According to "Playlist" one of our favourite new actors
Luke Evans will join
Nicolas Winding Refn's new project
ONLY GOD FORGIVES. Before Refn remakes famous sf classic LOGAN'S RUN he will do
this story about a Thai police lieutenant whose rivalry with a gangster sees the two settling their differences in a Thai boxing match.
Luke Evans will probably play the gangster, and according to rumors,
Kristin Scott Thomas should also join the cast. Charming Brit
Luke Evans will be quite busy in the future: beside the role of powerful Zeus in
Tarsem's huge epic
IMMORTALS this November, we shall watch him as Aramis in
THE THREE MUSKETEERS, and beside
John Cusack in
THE RAVEN, period film on Edgar Allan Poe.
Thanks to "Beyond Hollywood" you can check out the first concept art from one of the biggest upcoming sf epics
COBRA: THE SPACE PIRATE. HOLLYWOOD SPY has
mentioned last year this sf adventure to be directed by
Alexandre Aja, which will be an
adaptation of the Japanese manga about a space pirate named
Cobra who refuses to align with either the United Galaxies Federation or the Pirates Guild, which results in a huge bounty being placed on his head. Hoping to stay one foot ahead of his captors,
Cobra teams up with another bounty hunter named Jane who is searching for her sisters in order to decode a treasure map that has been tattooed onto their backs. Together,
Cobra and Jane hope to secure a lost treasure hidden somewhere on Mars.
Alexandre Aja wants to make a space opera adventure franchise for a new generation with this project.
You already know how I love me some epics! A few years ago I reported about an epic based on Hercules, and it seems it is moving on now:
Brett Ratner should adapt comic book
HERCULES: THE THRACIAN WARS for MGM about the powerful son of
the god king Zeus, for which he received nothing but suffering his entire life. After twelve arduous labors and the loss of his family, this dark, world-weary soul turns his back on the gods finding his only solace in bloody battle. Over the years he warms to the company of six similar souls, their only bond being their love of fighting and presence of death. These men and a woman never question where they go to fight or why or whom, just how much they will be paid. When the King of Thrace hires these mercenaries to train his men to become the greatest army of all time it is time for these lost souls to finally have their eyes opened to how far they have fallen when they must train an army to become as ruthless and blood thirsty as their reputation has become.
