Jack Black, who voices Claptrap in the upcoming Borderlands live-action movie, says that Tenacious D isn’t permanently done after all. The initial announcement followed a joke by longtime bandmember and friend Kyle Gass, about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Instead, Tenacious D is taking a “break” and…
Jack Black, who voices Claptrap in the upcoming Borderlands live-action movie, says that Tenacious D isn’t permanently done after all. The initial announcement followed a joke by longtime bandmember and friend Kyle Gass, about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Instead, Tenacious D is taking a “break” and…
Jeremy Saulnier brings his signature brutality to the new trailer for Rebel Ridge from Netflix. The film looks to follow in the vein of First Blood and the Reacher series and stars Aaron Pierre, Don Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, David Denman, Emory Cohen, Steve Zissis, Zsané Jhé, Dana Lee, and James Cromwell.
The film being described as a “high-velocity thriller that explores systemic American injustices through bone-breaking action sequences, suspense, and dark humor.” Now we finally know what it’s about, as Netflix has provided a synopsis: Terry Richmond (Aaron Pierre) enters the town of Shelby Springs on a simple but urgent mission– post bail for his cousin and save him from imminent danger. But when Terry’s life’s savings is unjustly seized by law-enforcement, he’s forced to go head to head with local police chief Sandy Burnne (Don Johnson) and his combat-ready officers. Terry finds an unlikely ally in court clerk Summer McBride (AnnaSophia Robb) and the two become ensnared in a deep-rooted conspiracy within the remote township. As the stakes turn deadly, Terry must call upon his mysterious background to break the department’s hold on the community, bring justice to his own family– and protect Summer in the process.
From the acclaimed writer/director of Green Room, Blue Ruin and Hold The Dark, Rebel Ridge is a deeply human yet high-velocity thriller that explores corruption and morality in the context of bone-breaking action and ever-coiling suspense. The film is produced by Anish Savjani, Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino and Jeremy Saulnier. Executive producers on board include Daniel Jason Heffner, Macon Blair and Louise Lovegrove.
For this project, Saulnier told Netflix, “As a filmmaker, I dig grounded ’80s and ’90s action films that not only deliver on spectacle, but succeed in tying on-screen mayhem to a real and true emotional component. Smaller scale, bigger impact. Less veneer, less artificiality. They’re rooted in a ‘kick up the dust’ level of craft and authenticity that I don’t see often in the current space, and I was interested in making a film more like that.”
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It feels like the big Steam Summer Sale just ended, but there’s already a new collection of deals to take its place. EA, the publisher behind franchises like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and the Star Wars: Jedi games is currently offering massive discounts on its catalog.
It feels like the big Steam Summer Sale just ended, but there’s already a new collection of deals to take its place. EA, the publisher behind franchises like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and the Star Wars: Jedi games is currently offering massive discounts on its catalog.
Seventeen years after we last followed historian, cryptographer, and treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates (played by Nicolas Cage) on an adventure, we might finally be getting a new sequel to the 2004 film National Treasure and its 2007 follow-up National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets. Although producer Jerry Bruckheimer said two years ago that there was a “really good” script in place and awaiting Cage’s approval, it must not have met his approval, because screenwriter Ted Elliott revealed to the National Treasure Hunt podcast that he has been working on the project for the last year and recently completed his first draft of the script.
During his interview on the podcast, Elliott confirmed that his script is complete and ready for revisions and teased that he has written “familiar faces” into the story beyond the returning main characters of Ben Gates, computer expert and author Riley Poole (Justin Bartha), Dr. Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger), and Ben’s parents Patrick Henry Gates (Jon Voight) and Dr. Emily Appleton-Gates (Helen Mirren). He also mentioned that the dynamic between Ben and Riley will have changed by the time we catch up with them in this story. The short-lived TV series National Treasure: Edge of History is also being treated as canon, so FBI Special Agent Peter Sadusky, who was played by Harvey Keitel in the first two films, is now dead.
Elliott promised that the heist at the center of National Treasure 3 will be “weirdest ever,” surpassing the stealing of the Declaration of Independence and kidnapping the President in previous stories, and that no one online has correctly guessed what the treasure is in this story. He also said that Ben and his cohorts might be facing off with multiple antagonists in this one.
