You all know how much I love me some Arthurian legends. Well, according to "MovieWeb",
Warner Bros. has just won a huge battle for the screenplay for
ARTHUR AND LANCELOT by
David Dobkin. They apparently gave $2 million for this story which will be a modern reimagining of the King Arthur and Sir Lancelot legendary tales. With a hefty budget of $90 million, the epic will be directed by the very same Dobkin who wrote the story and whom you remember by WEDDING CRASHERS, SHANGHAI KNIGHTS and the upcoming THE CHANGE UP film with
Jason Bateman and
Ryan Reynolds! It seems that after charming, lovely and decent BBC's show MERLIN and atrocious, horrible and shockingly bad CAMELOT on Starz, we shall watch some knights in cinemas too!
After I've announced earlier this weekend that
Luke Evans and
Benedict Cumberbatch have joined
THE HOBBIT, I have a
new update: a few minutes ago,
Peter Jackson has announced two new additions to the Middle Earth cast. Gorgeous
Evangeline Lilly (LOST) will be a new female face in the film playing a Sylvan Elf, a new character called Tauriel. Her name means "daughter of Mirkwood". Hilarious
Barry Humphries will be portraying the Goblin King, in the way
Andy Serkis created Gollum. Barry is best known for playing the unbelievably hilarious British comedy character
Dame Edna Everage which US audience probably remembers from ALLY MCBEAL.
Check out the first concept art (thanks to "Beyond Hollywood") from next Spring's huge sf epic
JOHN CARTER. It features a landscape of Mars from the story which follows adventures of a confederate soldier who ends up on exotic planet of Mars where
he meets strange alien nations battling each other and also a stunning princess Dejah Thoris. Directed by amazing
Andrew Stanton (WALL E, FINDING NEMO) this visual masterpiece has the most amazing cast ever including
Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Polly Walker, James Purefoy, Mark Strong, Samantha Morton,
Ciaran Hinds, Willem Dafoe, Dominic West, Thomas Hayden Church ... The first trailer should arrive very soon!
LINK OF THE DAY Always witty
Mr. Munk finds the connection between writing and building over in the cave of
MUNK DAVIS :)
And have you noticed that this weekend
HOLLYWOOD SPY has crossed the magical number of
600,000 visitors? 'tis madness I say, madness, but I thank you, you crazy little freaks for visiting your spy who loves you (and there's nothing you can do about it) :)
