition he deserves! Possibly. But let’s not even joke about Jar Jar Binks…
• Deadline has posted a list of actors it reckons are in line for the role of Star Lord in Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy: Joel Edgerton (Zero Dark Thirty), Garrett Hedlund (TRON: Legacy), Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire), James Marsden (X-Men), Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies), Eddie Redmayne (My Week With Marilyn), Jim Sturgess (Cloud Atlas) and Sullivan Stapleton (Animal Kingdom).
• James Cameron tells The West Australian that he hopes the Avatar sequels will start shooting in 2013: “I want to get these scripts nailed down, I don’t want to be writing the movie in post production. We kind of did that on the first picture, I ended up cutting out a lot of scenes and so on and I don’t want to do that again.” He also says that he’s looking at how successfully The Hobbit’s high definition look goes down with great interest: “If there is acceptance of 48 (frames per second), then that will pave the way for the Avatar sequels to take advantage of it,” he says.
• Sadly this offer is for North America and Canada only, but cinema-goers there who attend midnight IMAX screenings of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey at participating cinemas on the first night will receive one of these special limited edition posters (while stocks last):
• Here’s a set video from Greenwich showing a fight scene taking place for Thor: The Dark World. ComicBookMovie has s few more.
• Real-life twins Charlie and Max Carver – who have previously appeared in Desperate Housewives have been signed up for a recurring role in season three of Teen Wolf, says Deadline. They will play a pair of Alpha werewolves, described as “dangerous charmers with brilliant minds.”
• Starz is considering a spin-off from soon-to-end series Spartacus concentrating on Julius Caesar, a character who is introduced in the third and final season of Spartacus (no longer called Blood And Sand, but War Of The Damned). [via Deadline]
Tags: Avatar, Avatar 2, Avatar 3, Guardians Of The Galaxy, he Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Star Wars, Teen Wolf, The Hobbit, Thor: The Dark World