Directed by Jon Turteltaub from a screenplay crafted by Jim Kouf, Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley, Oren Aviv, and Charles Segars, the first National Treasure had the following synopsis: Historian and code-breaker Ben Gates has been searching his whole life for a rumored treasure dating back to the creation of the United States. Joining an expedition led by fellow treasure hunter Ian Howe (Sean Bean), Gates finds an ice-locked Colonial ship in the Arctic Circle that contains a clue linking the treasure to the Declaration of Independence. But when Howe betrays him, Gates has to race to get to the document ahead of his so-called colleague.
Turteltaub returned to the helm for National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and that time the script was assembled by Gregory Poirier, Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley, Ted Elliott, and Terry Rossio. The synopsis: When a treasure hunter learns about one of his ancestors’ involvement in the death of former US President Abraham Lincoln, he travels around the world to investigate the matter and prove him innocent.
Turteltaub is expected to direct National Treasure 3 as well, and while Cage has said in the past that he’s not interested in the project, the director told the National Treasure Hunt podcast a few months ago that the sequel is “100% going ahead with the original cast.”
Are you looking forward to National Treasure 3? What do you think of the information Ted Elliott revealed about the script? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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We’ve dealt with Messmer The Impaler and his obnoxious, flaming, snaky bullshit in another guide. Right now, though, we gotta deal with the Shadow Keep’s weed problem. The good news, at least, is the Scadutree Avatar is a totally optional boss fight, so, really, walking away is on the table, and there’s nothing after…
We’ve dealt with Messmer The Impaler and his obnoxious, flaming, snaky bullshit in another guide. Right now, though, we gotta deal with the Shadow Keep’s weed problem. The good news, at least, is the Scadutree Avatar is a totally optional boss fight, so, really, walking away is on the table, and there’s nothing after…
Vanity Fair has now given us our first look at the new Jason Reitman film Saturday Night. Saturday Night will take a look at the original premiere show of Saturday Night Live in 1975 right as it would change the plane of television. Reitman says, “The whole movie is the story of people trying to figure out what their identity is on the show. The story we tell is the moment each of these comedians find the way they coalesce as a group, which I think is the reason the show eventually was the success that it is.” Some of the plots covered in the film involve NBC executive David Tebet deciding whether the show is ready for live air and aspiring comic Billy Crystal getting the crushing news of being cut right before the show. Reitman explains, “The way it’s always told is that he took the train back home and got there just in time to tell his family not to watch. This is a movie where the villain is time. It’s like our Sauron. Our Darth Vader is a clock, and you feel its presence at all times. And Billy loses to the clock.”
Jason Reitman directs Saturday Night and co-wrote the screenplay with Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire director Gil Kenan. Saturday Night explores the evening of October 11, 1975, when “a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. SNL 1975 is the true story of what happened behind the scenes that night in the moments leading up to the first broadcast of NBC’s Saturday Night Live. It depicts the chaos and magic of a revolution that almost wasn’t, counting down the minutes in real-time to the infamous words, ‘Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!’”
Reitman and Kenan cobble together much of the script by pulling information from 30 original sources. Reitman says, “We interviewed everyone we could find that was alive from opening night. Every living cast member, every living writer, people from the art department, costumes, hair and makeup, NBC pages, members of Billy Preston’s band—I mean, anyone we could find.”
Reitman’s aim was to tell the story from nearly everyone’s viewpoint, not just the stars. “This is about not only the first seven actors, but the writers, the art department, and everybody who came together at the last second to change television. What was so unusual about this show was not only that it was live, but the format was unlike anything anyone had ever seen before. You had sketch comedy, you had two musical guests, you had a live band, you had stand-up comedians, you had Andy Kaufman, you had the Muppets, you had a film by Albert Brooks….”
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The bizarro world of epic popcorn buckets didn’t begin with Dune: Part Two’s wonderful worm monstrosity, but it certainly propelled the concept into the mainstream. It even merited one of SNL’s best sketches of the year. And if anything, it’s caused every other studio and movie theater chain to raise their game in…